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I want to schedule a home and home series with any top pac 12 team. All of them are overrated and would get smacked notre dame style at the rock. Imagine a stanford team playing us in a night game at our place
 
T Hey have some good pieces. There QB and WR are the real deal and both will be 1st round picks. I think JT DANIELS can potentially be a 1st overall pick
 
We haven't played USC in 50 years. Last time they had OJ. Made front cover of SI.
Friends with some of the guys who played in that game. Guess how old we are now?

Back in the '80's our then-AD Sam Jankovich had the idea of developing a "north-south, east-west" approach to scheduling. He wanted regular games with northern teams (Cuse, BC, etc.--anybody we could schedule). He wanted exposure on the west coast--he remembered how some of our guys lost out on Outland and Lombardi awards from poor support among western voters. Said we needed the west coast to know more about us. So I think Sam sought out games with whomever in Pac-10 would plays. I think he also scheduled a 20 year home-and-home with Sam Diego State. 20 years!

I think the SDSU contract was tossed when we jumped at the he chance to get in the Big East.

The Big East thing was a lifesaver probably. When Jankovich first came in as the AD in the early '80's, he said the scheduling was a disaster. We rarely got a regular season game in our part of the country, outside of FSU. UF was probably thinking more and more like, "Why do we need to keep playing Miami." Hardly ever got games with the SEC or most ACC teams.

In the '70's we played suicide schedules, many top powers, and we were their doormats. And we had so much less money.

The fact that we have our hands full with a conference schedule plus our yearly creampuffs, plus growing number of non-conference Florida schools we could play, e.g., USF, FIU and maybe UCF in the future, means we don't need to look to the west coast as much as the past.
 
TheMatador said:
We haven't played USC in 50 years. Last time they had OJ. Made front cover of SI.
Friends with some of the guys who played in that game. Guess how old we are now?

Back in the '80's our then-AD Sam Jankovich had the idea of developing a "north-south, east-west" approach to scheduling. He wanted regular games with northern teams (Cuse, BC, etc.--anybody we could schedule). He wanted exposure on the west coast--he remembered how some of our guys lost out on Outland and Lombardi awards from poor support among western voters. Said we needed the west coast to know more about us. So I think Sam sought out games with whomever in Pac-10 would plays. I think he also scheduled a 20 year home-and-home with Sam Diego State. 20 years!

I think the SDSU contract was tossed when we jumped at the he chance to get in the Big East.

The Big East thing was a lifesaver probably. When Jankovich first came in as the AD in the early '80's, he said the scheduling was a disaster. We rarely got a regular season game in our part of the country, outside of FSU. UF was probably thinking more and more like, "Why do we need to keep playing Miami." Hardly ever got games with the SEC or most ACC teams.

In the '70's we played suicide schedules, many top powers, and we were their doormats. And we had so much less money.

The fact that we have our hands full with a conference schedule plus our yearly creampuffs, plus growing number of non-conference Florida schools we could play, e.g., USF, FIU and maybe UCF in the future, means we don't need to look to the west coast as much as the past.
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Was that the game with The Stork?
 
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TheMatador said:
We haven't played USC in 50 years. Last time they had OJ. Made front cover of SI.
Friends with some of the guys who played in that game. Guess how old we are now?

Back in the '80's our then-AD Sam Jankovich had the idea of developing a "north-south, east-west" approach to scheduling. He wanted regular games with northern teams (Cuse, BC, etc.--anybody we could schedule). He wanted exposure on the west coast--he remembered how some of our guys lost out on Outland and Lombardi awards from poor support among western voters. Said we needed the west coast to know more about us. So I think Sam sought out games with whomever in Pac-10 would plays. I think he also scheduled a 20 year home-and-home with Sam Diego State. 20 years!

I think the SDSU contract was tossed when we jumped at the he chance to get in the Big East.

The Big East thing was a lifesaver probably. When Jankovich first came in as the AD in the early '80's, he said the scheduling was a disaster. We rarely got a regular season game in our part of the country, outside of FSU. UF was probably thinking more and more like, "Why do we need to keep playing Miami." Hardly ever got games with the SEC or most ACC teams.

In the '70's we played suicide schedules, many top powers, and we were their doormats. And we had so much less money.

The fact that we have our hands full with a conference schedule plus our yearly creampuffs, plus growing number of non-conference Florida schools we could play, e.g., USF, FIU and maybe UCF in the future, means we don't need to look to the west coast as much as the past.
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great story man, by my figuring you should be around 96 ?? I would love a H and H with SC, they are the closest thing to us on the west coast, be great for both schools. JK about the 96
 
Kal, Stanford, USC, Oregon...even BYU, Wyoming, or Boise State would be decent matchups. I'd toss SDSU in there, but I don't think that'll happen again, for various reasons.
 
TheMatador said:
We haven't played USC in 50 years. Last time they had OJ. Made front cover of SI.
Friends with some of the guys who played in that game. Guess how old we are now?

Back in the '80's our then-AD Sam Jankovich had the idea of developing a "north-south, east-west" approach to scheduling. He wanted regular games with northern teams (Cuse, BC, etc.--anybody we could schedule). He wanted exposure on the west coast--he remembered how some of our guys lost out on Outland and Lombardi awards from poor support among western voters. Said we needed the west coast to know more about us. So I think Sam sought out games with whomever in Pac-10 would plays. I think he also scheduled a 20 year home-and-home with Sam Diego State. 20 years!
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Nearly played everyone in the old Pac 10 *except* USC. It was good exposure to play out on the West Coast, probably helped secure some of the talent Miami used to get from that area. It was also emblematic of the "any team, anywhere" scheduling mentality this program had back then. You didn't see any eastern team pushing to schedule those games....FSU might have had a few of them from what I can remember, but it was Miami that had those home-and-homes regularly.
 
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