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[QUOTE="SU91, post: 4763603, member: 8807"]
Thanks for this great post. What do many of those losses have in common? They were mainly to pretty good P5 teams. We always over scheduled back then to generate fan interest, offset our relatively weak conference /or independent schedule, and because we still thought more like an independent football program than one who was a member of a conference (once the BE football conference was formed). Unlike schools like Virginia Tech, I always respected us for our willingness to play the big boys when we didn’t have to. For that reason, I can’t stand VT and Rutgers to this day (Rutgers for other reasons as well). I’ve always thought of them as “fake” programs who built their notoriety on beating patsy opponents. Now, our problem was we didn’t figure out that was the wave of the future until much too late. We finally started scheduling lessor opening opponents after we had already seen the decline start to happen. It would’ve been an easier climb back if we had taken the VT route much sooner. I know you know all this, but just thought I’d mention it as a discussion point.
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