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[QUOTE="omniorange, post: 303952, member: 636"]
I agree with Bees that the model is a huge gamble.  But I also believe that it's a high risk, high reward type gamble.
 
My worries come more with the fact that the first of these 14 is against USC, which was originally scheduled as a Dome game.  It's not as though USC is a huge draw in NYC like the next three Giants' Stadium game will be - PSU and ND (two times).
 
I'd much rather have had USC be the second or third opponent in this set-up than the first.
 
As for the 1-1-1 model, I don't think anyone outside of PSU would be willing to go for that.  The best we would likely get out of future big-time OOC opponents is a 1-2-1 model (1 in the Dome, 2 on the road, 1 at Giants' Stadium).
 
I also think TGD is thinking a 9-game ACC conference schedule is going to hamper getting the additional 10 games in anyway.  I just don't see how we manage to keep this set-up going without having at least 4-5 of those additional 10 games be against conference opponents.  Not sure Gross wants to play 'home' conference games outside the Dome, which may result in this thing going away even if it is deemed a 'success'.
 
But if it does stay, and I'm right about it being virtually impossible for all of these games to be OOC, that means the every other year model would likely have to switch from even years to odd years at some point since our 5 home conference games will be in odd years.
 
Cheers,
Neil
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