Horns add Ole Miss to 2012/2013 sked
by JT Longhorn on Aug 30, 2007 5:04 PM CDT
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It's not Michigan or Notre Dame, but a non-conference tilt vs. an SEC team is certainly better than Florida Atlantic. Perhaps Ed Orgeron will have whipped them into an SEC contender by then. He has pulled in relatively good recruiting classes in '06 and '07.
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very happy about this
glad to be scheduling a decent but probably never going to be great BCS-conference OOC opponent. gives the team a good test early on, but not a huge chance of an early loss.
To recap:
2007 : TCU team coming off an 11-2 season and #22 ranking
2008-2009: Arkansas
2010-2011: UCLA
2012-2013: Ole Miss
Michigan they ain't. But Michigan's a pipe dream for everyone. In the realm of reality, these are good games for the fans AND for the team.
I'm so proud
Florida Atlantic was playing Div.1-AA ball in 2005.
Overheard at Belmont: "Mack, Pete Carroll's on line 1"
A minute later. "Mack, did you hear me? You have a call on line 1." Has anyone seen Mack?
From down the hall. "I just saw him hauling ass out the back door."
HC
If you were UT's AD.
Who would you have scheduled for the first week next year?
Do you really want to play USC week one?
Wells
A mid-level BCS Conference opponent. Ole Miss would have been good for that spot. Pittsburgh, NCState, Ron Zook and his Illinois team, Howie Long's kid at Virginia, Arizona, S.Carolina (Mack would never match wits with The Ol'Ball Coach) or Paul Johnson and his Navy team would be a great re-match of the 1963 NC game (I was 7 and present).
I'm sorry but I'll never forgive Mack for dissing Tim Brewster and his Minnesota team. Gosh, let's see, Tim only signed Julius Peppers, Chris Simms and Cory Redding for Mack. Now that Tim is trying to re-build that program in the Big-Ten, I'll never condone Mack's thumbing of his nose. You take better care of your people.
No, I wouldn't have any interest in playing USC in a season opener. Though I respect guys like Tedford, Fulmer, Coker and Bowden for taking on premier opponents in season openers. Bobby Bowden has never shown fear and built that program by playing "anyone, anytime and anywhere." Playing USC in the second or third game of the season would be fabulous!
Just like Ark.State this season, the Florida Atlantic game will have 1,000's of seats available at $10/ticket.
How do you know those
are gonna be mid-level teams in 4+ years? All of those teams could be in the top 20 by then.
I would love to see all of those teams listed in your first paragraph on our future schedule, but just not for the opener. Game 2, 3 or 4 is when you play the names. There are too many unknowns in week 1.
Here are the opening opponents for this year's top 10:
Idaho
Miss St
Western Mich
Ark St
Appalachian St (hot hot hot)
Western Kentucky
Wash St
North Texas
East Carolina
Murray St
Of those, only 2 are in a BCS conf and neither had a winning record in 2006.
by the other Andrew on Aug 31, 2007 1:28 PM CDT up reply actions
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Writers are still commenting on how Cal (and by extension, the Pac 10) got burned last year after getting blown out in Knoxville. So while the Cal-Tennessee matchup looks great to Joe Football Fan, ask a Volunteers fan (or possibly a Golden Bear one) after Saturday how he feels about his team's aggressive "scheduling." Chances are he's not too happy about his team starting out 0-1.
jc25
You do realize that Cal finished the season 10-3 don't you? Did that challenging season opener prepare them to beat (41-13) an Oregon State team that whipped USC? I darn sure believe so. Did that challenging game prepare them to beat (38-24) an UCLA team that also beat a USC team that finished the season ranked #4. A USC team that has 5 consecutive Top-5 finishes.
Cal went on to stomp an A&M team (that beat us in our house) by the score of (45-10). I'd say the best thing that happened to Cal was an early season challenging game, even if it was a loss, that properly prepared the team to play that tough schedule. How the heck they finished behind us at #14, I'll never understand.
I dont know that
getting the snott beat out of the them by a team that was a worse team, but more ready to start the year helped them prepare for the rest of the season.
Maybe the reason that they finished 14th was because people could not forget that they got beat down by Tennessee?
<Rolling eyes>
Maybe the reason that they finished 14th was because people could not forget that they got beat down by Tennessee?
You're not that stupid. Please tell me you're just pretending dumb as it supports your cause. Consensus in CFB is that early season losses are not/barely held against the team in the polls.
jc25 - An away game against a fundamentally sound defensive club (Mike Stoops' Arizona team), just prior to the BIGGEST game of the season (USC), is a classic trap game. Either you're smart enough to recognize that or you're not. Let's all hope you're just pretending dumb like Wells as it supports your cause.
Poor Andrew..
this is true
but my point remains the same.
