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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 1411457, member: 27"]
I don't know who makes the final call on things with the schedule and am unsure of Herm's actual involvement.

I do know Syracuse has consistently been the last or among the last P5 schools to complete their schedule for each upcoming year.  We are dramatically behind peer schools filling out our schedule for the next 10 plus years.   When you wait so late in the game to schedule games, guess what?  You lose out on the attractive opponents and situations you should be targeting and you end up doing things like playing Missouri on the road with no return game.

The inability to fashion winnable, reasonable OOC schedules has played a major role preventing the program from improving how it is perceived and has surely played a big part in the team not going bowling several times in recent years.

IMHO, scheduling has been a disaster.  Sorry, I can't agree with you on this at all.

Duke was in the same situation Syracuse was 5 years or so ago.  They scheduled early, scheduled a lot of games against winnable opponents OOC and turned their program around.  They should serve as a model for how to schedule for success.

Future schedules games scheduled OOC by school:

2016
Syracuse 4
Wake Forest 4
Duke 4
NC State 4

2017 
Syracuse 2
Wake Forest 4
Duke 4
NC State 4

2018
Syracuse 2
Wake Forest 4
Duke 3
NC State 4

2019
Syracuse 2
Wake Forest 4
Duke 3
NC State 4

2020
Syracuse 1
Wake Forest 4
Duke 3
NC State 2

2021
Syracuse 0
Wake Forest 4
Duke 1
NC State 2

2022
Syracuse 1
Wake Forest 3
Duke 0
NC State 2

One of the first challenges for the new AD, whoever it might be, is to address the mess that we currently have with OOC scheduling.  Things were not left in a good state here.
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