Some of us require as much notice as possible to plan football games. (Not everyone gets every Saturday off.) So, please, hurry up and release the 2012 football schedule already. It's already later than you've released it in past years.
Is it really that hard to formulate a schedule? The SEC released theirs back in January (or was it December?) and they had to make two or three different schedules depending on how many teams they had!
We know the ACC is staying still at 12 for 2012, so there's not a lot of variables here, except maybe we get the battle of the Techs in Blacksburg on Labor Day.
I blame West Virginia. I know they had to cut somebody in order to make room for the Big 12, but now Florida State is in shambles. Apparently they've tried replaceing WV with other Big East schools, but those other schools won't do it without a return trip (FSU seems to just want the one game in Tallahassee).
ReplyDeleteOklahoma and Texas A&M were both possibilities, but neither wanted a one-and-done. Instead, Oklahoma is doing a one-gamer at UTEP (?!?), while Texas A&M has 2 FCS teams scheduled (along with a one-gamer against LA Tech in Shreveport).
Boise State was another team the Seminoles reached out to. But with Michigan State, BYU, and Southern Miss all on Boise's out-of-conference slate already, would FSU be overkill? They can schedule one more game, regardless of which conference they're in for 2012 (playing at Hawaii if part of the Mtn West; would need an extra OOC game if part of the Big East). I say go for it...if they get past all of those teams and go unbeaten, forget getting jumped by a 1-loss SEC or Big 12 team!
Wouldn't Syracuse be the perfect Big East team for FSU? They are adamant about not wanting to play Rutgers twice, and they're coming to the ACC Atlantic anyway, so they wouldn't need a return trip. (If they wanted to make it "fair", have the in-conference series start at Syracuse in 2013.) Maybe Pitt could be up for it, even though they are heading to the Coastal.
ReplyDeleteBut I would support Boise travelling to FSU. It's time to put up or shut up. I think having Michigan State and Florida State both on the schedule would actually test that team. As I've said, all of their big games were either at the beginning or end of the season, and there was only one a year. Granted, who knows what Boise will be doing from here on out without Kellen Moore.
It looks like the ACC lets the other conferences dictate their schedules too much.