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[QUOTE="Lou_C, post: 740126, member: 3201"]
You can argue whether you LIKE the fact, but it's not an open question...scheduling so difficult is NOT a road to success.  Scheduling 3 near-sure wins, and one challenge-but-winnable game is the formula.  It's been proven that's what works over and over again in the last 25 years, and the opposite hasn't worked for anyone trying to build their program to the next level. 
 
Pretty much every school that has cupcaked their way to a consistent top-20 level has seen a big increase in attendence.  Scheduling yourself for 4-6 win seasons every year, and hoping people come out to see the opponent is a philosophy, but it's not a philosophy that leads to winning teams.  It just isn't. 
 
Belief that Syracuse is somehow the magic program that defies the physics of the modern game is just silly.
 
At least those of you who say you'd rather schedule like this and win five games than schedule realistically and win 8-9 games, ok.  You're realistic.
 
But those of you who think you can schedule like this and take Syracuse back to the glory days, you're banking on something that is just shown not to happen that way. 
 
Give up five-six years of this kind of scheduling, build yourself into a top-25 program, and start adding some of these games back.  You really think people aren't going to turn out of a game against NC State in November when you are 7-1 and ranked, because you played University of Buffalo back in the first game of the year?
 
Winning drive attendence.
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