Drakey wrote:It has become almost impossible to come up with a top 150 schedule for a Valley team anymore. I suppose you might be able to schedule a bunch of road games against Top 10 teams, but I'm not even sure that can be done. Drake and UNI have each lost the in state quality opponents and they are pretty much impossible to replace.
"almost impossible" is a really, really big stretch.
We have several teams in this league who do a
horrible job avoiding multiple 300ish RPI grenades year after year. Sometimes you get stuck with one in an MTE or when a contract commitment gets reneged. Sucks, but it happens. Most of the time, however, those teams have bit the bullet willingly for whatever reason, be it that the super shitty opponents are cheaper to buy, happen to be close (lower travel expenses), etc.
Failure to book home and homes with North Carolina or UCLA isn't why Valley OOC schedules have sucked eggs the last few years.