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Show starts at 5:30 this year, NOT 6pm.
And for those who aren’t aware of bracketmatrix.com, it takes an average of dozens of brackets to make a super bracket. They also have a ranking system for how well different bracket makers have done. Lunardi is 36th out of 89 predictors who have issued brackets for at least 3 years.
Gottfried has done a really good job with transfers.
You know what else I’m in favor of? Recruiting guys and having them stick around for 4 years. I like seeing seniors on the roster. And to some extent, I feel like you’re getting less bang for your buck when it comes to recruiting time spent on transfers. Spend all of the time recruiting and you get a guy for 2 years instead of 4.
burnbarn, I believe I heard that the “calendar is one week shorter this year”, whatever that means. Looks like everybody else on the schedule only has one open date this year as well.
Current non-conference schedule: home against Troy and Eastern Kentucky, away at Old Dominion and South Alabama. A Conference USA game, 2 Sun Belt opponents, and a I-AA team. They should be paying people to attend those games, not the other way around.
“You want to strike a balance between overall schedule strength, opportunities for competitive growth, an attractive home slate, marquee matchups for exposure and more.
If our OOC scheduling plan is to play one Power 5 game, 2 mid-major games, and 1 FCS team, then that tells me there’s one attractive home game every other year (assuming the Power 5 will go back and forth between home/away). I don’t care about seeing the mid-major games at Carter-Finley. Heck, we’re going TO Troy? We’re going TO South Alabama? Are you kidding me?
And this Duke thing really makes me mad. While playing at Duke doesn’t give us any gate revenue, the actual cost of traveling there is essentially zero. Talk about a money saver! Fans started asking for an annual State-Duke game 10 years ago, and the ADs still haven’t done anything to make that happen.
Cannot agree more with this being the type of series we should be scheduling. I understand needing 3 home OOC games and 1 away OOC game. So get it so that we have 2 decent opponents each year, 1 home and 1 away. Then play your low-major team and your FCS school and I’ll be perfectly content with the schedule.
There is not a SINGLE OOC game in the future currently scheduled against a BCS conference school (ND isn’t in a conference, so I’m not counting them). And Debbie thinks people want to pay to watch the Wolfpack? I live in Pennsylvania, so I don’t have season tickets, but I was insulted as a Wolfpack Club member to receive my application for season tickets and have them point out that the price hadn’t gone up. Hmm, the OOC games are 2 transitional schools and a FCS school, and we went 0-8 in conference last year. What justification would you have to raise the prices? We’re not even going to PLAY the defending national champion, we’re going to get BLOWN OUT by the defending national champion.
I think the OOC schedule EVERY YEAR, regardless of how well we’re playing, should include a FCS team, a mid-major school, a 6-6 BCS school, and a Top 25 school. And we don’t have a single BCS school scheduled anywhere coming up. Ridiculous.
