Sorry if already posted. Deal is almost done. USM in Miami in '14 and Miami in Hattiesburg in '15. That mean's our non-conf. schedule for '14 would include Mississippi State and Miami (FL) so far right??

Also, we are close to getting a home and home with Vandy starting in '14.

congrats!! last time Tech got a "home" game with Miami, Larry Coker was the coach and made us play them at Indy Stadium in Shreveport

We were supposed to have had Miami & VT at him in the same year a few years back but our old AD let Tha U out of the deal for nothing.

miami is a great example of the sort of game we want on our OoC schedule. MS is a great example of what we don't want on our OoC schedule.

Miami was willing to come play at UTEP this year but our athletic director decided to schedule an away game at Texas A&M instead. Our campus is undergoing major construction and we will only have 5 home games this year.

(06-01-2013 06:17 PM)EagleX Wrote:  miami is a great example of the sort of game we want on our OoC schedule. MS is a great example of what we don't want on our OoC schedule.

MS? Mississippi State? Why not?

(06-01-2013 06:32 PM)GCEagle Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 06:17 PM)EagleX Wrote:  miami is a great example of the sort of game we want on our OoC schedule. MS is a great example of what we don't want on our OoC schedule.

MS? Mississippi State? Why not?

other than degrading our OoC schedule, it accomplishes nothing.

(06-01-2013 06:17 PM)EagleX Wrote:  miami is a great example of the sort of game we want on our OoC schedule. MS is a great example of what we don't want on our OoC schedule.

Southern Miss has been the best overall program in Mississippi the last 10-12 years and doing so with far less money. Beating Ole Miss and Mississippi St. year in and year out might be what you need to do in order to get that respect nationally. You're past and present conference mates know this already. However I'm just an outsider looking in. Also for the last couple of seasons Southern Miss basketball has been the best honestly and based on what you guys have coming in this season I don't see that changing.

As a conference, this is the type of game we need to schedule & win. UTSA has some very good OOC games the next few years & it will give us a great opportunity to hopefully make our conference proud.

(06-01-2013 04:21 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  congrats!! last time Tech got a "home" game with Miami, Larry Coker was the coach and made us play them at Indy Stadium in Shreveport

That game was played in Shreveport as a reward for the Miami quarterback, Brock Berlin, who had b een an all world quarterback in Shreveport and recruited by every school in the country. He chose Miami and the game against Tech in Shreveport was scheduled to give him an opportunity to play a college game before his hometown crowd. That was the only "home" game Tech ever had with Miami.

Having MSU on the schedule is great. If we lose, it doesn't hurt us much because recruits see them as better than us anyway(sucks but it's true). If we win, which we can, then we turn recruits heads and get them to consider USM and we have state bragging rights. No matter how much fans tell you differently, teams get excited for in-state D1 games, no matter the conference.

(06-01-2013 08:51 PM)eager eagle Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 04:21 PM)techdawg88 Wrote:  congrats!! last time Tech got a "home" game with Miami, Larry Coker was the coach and made us play them at Indy Stadium in Shreveport

That game was played in Shreveport as a reward for the Miami quarterback, Brock Berlin, who had b een an all world quarterback in Shreveport and recruited by every school in the country. He chose Miami and the game against Tech in Shreveport was scheduled to give him an opportunity to play a college game before his hometown crowd. That was the only "home" game Tech ever had with Miami.

He was a Florida Gator when that game was scheduled....nice try though.

http://www.gatorzone.com/football/bios.p...erlin.html

(06-01-2013 04:17 PM)TTT Wrote:  Sorry if already posted. Deal is almost done. USM in Miami in '14 and Miami in Hattiesburg in '15. That mean's our non-conf. schedule for '14 would include Mississippi State and Miami (FL) so far right??

Also, we are close to getting a home and home with Vandy starting in '14.

Where did you find the info about Vandy?

So has our BYU game been cancelled yet?

If Vandy's done: That's OOC... @BYU, @Miami (FL), @Mississippi State, and Vanderbilt?

On the topic of Vandy at MT we have:

2015 Vandy
2016 @Vandy
2017 Vandy
2018 @Vandy

Big opportunity for us.

FWIW- We're 3-0 against Vandy since moving to FBS(01, 02, 05) but this will be their first trip to Murfreesboro in nearly a hundred years. That one is going to be a TON of fun.

(06-01-2013 06:56 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 06:32 PM)GCEagle Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 06:17 PM)EagleX Wrote:  miami is a great example of the sort of game we want on our OoC schedule. MS is a great example of what we don't want on our OoC schedule.

