TeddyBulldawg from ThePorch and DawgRun did an excellent recap for future schedules for Georgia. Most importantly, we're getting an off week before the Cocktail party in 2007.
Teddy points out that we're still looking for a season opener in 2007. His research reveals that the following teams are looking for a season opener that year:
Here are the schools that are available for Sept 1, 2007.
Air Force, Arizona, Army, BYU, Clemson, UCONN, Maryland, Memphis, Minnesota, NC St, Oh St, OKlahoma, Pitt, Rutgers, San Diego St, South Fla, Stanford, Texas, Texas A&M, UCLA, Wisconsin
I don't know much, but I can guarantee you that it won't be Minnesota.
[Photo: No way we put ourselves through the Glen Mason Jilted
Random Thoughts:
- Louisville: Respected up and coming team from a BCS conference. No way that Petrino will be there in 2011 and 2012. The away game in 2012 has "Thursday Night" written all over it. The date currently is a Saturday, but that's subject to change obviously.
- Georgia Southern: Ideally we would never play Div I-AA teams. However, GSU running a pro-style offense is not nearly the scheduling albatross that it once was. The deal keeps money in the state. Every Div I team is putting a few Div I-AA teams on their schedules. For instance, GT is playing Jax State and Samford several times each while refusing to return GSU's calls. If we're going to play a Div I-AA team, this is as good as any.
- Western Carolina: puke
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3 comments:
I have this image of Dave Braine looking at the caller ID on his phone and saying, "It's a 912 area code. Don't answer! It might be Ga. Southern asking to be scheduled!"
So, Ga. Southern calls back using *67 to block caller ID. Braine is so mad he's been tricked that he starts faking static on the line: "kshhhhh...I can't hear you...kshhhh...call back...kshhh"
It's not like playing Georgia Southern is somehow beneath the dignity of Georgia Tech's football "program". I mean, they played AT Connecticut for crying out loud. I think the real story is that Georgia Tech is rightly afraid that Georgia Southern would spank that yellow ass. By refusing to play Southern, Tech can always argue it is the second best program in the state without having to disprove it on the field.
I kind of like having Georgia Southern on the schedule occasionally for the in-state rivalry factor and now for the fact that it'll be bringing VanGorder back to Athens for a weekend. But that's really the only I-AA team I ever want to see on Georgia's schedule. We're not one of those programs that needs to regularly schedule D-IAAs to pad the schedule and get over the hump w/r/t bowl eligibility. (N.C. State is the first one that popped into my head here, but there are numerous others.)
If we have to go hunting for a non-BCS-conference early-season team to pound, why can't we schedule Central Florida? Lord knows I never get tired of seeing George O'Leary turn fire-engine-red and yell at people on the sidelines when his team is losing.
I agree with Doug. Maybe it's not beneath the Ga Techers to schedule a Div 1AA team but it certainly is beneath Georgia (and most SEC schools sans VU, UK, and the two Miss schools). And to suggest UGA should do it because GT is - well that isn't worth of you WesteDawg.
I don't expect you to play TX or OU or something like that but there's some worthy mid-level, sometimes good/bad teams on there.
If I remember correctly over the next several years my Vols have home/home with Cal (2006/2007), UCLA (2008/2009), Oklahoma (10/11), UNC (12/13), and Oregon (14/15). We probably have some puff cakes in there too but without a natural/competitive non-SEC rival (UGA/GT, UF/FSU, USC/Clemson) we have to go elsewhere for that "bigger" non-conference game. Part of me likes the variety (although they lack the intensity sometimes). Gives me excuses to go see the Vols in new places (eg. Eugene Oregon).
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