01-29-2020, 12:09 PM
I have no bad feelings towards BYU, but I'm not sure how scheduling them benefits Stanford? If we are looking at having one top-tier, one middle-tier and one lower-tier non-conference opponent, how does BYU fit in? I guess as a middle-tier opponent?
Is it that middle-tier Power 5 schools don't want to have to travel all the way to California? That's hard for me to believe, given that all of college football recruits--or wants to recruit--in California. But so far, all I see is TCU in 2024, Vanderbilt in 2027 and Boston College in 2029 coming to Stanford this decade. Or maybe it's just getting butts in the seats. I'm sure that there are plenty of BYU alums/fans in the Bay Area who will populate Stanford Stadium when their team is in town.
Is it that middle-tier Power 5 schools don't want to have to travel all the way to California? That's hard for me to believe, given that all of college football recruits--or wants to recruit--in California. But so far, all I see is TCU in 2024, Vanderbilt in 2027 and Boston College in 2029 coming to Stanford this decade. Or maybe it's just getting butts in the seats. I'm sure that there are plenty of BYU alums/fans in the Bay Area who will populate Stanford Stadium when their team is in town.
If there's one thing people have learned in Berkeley, it's that you can't put "Cal football" and "Rose Bowl" in the same sentence. The words just don't fit. You'd be better off linking "covered wagons" with "Mars travel." (Bruce Jenkins, Cal '70, SF Chronicle, Nov. 11, 2017)