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09-17-2006, 11:33 PM
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Texas typically has played a powder puff non conference schedule rarely leaving the state of Texas with the exception of one marquee game.
They don't always have that marquee game. They certainly did this year though.
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as long as strength of schedule doesn't matter........why schedule high profile games year in and year out?
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09-17-2006, 11:37 PM
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as long as strength of schedule doesn't matter........why schedule high profile games year in and year out?
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Money and recruiting (in that order) are the first two reasons which come to mind. I'm sure there are other good reasons though.
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09-18-2006, 12:37 AM
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Well my question was only about why they played AT Rice.
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09-18-2006, 12:41 AM
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Well my question was only about why they played AT Rice.
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I misunderstood.
Also, I have no answer for that. Maybe to repay Rice for submitting themselves to so many horrific beatdowns over the years?
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09-18-2006, 12:47 AM
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Maybe to please the Texas Exes in Houston?
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09-18-2006, 03:10 PM
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Well I thought maybe UConn had a chance against Wake. I guess I was wrong...
This doesn't make me feel good about the West Virginia or Louisville games. Hopefully they don't get too ugly.
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09-18-2006, 03:55 PM
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Well my question was only about why they played AT Rice.
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Well, we played them at home last year.....so we played away this year. Why?
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09-18-2006, 06:19 PM
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Well, we played them at home last year.....so we played away this year. Why?
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Generally, when a contract is signed for a non-league game it is at least a two year deal so that each school can keep the lions share of the home gate for one of the games.
This is obviously not true when a big team plays Southeastern, Central, Middle, Northern Kentucky School For Wayward Children, that only has a 10,000 seat stadium.
For them, though, a part of the gate for playing at the big school (even though they know they're a sacrificial lamb) is more than they would make playing at home.
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09-18-2006, 06:47 PM
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I dunno, it just seemed weird for a powerhouse team like Texas to play at Rice. It just seems like it'd be the equivalent of UGA or Auburn playing at UCF or something. Maybe its different if you're in the same state.
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09-18-2006, 07:11 PM
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I dunno, it just seemed weird for a powerhouse team like Texas to play at Rice. It just seems like it'd be the equivalent of UGA or Auburn playing at UCF or something. Maybe its different if you're in the same state.
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The stadium at Rice is fairly big, isn't it?
It still comes down to getting the home percentage of the gate.
For instance, Colorado and Ohio State did a home and home series a few years ago, even though Ohio Stadium was (at that time) about 85,000 and Folsom Field at CU was/is only about half that size.
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09-18-2006, 07:31 PM
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I dunno, it just seemed weird for a powerhouse team like Texas to play at Rice. It just seems like it'd be the equivalent of UGA or Auburn playing at UCF or something. Maybe its different if you're in the same state.
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Often the "smaller" team is taking the place of a cancellation in their schedule, especially if its a one year/one game only deal.
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09-18-2006, 07:52 PM
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Southeastern, Central, Middle, Northern Kentucky School For Wayward Children,
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Considering I'm a vocal fan of one of the SEC's perennial sacrifical lambs, I thought this was funny enough to quote again. 
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09-18-2006, 08:18 PM
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Considering I'm a vocal fan of one of the SEC's perennial sacrifical lambs, I thought this was funny enough to quote again.
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09-18-2006, 03:51 PM
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Money and recruiting (in that order) are the first two reasons which come to mind. I'm sure there are other good reasons though.
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Well, I mean, money and recruiting are no problem at all for us......and we usually don't play teams like Ohio State for non-conference....so I might have to disagree.
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09-18-2006, 10:28 PM
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Well, I mean, money and recruiting are no problem at all for us......and we usually don't play teams like Ohio State for non-conference....so I might have to disagree.
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Texas might want to expand its recruiting reach outside of the state someday. It's possible that your stellar recruiting season on the national level had a lot to do with that national championship, the win at Ohio State, etc. If you're saying that playing a Texas-only schedule would have yielded exactly the same results in recruiting, and that Texas would have made the same money playing Houston as Ohio State, then you're insane.
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