I agree. They should be on our schedule every year. If you look at all the D1 schools in the general area, we should also be playing on some regular basis: WVU, Louisville, Kentucky, Western Kentucky, Eastern Kentucky, OSU, Pittsburgh, Duquesne, Robert Morris, Wright State, Dayton, Cincinnati, Cleveland State, Youngstown State, Butler, Detroit, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana, Purdue, Evansville and Indiana State. All the states that border Ohio.
If you are going to throw Indiana State and Evansville on that list you might as well include La Salle and Drexel as those schools in Philly are the same distance away. I do miss our games with Kentucky at neutral site locations. I would prefer the Cats to play a more national non-conference schedule taking on schools in the WCC, MWC, A10, MVC, CUSA for 1 for 1 series. Those aren't BCS conferences but considered among the better D1 leagues that fans recognize and will get excited about. The mix this year was about right but could have used 1 more big name on the schedule.