For schools like Mizzou- teams that aren't traditional powers- missing bowl games is a recipe for disaster. It's how a program crumbles. Having 5 "weak" wins (if B1G teams and strong mid-majors are weak, which is a pretty stupid premise to begin with) going into a brutal conference schedule is the difference between a sustainable recruiting base, and 15 years or whatever without a bowl. No recruit looks at a program and says "Wow, you had balls and scheduled a brutal non-con! I'll TOTALLY come play for you, 4-8 coach!"Freed Roger wrote:Oh, the Rules. Got it. I was talking about the game of football and competition....and it doesn't really help a team like Mizzou (or Wisconsin -there, you happy ?) to have 5 weak game wins before heading into Georgia etc.Transmogrified Tiger wrote: The rules are the same for everyone, and the result is largely insignificant, so complaining about any singular case is, again, silly at best.
So great. They schedule Michigan, Clemson, and Stanford instead (or is Michigan too "weak"? I can't keep this straight). All of those 1 and 2 star recruits on the 2016 roster as a result of the 3-9 seasons are going to be completely ready to go get their ass handed to them by a massively superior Georgia or Florida. But Georgia and Florida sure will get Mizzou's best possible crappy, talentless effort.
