BUbackerinET said:
This is disappointing, especially for us season ticket holders, many of whom got a royal screwing in reseating. There are lots of good fcs schools to schedule, this is just not one of them - can't compare them to Grambling - Grambling has a winning tradition, and almost always fields a very good team...
Not sure that even Grambling (a Joe-average SWAC program at present) -- much less TSU -- rises to the level of what BU should be scheduling either. Grambling is the kind of school that gets butt-blasted by the likes of past BU non-con fodder such as Northwestern State (last year 34-7), yet beat Texas Southern 34-21. In other words, the
patsies on BU's schedule usually crush Grambling, though they typically hang tough against their true peers once the season gets going (6-5 overall, 4-3 in SWAC in 2018).
As for Texas Southern, well, they're simply just
gawd-awful by any measure
. Even by SWAC standards. They royally suck against most schools that even field a football program -- and last year's 2-9 showing (1-6 in SWAC) is no exception. Houston boat raced them 70-14 last season and and SHSU bushwhacked them 66-17 back in 2016. A score like this is basically the baseline Baylor needs to meet when we take them on.
The era of Baylor taking on at least one "competitive" non-con EVERY season really doesn't start until 2020 (Ole Miss -- seems were taking a break this season after 2 years of Dook), so at least this really can't be considered a continuation of non-con scheduling weakness (as we have BYU at home in 2021 when Texas Southern comes 'round). That said, they are a patsy even for patsies -- and IMO I think fan disappointment with scheduling a team this noncompetitive is more than warranted.
We can and should do better than TSU when it comes to football scheduling.
This is Incarnate Word-level bad (a school with a 6,000-seat home stadium and only 3 winning seasons in its short 11-year history). Interestingly enough (though just barely), one telling sign of how bad this scheduling truly is for BU will take place Sept. 7 when TSU travels to San Antonio to face IWU for one of the classic pillow fights of the early 2019 college football season.
P.S: I give the edge to IWU against TSU in that one by at least two TDs as IWU -- to their credit and like Grambling -- at least has become competitive against their conference foes (although perennial patsies like New Mexico and UNT continue to more than double the score on them). At their very best, I see IWU giving BU an SFA-level fight when that game rolls around next season, while TSU ... that 2021 slaughter may have to be called before regulation time expires, as the violence levels foisted upon that team may rise to felony-level assault.