On scheduling and big games
by GeauxTigers on Aug 31, 2006 11:04 PM CDT
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For those complaining that LSU schedules only patsies, I give you proof we're trying. Still can't figure out exactly when it was that we scheduled Arizona, but all we get from the article is that UA was "rolling."
The Earthquake Game has been voted by LSU fans as the #2 night game of all time at Tiger Stadium. The biggest vote getter thus will be the 28-21 upset of #1 Florida in 1997. What joy that was! It lasted all of one week, till Ole Miss upset us 36-21 the following Saturday. The rest of the list:
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Road games
Hopefully it happens. One of the things I like most about Miami is that they'll play anyone. I'd like to see more programs take on that mentality.
Cola
by Cola @ And The Valley Shook on Sep 1, 2006 3:13 AM CDT reply actions
Arizona, Notre Dame
Did you read the article? First line of the third paragraph:
It's not like we're just getting home games. Obviously we haven't scheduled as many overall as we'd like in recent years but this year's Arizona game comes after we blasted them by 45 at their place in '03 (and again, when we scheduled that back in the 90s, they were a solid team). We played a home and home with Notre Dame a few years ago. If you read the article you'd see that we've explored that again but ND isn't interested for another decade. I'd love to see us get one going with Michigan. As they note in the article, though, apparently UM isn't receptive yet either.
Virginia Tech
No one is worse about this than Virginia Tech. I don't think they've ever played a good non-conference opponent on the road, unless you count West Virginia or Virginia, both of which are their biggest rivals. And in the case of West Virginia, they've only been a non-conference opponent since the 2004 season. Are they ever going to come back to LSU? I sort of understand their ducking them in 2004 because they played USC the week before and, with such a young team, didn't want to face the two of them in consecutive weeks to open the season, but they should have rescheduled by now.
Michigan generally schedules a good opponents besides Notre Dame, although they haven't the last couple of years. In the 1990s alone, they've gone to UCLA, U-Dub when U-Dub was good with Cody Pickett and Oregon. Of course, they lost all three. They did beat U-Dub at the Big House in 2002. Don't think UCLA and Oregon were willing to play at The Big House.
Cola
by Cola @ And The Valley Shook on Sep 1, 2006 8:42 PM CDT up reply actions
Also on the ASU point...
So actually I AM going to give you ASU as an example of one where we'd tried to schedule a road game. So over a ten-year period the home and home tradeoffs were with:
ASU
Notre Dame
Arizona
Virginia Tech
I don't think that's significantly less than any other team. We should have had one more, which would've been great, but so be it.
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