Opinion on The Schedule

[A Pac]

My cousin and I were talking last week about Ohio State's schedule. He is a huge Ohio State fan and pretty knowledgeable about football. He brought up an interesting point. Instead of playing 8 Big Ten teams every year, he wishes they would play less bad out of conference teams and all 10 (11 soon) teams in the season. You can still play 1 or 2 out of conference games, but you would also play every other conference school as well.

I know that it is important for a team to schedule some patsies the first couple of weeks to get their timing down, work out the kinks and shake off the rust. However, why can't a team do this in-conference? OSU could have scheduled Northwestern the first game, Played Miami and then moved onto Illinois and Minnesota. To me, it looks better if you crush a bad in-conference team like Northwestern than it does to crush a pretty good mid-market team like Ohio. It looks better to the national media and it takes away the criticism that they played a bad team. People don't seem to criticize teams when they crush a conference member.

You would also get more heated games if the season were like this. We all like seeing the Buckeyes win, but we like seeing them dominate the Big Ten as well.

That's pretty much it. I just wanted to post this and see what everyone thought. Enjoy!

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

The non-conference schedule brings in tons of money. I don't know how much, but I wouldn't be surprised if those 3/4 games a year paid for most of the budget the non-football/basketball teams. They'll never give that up. It has very little to do with getting timing down, working out kinks, or shaking off rust.

 

[Mr_Burns]

The entire SEC has gotten away with this for a long, long time, even without a marquee OOC matchup (like we have had with Texas, USC, Miami). Let's fix their problem first, then move on to tweaking a team's schedule that includes playing a national powerhouse OOC each year.

 

[A Pac]

The non-conference schedule brings in tons of money. I don't know how much, but I wouldn't be surprised if those 3/4 games a year paid for most of the budget the non-football/basketball teams. They'll never give that up. It has very little to do with getting timing down, working out kinks, or shaking off rust.

How exactly do they make more money? I know that they pay a lot to bring those teams in, but am unsure how they pull more in. Thanks in advance.

 

[Buckrock]

The non-conference schedule brings in tons of money. I don't know how much, but I wouldn't be surprised if those 3/4 games a year paid for most of the budget the non-football/basketball teams. They'll never give that up. It has very little to do with getting timing down, working out kinks, or shaking off rust.

They like keeping the money in Ohio as much as possible. That is why YSU, OU, Toledo etc. are on the schedule. It's a $ 700K-800K pay day.

 

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

How exactly do they make more money? I know that they pay a lot to bring those teams in, but am unsure how they pull more in. Thanks in advance.

Home. Games.

 

[leroyjenkins]

Also A Pac, I dont think we have a say outside of scUM, when we play conference opponents. We cant say, give us IU, UI, and Northwestern first. Also if we play 10 conference games, we will play 5 of them away from home.

 

[chille37]

I think another thing that must be considered is the fact that our lower tier teams need those early wins to become bowl eligible thus making more money for the conference.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

How exactly do they make more money? I know that they pay a lot to bring those teams in, but am unsure how they pull more in. Thanks in advance.

What BKB said. If we're playing all the teams in the Big10, they are going to alternate home and away games. As it is now, we have either 7 or 8 of 12 games at home.

 

[MaxBuck]

I know that they pay a lot to bring those teams in ...

Keep in mind that "a lot" to Eastern Michigan is not necessarily "a lot" to Ohio State. Net income to the Ohio State athletics program is greatly enhanced by these powderpuff games where our opponents cannot require a return game at their place.

 

[BB73]

I like lollipops.

 

[AKAK]

I like lollipops.

Huh.

Me too.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

I like cupcakes.

FIFY

:pirate1:

 

[Tlangs]

You can call me nannerpuss....and I like pancakes.

 

[fourteenandoh]

I don't know this for a fact but I would imagine that home, non-conference, non home and home games make the university more money than a home conference game does. When we play a big 10 team, we have to pay the big 10 which then splits that money up around the conference. When we play EMU, we give them 850k and keep the rest.