The Big Ten's (And NU's) Struggle for Respect

[Thanks_Tom RR]

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program.

miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

Kinda like 3/4 of the SEC.
What good for one should be good for the other.

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program.

miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away.

It will guaranteed, when we go to a 9-conf game schedule in 2016, link. Happy?

 

[NUpolo8]

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program. miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

Kinda like 3/4 of the SEC. What good for one should be good for the other.

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program. miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away.

It will guaranteed, when we go to a 9-conf game schedule in 2016, link. Happy?

Yes.

 

[Thanks_Tom RR]

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program.

miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program.
miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away.

Yeah....We really should be scheduling schools like Presbyterian, Louisiana-Monroe, Western Carolina, Charleston Southern, Samford, Eastern Kentucky, Chattanooga, Troy, Louisiana Lafayette, Lamar.
If we would substitute FAU and McNeese State with one of these, we would be able to have much better respect.

So, if everyone else does it then it's cool if we do? I look forward to bag men at Nebraska recruits doorstops.

Those games aren't good for anyone., except for the schools that fund their entire athletic budget with them. One in August is fine, any more than that is unacceptable. For any team.

Plus, all those mean sec west teams will end up playing each other.

Yes, look, we are #13 in the CFB rankings with our schedule. Baylor is #12, with their garbage-on-top-of-garbage non-conf schedule. Heck, Mississippi St is #1, and their non-conf is total hot trash.

 

[Thanks_Tom RR]

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program. miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

Kinda like 3/4 of the SEC. What good for one should be good for the other.

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program. miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away.

It will guaranteed, when we go to a 9-conf game schedule in 2016, link. Happy?

Yes.

Polo's happy dance

 

[BigRedBuster]

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program.

miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away.

Yeah....We really should be scheduling schools like Presbyterian, Louisiana-Monroe, Western Carolina, Charleston Southern, Samford, Eastern Kentucky, Chattanooga, Troy, Louisiana Lafayette, Lamar.
If we would substitute FAU and McNeese State with one of these, we would be able to have much better respect.

So, if everyone else does it then it's cool if we do? I look forward to bag men at Nebraska recruits doorstops.

Those games aren't good for anyone., except for the schools that fund their entire athletic budget with them. One in August is fine, any more than that is unacceptable. For any team.

Plus, all those mean sec west teams will end up playing each other.

My point is, why don't you b!^@h about college football in general? Instead, all you do is complain about how horrible everything "Nebraska" is.

In fact, I don't like these games either. But, it's a college football issue. Not a Nebraska issue. Discuss it in the sense of what needs to change in college football to do away with these types of games and I think you would get a really good discussion.

Hey...in fact, the Big Ten (I think) made a decision to not schedule FCS teams anymore. That's a great move by the conference and I hope that the rest of the power 5 follow suit. If you raise the expectations of the non-conference scheduling across the board, then it will get accomplished. However, as long as you reward teams for getting through the non-con undefeated WAY more than someone who plays a tough schedule but loses one, then...you are still going to have the power 5 schools scheduling like they do.

 

[Thanks_Tom RR]

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program.

miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away.

Yeah....We really should be scheduling schools like Presbyterian, Louisiana-Monroe, Western Carolina, Charleston Southern, Samford, Eastern Kentucky, Chattanooga, Troy, Louisiana Lafayette, Lamar.
If we would substitute FAU and McNeese State with one of these, we would be able to have much better respect.

So, if everyone else does it then it's cool if we do? I look forward to bag men at Nebraska recruits doorstops.

Those games aren't good for anyone., except for the schools that fund their entire athletic budget with them. One in August is fine, any more than that is unacceptable. For any team.

Plus, all those mean sec west teams will end up playing each other.

My point is, why don't you b!^@h about college football in general? Instead, all you do is complain about how horrible everything "Nebraska" is.

In fact, I don't like these games either. But, it's a college football issue. Not a Nebraska issue. Discuss it in the sense of what needs to change in college football to do away with these types of games and I think you would get a really good discussion.

Hey...in fact, the Big Ten (I think) made a decision to not schedule FCS teams anymore. That's a great move by the conference and I hope that the rest of the power 5 follow suit. If you raise the expectations of the non-conference scheduling across the board, then it will get accomplished. However, as long as you reward teams for getting through the non-con undefeated WAY more than someone who plays a tough schedule but loses one, then...you are still going to have the power 5 schools scheduling like they do.

