Jarrod Richey

To Louisiana Tech’s credit, under its current football coach and athletic director, Derek Dooley, he’s tried to cut down on the number of these games per season. Yes, you may get a million or more, but you also get losses in the win/loss column. You then have losing seasons and you don’t get to put an asterisk next to your record at the end of the year that says, “well, we played 3 Top 10 schools this year.” You already are “competing” with the major conference schools. It is a precarious situation. Go to a bowl game and play smaller beatable schools or play the big schools and start with 3 losses before conference play. I understand that it ain’t easy to fund these programs. I do like that LA Tech’s current football program is trying to limit themselves to playing these big schools and when they play them trying to play teams that aren’t ranked #1 and #2 in the country.

I also liked how they played Mississippi State last year even if they would have lost to them. That is a good size SEC school to play, maybe even Auburn or Vanderbilt and Kentucky.

Since, I was at Tech, we played Florida, Tennessee, Miami(FL) 2 times, LSU 2x, California then ranked #2, and others that I’m forgetting. The better approach from this arm chair quarterback is to not try to fund the program on losses, but maybe have 1 of those games and try to build winning seasons that foster regional recruiting and sponsorship.