12-13-2013, 02:56 PM
(12-13-2013, 02:45 PM)Leftcoast link Wrote:Stanford's uneven schedule was made worse with our move to the Pac 12 North and the heightened stakes of the Oregon game. Look at this year's home schedule bob-bond: Oregon, the University of Dead Fake Girlfriends, UCLA, Big Game and emerging South power ASU. If you don 't like that schedule you don 't like college football.
Next year? Stanford's opponents amount to University of Spoiled Children and not much when it comes to marquee eye candy for the casual fan. It 'a no wonder the AD was working with Low APR U to balance our schedule. Perhaps if Oregon falls off and UW takes up the slack this will not be quite as lop-sided but that still looks years away and even then doesn't even the gap.
On the odd years the AD sells the program, not the schedule. On the even years they grow our base.
It really hurts us that the year with more home PAC games is also the year with better games in general. I think the easiest solution would be to switch the ND game, honestly, treat it like a 10th conference game and then our schedule is actually balanced in terms of home games. But that seems unlikely to happen.