Yep.

 

[NUpolo8]

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program.

miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away.

Yeah....We really should be scheduling schools like Presbyterian, Louisiana-Monroe, Western Carolina, Charleston Southern, Samford, Eastern Kentucky, Chattanooga, Troy, Louisiana Lafayette, Lamar.
If we would substitute FAU and McNeese State with one of these, we would be able to have much better respect.

So, if everyone else does it then it's cool if we do? I look forward to bag men at Nebraska recruits doorstops.

Those games aren't good for anyone., except for the schools that fund their entire athletic budget with them. One in August is fine, any more than that is unacceptable. For any team.

Plus, all those mean sec west teams will end up playing each other.

My point is, why don't you b!^@h about college football in general? Instead, all you do is complain about how horrible everything "Nebraska" is.
In fact, I don't like these games either. But, it's a college football issue. Not a Nebraska issue. Discuss it in the sense of what needs to change in college football to do away with these types of games and I think you would get a really good discussion.

Hey...in fact, the Big Ten (I think) made a decision to not schedule FCS teams anymore. That's a great move by the conference and I hope that the rest of the power 5 follow suit. If you raise the expectations of the non-conference scheduling across the board, then it will get accomplished. However, as long as you reward teams for getting through the non-con undefeated WAY more than someone who plays a tough schedule but loses one, then...you are still going to have the power 5 schools scheduling like they do.

Here is the context for this topic.

There has been an incredible amount of pearl clutching and butthurt over all things sec on this board. Whether it's recruit stealing, dirty pool, or bias, it seems everything they do is horrible and overrated and us poor pious big ten folk can't catch a break.

So, there's an extremely well written article on Grantland on how there's some good games coming up in the big ten, and how they can get back to what they once were. Further, it explains how they got there. In short, losing marquee matchup games and poor scheduling.

Poor scheduling is especially appropo for Nebraska this year. As it has one of the worst schedules it's ever had. Granted, some of it is out of their control, but that doesn't take away the fact that it's bad, and if you gave NU any other schedule that a sec west team has, it ain't 8-1.

When Nebraska weak OOC is brought up, what's the knee jerk response? "Well the sec does it". Which rings hollow because because usually here the line is "we don't want to be like the sec". Well we don't until it's convenient to, apparently.

I acknowledge that playing these games is wide spread and I'd like to see it stop but I'd also like if we were a little honest with ourselves.

 

[NUpolo8]

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program. miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

Kinda like 3/4 of the SEC. What good for one should be good for the other.

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program. miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away.

It will guaranteed, when we go to a 9-conf game schedule in 2016, link. Happy?

Yes.

Polo's happy dance

What a thing to accuse on Dozen Egg Night

 

[Blackshirt39]

Pfft there's no winning when it comes to national perception.

Beat Alabama, well they didn't want to be there.

Beat UGA, well there QB was hurt. Well so was ours, plus our entire OL, including an all-american guard. Well yeah, but UGA's hurt more.

Don't care. Let's just play our game and worry about us. Not going to change ESPN. You could beat every team in the SEC and they would have an excuse for each and every one of them.

 

[BigRedBuster]

scheduling for neb. is bad and is not doing the program any favors. but i blame the conference and not the program.

miami and fresno seemed like good teams to balance a schedule, they weren't. but then we get into the conference schedule and play one team that will be ranked at the end of the year, maybe two. that is not very impressive.

The conference didn't make us put FAU and McNeese on the docket. Hopefully at least one of those games go away.

Yeah....We really should be scheduling schools like Presbyterian, Louisiana-Monroe, Western Carolina, Charleston Southern, Samford, Eastern Kentucky, Chattanooga, Troy, Louisiana Lafayette, Lamar.
If we would substitute FAU and McNeese State with one of these, we would be able to have much better respect.

So, if everyone else does it then it's cool if we do? I look forward to bag men at Nebraska recruits doorstops.

Those games aren't good for anyone., except for the schools that fund their entire athletic budget with them. One in August is fine, any more than that is unacceptable. For any team.

Plus, all those mean sec west teams will end up playing each other.

My point is, why don't you b!^@h about college football in general? Instead, all you do is complain about how horrible everything "Nebraska" is.
In fact, I don't like these games either. But, it's a college football issue. Not a Nebraska issue. Discuss it in the sense of what needs to change in college football to do away with these types of games and I think you would get a really good discussion.

