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11-09-2006, 03:24 PM
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I have heard (but not confirmed) that the reason numerous schools denied Louisville's request to get on their schedule is because Louisville was insisting on a home-and-home situation (home-and-away if you prefer that terminology). That's just not very lucrative when Papa John Stadium holds less than 50,000 people.
Obviously something could be worked out financially; but you would think that if Louisville were willing to pony up that kind of dough on a regular basis, they would just build a bigger house.
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11-09-2006, 03:34 PM
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Louisville plans to expand their stadium in the next couple of years to something like 66-67,000. Oregon has a 50,000 seat stadium and got Oklahoma and Michigan to play home and home. Don't both teams keep their respective home revnue in a home and home series?
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11-09-2006, 03:39 PM
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Louisville plans to expand their stadium in the next couple of years to something like 66-67,000. Oregon has a 50,000 seat stadium and got Oklahoma and Michigan to play home and home. Don't both teams keep their respective home revnue in a home and home series?
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Maybe Louisville is too far NORTH for Southern Boys to play in September. I mean that's almost Ohio for cryin' out loud!
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11-09-2006, 03:43 PM
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Great post, I agree... all the conferences involved agreed to the rules specified by the BCS and none have a reason to whine unless there is a scenario of more than two unbeatens in the major conferences... won't happen this year.
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Those rules never said that all unbeatens have to be ranked above 1-loss teams... SoS still counts in the computers and there's still a couple games for Louisville to show they are less than BCS-worthy, so that the voters can correct the problem of having a subpar unbeaten team ranked so high. They are, after all, in the conference that the "Big East rule" is named for. |
11-09-2006, 05:54 PM
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I voted Louisville ahead of West Virginia in the pre-season, and then switched them a few weeks ago after a couple of unimpressive preformances. I now have them at #3 based on merit.
I don't think they're the third best team in the country, but they played a decent non-conference schedule, with Ky, at Kansas State, and Miami. Now those are 2 mediocre-to-average BCS teams and 1 talented one that's under-performing, but it's not like Louisville took on a cake non-conference schedule in order to try to make an undefeated run.
West Virginia's win over Georgia legitimized the Big East in the minds of many, but that was last season and shouldn't be factored into this year's rankings. West Virginia is still significantly over-ranked in my mind, but since they have no shot at the title game, most folks aren't bothering to notice. But how can they be voted ahead of a 1-loss teams like Arkansas, who has actually beaten somebody?
It will be very interesting to see what happens in the polls if Rutgers wins at home tonight.
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11-09-2006, 06:02 PM
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