Dan Guerrero and UCLA Football scheduling compared to Pac-12
by Odysseus on Nov 14, 2011 5:43 AM PST
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PrintWe've already addressed how Dan Guerr-erro's scheduling is seriously behind the times, but until I checked, I didn't realize how badly the schedule compares to almost every other Pac-12 team. This year the following 5 Pac-12 teams have 7 home games:
UW (1 at CenturyLink rather than Husky Stadium)
Among those teams that did not play 7 home games, Cal played an FCS (I-AA) team, WSU played an FCS team and 2 games in Seattle, OSU played an FCS team and a neutral site game in Seattle, Arizona played an FCS team, Utah played an FCS team. Colorado played only 5 home games, with one at a neutral site, and with no games against an FCS opponent.
UCLA's football scheduling is quite simply not set up to help the team win, and seriously lags behind the overwhelming majority of the Pac-12. It's just one more reason we need wholesale regime change in Westwood.
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Agreed.
To use a baseball analogy, UCLA is stepping into the batter’s box with one strike against it WRT to Pac 12 teams who have a 7/5 home/away split and two strikes agaisnt it WRT to SEC teams who have a 8/4 home/away split . . .
Not to mention
That our post-bye-week games are always big, emotional road matchups. We never get a chance to stack on the bye-week advantage (which is a wash with the opponent also coming off a bye in our Thursday games… but I digress) with home field advantage. And we get KILLED every time.
Also, we seem to always have 2 of our home games occur prior to the school year starting, which really wastes some of our student energy (weaker home crowds as a result).
We should be more competitive regardless of these issues, but our scheduling isn’t doing us any favors.
Next year
UCLA has 7 home games. Another year set up for a big run, and why we need regime change now.
But hey, what do I know. I’m just the 800 lbs bruin in the room.
I have to disagree with the major premise of this post.
We have no “home” games, and we never have. At best, we have a few neutral site games at the Rose Bowl. But we have no true home games.
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