Hey...in fact, the Big Ten (I think) made a decision to not schedule FCS teams anymore. That's a great move by the conference and I hope that the rest of the power 5 follow suit. If you raise the expectations of the non-conference scheduling across the board, then it will get accomplished. However, as long as you reward teams for getting through the non-con undefeated WAY more than someone who plays a tough schedule but loses one, then...you are still going to have the power 5 schools scheduling like they do.

Here is the context for this topic.

There has been an incredible amount of pearl clutching and butthurt over all things sec on this board. Whether it's recruit stealing, dirty pool, or bias, it seems everything they do is horrible and overrated and us poor pious big ten folk can't catch a break.

So, there's an extremely well written article on Grantland on how there's some good games coming up in the big ten, and how they can get back to what they once were. Further, it explains how they got there. In short, losing marquee matchup games and poor scheduling.

Poor scheduling is especially appropo for Nebraska this year. As it has one of the worst schedules it's ever had. Granted, some of it is out of their control, but that doesn't take away the fact that it's bad, and if you gave NU any other schedule that a sec west team has, it ain't 8-1.

When Nebraska weak OOC is brought up, what's the knee jerk response? "Well the sec does it". Which rings hollow because because usually here the line is "we don't want to be like the sec". Well we don't until it's convenient to, apparently.

I acknowledge that playing these games is wide spread and I'd like to see it stop but I'd also like if we were a little honest with ourselves.

You are absolutely losing all perspective of what the argument against the SEC has been.

EDIT....sorry, didn't see you said SEC west.

The non-con schedules of the SEC isn't much tougher than this one. In fact, this is how almost ALL of the power 5 conferences schedule. So, it isn't a (well, if the SEC does it then we should to). It's how college football is.

I, in fact, used the SEC in my post because all I hear about is..."Why aren't we as good as the SEC". So, why not compare to what they are doing?

Also, you are talking about stuff that is actually recruiting violations that basically the SEC flaunts that they do. There is a big difference between paying players with bag men compared to scheduling games.

But....hey....if you want to keep painting everything Nebraska bad then I guess you can probably keep getting the nice warm reception with other Husker fans.

 

[kchusker_chris]

Where the SEC gets it right is they sprinkle the non-con games throughout the year. So they can beat a "quality" opponent early (and jump a dozen spots on that win) when we're sitting around playing Tuscaloosa or McNeese. Regardless of "who" they schedule, "how" they schedule is genius. And that has nothing to do w/ ESPN. Everyone is craving a decent matchup those first few weeks. The SEC provides them in spades.

 

[BigRedBuster]

Where the SEC gets it right is the sprinkle the non-con games throughout the year. So they can beat a "quality" opponent early (and jump a dozen spots on that win) when we're sitting around playing Tuscaloosa or McNeese. Regardless of "who" they schedule, "how" the schedule is genius.

I completely agree with this.

For most of the season, everyone sits around and talks about how much more difficult their schedules have been. Meanwhile, at the end of the season they sneak in playing Presbyterian and nobody says boo.

 

[sd'sker]

Where the SEC gets it right is they sprinkle the non-con games throughout the year. So they can beat a "quality" opponent early (and jump a dozen spots on that win) when we're sitting around playing Tuscaloosa or McNeese. Regardless of "who" they schedule, "how" they schedule is genius. And that has nothing to do w/ ESPN. Everyone is craving a decent matchup those first few weeks. The SEC provides them in spades.

yeah, it helps set the narrative and get attention when people are desperate to pay attention.

 

[sd'sker]

Where the SEC gets it right is the sprinkle the non-con games throughout the year. So they can beat a "quality" opponent early (and jump a dozen spots on that win) when we're sitting around playing Tuscaloosa or McNeese. Regardless of "who" they schedule, "how" the schedule is genius.

I completely agree with this.

For most of the season, everyone sits around and talks about how much more difficult their schedules have been. Meanwhile, at the end of the season they sneak in playing Presbyterian and nobody says boo.

and strategically it makes sense. you get a "cupcake" to try to fix whatever and try to finish the year strong.

 

[BigRedBuster]

And by the way....

Poor scheduling is especially appropo for Nebraska this year. As it has one of the worst schedules it's ever had. Granted, some of it is out of their control, but that doesn't take away the fact that it's bad, and if you gave NU any other schedule that a sec west team has, it ain't 8-1.

If Nebraska would have played Alabama's schedule so far, I wouldn't say it's a slam dunk that they are worse than 8-1.