VT do we regularly play 3 majors in our MTEs? Maybe I’ve been in a coma and Johnny Gazelle is actually doing an amazing job getting us into Maui and other spots. We often have 2 dogs in there, in addition to our VMI 5x at home for the fans cupcake games. Good try but keep trying. You try hard better than most.
Eliminate the games that are eminently losable that have zero upside for the NET or for talking points. Mainly the road games we give as h&h with mm teams.
As you say we don’t win enough. So if Moon is a coach who will never go 12-1 but can go 9-4 against most schedules - I believe he is - then replace those mm games with better games.
And since you mentioned Dayton as ypur example, I will use them as mine.
Last year
@Northwestern
NEUTRAL - LSU
NEUTRAL - St. John’s
@Houston
@SMU
@Cincinnati
HOME vs UNLV (cancelled)
I was told no one plays this type of OOC schedule of 6 p5 games away from home.
That schedule allowed them to lose 4 times and finish 3rd in the A10 and never sweat anything. It’s exactly the schedule I advocate for. (I don’t think MWC are mm btw, they are the 1 league I’d play h&h bc there is upside there, similar to A10, but they figured out the game. But that game wasn’t even factored in bc it was never played! Their schedule was even better!)
Find games vs the winnable NET frauds who aren’t that good and whose NETs are propped up by league losses to Kansas, Baylor, etc. Upside games.
LOL. Man, you keep jumping all over the place. I'm not "trying" to do anything except discuss possible scheduling with you. But, I still am not sure what you want because you keep contradicting yourself big time.
You said the Dayton schedule is the exact schedule you want. That looks A LOT like my idea for our schedule!!!! You also asked when have we ever played 3 majors in an MTE, getting on me with a "good try" comment and others to criticize. Well, Dayton played 3 majors in their MTE. So, if that is the exact schedule you want, then you are saying we should do the same.
You have said you want no more than 5 home games. Well, Dayton had 6 last year, 7 had they played UNLV.
But, the funniest of all is you did not like my earlier idea and are praising Dayton's schedule, and my idea is a heck of a lot closer to Dayton's schedule than what you have been saying.
I said play 2 road games @ power teams. Dayton played @ Northwestern and played Cincy neutral.
I said find an MTE that gives you 2, maybe even 3, majors to play. Dayton had 3 last year.
I said 4 cupcakes at home. Dayton played SIEU, Grambling, Longwood, and Youngstown St.
I said home and homes with 4 mid majors, so 2 home and 2 away. Dayton played at SMU (mid major last year) and had UNLV scheduled at home as part of home and homes with mid majors. You know, the same mid majors you got on me for for including them in my idea. Dayton also played Oakland and Troy, a pair of good mid majors that I also would want on our schedule. So, I asked for 4 good mid majors and Dayton scheduled 5 (counting Youngstown) mid majors in the top 140 NET. Once again, you said you don't want to play these types of mid majors at all..you would rather just play road games at majors...yet, Dayton scheduled 5 of them and you still say their schedule is exactly what you want??
So, Dayton's schedule is very very close to the one I was asking for. Very close. A slight difference would be I asked for 4 home and homes with mid majors and Dayton had 2, if Troy and Oakland were buy home games and not home and homes. That is the only difference I really see. So, Dayton would have had 3 home and 1 away against good mid majors, while I was saying 2 home amd 2 away. But, no worries, keep getting on my idea and please keep praising Dayton's schedule... I will take that as a compliment that you like my idea.
