If you could schedule a home & home with 1 opponent in the country, who would it be, what week of the season, and why?
Scheduling Opponents
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I would schedule Va tech or Virginia or Maryland to further solidify our recruiting in the dmv area and about the second or third game of the season
We've played Uk, Vandy, Tenn, and A&M every year for a while now. How many players from those states has SC recruited and played here?
We’ll, I could be wrong but I don’t think we’ve made any of those areas a priority in recruiting. I get Texas as they are loaded with talent, but likely not getting many guys from Texas. Beamer is well connected to the DMV area and we’ve made that spot a huge priority in recruiting. And we’ve had some success in recruiting that area.
His response was logical. It wouldn’t hurt to tell recruits they’ll get to come back home and play those teams. We already played Florida each year but we played a road game in Orlando against Central Florida with part of the reason being recruiting.
But, who would you play?
I'd love a USC/SoCal game, but if I could be guaranteed a win. Can't stand those punks.
Otherwise, I'd just like to see us schedule us a classic team...ND, PSU, Michigan...something like that. Non-con game against middling opponents like UNC, UVA, etc would not excite me. Miami would be neat, maybe FSU.
Otherwise, I'd just like to see us schedule us a classic team...ND, PSU, Michigan...something like that. Non-con game against middling opponents like UNC, UVA, etc would not excite me. Miami would be neat, maybe FSU.
I live in MD, so I'd be fine with that, though MD isn't a particularly interesting matchup.
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Well, for what it's worth, we've never won at A&M and have only beaten them once overall and have only won 3 times in Knoxville, so we haven't exactly done great at promoting ourselves.
But, yes, I agree overall. I don't think it impacts recruiting much these days to play an opponent at a particular location. You can watch just about any college football game live these days, so it's not about exposure in that respect. To me the exposure is more about playing notable opponents. Us playing MD doesn't move the needle. If we played someone like SoCal, ND, PSU, OSU, UM, Oregon etc...that's a different story.
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I think ND would be a good home and home annual opponent.
Great exposure and a competitive game.
Great exposure and a competitive game.
Yep, I'd love a matchup like that. I was born and raised in SC, but I've never understood why some or fans are infatuated with playing UNC in football. I would not care less if we never played them again. It's just not an interesting matchup. Any school from NC for that matter. Playing UNC doesn't mean anything for recruiting exposure Folks in NC know plenty about USC, where we are and all that. It's not like we play UNC and recruits in NC say "hmmm, USC, I've not heard of them before."
For my own selfish reasons, I'd like to see us play Utah or BYU so I could drive down for the game.
Actually, I think a number of Big XII teams would make for an intriguing one-off home-home series. Road trips to Colorado, Oklahoma State, or the Kansas schools would be cool and it'd be fun seeing those fan bases in Columbia. I'd also love to see SC renew a semi-regular series with West Virginia - we used to play them regularly when we were both independents.
Actually, I think a number of Big XII teams would make for an intriguing one-off home-home series. Road trips to Colorado, Oklahoma State, or the Kansas schools would be cool and it'd be fun seeing those fan bases in Columbia. I'd also love to see SC renew a semi-regular series with West Virginia - we used to play them regularly when we were both independents.
Georgia Tech
Texas Tech
Oklahoma State
Any big name - Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Penn State, Southern Cal, etc.
Texas Tech
Oklahoma State
Any big name - Oregon, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Penn State, Southern Cal, etc.
ESPECIALLY Appalachian State. I never want to play them again.
My pick is Georgia Tech, Pennsylvania State, Illionois and Purdue. I would like to add Hawaii so the kids can go out to Honolulu and have some fun and also get a should be easy victory. MAHALO.
TBH, we need to get a team that are able to recruit badass Samoans and Tongans to their teams - so either a California team, a Utah team (LDS is HUGE in the Pacific Islands 
) or Hawaii. Once they see there's another state with the same heat and humidity where they're from, they'll come here. And we NEED them.
) or Hawaii. Once they see there's another state with the same heat and humidity where they're from, they'll come here. And we NEED them.Hawaii doesn't really get all that hot. And I was surprised that it wasn't really that humid. At least in Kauai. In June no less. Don't know about Samoa but bet it's the same.TBH, we need to get a team that are able to recruit badass Samoans and Tongans to their teams - so either a California team, a Utah team (LDS is HUGE in the Pacific Islands
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