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We were never supposed to have UNI on the schedule, but the team that was originally scheduled chickened out. Playing a lower division team is sometimes purely necessary to fill the schedule. Texas Tech has a lower division team on their schedule as do other 'BCS worthy' teams. The presence of Eastern Washington on TT's schedule doesn't seem to be hurting their BCS chances.
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Do you think that past history doesn't serve as a reasonable guide for future performance? Hell, this year alone we barely beat a 0-4 Washington team on the road.
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1. Millions of bowl dollars. We're actually, like BFM says, talking about this once every 5-10 years. So the millions actually comes out to "hundreds of thousands of dollars a year" in my Dr Evil voice. On a $20M budget and compared to the increase in tickets and TV revenue long term an exciting schedule would bring, it's nothing. 2. Excitement. Yes, it would fun to anticipate and pre-game day would be a blast. 5 minutes into the game it becomes uncomfortable, and the sickness of getting embarassed in our ONE national time in the spotlight pretty much washes out the pregame excitement. 3. Exposure. Honestly is Hawaii better off today for the exposure it had last year. I think people saw it for what it was. They had a pretty good team, they gamed the system, and got exposed for being pretenders. Not sure they're any better for it today. |
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I think comparing a 1981 season to a 2008 season is about as apples and oranges as you can get. |
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2. TT doesn't get hurt by Eastern Washington because they play Texas, OK, T&M, Kansas, OK State, Baylor, K State, and potentially Mizzou. When we have those teams on the schedule, I'll be fine with adding USU and Nevada. Next |
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Beating a Washington team that will probably lose 10 games? Beating a 6-7 UCLA team or a 6-6 Arizona team or a 7-6 Oregon team? |
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I hope we get lucky and find some magic for one night like we did against Miami in 1990; the magic that we didn't have against Texas A&M in 1990.
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