OOC Schedule Redux
At least for now it looks like Petersen will have until the 2018 season to get Husky Football ready for a true ACX formula OOC schedule that would possibly challenge Boise State...... when UW hosts Wisconsin, Nevada, and North Dakota. Until then, Woody has so far set Pete up with an FCS cupcake diet of Sacramento State (2015), Portland State (2016), and Montana (2017).
Perhaps Petersen's toughest OOC challenge will come in 2015 when after hosting Sac State and Hawaii to start the season, he'll take his Huskies to Boise and a one-way grudge match with BSU in Bronco Stadium. The 2015 season will treat us with an XCB formula OOC schedule. Not sure yet what C's and B's Woody will line up to go with our X-cupcakes in 2016 and 2017. Can we expect more OOC excitement or the usual? I'm lobbying for Woody to switch the Montana game to Missoula so that I can fly-fish the Big Blackfoot, but expect to fail and be forced to give my tickets and parking pass to the grandsons who don't care about modern Huskies playing cupcakes.
I'm there...... I'm at the point where I truly don't give a fuck about our OOC schedules and my season ticket costs are now $1000 per seat of which something over $200 per seat is a total rip-off. I wonder what Petersen, a highly competitive and fearless football coach thinks of this OOC business at mighty Washington. He leaves Boise State, which struggled to schedule BCS schools and can never gain membership in an automatic qualifier conference, to come to UW for a lot more money to feast on a panzy-assed OOC lineup of cupcakes while getting his program ready to compete for all the marbles in the overrated Pac-12. Got to be sweet which most higher-pressure jobs are these days.
This post may be annoying, but its not as long and boring as our fucking OOC schedule.
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It wouldn't shock me if after it becomes clear how the new playoff system measures teams that you start seeing us trying to back out of some of these cupcake games ... particularly if we are towards the top end of the conference (which we should be) and therefore a threat for a Top 4 berth.
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I saw where it was reported that an issue of setting minimum standards for qualifying was formally discussed when the new four-school championship playoff system was being negotiated, but the issue was tabled for later on when some parties present insisted that games against FCS (division-1AA) not be counted in any way for any purpose. I don't think that the issue will come up again for a number of reasons having to do with gate money for both the big school qualifiers and the FCS schools who of course will never benefit from any FBS (division-1A) playoff. The NCAA I believe will want to keep open a trickle down revenue source for the FCS schools even though it fucks up our regular season. It's not just about money, but how it's distributed to those who can't participate in it's making.
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Socialism is fucking up our OCC is what you're saying. Make us suckers pay $1000 a seat to sit through shitty games just to subsidize the schools that probably shouldn't have a team..or sports at all.Tailgater said:I saw where it was reported that an issue of setting minimum standards for qualifying was formally discussed when the new four-school championship playoff system was being negotiated, but the issue was tabled for later on when some parties present insisted that games against FCS (division-1AA) not be counted in any way for any purpose. I don't think that the issue will come up again for a number of reasons having to do with gate money for both the big school qualifiers and the FCS schools who of course will never benefit from any FBS (division-1A) playoff. The NCAA I believe will want to keep open a trickle down revenue source for the FCS schools even though it fucks up our regular season. It's not just about money, but how it's distributed to those who can't participate in it's making.
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If it's socialism. it
If it's socialism, it's more like corporate welfare than communism, Swedism, Germism, or even Candaism. Large universities particularly those that are into bigtime revenue producing atheltics such as football and men's basketball have through the NCAA been operating what clearly amounts to a trust, not for the purpose of price control, but certainly for controlling costs and sharing profits. Our UW is an example of many so-called public universities that are far more private sector that they are public in carrying on and expanding the business interests they need to continue doing the public's business of providing the higher education that taxpayer despised government can no longer be committed to.MikeDamone said:
Socialism is fucking up our OCC is what you're saying. Make us suckers pay $1000 a seat to sit through shitty games just to subsidize the schools that probably shouldn't have a team..or sports at all.Tailgater said:I saw where it was reported that an issue of setting minimum standards for qualifying was formally discussed when the new four-school championship playoff system was being negotiated, but the issue was tabled for later on when some parties present insisted that games against FCS (division-1AA) not be counted in any way for any purpose. I don't think that the issue will come up again for a number of reasons having to do with gate money for both the big school qualifiers and the FCS schools who of course will never benefit from any FBS (division-1A) playoff. The NCAA I believe will want to keep open a trickle down revenue source for the FCS schools even though it fucks up our regular season. It's not just about money, but how it's distributed to those who can't participate in it's making.
Yah, I get it: TL; DR
I'm okay with it because as compared to all the research, development, and joint venture entrepreneurialism universities are into these days, NCAA athletics is getting to be small peanuts. Also and more importantly, universities could be replacing private sector corporations and capitalists who no longer care to be the innovators and prime movers in that part of the American Dream that provides the interesting and better paying jobs and career opportunities for (gasp!) people. If it keeps going the way it is now, there could come a day in our country when universities like the UW will own the GE's and GMC's of the World rather than the other way around, and then you'll see corporate welfare that hasn't yet been invented.
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Montana is not a cupcake. I don't see the problem scheduling FCS / I-AA teams if they are contenders. You should stop rolling all FCS teams into one dismissive bucket. The top tier fcs programs will put up a fight and I think it's better to invite local FCS teams (except the true crappy ones, eg Idaho St) than some middling IA team.
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Dawgs will be favored by -21 over montana any year they play. Will be favored by -18.5 over Ewa next year. Plus, you have to pay D1-aa teams to come and play in Seattle.
Weak-ass OCC schedule but they should start with eliminating games against lower divisions. -
They will only put up a fight if the other team has a catastrophic gameplan, like Oregon State vs. EWA.ApostleofGrief said:Montana is not a cupcake. I don't see the problem scheduling FCS / I-AA teams if they are contenders. You should stop rolling all FCS teams into one dismissive bucket. The top tier fcs programs will put up a fight and I think it's better to invite local FCS teams (except the true crappy ones, eg Idaho St) than some middling IA team.
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There is no benefit to playing FCS teams. If you beat the shit out of them, you were supposed to. If you barely beat them, it's embarrassing. If you lose to them, you get fired at the 50 yard line and then go DIAFF.
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Your players don't develop either because they are playing against shitty players. The fans are bored as fuck. It's definitely a no-win situation.EsophagealFeces said:There is no benefit to playing FCS teams. If you beat the shit out of them, you were supposed to. If you barely beat them, it's embarrassing. If you lose to them, you get fired at the 50 yard line and then go DIAFF.
