08-31-2016, 06:23 AM
The Warriors are being offered up to powerhouse programs, almost as fodder
This is a common practice in college football. The stronger conferences pay teams from weaker conferences to play the first 3 or 4 games of the season as preseason or warmup games. This allows a Big 10 or Pac 12 team to refine plays, and try out second string players under actual game situations.
The weaker teams almost always get clobbered (and it's a big story if they don't*), but they usually receive hundreds of thousands of dollars for their program and the chance to play in front of a national TV audience. As mentioned earlier, they mostly get clobbered, but I guess it gets filed under the theory that bad attention is better than no attention at all.
* See the 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game
http://www.si.com/longform/appstate/
- Be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. - Work slowly. - Refer all matters to committees for "further study and consideration. - Hold conferences. - Make travel as inconvenient as possible. - Haggle over precise wordings of communications. - Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and avoid haste. (Excerpts from the WWII OSS Simple Sabotage Manual)
This is a common practice in college football. The stronger conferences pay teams from weaker conferences to play the first 3 or 4 games of the season as preseason or warmup games. This allows a Big 10 or Pac 12 team to refine plays, and try out second string players under actual game situations.
The weaker teams almost always get clobbered (and it's a big story if they don't*), but they usually receive hundreds of thousands of dollars for their program and the chance to play in front of a national TV audience. As mentioned earlier, they mostly get clobbered, but I guess it gets filed under the theory that bad attention is better than no attention at all.
* See the 2007 Appalachian State vs. Michigan football game
http://www.si.com/longform/appstate/
- Be pleasant to inefficient workers; give them undeserved promotions. - Work slowly. - Refer all matters to committees for "further study and consideration. - Hold conferences. - Make travel as inconvenient as possible. - Haggle over precise wordings of communications. - Advocate “caution.” Be “reasonable” and avoid haste. (Excerpts from the WWII OSS Simple Sabotage Manual)
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