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Lohengrin said:
james bkf is a Wake sports nihilist and doesn't want any honest success for football. He's only deriding Clawson and our scheduling to turn others against the whole enterprise. Try to avoid reasoning with him as you would a typical Wake fan. His goals are the opposite of those held by the rest of us.
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His whole shtick is tired. He gets his kicks by being a boards troll. I put him on ignore without the least regret. He adds nothing of any value.
 
Claw sucks but he certainly didn't schedule this shitty schedule.
 
bobknightfan said:
WF doesn't belong in a P-5 conference. I would think that anyone intelligent enough to be able to go to WF would have figured that out by now.

Also, you can't equate Army with Navy or Air Force...at least in the last several decades. There was a time....years & years & years ago....that Army had a much different calibre football program than it has had for many years now.

As far as equating WF with Delaware & Elon, one of those teams isn't even an FBS school...and the other one just recently upgraded to that level. As for Army, I would say that WF & Army have fairly comparable football programs right now. Both are awful. The difference is that Army doesn't pretend to be something that it isn't.
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You will obviously never understand that most of your argument is rooted in a time when there was no 85 scholarship limit. Since that rule was put in place there is no excuse for not fielding a competitive football team. None. In addition there was also a time when Wake would never be on TV. The league television contracts have leveled that playing field. That excuse is gone. In fact every loser excuse for losing in this program has been eliminated. In the last 25 years the reasons for losing have been mostly self inflicted with bad hires, keeping coaches too long, late in upgrading facilities etc. If Clawson recruits in the top 50-60 every year, does that not suggest to you we will be in a bowl game every year? You bleed LOWF.
 
If wake scheduled Elon over Indiana we would have to win 7 games to go bowling so I would say that this is bad advice
 
Wakeforest22890 said:
If wake scheduled Elon over Indiana we would have to win 7 games to go bowling so I would say that this is bad advice
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Why is that? I thought that Elon was an FBS school now. Why wouldn't a win over Elon count the same as a win over Army or Tulane....or Indiana?
 
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Only one FCS win counts towards a Bowl bid. F$U had a problem when WVa backed out of a game and they had to schedule Savannah St instead.
 
bobknightfan said:
Why is that? I thought that Elon was an FBS school now. Why wouldn't a win over Elon count the same as a win over Army or Tulane....or Indiana?
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SAD !

Come on man. At least do some research before you go off on a subject.

Not to mention something that is easy to look up on the internet.

This isn't a Wake Forest issue, it's an NCAA issue, so I don't really see the big point in continuing to deride the schedule as something that only applies to us.

Wake Forest should schedule 3 easy games and 1 decently difficult one (or a big name game every few years). That just makes sense. Going to a bowl increases the publicity of a school and they get a nationally broadcast game with little to no other games on to show their program off. That's really big to recruits, and even if the reality that 6-6 or 7-6 isn't good, perception is reality, and recruits want bowl games.
 
Shorty said:
Knowing that a second FCS win is meaningless, I don't understand that scheduling approach.
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Probably either one of two things:

a) a FBS team dropped off UNC's schedule late leaving few alternatives;
b) UNC was locked in to play two road/neutral OOC games (UGA at the GA Dome, and @ Illinois), so to play 6 home games, UNC had to play 2 FCS teams as FBS teams (even ones from crappy conferences) are far less willing to play at another FBS school without a return home game now (see App. State and ODU). As a result, it was either play two FCS teams or play 7 road games and 5 home games.
 
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UNC played two FCS teams last year too. Had they beaten Clemson that might well have kept them out of the playoffs
 
What the hell, hope springs eternal!

Tulane W
Duke W
Delaware W
Indiana W
NCSU L
Syracuse W
FSU L
Army W
UVA W
Louisville L
Clemson L
BC W
 
Pilchard said:
Probably either one of two things:

a) a FBS team dropped off UNC's schedule late leaving few alternatives;
b) UNC was locked in to play two road/neutral OOC games (UGA at the GA Dome, and @ Illinois), so to play 6 home games, UNC had to play 2 FCS teams as FBS teams (even ones from crappy conferences) are far less willing to play at another FBS school without a return home game now (see App. State and ODU). As a result, it was either play two FCS teams or play 7 road games and 5 home games.
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That makes sense.
 
UNC isn't worried about going 6-6 and just being bowl eligible. They are a little past that point.
 
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