Happy Wednesday, Y’all !
A few odds and ends for y’all this morning here from Raiderland.
There’s been a lot of talk and several great stories written by folks like Don Willams about Texas Tech’s struggle to fill-in some blanks in their non-conference schedule for next season and beyond. They’re making calls but no one is answering. They thought they had a multi-year deal with USC, but USC refused to come to Lubbock. Hmm. Wonder why?
Either way, we can fix this and it’s just one more thing that college football needs to adopt from the NFL.
CFB needs NFL-Style scheduling. You don’t see the Dallas Cowboys out panhandling to other teams to get non-division games. Obviously it’s all done at the league level. Which is one more reason in favor of actually creating a College Football Super League. We’ll just go with 64 teams for now just to make it easy.
You break it up into divisions, or conferences if you’re still into that sort of thing, and then let the computer take over. You’ll have rotating divisions to match with, get a schedule based on your previous seasons record for the most part and could even put in a “protected rival” into the mix. And no one has to ever worry about buy-in games or anything else. The annual NFL schedule reveal drives huge interest. Imagine the same thing for college football. It could work and it would be great.
Just one more reason to move to a new model of football.
Beyond that Texas Tech practices roll on and the aforementioned Don Williams had some nuggets on both QB Will Hammond and RB Quinten Joyner on their returns from injury. According to Texas Tech HC Joey McGuire, it sure sounds like Hammond is a lot further along than Joyner. For a RB things are obviously a little different when it comes to contact and cuts, so that makes a little sense. Get the feeling it might take a little longer to see Joiner make a big impact on this team. He’ll play, but right now if seems like we’ll see him eased into the action. Then again, who knows. It’s football. Bears watching though.
We’ll talk about all of that and whatever else news the day brings us with y’all this evening LIVE at 5:30 Central on The Daily Broadcast. Don’t forget, it’s also Ask Coach Hyatt night, so get your questions ready for the coach. Join the show LIVE via Twitter/X, the Raiderland YouTube Channel or the growing Raiderland Facebook Page (lots of cool stuff over there!)
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