Whats the big deal about this schedule?

I may not have been as vocal about it last year, but I was certainly thrilled with last year's schedule as well. Playing 4 games against regional BCS teams helps our profile in a number of ways. The fact that VT and WVU are both also top 25 teams (possibly even top 10) makes those games even higher profile.

I'm not in favor of a non-BCS championshipo, mostly because I think that would be the same as creating a whole new level of college football (like what happened when Div. 1 split into 1-A and 1-AA). I do not want to see the Pirates playing at anything below the top level of college ball. I do, however, think there either needs to be a playoff system, or at least a serious revamping of the BCS system, so that it is not so heavily biased towards the current crop of BCS schools.

I wondered what the response would be...and no one got the points I was thinking. Our last taste of football before last season started was a pretty sad performance against South Florida in the Slumlord.com bowl. This year we are coming off a win against an opponant many of us non-BCS honks considered the uncrowded 2007 National Champions. The difference is us! We aren't looking at that VT game and hoping we don't get embarrassed. We aren't even acknowledging that beatdown we got against WVU...they won't beat us like that in Greenville...not a chance, right?  The difference is the difference between ending the season on a winning note or a losing one. I personally am not trying to make a case for us being undefeated National Champs...But I think we have the best look at a conference championship that we have had in years. And our non-conference is pretty sturdy...as it always is. We will sell out our season tickets again this year...and not a moment too soon with the new stadium expansion not too far down the road. Things are looking good in Pirate country, but everything looks rosier when your last memory of ECU football was a win.

I am guessing that you meant the 2007 uncrowned national champions. I wouold not go that far because i do not think that they would have beaten Florida in the NC game!

I think that it is not so much that we ended the season on a winning note as to how well that we performed in Blacksburg last year. I had a great amount of confidence last year going into that VT game amongst many people that felt we were going to get destroyed. Especially Lee Corso who said that the Hokies were going to score 21 points just on Special Teams. I have acknowledged in one of my posts this year that beatdown that we took last year at WVU but I also said that I don;t think it will be the same this year.

Honestly, i dont think anybody is, but there are a lot of people who think that we can beat VT.