Did I read a while back????

[smazza]

If we do a 1 for 1 with a team like ILL. we should insist on the upper hand and schedule the games when WE want them.  ILL should not have any power over us in the negotiations.

usf's schedule makers have no stones and walk into every negotiation tentative and weak

that is why we have the schedule we do

[BullBlood]

USF's schedule makers have done an outstanding job.  You can't expect us to go from playing in CUSA to competing with UF, FSU, MIA, TEX, USC, and Ohio State.  We need to keep "building" the program (which is what we are doing with the current schedules).  We should continue to play the teams like UNC, NCstate, Michst, and Indiana.  We have games scheduled with all of these teams in the next few years, not to mention MIA, UF and AUB.

UCF played a bunch of big time teams for a couple of years and where did that get them?  We're better off playing a "decent" schedule and continuing to go to bowl games every year vs. playing a really difficult schedule and missing a bowl game.