I guarantee if Tedford had the choice as to when to play Tennessee, week one or two, he'd without a doubt say week two. Same with Fullmer. I'm not saying 'dont play this game.' I'm saying 'it's ridiculous to play this game in week one.'
Plus Cal and Tenn are playing near gimmes against Colorado St and Southern Miss in week two. That's the game where you work out the kinks.
by the other Andrew on Aug 31, 2007 2:35 PM CDT up reply actions
HC...
I suppose the Tennessee-Cal game also helped Cal barely squeak by a mediocre Washington team, who was then 3-4 and without starting QB Isaiah Stanback? Or perhaps it prepared them for their fantastic loss to the vaunted Arizona Wildcats, whose head coach is at the top of the hot seat list this year?
Maybe it helped, maybe it didn't. And maybe if they played the second week of the year, Cal would've played a closer game, or maybe they would've gotten blown out just as badly. All I was trying to say is that for a top 25 team and its fans, starting 0-1 sucks. A lot.
<More rolling eyes>
I guarantee if Tedford had the choice as to when to play Tennessee, week one or two, he'd without a doubt say week two.
You can't guarantee that in the least. You're acting delusional. Tedford DID have the choice! He and Fulmer accepted a H/H series to be played on the opening weekends of consecutive seasons.
Southern Miss is a "near gimme"? You speaking of the team that played (as a favorite) in their ConfChampionship game last season? I bet N.C.State was thinking like you when they were smoked by 20 points!
I'm sorry but your limited football knowledge has thinking you're worthy of being ignored in the future.
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The Other Andrew
by the other Andrew on Aug 31, 2007 9:08 PM CDT up reply actions
stop it!
This has gone beyond just insulting people's ideas, which itself is very unbecoming and not suited to the geniality of this forum. But now you've even gone beyond that and have just started insulting every single person who contributes to this blog, just because they have the audacity to disagree with you. The only time you're ever nice to anyone is when they agree with you.
Everyone on BON disagrees with each other all the time, but no one insults anyone else for their beliefs. Except you. I have made the mistake in the past of falling into your trap and insulting you for your inability to interact with other human beings without making them hate you. For that I apologize. I've tried to ignore you, and I have largely succeeded in regards to the repetitive and single-minded content of your comments.
But I cannot ignore you insulting, very personally, everyone on this blog that disagrees with you, even those who have engaged you earnestly, without the spite that I usually ooze. Your behavior is obnoxious and condemnable.
Surely it must come as a signal of some sort that the only animosity that occurs between two commenters on this site invariably involves you. And it's not because we have some vendetta against you or because we're too "stupid" (your words, not mine) to recognize the genius of your beliefs. There's plenty of place for your beliefs on this blog. What there isn't a place for is insulting everyone else you come in contact with.
I'm in no position of authority and I make no claims to have any ability to force you to do anything. I'm just a commenter who's sick of trying to read about the sports teams that I love on the blog that I love and instead having to read your insults of your fellow fans and commenters. So why don't you do everyone a favor and stop it.
<More rolling eyes>
But I cannot ignore you insulting, very personally, everyone on this blog that disagrees with you,
Please feel free to point it out on THIS thread. You're acting pretty pansy-like in my opinion. I simply can't wait to hear your idea of "very personally". I'm thinking you might have been a private school youngster.
BTW, feel free to ignore each and every post I choose to make. I know I happily ignored your attack on Peter's Blog Poll as it had no merit.
seriously?
I ask you to stop insulting everyone (whether personally or not), and you respond by calling me a pansy private-school kid? How is that not personal?
You're incorrigible.
And please, feel free to explain to me whom, exactly, I insulted in my attack on the preseason BlogPoll (which was in actuality an attack on preseason polls generally and my belief that the BlogPoll is better than that). Here, I'll even give you the link. Was it the part where I said, "i'm of course not blaming you, peter. you're a member of the blogpoll and you're just fulfilling your duties"? Because that was pretty brutal on my part.
The point is, as I said, most of us have gotten pretty good at ignoring the repetitive substance of your comments. It's the tone that's hard to ignore. The insults are hard to ignore. And even if I could ignore them, I wouldn't want to. The point at which we allow you to insult everyone else on this blog and just shrug it off as, "Oh, that's just HC being HC" -- that's the point at which this turns into HornFans and I stop coming here.
Ole Miss...
that is nice. Respectable team, I can appreciate that. Who knows how good they'll be in 2012/13, but a home and home against Ole Miss sounds lovely. And yes, I do think the Grove will be nice.
Keep this scheduling up.
by bleed burnt orange on Aug 31, 2007 12:33 AM CDT reply actions
Excellent
I just might make the trip to Oxford. I don't think we've played a regular season game against an SEC opponent since I was but a lad.
Shame they couldn't have arranged this...
... while Jevan was the QB. Would have been fun to watch him go up against his former team.
by patienthornsfan on Aug 31, 2007 10:36 AM CDT reply actions
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