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Topic: Which OOC Schedule would you rather have this year?

Topic: Which OOC Schedule would you rather have this year?

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perimeterpost
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Which OOC Schedule would you rather have this year?

Posted: 9/18/2011 3:23:12 PM

Which OOC Schedule would you rather have this year?

	OHIO's
	Toledo's

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One of the eternal debates on here is about the strength of the OOC (or lack of) and its impact on the fanbase and attendance. OHIO and Toledo seem evenly matched, and both are capable of winning their divisions, but after 3 OOC games Toledo is 1-2 and OHIO is 3-0, with two votes in the latest Coach's poll.

Both teams head into their final OOC game facing a beatable Big East team. Which positon would you rather be in at this point-

1-2 with a win over an FCS team, a close-but-not-quite loss to the now unranked Buckeyes, and a butt kicking at home on TV by Boise,

or 3-0 with wins over an FCS team, a "really bad" FBS team (that happened to beat a B1G team the follwing week) and a feel good route over a regional rival?

(Option 3 of having the schedule of Toledo's with the results of OHIO's would be nice but is off the table for this discussion.)

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RE: Which OOC Schedule would you rather have this year?

Posted: 9/18/2011 6:17:35 PM

For fan interest, probably a mixture of the two (although the first two home crowds were great). At this point, I might trade the Rutgers road game for a Boise home game, just to see how this team stacks up with some of the best in the country. There's been talk about how this team has top-25 potential. I'm not sure that Rutgers will advance that theory any (unless the Cats put another 20-30 point victory margin up there), but Boise would be a more reliable yardstick. MAC-level schools really shouldn't play more than one top-25 quality team per season. A schedule like Toledo's (or even WMU's schedule last year with road games at MSU and ND) doesn't do much for a team.

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RE: Which OOC Schedule would you rather have this year?

Posted: 9/18/2011 8:12:37 PM

I'm not sure I'd want Boise. I've always thought there was a big difference between 1-10 and 15-25. In the perfect world, a top 20 school at home would be an ideal measuring stick. Give me WVU, Baylor, or North Carolina at home instead of on the road at Rutgers.

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Monroe Slavin
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RE: Which OOC Schedule would you rather have this year?

Posted: 9/19/2011 1:29:05 AM

Oh, c'mon. If we'd've played columbus and Boise would our new starters have gotten a bit of a chance to ease into their new roles? Would our back-ups have gotten valuable, prime game-time playing experience? This is absolutely the right schedule for this year. We are good but we need to develop to get to the upper echelon by the end of the year.

Now, next year....

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