You need to play and beat the best teams in order to have national credibility. Preferably on the road, because those teams aren’t coming to Spectrum.
If you have 2 home and home games, 1 FCS game and play 6 home games every once in awhile, it allows you to do an occasional 2:1 or 1:0.
If someone pays us 1.2-1.6 million for such a game and we make let’s say 2 million per home game, it’s not going to kill the budget
There was a radio poll and that’s what the fans want. Additionally, the AD wants it.
Expect it to happen whether we like it or not.
Danny White had a good philosophy for making the most revenue, but his approach was flawed and now the new AD needs to fix it.
If we played UConn, an FCS school and 2, 1 and 1 games every year, we could have 8 home games every year like Tennessee. It would make a lot of money, but our SOS and fan excitement would be lower.
The schedule that our new AD proposes is not going to effect our ability to win a Conference championship or being able to get a NY6 invitational. Cincinnati is playing
Indiana and Notre Dame in 2021. If they can do it, then so can we.