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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4948631, member: 27"] I agree. Note that this is not the schedule I want. This is the schedule I think we end up with. Part of the problem is we always play a BCS team and that game is always at home and is always scheduled in September. I am not a Jewish scholar but I think we always request an away game for Yom Kippur weekend. And it seems it falls in October every year or almost every year. And we have been making a habit of only playing 6 home games, which is not scheduling for success or scheduling to please the season ticket holders. Our scheduling team has failed again. I can't blame them for Army deciding to join the AAC and canceling our game. I can blame them for not anticipating this and having a good backup plan. I think we were really slow to react compared to others that were left standing by Army. Very very disappointing. Even more so if the UNLV game is a one off and we don't get a home game from them as part of this deal (like Army had). I don't understand why we had the Hawaii game at home on week 0 as an option and chose to go in another direction. Maybe with the seating renovations, it was decided they just couldn't lose another week to get the job done? That would be bad but I could at least understand it. The only other reason I could see to not schedule Hawaii week 0 is that they asked for a lot of money to defray travel costs and we decided it was too expensive. But when you are getting so much revenue from football, a few hundred thousand dollars is, IMHO, not a big deal. The people that do the football scheduling need to make sure we play 7 home games every season and that we schedule things so we have our byes at ideal times to position our team to be as successful as possible. We failed the coaches and the players with this schedule. We failed our season ticket holders. Why can't we hire a competent person for scheduling and address this long standing issue? [/QUOTE]

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