Non-Conference Scheduling

This has been beat to death I know. I understand, particularly in football, the players need a cupcake or two on the schedule.

What I do not understand is-----scheduling a cupcake that is so bad, no regular person has even heard of the school?

I remember a few years ago we played "Towson" in football. The only reason I knew where Towson was is because that is where Elaine Benes is from in Seinfeld. No idea they had a university----never even seen them in the basketball tournament.

It has happened a few more times in football.

The baseball scheduled that was just released-----I understand the days of us going on an early season roadtrip to Long Beach State or Cal State Fullerton are over. I really do like both the Darthmouth/Northeastern thing and playing Notre Dame in a regional-like tourney in March. BUT "Milwaukee" and "Sacremento State"??? I have never heard of either of them and I am 47. Of course I have heard of the cities-----I have been to Milwaukee before. Why not just play Wisconsin? I realize we need to host some northern schools at the beginning of the year, but can we just play actual schools instead of ones nobody has heard of before?

I still think you can schedule cupcakes in all sports. I just do not understand the logic of playing schools nobody ever knew existed before.