(11-30-2020 03:08 PM)BearcatMan Wrote: (11-30-2020 02:11 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: (11-30-2020 02:00 PM)skylinecat Wrote: Now that we no longer have that slogan, my vote is to ditch it. There are about 5 other teams within 100 miles I'd try to get scheduled before Miami. They will always be there if those teams say no. I'd much rather play any of UK, UofL, OSU, Pitt, IU, Purdue, MSU, Michigan, OU, etc etc before Miami. I know we have Pitt and IU on the upcoming schedule.
The bold won't play at Nippert. We also have BC and NC State as home and return games. Arkansas in on the future schedule, not sure if they are coming to Nippert?
I'd add Northwestern, Illinois, and Virginia Tech to the list of schools I'd like to see us play around here. I think all would be willing, seeing as how two already have done so.
I doubt Northwestern would be interested. They'd rather play elite privates like Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt. Or even Rice & Tulane.
Plus, NW is in Chicago. A lot more schools want to play in Chicago than in Urbana or Blacksburg. It's probably easier for them to get big-name schools to play in Evanston than anyone in the Big Ten other than OSU and Michigan.
Edit: I was right about who they want to play. Northwestern OOC home-and-home series since 2010 is all private schools except California, which acts more like a private school than any public school in the country
Army (1 road game @ West Point, 2011, no return game)
Rice (2010 & 2011)
Boston College (2011 & 2012)
Vanderbilt (2010 & 2012)
Syracuse (2012 & 2013)
California (2013 & 2014)
Notre Dame (2014, 2018)
Stanford (2015 & 2019)
Duke (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
Northwestern Future Schedules:
Duke (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Tulane (2025 & rescheduling makeup game from 2020)
Colorado (2026 & 2027)
Rice (2029 & 2031)
Compare to Illinois, which plays lower-tier P5s and sometimes uses Soldier Field as an inducement:
Missouri (2009 & 2010, both in St. Louis)
Fresno (2009 & 2010)
Arizona State (2011 & 2012)
Cincinnati (2009 & 2013)
Washington (2013 & 2014, with Illinois home game @Soldier Field)
North Carolina (2015 & 2016)
USF (2017 & 2018, with Illinois home game @Soldier Field)
UConn (2019 & 2020)
Illinois Future Schedules:
Virginia (2021 & 2022)
Kansas (2023 & 2024)
Duke (2025 & 2026)
Missouri (2027, 2028, 2029, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035)