Arkansas State Official
Arkansas State is in. Virginia Tech is out.
I say boo to that schedule change.
or boo-urns?
When you consider the performance of both programs in the last 10 years, Football's tickets being so much more than Basketball is really laughable.
Just let us know ASAP what color shoe laces they'll be wearing.
March 29th, 2018 at 11:26 PM ^
Sorry, can't upvote. Economics must not be his strong suit?
Not if we win. I get sick of games against thin-walled tin cans leading to trouncings by the Ohio States of the world.
The season was more fun when the goal was to win the Big 10. The non-con games weren't seen as must-win then, they were seen as opportunited to put "steel in our spine".
the product of college football this past season but instead they rewarded Alabama and their cake non-conference schedule (and Washington the year before) and pretty much told all teams wanting to go to the playoff, they should just schedule non-conference bady bag games.
It's a damn shame.
That's why I like the NCAA BBall committee rewarding teams for playing tough schedules. They basically say, we don't even care if you lose tough games, we only care how many of them you win.
The CFP committee uses the "eye test" and just sends Alabama because they had the most talent even though they definitely didn't earn it on the field.
Gotta love how UM keeps paying teams to NOT play them...
Ticket prices must increase to cover.
Also, teldar has 33 different vice presidents each earning over 200 thousand dollars a year. Now, I have spent the last two months analyzing what all these guys do, and I still can't figure it out.
We're gonna have to something about this, teldar.
/s Gordon
March 29th, 2018 at 11:30 PM ^
And then we're gonna get off our butts and DO something, too.
Yeah. This sucks.
Sounds like us, since we are paying $375K to drop them.
Fuck. This. Noise.
I live 2 hours from Blacksburg and my buddy is a huge Tech football fan. We were planning on going to that game when M came this way. Tech is good but not THAT good. Would've been nice little SOS bump, for whatever that's worth. Bummer.
March 29th, 2018 at 11:33 PM ^
Fuente's okay but he ain't no Beemer.
Losing VT isn’t gonna hurt SoS at all
Will it hurt it statistically? Of course.
Will it hurt it to the point that it matters? Not with the remaining schedule.
March 29th, 2018 at 11:35 PM ^
With those five shut-outs predicted to start the season, it really shouldn't budge the needle much.
I'd like to say I'm even torn on this but I'm really not - happy we're going with the easier schedule. You just cannot easily overcome a gauntlet in the modern CFB Playoff landscape, which could unfortunately kill this upcoming season. Having UW and VT in the same noncon is a bad move.
Out schedule is beastly enough as it is...don't mind this.
Washington is the heart burner
I'm very glad they cancelled VT instead of Washington. Washington is a way better trip for our alumni/fans and a stadium we can legit takeover.
I've been to a Michigan @ Washington game. Michigan fans had maybe 10% of the seats, max. I finally found a ticket about 3 minutes before kickoff -- nobody had any extras. (This wa pre-StubHub, but still).
In early September, the weather will be good and the stadium will be full of UW fans. Now, as UW fans, they'll be basically uneducated about any sporting event east of the Cascades, and they'll dramatically overvalue UW -- even more so than most fanbases do -- but they'll show up.
As an aside -- Husky Stadium is a beautiful venue. However, bring your jacket. Michigan played at UW Labor Day weekend, 2001. For years, I had a 2001 MLB All-Star Game jacket that I bought during a game the night before the Michigan game. I hadn't brought a jacket, because it never occurred to me that I might need it... Friday night, I was frantically searching the Safeco Field shops looking for a jacket without a Mariners logo. It was probably 45 degrees and there was a strong wind coming off of the Puget Sound. And then... well, I won't get into the Michigan game. Suffice it to say that the highlight of the weekend was getting to see Cal Ripken Jr. in his last series in Seattle. (The most memorable part of the weekend was the teen Japanese girls shrieking "I-chi-roooooo!!!!!" constantly, at the top of their lungs, every time the Mariners were on defense -- and Ichiro stoically ignoring them. It wasn't exactly a highlight, but it was definitely memorable... :)
Our schedule strength is not going to be the thing keeping us out of the playoff for the foreseeable future given the state of OSU, PSU, and the B1G in general. Win the big ones, and we will be fine.
If Tech backed out, why are we paying $375k?
Michigan cancelled the series.
And I apparently am having a difficult time reading words today. Thanks
My inlaws are all Tech alumni (ironically my wife is UVa) so I was looking forward to going to Blackburg to see us play and introduce them to the Big House. Bummed that excuse is now gone!
So that leaves two non-conference games yet to be scheduled for 2021. With only four B1G home games those will clearly be home contests. My guess is one will be from the MAC and the other from the AAC/C-USA/Sun Belt.
Not that VT is terrible, but Washington is a playoff-caliber program now under Peterson and we need that as a reliable big game on resume, especially if we win
About my decision to drop my season tickets this year.