SU-Wisconsin series cancelled

[CousCuse]

If SU could play 2 of UMASS, UCONN and Army every year, plus the PITT and BC game it would almost be like having a mini eastern conference. Fans could drive to those games very easily.

 

[ForCuseSake]

The days of overscheduling are over.

Dilly! Dilly!

 

[sufandu]

What? They are a top 10 team every freaking year and we have been unranked for 16 years straight! Please

They're consistently good but to say a top 10 team every year is a bit of an exaggeration. In the last 10 years they've finished the season with 4 top 10's, including this year, and 2 unranked. They're similar (a little better) to what we were in the '90's. If we're not closing in on the top 25 by 2020, year 5 of the rebuild, Dino's seat may start to heat up a little. If we're not even with Wisconsin by '20 or '21 we should be in the ballpark.

 

[CuseOnly]

The hottest fire makes the strongest steal.

Or you melt...I guess that's an option.

 

[kcsu]

WVU is good but not great...plus a historic rival.

Vandy is a private school, winnable and a cool town to visit.

Army is a nobrainer for us to go from 4 to 6 games scheduled in the next 10 seasons

Some of best memories of SU football were the academy games

 

[tipphill]

home and home with rutgers,maryland, umass, or navy

 

[Phenomenon]

I can't believe that Wisconsin has us all quaking in our boots. A year 5/6 Dino team, no less. We must've forgotten the score of our last meeting.

 

[bubba1917]

For years this board mocked Rutgers scheduling for success. Now
it is proposed as salvation for the program. Fans and recruits can
for the most part read. You can fool most people, you know the rest

 

[billsin01]

Gotta be careful with UMass. They could be an emerging B1G power by then.

I’m sure you’re being sarcastic but I do get laughing when people don’t want to schedule Wisconsin. It’s not easy to predict who will suck especially when the past 15 years suggests that su itself won’t be very good.

I’m fine with it but I was looking forward to a cool matchup. Whatevs

 

[cusefan88]

Schedule to make bowl games...that is all. Very happy with this.

 

[Eric15]

Playing Wisconsin, a couple mid-majors and an FCS would have been a completely reasonable non-conference slate in 3 years. Providing us with a showcase non-conference game to get excited about.

I don't get it, if we're excited about our future with Dino, why are we afraid of challenging ourselves in Year 5 of his tenure?

 

[billsin01]

For years this board mocked Rutgers scheduling for success. Now
it is proposed as salvation for the program. Fans and recruits can
for the most part read. You can fool most people, you know the rest

I know people see it as a temporary strategy but I do agree there is a lot irony there. I also have absolutely zero interest in going to the hot, steamy dome for battle with southern Vermont. If it’s a means to an end, fine but I was looking forward to an excuse to hit Madison for a game.

 

[Stern]

For years this board mocked Rutgers scheduling for success. Now
it is proposed as salvation for the program. Fans and recruits can
for the most part read. You can fool most people, you know the rest

1) I never mocked them
2) We still play FSU and Clemson every year. Throw in a L'Ville and the possible cross division match-up with the likes of VT, Miami, or a GT. SU plays a tough schedule, we don't have all cupcakes, never have and never will. We play enough tough teams to make recruits happy and not be looked at as a joke!

 

[billsin01]

I don't get it, if we're excited about our future with Dino, why are we afraid of challenging ourselves in Year 5 of his tenure?

This.

 

[billsin01]

1) I never mocked them
2) We still play FSU and Clemson every year. Throw in a L'Ville and the possible cross division match-up with the likes of VT, Miami, or a GT. SU plays a tough schedule, we don't have all cupcakes, never have and never will. We play enough tough teams to make recruits happy and not be looked at as a joke!

Point remains that 95% of the board did mock them.

 

[Stern]

I can't believe that Wisconsin has us all quaking in our boots. A year 5/6 Dino team, no less. We must've forgotten the score of our last meeting.

The last meeting was 20 years ago! Time's have changed! . Have to stop living in the past. The distant past and wake up to reality

 

[rocklloyd]

Playing Wisconsin, a couple mid-majors and an FCS would have been a completely reasonable non-conference slate in 3 years. Providing us with a showcase non-conference game to get excited about.

I don't get it, if we're excited about our future with Dino, why are we afraid of challenging ourselves in Year 5 of his tenure?

With our conference schedule there is no need to challenge ourselves.

 

[Townie72]

I thought the fundamental conundrum that SU faced was between scheduling teams we could beat and those that locals/marginal fans would buy tickets to see.

When you apply the filter of “fan interest” and ticket sales, the number of possible opponents shrinks significantly. The idea has to be to find a school that will play SU that is not as good as the general public thinks they are.

Because the top teams in the BIG will continue to beat Rutgers like a piñata for the foreseeable future, they are unlikely to schedule anyone with a chance of beating them, I would think.

 

[TheCusian]

For years this board mocked Rutgers scheduling for success. Now
it is proposed as salvation for the program. Fans and recruits can
for the most part read. You can fool most people, you know the rest

Rutgers was a BE Team scheduling cupcakes. Our schedule this season was top 10 with only LSU being the tough OOC.

Ground has been moving beneath our feet for 4 years. It’s time to take some back.

 

[Alsacs]

Cancellation makes sense.
Wisconsin a good program which was likely going to give us 2 losses.
Until we are consistently winning 7-8 games a year we don’t need to over schedule.
Find a mid tier team like Illinois, Northwestern, Maryland, Rutgers and split 2 games.

 

[OrangeDW]

I can't believe that Wisconsin has us all quaking in our boots. A year 5/6 Dino team, no less. We must've forgotten the score of our last meeting.

We’ve slipped just a little since 1997. Most of the current college players weren’t even born.

 

[OrangeDW]

For years this board mocked Rutgers scheduling for success. Now
it is proposed as salvation for the program. Fans and recruits can
for the most part read. You can fool most people, you know the rest

Rutgers was doing it in the crappy post-Miami and VT Big East.

We’re in the toughest division in college football, where we play FSU and Clemson every single year. The two situations are not at all similar.

 

[OrangeDW]

Point remains that 95% of the board did mock them.

Because they never played or beat anybody good, but their fans and other dumb people still acted like they were legit.

We are better right now than they ever were. They couldn’t ever beat a Clemson. They couldn’t ever beat a Virginia Tech. Our schedule is way harder than anything they ever played.

 

[TexanMark]

I can't believe that Wisconsin has us all quaking in our boots. A year 5/6 Dino team, no less. We must've forgotten the score of our last meeting.

If we get real good by then...TV will help facilitate a matchup on short notice. Why you schedule midmajor/fcs teams as fodder. We tried this over scheduling thing for years. Hasn't worked.

 

[TheCusian]

I don’t think Dino and Wildhack are “afraid” to play anyone. It’s about sacrificing a game to reach our larger goals.

Maybe we see Wisconsin in the playoffs