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USD's success had been more closely tied to the coaching change as it has the 3 schools leaving the NCC. USD's schedule is weaker than SDSU's. No one is going to argue that. A Primarily D1AA schedule vs a D2 schedule is of little comparison. The thing many people tend to forget is how USD has done against the upper tier NCC teams now vs what they did pre Meierkort. Before Ed came aboard and before the 3 left the NCC, USD could not beat the top level NCC teams barring a rare upset. One thing that has changed since Meierkort has arrived is that USD has played the tougher teams very well. USD had a long losing streak against UNO that they nearly broke in Omaha in Meierkort's first year and broke with recklass abandon in his second year. They have performed better at all level of competition and against all the same teams that they were playing before. We stuggled with Augie for Gods sake but during the last couple of year we beat them fairly badly both times. We beat a very good St. Cloud team and barely lost at St. Cloud. We still lost at UND but defeated them fairly soundly at home.
If you want to argue USD's schedule I can buy that to a point. What you can't argue is that USD plays the good teams on their schedule much better than they did pre Meierkort. You can't really measure what a team does against weak competition but you can vs strong competition. That is where USD has improved leaps and bounds under Ed. You also can't argue that USD's big wins are flukes because they have done it consistantly at home. On the road they have lost some close games but it's better than when they were getting beat by 30.
If you want to argue that SDSU is the better team that is fine. I am not saying I agree with you or not but to be objective I think everyone knows that USD is alot better football team than before they had Ed, weak schedule or tough. That is hard to debate. If the schedule was the primary reason for their success the Coyotes would not have been able to win the games against good competition that they have.
Same goes for the Jacks. They deserve credit for their wins against Davis, McNeese, Nichols, Southern etc, but please don't discredit USD's success as only being because of a weakened NCC/schedule. It's simply not the case.
USD's success had been more closely tied to the coaching change as it has the 3 schools leaving the NCC. USD's schedule is weaker than SDSU's. No one is going to argue that. A Primarily D1AA schedule vs a D2 schedule is of little comparison. The thing many people tend to forget is how USD has done against the upper tier NCC teams now vs what they did pre Meierkort. Before Ed came aboard and before the 3 left the NCC, USD could not beat the top level NCC teams barring a rare upset. One thing that has changed since Meierkort has arrived is that USD has played the tougher teams very well. USD had a long losing streak against UNO that they nearly broke in Omaha in Meierkort's first year and broke with recklass abandon in his second year. They have performed better at all level of competition and against all the same teams that they were playing before. We stuggled with Augie for Gods sake but during the last couple of year we beat them fairly badly both times. We beat a very good St. Cloud team and barely lost at St. Cloud. We still lost at UND but defeated them fairly soundly at home.
If you want to argue USD's schedule I can buy that to a point. What you can't argue is that USD plays the good teams on their schedule much better than they did pre Meierkort. You can't really measure what a team does against weak competition but you can vs strong competition. That is where USD has improved leaps and bounds under Ed. You also can't argue that USD's big wins are flukes because they have done it consistantly at home. On the road they have lost some close games but it's better than when they were getting beat by 30.
If you want to argue that SDSU is the better team that is fine. I am not saying I agree with you or not but to be objective I think everyone knows that USD is alot better football team than before they had Ed, weak schedule or tough. That is hard to debate. If the schedule was the primary reason for their success the Coyotes would not have been able to win the games against good competition that they have.
Same goes for the Jacks. They deserve credit for their wins against Davis, McNeese, Nichols, Southern etc, but please don't discredit USD's success as only being because of a weakened NCC/schedule. It's simply not the case.
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