Tennessee Tech - Sept. 11

[Affirm]

No problem but I don’t really care if a team is a liberal arts college or not, as long as it is a quality opponent, what difference does it make? It’s a 3 and a half hour football game and that’s all.

Well, what do you know, we agree on something! Quite frankly, the idea of playing those northeast elite schools does not interest me at all. A game against Holy Cross or Bucknell will not draw any fan excitement. And no, I am not interested in playing Colgate. There are plenty of other good FCS teams within a 4 or 5 hour drive that we can play.

There are very few FCS-playing "National Liberal Arts Colleges". I am not aware that there are any others besides Furman, Wofford, VMI, Presbyterian, Davidson, Richmond, Lafayette, Colgate, and Holy Cross. That is a total of 9 schools. The latter 5 schools are the FCS-playing National Liberal Arts Colleges that rank OVERALL higher than we do. We rank #46, but those 5 schools actually rank significantly higher than we do. We should be interested in playing those schools because they are schools that are like. And, I am not saying play them all the time, which I realize is impossible anyone, but I am saying try to play them 5% of the time over a 20-year period.

Saying "Quite frankly, the idea of playing those northeast elite schools does not interest me at all. ... There are plenty of other good FCS teams ... that we can play,"
… is like Tulane or Boston College or Wake Forest or Notre Dame or Southern Cal
saying "The idea of playing elite schools does not interest me at all.
We should never seek games against the likes of Stanford or Duke or Northwestern or Vanderbilt or Rice. TOO elite, for us. And not really even good enough for us to play in football.”
“We have plenty of good other good teams to play besides Stanford or Duke or Northwestern or Vanderbilt or Rice."