MS? Mississippi State? Why not?

other than degrading our OoC schedule, it accomplishes nothing.

I'm confused...

Miss State 24-15 the last three years in the toughest division in football degrades your OOC schedule


Miami 20-17 the last three years in the ACC(and marred by scandal) somehow improves your OOC schedule?

(06-01-2013 06:56 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 06:32 PM)GCEagle Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 06:17 PM)EagleX Wrote:  miami is a great example of the sort of game we want on our OoC schedule. MS is a great example of what we don't want on our OoC schedule.

MS? Mississippi State? Why not?

other than degrading our OoC schedule, it accomplishes nothing.

You've lost your mind. We can sell as many tickets to that game as we can find seats for it. If we do our part and beat them we will grow our fanbase. Miami is at best a quick thrill.

(06-02-2013 02:10 AM)Luckyshot Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 06:56 PM)EagleX Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 06:32 PM)GCEagle Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 06:17 PM)EagleX Wrote:  miami is a great example of the sort of game we want on our OoC schedule. MS is a great example of what we don't want on our OoC schedule.

MS? Mississippi State? Why not?

other than degrading our OoC schedule, it accomplishes nothing.

You've lost your mind. We can sell as many tickets to that game as we can find seats for it. If we do our part and beat them we will grow our fanbase. Miami is at best a quick thrill.

That game will be the first one after MSU finishes their stadium expansion, which will give them more seats than Ole Miss for the first time in....ever? Having us play them guarantees a hard sellout for all 61,337 seats even in the middle of a random field in East Mississippi.

We will set a new stadium attendance record, too, when they come to play us.

Given that my family is originally from Starkville, I have a number of family members who are either faculty and staff or students. That is virtually the only game on their future non-conference schedule that they want to talk about. It is a big deal to them, and it should be to us.

In fact, I have been told that part of the reason there are holes in our non-conference schedule after 2015 is that we are trying very hard to get MSU to expand the series beyond the two games already scheduled (currently the SEC has asked its schools to stop non-conference scheduling while it tries to figure out conference scheduling).

(06-01-2013 11:08 PM)Southern Miss Alum Wrote:  

(06-01-2013 04:17 PM)TTT Wrote:  Sorry if already posted. Deal is almost done. USM in Miami in '14 and Miami in Hattiesburg in '15. That mean's our non-conf. schedule for '14 would include Mississippi State and Miami (FL) so far right??

Also, we are close to getting a home and home with Vandy starting in '14.

Where did you find the info about Vandy?

This is the first time I am hearing about Vanderbilt myself. The SEC schools that I was told about were LSU, Texas A&M, Alabama, and MSU. The first three would be a home-and-home, but with the understanding from the start that the Hattiesburg game would be bid out to a neutral site. The Superdome wouldn't be written into the contract, but that would be Southern Miss's top preference. Instead, the SEC teams are going to insist on letting anyone bid, which gives their boosters a chance to buy another home game, a la Nebraska. There is nothing set in stone about that, though...just early negotiations.

Another school whom we are working on a similar possible deal with is Florida State.

I had heard that the Miami deal had been tabled for now because we couldn't agree on dates. Apparently, it is back on. However, I still have to disagree with the dates listed by the OP. The BYU series was never canceled. What happened there was that BYU got contacted by multiple conferences during realignment and sent out an e-mail to nearly all of its future opponents notifying them that they may not be able to play the agreed-to games as scheduled. When the conference negotiations fell through, BYU stayed its course concerning its future opponents.

What that means is that our 2015 non-conference schedule is full:

9-5 Mississippi State
9-19 @Texas State
9-26 @ Nebraska
10-17 BYU

The only game with a decent chance of being moved is the Texas State return game.

2014, however, has some holes to fill, as we have only the road games at Mississippi State and BYU on it right now. We currently only have a single opponent scheduled each year from 2016 onward.

The caveat I should point out, before a bunch of people say silly things, is that this is future scheduling, and a lot of things can change in the time between now and then.

I understood that
the first LSU game would now be in 2016...
A&M was still in discussions...
Mississippi state MIGHT actually become a repeat regular matchup. (or so one of the local papers in MS said at some point?)...

Or do I have my recollections going wrong in old age?

Hadn't heard about Alabama getting back on our schedule, and I don't want them back on the schedule honestly, because you know all the strings attached to that one... (Tuscaloosa/Birmingham only, SEC officials only, etc.)