(11-11-2018 10:21 PM)Hambone10 Wrote:  

(11-11-2018 07:02 PM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  If we could join those leagues it might work. But I'm not sure playing every sport in a different league is a great idea. And the bigger problem is that we aren't really good enough in any of those sports to attract interest now.

I can't remember the specifics, but UT does sailing in a league other than the B12 and Fla State in WLAX and others.
Is this ideal? Of course not... and it needs to be investigated... I'm just saying we can't summarily dismiss it.

Quote:As I've said, that's 15 teams with a hole on the same weekend. We can only play one of them, and that leave 3-4 more weekends in November and 4-5 in October, where there are far fewer opportunities. And we're not the only ones wanting those slots.

All I did was select this year... I didn't cherry pick... We play 13 games this year and are done in just 2 weekends. October has tons of bye weeks and non-conference games... and as you note, we only need one of them. Last weekend had 2 byes in the top 25 and I'm sure many non-conference games as well. I'll look if I need to, but do I really? This weekend there are 16. To think there would be 16 week 10 and none week 9 seems unlikely... and if it is? SO what? Take a bye week the first weekend of November and another in October. The final weekend Liberty and NMSU play each other for the second time, so we play one one week, and one the next. That puts us a week beyond this years schedule... potentially 14 games.... AND we had a bye week in September THIS year??
We could have had 3 bye weeks and STILL get 12 games.
I understand what you're saying... but the idea that it 'can't be done' is demonstrably untrue. There are a significant number of unusual pairings and bye weeks all year long.

I realize you didn't cherry pick. But that is the situation every year. There are a bunch more opportunities this coming weekend because that's the weekend SEC schools all play a warmup game for their big rivalry games the following weekend. So there will always be 14 opportunities this weekend. But not the same any other weekend. When schools start playing conference games, they don't like distractions. And when they ave a bye week, they want to rest and recover, not schedule a game in that slot.

I really think our scheduling opportunities as an independent would be extremely limited in October and November.