WizardHawk
Release the Kraken - Fuck the Canucks
Pure bullshit.Teams don't schedule them for away games, but for the same
reason as playing them at home. They don't want the tough Mid-Major OOC game. It has very little to do with stadium size.
Boise State has no problems getting teams from the Pac to do H/H why? Because travel is easy both for the team, and their fans.
OOC slates are a mixed bag of requirements for all teams. While several teams in the south simply will not travel, most P5's want to. It gives their fans unique opportunities to travel to historic venues. And of course, going to larger stadiums away gives you bigger paydays.
Mid majors provide neither. The gates are small and few have any type of destination that brings interest to season ticket holders and other fans.
It is entirely stupid to suggest P5 teams will schedule Bama, LSU, Ohio State, etc, but are afraid to look bad playing a tough mid major. Let's not forget that most of these schedules are created at least 4 years out and many mid majors surge up and down so there's no way to know at that time you create it if they are going to be that dangerous when you play them. This means you also are rolling the dice on how well it impacts your SoS. It could give it a solid boost, and maybe not. So much of scheduling is about making SURE you have at least one really solid SoS boost game on that slate.
Why do a few SEC teams pretty much refuse H/H? Because of money. Let's not forget college football is the chief revenue generator for most of the athletics at all of our schools. Those teams can force you to come to something close to them where they can count it as a road game (still keep the same number of home games at their stadium plus that 'neutral' game), make it so their fans can reach it easily, get a huge payday, and still get the SoS impact. They can get away with it because teams will still line up to play them and get that SoS, impact on recruiting, good payday themselves, etc.
It is really ignorant to assume the reason teams don't line up to do H/H deals with the flavor of the month at mid major has ANYTHING to do with fear of losing to them. That is nothing but pure fan bullshit speak.