Yea but its not like we schedule like this intentionally or consistently. Schedules are made years in advance, when these games were scheduled UCONN was an upstart independant and Utah was just another team from the MWC. Neither of those games was scheduled with the thinking that we're going to really beef up the competition in 2010/2011, it just happen to work out that both of those programs have made really big strides.On the other hand, when Nebraska scheduled Washington they were a top 10 program. Which basically means Nebby signed up knowing they'd get a shot at a big program, our schedule just fell together that way. I really hate defending Nebraska here but they also just played USC and Va Tech, and they play Tennessee after their home and home with UW, they have shown they'll answer the call when the big boys are looking for a game. There are plenty of big time programs that play a much softer schedule. Okay now I have to go puke for sticking up for the big red.
Even though I know you had to go "puke" after this post, heitclone, I admire you for making it.
Now don't get me wrong, I am fed up and sick and tired of all of the "cupcake" games in September and early October. I have referred to three of Nebraska's non-conference games from last year as "shouldn't have been on the schedule" games on CF and other various message boards. In my opinion, it is an absolute disgrace for teams to schedule like that.
I am certainly not saying that anybody should commit suicide when they schedule, but what we are seeing with all too many programs, including Nebraska, is scheduling wins. It is dispicable. But then, it is easy to find the culprit in all of this. The culprit is money! Money has become such a huge factor, Nebraska and any other team of national prominence absolutely have to win three of their four non-conference games, if not all four of them. To get to a good paying bowl game, you have to win at least nine games and possibly ten.
To make things worse at Nebraska, they hired an absolute moron in Steve Pederson as Athletic Director, who went out and made one of the worst coaching hires in college football history when he brought in Bill Callahan. In my opinion, to cover his tracks, he made it a habit of scheduling the likes of Southwestern College of Meatcutters, Oklahoma City Truck Driving Institute and Toledo Cab Drivers School in order to ensure Callahan got enough wins to keep the both of them off the "hot seat."
In my opinion, a BCS Conference school should NEVER EVER under any circumstance schedule an FCS opponent. If they do, they should automatically be excluded from a BCS bowl game. Period!
With Nebraska now embarking on what will most likely be a nine game conference schedule, they should always have one team of national prominence (and as others have stated, we all need to remember that these schedules are made up years in advance, so a team of national prominence could fall from grace and make the schedule look weaker than it was at the time the contracts were inked), a BCS conference team that is typically mid pack in their conference or I could even accept a team that is a lower level team in their conference (someone like Indiana, Duke, etc.), and then you could get away with maybe scheduling a mid-level team from the WAC or Mountain West.
This past winter, in an article in either the Lincoln Journal Star or the Omaha World Herald, Tom Osborne was quoted as saying that he and Bo had discussed scheduling and both of them agreed that the Nebraska schedule needed a serious upgrade. Jeff Jamrog is on board and I believe we will see it happen.
No BCS level team should be playing teams that you, me and nine other guys could beat!
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