re: Are We Satisfied with the Football and Baseball Scheduling?

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so we have in the 21st century played at-least one quality opponent each year. Either ranked or BCS conference.

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So we should be satisfied with playing one BCS OOC team (even if they aren't good) in most years? And, of course, about half the games you list were away games anyway, and UNC was neutral site.

Also, nitpick but Fresno state 2006 was 4-8 in a midmajor conference. If that's a "premier" game we're in worse trouble than I thought.

Having a tough ooc schedule in football doesnt help an SEC team.

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I know this sounds a little crazy, but perhaps Miles is reluctant to go that route because we're in the best division in football with Florida as our permanent cross-divisional game

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I know the reasons, I just don't like them. Boo hoo, we might lose. Well, shite, I know an easy way to solve that, let's shut down the program entirely - we'll never lose again! We can print up some "undefeated since 1939" tshirts like they sell at the Loyola bookstore.

Sarcasm aside, I have higher expectations for LSU football than "not lose to Sam Houston State." And I would actually prefer watching a hard-fought game against Oklahoma State - even with the risk of loss - rather than a 49-3 whomping of some team I've never heard of.

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Sarcasm aside, I have higher expectations for LSU football than "not lose to Sam Houston State." And I would actually prefer watching a hard-fought game against Oklahoma State - even with the risk of loss - rather than a 49-3 whomping of some team I've never heard of.

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Well yeah, in my fantasy world LSU's schedule looks like NCAA 2015 football dynasty schedule.

But these coaches are under constant scrutiny and pressure. They're not going to make the road to the national title more difficult than it already is for the appeasement of the fans

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So we should be satisfied with playing one BCS OOC team

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When we playing in the most powerful division of the most powerful football conference in college football? Yes!

Before you get too upset over our OOC games you might want to check out who Fla., Auburn, Bama and the like are putting on their OOC schedules.

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so we have in the 21st century played at-least one quality opponent each year. Either ranked or BCS conference.

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alabama
auburn
florida
texas a&m

some years UGA south carolina etc

lemme guess you want to play 3 top 25 teams besides this and God forbid we lose a game or look bad winning. that's when its time to fire the coach, huh?

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Les can explain it to you on a third-grade level that's insanely idiotic to play 2 high profile OOC BCS teams to complement our SEC schedule

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It's not "insanely idiotic" for fans to want to watch games that are interesting and evenly matched, rather than glorified scrimmages whose result is preordained months ahead of time.

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I didn't imply that. Having one quality OOC opponent a year is just enough in football.

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my bad

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It's not "insanely idiotic" for fans to want to watch games that are interesting and evenly matched, rather than glorified scrimmages whose result is preordained months ahead of time.

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that's ok if you don't expect championships.

NFL games are entertaining and SB champions lose 3-6 games most years.

but bama plays 3 entertaining games a yr

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It's not "insanely idiotic" for fans to want to watch games that are interesting and evenly matched, rather than glorified scrimmages whose result is preordained months ahead of time.

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Yeah we should definitely strive to play 12 evenly matched games every football season.

We're not the Seattle Seahawks. These college athletes are exhausted by the end of the season with our current format, much less 12 evenly played games.

We'd be the laughing stock of college football if we were dumb enough to play 4 BCS OOC games

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Before you get too upset over our OOC games you might want to check out who Fla., Auburn, Bama and the like are putting on their OOC schedules.

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Well I agree more broadly that it's not an LSU-specific problem, it's a system-wide problem, and I think the solution is going to have to be NCAA-wide. But here we're talking about LSU. I'm not a Florida fan, so if Florida puts together a boring home schedule, it doesn't affect me in the least.