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Message: [QUOTE="shantydaze, post: 744972, member: 666"] While in the Big East, SU needed to schedule television games. Starting 2-0 or 0-2 mattered less than publicity and having the game talked about. I also remember several horribly played FSU-UM games scheduled the first game of the season after the ACC expanded. I believe these games were scheduled so that the losing team could make it way back up the rankings by the end of the year for the rematch in the CCG. Unfortunately, the games did not reflect well on the level of football being played in the conference. I enjoy your concern over the conference and the school's schedule, but the jadedness in me wonders if it is all a little self-serving. A one loss ACC team would be looked as weaker than a one loss SEC team and depending on the year, may also be passed by a one loss B1G, XII, or Pac-12 team (depending on which conference one loss team was also a helmet school). If I recall correctly, in another thread, you lamented difficult ACC scheduling because a conference team with a poor OOC record might knock off a favorite and send it down the rankings. In other words, you were not concerned with SU, but of FSU's rank after it shanks a field goal wide right and loses to a weak conference team. Not to be rude, but I really do not care about protecting the historically strong ACC teams through conference scheduling. In fact, if certain teams get a competitive advantage through scheduling, I would be very disappointed. Of course, the times they are a-changing. After this year, the BCS goes by the wayside and we get the play-off where SOS is supposed to play a bigger role. As a result, the B1G will no longer be playing FCS schools. Also, more power conferences are going to nine game conference schedules. We will need to see the effect of both before we can truly determine how scheduling down or up will affect a team's ability to make the play-off. In the end, because there is not an ACC network, SU needs to balance the competing interests of winning cupcake non-televised games or playing on television. This was especially true when SU was in the Big East. [/QUOTE]

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