2008 Schedule to be out soon

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 3:41 pm

Follow-up: Rutgers announced their schedule on Monday. They have a TBA opponent on 9/27, that will be played at Rutgers. They already have one I-AA opponent (Howard) on the schedule so I would suspect they want a I-A opponent for 9/27.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:36 pm

4:35 and no schedule. I'm guessing the MAC office is at the heart of this again.

PGY Tiercel · Post by **PGY Tiercel** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:07 pm

BGSUfalcons.com wrote:CLEVELAND, Ohio - The 2008 Bowling Green State University football schedule, which was set to be released Thursday (Feb. 28.) by the Mid-American Conference, has been pushed back until a television schedule can been finalized.

Stay tuned to BGSUFalcons.com for the release of the schedule in the future, as well as many other exciting events.

The Niz · Post by **The Niz** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:25 pm

I don't give a rat's AZZ about our schedule being on TV. This is crap, I can't take this perverbial blue balling any more.

footballguy51 · Post by **footballguy51** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:54 pm

The Niz wrote:I don't give a rat's AZZ about our schedule being on TV. This is crap, I can't take this perverbial blue balling any more.

Um, they don't want to post our schedule on TV, they want to schedule the games for television and then adjust game times accordingly.

The Niz · Post by **The Niz** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:09 pm

footballguy51 wrote:
The Niz wrote:I don't give a rat's AZZ about our schedule being on TV. This is crap, I can't take this perverbial blue balling any more.
Um, they don't want to post our schedule on TV, they want to schedule the games for television and then adjust game times accordingly.

I just wanted to make a blue balling joke....

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:05 pm

Frustrating as it is, I'd rather wait weeks to have it come out because of TV scheduling as opposed to "OU made a mistake we have to work out first".

BGFalconfromCincy · Post by **BGFalconfromCincy** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:12 am

TG1996 wrote:Frustrating as it is, I'd rather wait weeks to have it come out because of TV scheduling as opposed to "OU made a mistake we have to work out first".

Agreed, I heard they want to wait until spring break so the students wouldn't be here to go nuts when they saw Michigan on the schedule

FalconTurf · Post by **FalconTurf** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:42 am

TG1996 wrote:Frustrating as it is, I'd rather wait weeks to have it come out because of TV scheduling as opposed to "OU made a mistake we have to work out first".

Just for fun........., lets say that this is simply a PR move to avoid admitting that someone, like OU, has screwed the whole thing up.

Interesting when I randomly checked the websites of 2 Conf. USA and 2 Sunbelt schools 3 of the 4 had their 2008 football schedule available. I hope this is simply because their "TV" deals aren't as good as ours.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:51 am

FalconTurf wrote:Interesting when I randomly checked the websites of 2 Conf. USA and 2 Sunbelt schools 3 of the 4 had their 2008 football schedule available. I hope this is simply because their "TV" deals aren't as good as ours.

I think C-USA has a more solid x number of games in their deal with specific nights already determined. Our problem is that we don't get any Saturday games on ESPN or ESPN2. But the MAC will bend over backwards (that is make a clusterfuck of scheduling) in order to get on one of those two networks. So we have to play on Tues and Wed night which means those two teams can't play the Sat before or after that. So getting games on those networks take two weeks out of the schedule. So every game the MAC gets on TV means many changes to the rest of the schedule.

But on the other hand, it isn't brain surgery. The conferences teams have their own OOC games scheduled. The MAC should have this worked out in Dec based on who they want to showcase on TV the next year. But it seems they want to sit back and let every other school/conference workd out their schedules/TV and we take the scraps and adjust our schedules to fit everyone elses.

FalconTurf · Post by **FalconTurf** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 9:53 am

Warthog wrote:
FalconTurf wrote:Interesting when I randomly checked the websites of 2 Conf. USA and 2 Sunbelt schools 3 of the 4 had their 2008 football schedule available. I hope this is simply because their "TV" deals aren't as good as ours.
I think C-USA has a more solid x number of games in their deal with specific nights already determined. Our problem is that we don't get any Saturday games on ESPN or ESPN2. But the MAC will bend over backwards (that is make a clusterfuck of scheduling) in order to get on one of those two networks. So we have to play on Tues and Wed night which means those two teams can't play the Sat before or after that. So getting games on those networks take two weeks out of the schedule. So every game the MAC gets on TV means many changes to the rest of the schedule.

But on the other hand, it isn't brain surgery. The conferences teams have their own OOC games scheduled. The MAC should have this worked out in Dec based on who they want to showcase on TV the next year. But it seems they want to sit back and let every other school/conference workd out their schedules/TV and we take the scraps and adjust our schedules to fit everyone elses.

I agree with your view. I believe that regardless of the even numbers in these other conferences they still have the pain of week night games and filling out of conference slots that work with conference scheduling. Here's a thought to ponder, if we have 13 and the BiG 10 has 11 then we simply need 8 game MAC schedules with on cross conference game and the two bottom feeders stuck playing each other non-conf. (even if it is the second time of the year). This would penalize the two bottom teams and make the schedule a lot easier with everybody needing to pick up 3 more OOC games. Gotta believe the MAC office has made a science study out of a 2 hour experiment.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:47 am

I've got no (or at least very little) problem with bending over backwards to get games on ESPN or ESPN2.... It's when we play a Tuesday night on ESPNU or ESPN Classic that pisses me off.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:15 am

FalconTurf wrote:Here's a thought to ponder, if we have 13 and the BiG 10 has 11 then we simply need 8 game MAC schedules with on cross conference game and the two bottom feeders stuck playing each other non-conf.

Not sure I am interpretting your thoughts correctly but one point would be that the Big Ten does not have divisions. It is a mathimatical imposibility for all MAC teams to place 8 conference games with this setup.

Globetrotter · Post by **Globetrotter** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:24 am

1987alum wrote:
Warthog wrote:Any bets that the MAC office tells us not to release our schedule today?
Well, they said Thursday ... but they didn't specify what week.

LOL

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:26 am

Warthog wrote:But on the other hand, it isn't brain surgery. The conferences teams have their own OOC games scheduled. The MAC should have this worked out in Dec based on who they want to showcase on TV the next year. But it seems they want to sit back and let every other school/conference workd out their schedules/TV and we take the scraps and adjust our schedules to fit everyone elses.

I have to say that if I were appointed MAC commish, my first order of business would be to appoint Warthog vice commish for scheduling.

2008 Schedule to be out soon

Load of crap from the MAC