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Originally Posted by jay santos
It's a fallacy that tough schedule is only necessary for chance to become national champion. Tough schedule is important for
1. Ticket sales
2. Fan enthusiasm
3. Recruiting--"you're going to play a schedule just as tough as you would if you go to ASU or pretty close at least"
4. chance to make BCS with one even two losses
5. integrity, i.e. we're a top 40 program but we purposefully schedule a #90 SOS in order to ensure wins?
6. ESPN and other national exposure
7. prepare for conference play, i.e. get better playing good teams or expose weaknesses early on to fix them rather than wait till you're in conference play to find out
8. future TV money for conference and self
I think you could go on and on.
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In general, I don't disagree. For next year, under the circumstances, I'm fine with Northern Iowa. I'm not saying I want to play them or southern Arkansas or eastern New Hampshire every year. I think an undefeated season next year is possible, and it would certainly put BYU into a BCS bowl. I also think the Northern Iowa game next year will be a good warm up to help insure wins against Washington and UCLA - 2 out of conference wins - which I think is the next hurdle BYU needs to overcome.
Baby steps.
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