Chip Scoggins: Kill has theories on unfavorable Gophers football schedule

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per Chip:

Gophers coach Jerry Kill hinted at scheduling hanky-panky before the season when a reporter asked for his thoughts on Big Ten interdivision games. For instance, Minnesota’s two crossover games are against Michigan and Ohio State; Wisconsin drew Maryland and Rutgers; Ohio State got the Gophers and Illinois.

“I think there’s a philosophy to that,” Kill said. “I won’t share that with you, but I’ve got a pretty good idea, after looking at the schedule, who got what, when.”

The implication — and others share this opinion — is that conferences give power programs easier schedules to bolster their chances of being in the national championship discussion. You know, grease the skids for certain teams knowing college football now has a four-team playoff.

That line of thinking is understandable, given the stakes involved. The financial windfall and prestige of having one — or two — teams in the playoff fuels every power conference’s motivation.

http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/277289381.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y#continue

Go Gophers!!
 

Didn't he say this like a month ago?
 


Kill is right. I don't have any doubts that there was nothing random about the scheduling. That said, Kill needs to stop whining about who he has to play.
 

Breakin' The Plane said:
Kill is right. I don't have any doubts that there was nothing random about the scheduling. That said, Kill needs to stop whining about who he has to play.
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He said it one time over a month ago. Not sure why Chip decided to write this now.
 


Breakin' The Plane said:
Kill is right. I don't have any doubts that there was nothing random about the scheduling. That said, Kill needs to stop whining about who he has to play.
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Agreed. I prefer the Big 12 (ten) schedule where every team plays every team. And no matter who our cross over games were, we weren't going to the playoffs. And yet we stand to gain quite a bit of money if a Big Ten team makes it.
 

Fuch, just beat 'em all and go from there.
 


GophersInIowa said:
He said it one time over a month ago. Not sure why Chip decided to write this now.
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Maybe, but he just complained about having to play TCU, we all know about UNC and I'm pretty sure he wasn't real keen on playing USC. To paraphrase Ric Flair: "To be the man, you've got to beat the man...Wooooooooo!"
 



Like Kill, but I'd tend to ignore him when he opines about schedules. Same guy who wants 4 cupcakes. Besides, shouldn't be complaining about playing Michigan. They're nothing special.
 

Well, let's just show 'em who's the boss and beat them all!

That will teach them a thing or two about scheduling.

Wouldn't it be nice to thump tOSU this year? Please don't wake me up from this dream...
 

Our opponents had a collective 29-35 Big Ten record last season (29-36 if we include the B1G Title game that OSU lost). I don't know how he can think he got some kind of super tough conference schedule when his opponents had a collective losing record in the conference last year. Iowa, OSU, and Michigan all look appreciably worse than they did last year.
 

bleedsmaroonandgold said:
Our opponents had a collective 29-35 Big Ten record last season (29-36 if we include the B1G Title game that OSU lost). I don't know how he can think he got some kind of super tough conference schedule when his opponents had a collective losing record in the conference last year. Iowa, OSU, and Michigan all look appreciably worse than they did last year.
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He said this before the season started, and was talking specifically about the crossover games. On paper Michigan and Ohio State looked like an incredibly tough draw compared to what Wisconsin and Iowa got. I do believe there was a little strategy to how the schedules were set up this year and next.
 



Wasn't this year's schedule made up only two/three years ago when Rutgers and Maryland when first announced that Rutgers and Maryland were coming into the league? OSU had just hired Urban Meyer, and MI was coming off a Sugar Bowl victory. If the Big Ten was ever going to think those two teams were on the up-swing, that was the time.

I'm just sayin'.
 

The fly in the Big 10 Ointment could be Rutgers and Maryland.
 

husker70 said:
The fly in the Big 10 Ointment could be Rutgers and Maryland.
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They were both chosen for their potential. Not for the current state of their programs.
These are programs that have TONS of potential that have been starved for resources and exposure for decades.
 

Breakin' The Plane said:
Kill is right. I don't have any doubts that there was nothing random about the scheduling. That said, Kill needs to stop whining about who he has to play.
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Every other coach in college football comments extensively on their schedule. Why would our expectation for Kill be so radically different?

It's just a simple truth that the U has been insanely self-destructive in its NC scheduling. When a major college football programs actually goes through with playing FAU in Miami in early September, it opens itself up to at least 5 decades of intense scheduling scrutiny.
 

I would not fault any Big Ten football coach for "grousing" a bit about having to go to Ann Arbor three of the last four years.
 

Goldmember said:
Every other coach in college football comments extensively on their schedule. Why would our expectation for Kill be so radically different?

It's just a simple truth that the U has been insanely self-destructive in its NC scheduling. When a major college football programs actually goes through with playing FAU in Miami in early September, it opens itself up to at least 5 decades of intense scheduling scrutiny.
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It's not as uncommon as you think. Baylor just played at Buffalo two weeks ago.
 

Texas played at Wyoming a couple years ago.

When you're Minnesota you're not flush with cash to just pay opponents for home games. So you do 2 for 1s or 1 for 1s. It's reality....not just a philosophy to schedule easy wins.
 

After tonight's game against Missouri, South Carolina will have played half their SEC Conference schedule. Surprised that Coach Spurrier hasn't complained about that? :)
 

Iceland12 said:
After tonight's game against Missouri, South Carolina will have played half their SEC Conference schedule. Surprised that Coach Spurrier hasn't complained about that? :)
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Nothing like following up a big game at Florida by welcoming South Alabama in late November.

When the Big Ten goes to 9 conference games, I'd be fine with some teams playing conference games in week 3 but that would be the earliest. Conference games in week 1 are stupid.
 

I do personally would prefer to have the non-conference games before starting the regular season. I also do think that the SEC gains a certain benefit in the way they are perceived by mixing it up the way they do. During those first four weeks of the season when the Big Ten has only non-conference games they are sometimes scrutinized nationally for not having any games against strong competition. When there are too many teams in the conference all playing "cup cakes" in the same week it draws attention to soft scheduling. When they all play non-conference teams you also run the risk of too many teams losing in the same week, like we had this year. Meanwhile in the SEC, they pretty much have at least one good conference game every week to put the spotlight on. No one seems to notice that their teams play similarly weaker non-conference schedules that everyone else does. When Florida plays Eastern-Kentucky in November there will be little national criticism because it will be lost in all of the conference games played the same week.
 

Breakin' The Plane said:
Maybe, but he just complained about having to play TCU, we all know about UNC and I'm pretty sure he wasn't real keen on playing USC. To paraphrase Ric Flair: "To be the man, you've got to beat the man...Wooooooooo!"
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I do love the Flair quote "My money like my opponents faces green, green with envoy" USC, UNC or TCU are not the man! Lets focus on getting some W's then working on being the "MAN"

Brick by Brick!
 

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