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Date Posted: 09:00:26pm 11/14/05 Mon,
Author: Antman
Subject: Which of these teams schedule the right way?

By Andy Katz
ESPN.com

Derek Thomas and Mike Davis agreed when they were Big Ten assistants that if they ever got head coaching jobs, they would help each other schedule.

So, when Thomas landed at Western Illinois two years ago, he called up Davis, who already had guided Indiana to the national title game in 2002, and wanted to make sure they would still play. The schools agreed to a two-for-one deal.

Games like Indiana at Western Illinois, regardless of the background, are rare occurrences. High majors usually don't go to mid- or low-majors, because they don't have to.

"More of this should be going on," Thomas said. "The committee is always saying that the bigger schools need to go out and play games on the road."

True. Still, IU's scheduling philosophy is rare and begs the question: how do similar schools go about their scheduling?

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/preview2005/columns/story?columnist=katz_andy&id=2221874

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