Central Michigan has Syracuse and Oklahoma State visiting at home the next two years. That is as many BCS schools at home as what Ohio had (Pitt, UConn) in the entire tenure of Frank Solich. 

I don't care if we ever schedule BCS schools. They are going PRO - let's face it. We should schedule and re-brand ourselves as, "Traditional College Football". It will be a great product, and we will survive. We do need to make a deal however: when the "PRO" teams want to come back to "Traditional College Football" they will have to wait 10 years. My viewpoint - that's all.

 

 

As the record shows, Kansas and Cincinnati are coming to town in the not too distant. Probably after Frank leaves. The schedule in place is intended to get at least 6 home games and some hopefully easier wins. Not a glamour show for sure.

I love the current staff and what they have done at OHIO.  But, let's be real here...the schedule is designed to get us 8-9 wins a year as long as we have the strength we currently do vs the MAC East.  I'm not convinced these guys would ever "over-schedule" by playing two Big10ers or the like in one season.

How is that Missouri at Miami working out for the RedHawks, oh, last minute replaced by SouthCentralChampaignUrbanaSpringfield-Lincoln School of Agriculture!

Off topic--Sign a contract to play Navy in Annapolis or neurtal site every year for the next 20.  Play it on the weekend closest to the US Navy on Erie kicking British duppa to celebrate 100  year old meaningful history  OHIO/NAVY.  While the Tennessees, O$U's, Louisvilles, State Colleges and VTechs are fun places to go--playing at Navy is so special.  Ever go to a game there?  Patriot's Pride--its hard to look around you and NOT see everyone singing the National Anthem.  Your players would know they get a weekend trip to the DC/Balitmore/Bay area every year.  The 110 gets to go each year, the Midshipmen would love them and maybe throw in a Redskin, Eagles, Steelers on Sunday to top their weekend.  Great publicity, great fun, awesome atmosphere, quality opponent.

What is with the sudden influx of this "alpha/delta/omega" nomenclature? Are the AQ leagues supposed to be referred to as alpha? Because that at least sorta makes sense...though I'm not sure why we'd be "deltas" in that numbering system, since we're not in the 4th tier of college football, so maybe betas?. Is it a reference to the Delta House boys from Faber College?

And the omega thing makes no sense to me.

This actually makes sense, though. Let's do some math. We'll guess that travel expenses for a road game are $200,000, and expenses for a home game are $100,000. Let's also use $200,000 as an estimate of the home gate. Let's say you have a slot in your schedule for a game in 2015 and a game in 2016. You could schedule a home and home with, say, Marshall, or you could schedule a money game with Louisville, and a home game against Austin Peay.

Home-Home
Expenses -Road game - $200,000
Expenses -Home game - $100,000
Revenue - Road game - $0
Revenue - Home game - $200,000
Net - Loss of $100,000

Money Game+Austin Peay
Expenses - Road game - $200,000
Expenses - Home game - $100,000
Paid to Austin Peay - $325,000
Paid by Louisville - $850,000
Revenue Home game - $200,000
Net - Profit of $550,000

You could, of course, also do a third option - playing money games both times, and a 5 game home schedule.
Money Game+Money Game
Expenses - Road games - $200,000*2
Paid for money games - $850,000*2
Net - Profit of $1,300,000

How you mix these depends how badly you need the money. You also need to factor in that a home game supposedly adds about $500,000 or revenue to the Athens community, which closes some of the gap between $1,300,000 and the $550,000. Note also that as the home gate increases, the need for money games decreases. Let's say that they were able to sell 18,000 tickets to home games at $35 each. That makes the home gate $630,000. Now the numbers become:
Home-Home - $330,000 profit (+$500,000 to local business community)
Money-bought game - $980,000 profit (+500,000 to local business community)
Money+Money - $1,300,000

Or we could just call it "College" Football, and with a straight face.

Is the "Leaders" and "Legends" type of nomenclature already taken?

Last time they had a BCS game, they put the cart before the horse. Yes, they filled the stadium for UConn, but they gave the tickets away to do it. Thus they actually charged less against UConn, not more. Now the attendance is stronger, and they often fill Peden even against lesser opponents. Thus, only now can they think about charging more for some home games, as they did against Marshall.

However, our take on our money game this year essentially was a wash after we paid out $325K to Austin Peay. 
And where do you see 850K paid by us from Louisville, because I believe that is not very accurate.