How would you fix the Baseball Schedule

It's obvious that our OOC schedule played a part in the regional snub. Do not use this thread to comment on the veracity of the argument. Just tell us how you would go about scheduling games to assure good competition, good games for the fans, not completely demoralizing the team before conference play, and having a good non-conf SOS.

Here are my preliminary ideas:

Here are my thoughts on how LSU should schedule games:
1) Schedule at least one premier weekend series like CSF this year (3 or 6 games)
2) One gimme series, like Duquesne or Holy Cross (3 games)
3) One or two middle of the road series like Kansas a couple years ago. (3 or 6 games)
4) Have all of those series with teams from different parts of the country. A west coast, a mid west, a Carolinas school, and a Florida school.
5) At least one of those series should be on the road. At Hawaii is a good middle of the pack road series.
6) 30 SEC games

Series take up 42 of 56 regular season games.

Mid week: (14 games)
1) NO SWAC TEAMS (unless it's Southern)
2) ULL, SELU, and Tulane are the only state schools we should play every year.
3) ULL and SELU get home and homes on every other year (playing at one of their parks each year), just games at the box on odds. Tulane always gets home and home.
4) Rotate the other state schools in excluding any team about to drop down in competition (UNO and Centenary) and Grambling. Play 2 or 3 a year.
5) Play a game in Shreveport, preferably against a team from out of state, like TCU, Oral Roberts, or Dallas Baptist
6) Play either USM or Rice every year home and home. They are close enough to do this.
7) Pontiff classic: Bring in good teams from out of state.


This would take away some home games throughout the season, but would assuredly help us get those games back in June. What are your ideas?