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Wilner Continues Campaign Against PAC-12 Idiocy

DoogCourics
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https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/uw-husky-football/analysis-ranking-the-pac-12-schedules-and-why-washington-got-screwed-again/

No matter your opinion of John Wilner, you have to admit the dude isn't afraid to throw blows at the Pac-12. He's calling out the conference for again scheduling against a team getting to the playoffs. I think he's sneakily becoming a secret fan of UW.



The good news:

"No team will play a Saturday road game followed by a Friday road game in 2018."



The bad news:

"The Hotline took a deep dive into the 2018 schedules — they are ranked below, weakest to strongest — and found that the team with seemingly the best chance to reach the College Football Playoff has been dealt a dastardly assignment that doesn’t exist for playoff contenders in other conferences.

Why in the world is Washington playing two conference road games in a row, with the back end being a trip to Oregon and the Ducks coming off a bye.


In the Hotline’s humble opinion, that qualifies as a competitive disadvantage.

For UW fans, the situation might feel alarmingly familiar. One of UW’s two losses last season came in Tempe, with Arizona State coming off a bye.

In that case, at least, the Huskies had been at home the previous week. This time, they’re on the road: Washington visits UCLA on Oct. 6, then plays in Eugene on Oct. 13.

The Ducks will have been off for 13 days.

(It’s the same mid-October weekend as UW’s loss in Tempe, which might make Husky fans even more anxious.)"



His final thought:

"The Hotline reviewed the schedules for the top teams in the other Power Fives and found that none of them — not Alabama or Georgia or LSU, not Ohio State or Michigan or Wisconsin, not Oklahoma or Notre Dame, not Clemson or Florida State — has been assigned consecutive conference road games with the back end against a home team coming off 13 days rest.

There’s a reason the other Power Fives don’t put teams in that position.

Maybe the Pac-12 will get that issue resolved for 2019."
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  • Pitchfork51
    Pitchfork51 Member Posts: 27,694
    Sad!!
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  • YouKnowIt
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,855
    YellowSnow said:

    dnc said:

    2001400ex said:

    PAC 12 still hates it when UW is good.

    HTH

    Might be true,but I don't think this has shit to do with that.

    I don't think the Pac is chintentionally putting UW in a poor scheduling position. I think the Pac is just fucking clueless and doesn't even consider this type of shit. I'd wager the first time they ever considered the "playing on the road against a team coming off a bye" is whenever this article makes it to the conference offices.

    For a conference full of mostly alleged elite academis the Pac12 is stupid as fuck.
    Being good at elite academis is not the same as being good at football.
    Obviously not.

    But all this shit requires is a modicum of critical thinking, something the academi elite should be able to produce/hire/find.
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