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Cincydawg

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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #252 on: December 28, 2018, 10:47:35 AM »
Maybe the issue is with Wisconsin as other teams seem able to attract OOC opponents.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #253 on: December 28, 2018, 10:56:36 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 28, 2018, 10:47:35 AM
Maybe the issue is with Wisconsin as other teams seem able to attract OOC opponents.
On the docket for the future is Notre Dame (Green Bay/Chicago - not home/away), and H/A with Washington State, Virginia Tech, Pitt and UCLA. They also have an H/A with Hawaii, which is cool for the kids, and games set up at USF and home with Army. 

So they can get H/A series set up with "like" schools, but no helmet is coming to Madison. The helmets are chicken.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #254 on: December 28, 2018, 10:57:37 AM »
As I have noted, other programs similar to Wisconsin seem able to schedule "helmet schools" OOC.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #255 on: December 28, 2018, 11:12:06 AM »
We know that King Barry doesn't like having to play the B1G East helmets. Or MSU.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #256 on: December 28, 2018, 11:29:25 AM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 28, 2018, 10:57:37 AM
As I have noted, other programs similar to Wisconsin seem able to schedule "helmet schools" OOC.
UCLA (and the like) is about the best they will get, to come to Madison. Helmets will play Wisconsin on a neutral site, for sure. Might have something to do with UW's home record over the past 25 years. It's 80%. Bama's is 79. Michigan's is 78. Texas is 77. But one of those is not like the others, right?
Ohio State is close to 90 percent, which is incredible. I'm just happy that UW is a part of the other 10 percent of that.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #257 on: December 28, 2018, 11:36:43 AM »
Why can UCLA attract "helmet" opponents?  Why can other similar programs do the same?

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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #258 on: December 28, 2018, 12:03:22 PM »
Quote from: Cincydawg on December 28, 2018, 11:36:43 AM
Why can UCLA attract "helmet" opponents?  Why can other similar programs do the same?


Fertile recruiting grounds, perhaps. Why else would UW do a H/A with USF?
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #259 on: December 28, 2018, 12:09:51 PM »
I don't think Georgia recruits from California very much at all, nor Arizona, nor Oklahoma, nor Colorado, nor around South Bend, nor Texas.  They did sign a 5 star QB from Washington state, but they'd never played out there (and he left).

I also tend to doubt playing a game in a region aids recruiting very often.

But if this is a factor for Wisconsin scheduling helmet schools, then there is naught to be done about it.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #260 on: December 28, 2018, 12:14:44 PM »
playing a single game in a region doesn't help much - but it doesn't hurt - might get one kid or two

Huskers tried to play quite a few games in Cali or the west coast to build some good will.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #261 on: December 28, 2018, 12:17:49 PM »
Playing Georgia has a lot more cache than playing Wisconsin. 
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« Reply #262 on: December 28, 2018, 12:18:44 PM »
according to ESPN
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #263 on: December 28, 2018, 12:28:56 PM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on December 28, 2018, 12:17:49 PM
Playing Georgia has a lot more cache than playing Wisconsin.
Maybe it does, but why does Georgia schedule programs like UCLA?
It's not as if the Big Dogs however defined only play other Big Dogs OOC.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #264 on: December 28, 2018, 12:57:34 PM »
Bama is neutral-only for most schools. They are doing a H/A with Texas (another helmet). 



Georgia has 3 "neutrals" on the future schedule - all in Atlanta. It's good that they are going to LA though. It's a cool place to visit, and the stadium is pretty cool too.
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Re: Bowl Games SOC
« Reply #265 on: December 28, 2018, 01:18:19 PM »
If recruiting was the driving force, then the helmets would be lining up to play @Wisconsin in order to line their pockets with some of those gigantic OLineman. 
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