A 12 game schedule as an Independent

[USL1970]

Independents have teams (rivalries) that they regularly schedule each year and/or with long-term commitments, so they are scheduling just a few additional each year (i.e., Notre Dame).

So who and how many teams would like to schedule UL for the long-term?

A thought provoking idea, but probably likely very difficult to implement and impractical.

[Turbine]

Independents have teams (rivalries) that they regularly schedule each year and/or with long-term commitments, so they are scheduling just a few additional each year (i.e., Notre Dame).

So who and how many teams would like to schedule UL for the long-term?

A thought provoking idea, but probably likely very difficult to implement and impractical.

These schools are on a high but their rankings ebb and flow so I would start the 2-for-1 portion with schools UL has a current/recent relationship with.

OSU, Kansas State, Kent State.

[CajunNation]

If we don't get the CUSA invite this winter, we should begin talks immediately with a few other schools to start planning the move to the SIFA or start planning the move ourselves if nobody wants to do it with us.

The fact that has to be learned in Martin Hall and on this board is that there is no moving up out of the SLC-II for this university.

Like I've said before, we've been branded.

Time to change the brand.

[The Antiwac]

If we don't get the CUSA invite this winter, we should begin talks immediately with a few other schools to start planning the move to the SIFA or start planning the move ourselves if nobody wants to do it with us.

The fact that has to be learned in Martin Hall and on this board is that there is no moving up out of the SLC-II for this university.

Like I've said before, we've been branded.

Time to change the brand.

TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE
AKRON AKRON
GEORGIA ST CAJUN FIELD
USA CAJUN FIELD
MIDDLE TENN MURFESBORO
TEXAS AUSTIN
TROY CAHUN FIELD (HC)
TEXAS ST SAN MARCOS
NICHOLLS ST CAJUN FIELD
SOUTH FLORIDA TAMPA
ARKANSAS ST JONESBORO
ULM CAJUN FIELD

That's what an independant schedule would look like. Then again, that's what a SBC schedule might look like too.

[Hammer58]

While I'm still not sure independent is the way to go, I can buy that rationale for it. But at least be realistic about the difficulties that route will present.

[Duggie35]

If it was really that easy to do, don't you think more schools not named Notre Dame and the service academy's would have done that before now?

[Turbine]

An Indi schedule is 3 times the scheduling work of being in a conference. In a conference you find 4 games, as an Independent you find 8 more.

Before computers it was a nightmare. Since computer aided scheduling, no one has revisited the issue, or they love letting the conference do 2/3 of the work.

The thing is though, once you get these scheduling relationships started, then half the work is self completing again.