Hmmm not sure what to think of this yet. I guess on the plus side we won’t be playing UT and OU back to back.

weird

It’s great to play UT early and at home… but at the expense of trading TCU for Weber State? Talk about killing SOS. Ah well… it’s still a full season of football.

But I sure was looking forward to seeing that D against our O

has to work in Tech’s favor in 2010! Wreck’em Tech!

A win is a win right? I was really looking forward to playing TCU. I wonder if the burnt orange nation is aware of this yet…..

I see no plus here. The UT game would be on TV no matter the date. Perhaps the new date moves it from regional to national coverage. However, the TCU game would have been on TV and the Weber St. game will not be. I’d rather have an open date than play Weber St.

The plus side is it gives Tech six winnable games to close out the season, and if Oklahoma isn’t much better next year, nine. It’s well-known that a weak schedule full of wins is better for your ranking than a tough schedule with even one loss (see: Kansas, Boise St.), so trading TCU for Weber State is fine with me (we’re gonna grill ’em! (get it?)).

Playing UT early in the season is great. I don’t see how any of you can think otherwise. They always hit their stride midseason, and they’ll have a redshirt freshman quarterback and will be replacing some key guys on both sides of the ball. We’ll win it, quote me on that.

Playing Houston in the last game isn’t ideal, but if Tech is in BCS bowl contention, right around 10-12, a win over the Cougars to close the regular season could be a springboard for the voters perceptions.

I really like the schedule.

So we play 3 home games total in September and October. Then 3 more in November. And Weber State?? Weren’t any high schools available? (UT doesn’t have any room to talk after that patsy they played last week.)

I wonder what the difference was in TV $$: UT as scheduled plus a big game against TCU vs. UT in prime time plus ZERO for a non-televised Weber St. It seems we’ll be doing good to break even, especially if you factor in the gate revenues. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe Weber St. will fill those $95 nosebleed seats.

UT will have a new QB, etc, but we’ll be replacing the other side of the O-line PLUS all but one spot on the D-line. Hmmmmm…..

The kicker in this is likely to be a similar situation to what it was this year, “If you move the game, that one will be on ESPN/ABC, and we’ll guarantee another game (or two) of yours on ESPN/ABC”

This sucks…I’m a traditionalist, and this split conf-non conf schedule blows chunks. End of mini-rant.

is a bad idea. This would have been a sure sellout any other weekend, but now I doubt it will be, and with all the students that will be out of town, attendance will be terrible.

Maybe they’re thinking of keeping that “bad loss” early in the season now and helped in trying to tallk us into changing…

ugh….we can we go back to a regular schedule? i would have preferred to have TCU and UH early because they both will be ranked(most likely) going into next season. That way to Ut game would have bigger south implications, AND make us look good to becuase we both would be ranked. But whatever, WRECK’EM!!

When we win, we will be beating a highly ranked team, and move up, and it will be remembered as an upset throught the rest of the season, dampering the thought of Texas deserving a bowl better than Tech.
If we lose, we will be losing to a highly ranked team, and barely move down and the loss will be forgotten.

Actually, it would be nice to have both OU and UT games played early in the season, so that we could beat them early, jump high in the rankings, and stay there while in cruise control.

Just think, this year if we would have beat UT, their season would have been over.
Lets hand them their lower tier bowl disdain to them next year, by beating them early.

I am not sure what to think about this. I don’t like the idea of playing ANY FCS team. It gains us absolutely nothing, no matter the outcome of point differential, but if we lose, it kills our season big time. A loss (if there is one) to an FBS team would harm Tech much less than one to an FCS team, no doubt. Like some others, the idea of the split ends of a non-conference schedule can get ugly. I do think having UT early NEXT year may be OK, but at what cost? The loss of TCU on the schedule lowered Techs RPI dramatically, esp. with Weber State being added in its place….YUK! This year was destroyed because we had UT and UH b-b at a time when we were hurting and unsure—-at the first of the year. Of course, taking A&M lightly was not very intelligent either. Sometimes, I think the powers that be (Gerald?!?) are wearing rose colored glasses all of the time. My feelings are mixed, kind of like the scheduling of the 2010 season for the Red raiders. Again….YUK!

Just a tidbit concerning the Canadian Football League: Aaron Hunt, former Red Raider is an all-star. Go here:

< http://www.cfl.ca/article/2009-east-west-division-all-stars>

Here in Austin, all the radio and local TV hve been reporting on this as Tech releasing the schedule without consent from UT. At Mach Brown’s news conference, he was caught off guard by the news and called it “a possibility.”. The local homers of talk radio were offended as usual that a “bottom feeder” like Tech thinks they can dictate what the “5,000 lb Gorilla of the Big XII” does with their scedule. This is the kind of stuff raider fans in Austin have to listen to daily. But it does make me wonder if Tech discussed their scheduling plans with UT prior to releasing the schedule.

not official. Article on Daily Toreador’s site, but I forgot to save the link. It is not official, yet was still posted. ESPN asked us to remove it from our site until everything is official.