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[QUOTE="sufandu, post: 740546, member: 874"]
I see you're an FSU fan.  I'm assuming, and I could be wrong, that you're not from central New York.  Do you know what people in the area say if you schedule 4 scrubs before Clemson and SU wins them all?  "They still suck.  They haven't even played anybody."  I'm not talking about the people on this board.  I'm talking about the casual fan that only go to the games when it's the cool thing to do, and those are the people that SU needs to fill the empty seats.  Those are the people that show up to the Clemson game only if SU is undefeated going into the game following a good previous season where you already beat Clemson or FSU.  The casual fan in CNY is a "show me first" fan that doesn't get excited by beating no name teams.  It's a sports culture of cynicism and pessimism that doesn't exist in the south.  That's the dilemma the SU athletic department has with scheduling.  Schedule beatable early season teams and it's, "so what?"   Schedule tough teams and lose to them and it's, "told you they suck."
 
Having said all that I would prefer to have had the schedule flip flopped with Wagner and Tulane games 1 and 2 with PSU and Northwestern 3 and 4.  I don't know if our record would be any different after 4 games, but at least we're getting our new OC's and QB's feet wet without killing them.
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