2006 schedule

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 11:07 pm

jmycrckcrn99 wrote:WOW!!!! Did you folks forget you are in the MAC. You have to play conference games and despite how great you think we are, Wisconsin was not going to travel to the Doyt. Next best thing - schedule the home and home and move the game to Cleveland. It is called being creative while not selling your soul with a 3 for 1 or 4 for 1 to get a home game.

So we have 4 games at the Doyt... I am glad that there are 3 games in September. Our fans are better (louder), tailgating is more fun, and more ppl show up to the games when it is warm. According to NCAA attendance figures BG was 104th in the country last season. THAT IS TERRIBLE!!! 104!!!

This year season tickets are CHEAP!!! and you get to go to the game in Cleveland for free. What more can AD Krebs and the gang do? Florida State, Michigan, heck not even Duke will make regular trips to our neck of the woods. We have OSU and Wisconsin, two top teams. Heck we may have over scheduled!!!

Preach it!

Strouse · Post by **Strouse** » Thu Apr 06, 2006 8:37 pm

So yea, I have yet to see it written, but if I've missed it, sorry. This has to deal with the Wisconsin game being played in Cleveland. My take on it is that I'm sure Brandon will be convincing the guys that this is an away game. It's on neutral turf, and comparing the following that Wisconsin has to the following BG has, the crowd will quite possibly be 3/4 Wisky fans. In my mind, the only thing that makes this a Home game for us is everyone calling it home. I sure hope that BG makes an excellent stand against Wisconsin and beats 'em. If the band goes, I'll be there!!

bgsufalcon24 · Post by **bgsufalcon24** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:44 pm

BGSU33 wrote:I don’t take ANY team lightly in any sport we play anymore. What happened one year can differ a lot in the next, or the year after that, etc. I’ve got two words for all of you that think just because BG blew out a team one year means you’ll do it the same the next season – Western Michigan! BG beat the snot out of WMU in 2004 by the score of 52-0 and it could have been a lot worse. The game was a massacre at halftime. One year later, the lowly Broncos strolled into BG and just kicked our ass all over our field 45-14! Yeah, we lost Omar in that game, but we still had our other 20-plus starters, many of which won’t be with us this year. If that isn’t proof we can’t take any team lightly, then I don’t know what is.

Yeah, yeah, I know we’ve beaten Temple 70-16 and 70-7 the last two years, but that’s in the past and means NOTHING for the 2006 season. I do feel we should beat Temple again. But we don’t even know how good we’ll look or be this year with all of our losses and how young we’ll be. Remember how bad we looked and how we struggled big-time without Omar “with” all of our key players last season? We’re going to have to bring our A-game to beat be a lot of teams next year, probably even Temple. They’ll be playing with under a new coach and a new outlook this season, which is exactly what WMU did in 2005. Just remember, when teams like Purdue, Missouri, Northwestern and Kansas lined up against BG, many of those schools fans were writing off BG and expected their team to win and we were getting upset that those teams and fans were overlooking us. And we all know what happened in those games. When you aren’t prepared to play your best or if you take a team lightly, you’ve already lost part of the battle and are setting yourself up for a loss before the contest even begins.

So let the talks start about how some people will eat a bug or whatever if we lose to Temple, but just keep last year’s WMU game in the back of your mind before you agree to do it.

The fact that you use the WMU game as proof we shouldn't take anybody lightly is rediculous. We were up 7-0 and headed for 14-0 when Omar got hurt. Everything was going our way, and in my mind, we were headed for a rout victory. Then Omar got injured, and EVERYTHING changed. You could see it in the players, they had no idea what to do, their leader was gone. I remember seeing Piepkow trying to fire up the defense on the sidelines, it just wasn't happening. The players, particularly the defense, absolutely gave up when Omar went out.

Bottom line is, if Omar doesn't get hurt, that game is completely different, surely ending in a Falcon victory, probably by a big margin too.

San Diego Falcon · Post by **San Diego Falcon** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 12:50 pm

The fact that you use the WMU game as proof we shouldn't take anybody lightly is rediculous. We were up 7-0 and headed for 14-0 when Omar got hurt.

So you are saying we can take some teams lightly because you don't think our top player(s) can get hurt again?

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 1:00 pm

San Diego Falcon wrote:
The fact that you use the WMU game as proof we shouldn't take anybody lightly is rediculous. We were up 7-0 and headed for 14-0 when Omar got hurt.
So you are saying we can take some teams lightly because you don't think our top player(s) can get hurt again?

Heh, last time I saw temple play against MAC teams, they were trying to hurt people.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:09 pm

Strouse wrote:My take on it is that I'm sure Brandon will be convincing the guys that this is an away game.

I would take the opposite approach.

I'd tell 'em this is *their* house, and they need to defend it. I want them running out of that tunnel, looking around, and realizing it is their field... and they need to defend it.

Tell them they have a chance to make history, and start something special.

That's what I'd do.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:25 pm

See, I'd tell them it was a neutral field. Neutral baby! Do you want this to be a neutral field? I didn't think so! I wanted to go out and un-neutralize that field...we need to de-neutralize and re-energize that field.

That's what I'd do.

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 3:31 pm

bgsufalcon24 wrote:
BGSU33 wrote:I don’t take ANY team lightly in any sport we play anymore. What happened one year can differ a lot in the next, or the year after that, etc. I’ve got two words for all of you that think just because BG blew out a team one year means you’ll do it the same the next season – Western Michigan! BG beat the snot out of WMU in 2004 by the score of 52-0 and it could have been a lot worse. The game was a massacre at halftime. One year later, the lowly Broncos strolled into BG and just kicked our ass all over our field 45-14! Yeah, we lost Omar in that game, but we still had our other 20-plus starters, many of which won’t be with us this year. If that isn’t proof we can’t take any team lightly, then I don’t know what is.

Yeah, yeah, I know we’ve beaten Temple 70-16 and 70-7 the last two years, but that’s in the past and means NOTHING for the 2006 season. I do feel we should beat Temple again. But we don’t even know how good we’ll look or be this year with all of our losses and how young we’ll be. Remember how bad we looked and how we struggled big-time without Omar “with” all of our key players last season? We’re going to have to bring our A-game to beat be a lot of teams next year, probably even Temple. They’ll be playing with under a new coach and a new outlook this season, which is exactly what WMU did in 2005. Just remember, when teams like Purdue, Missouri, Northwestern and Kansas lined up against BG, many of those schools fans were writing off BG and expected their team to win and we were getting upset that those teams and fans were overlooking us. And we all know what happened in those games. When you aren’t prepared to play your best or if you take a team lightly, you’ve already lost part of the battle and are setting yourself up for a loss before the contest even begins.

So let the talks start about how some people will eat a bug or whatever if we lose to Temple, but just keep last year’s WMU game in the back of your mind before you agree to do it.
The fact that you use the WMU game as proof we shouldn't take anybody lightly is rediculous. We were up 7-0 and headed for 14-0 when Omar got hurt. Everything was going our way, and in my mind, we were headed for a rout victory. Then Omar got injured, and EVERYTHING changed. You could see it in the players, they had no idea what to do, their leader was gone. I remember seeing Piepkow trying to fire up the defense on the sidelines, it just wasn't happening. The players, particularly the defense, absolutely gave up when Omar went out.

Bottom line is, if Omar doesn't get hurt, that game is completely different, surely ending in a Falcon victory, probably by a big margin too.

I stand by my statement 100 percent. Omar was one player. Yes, he was a good one, and arguable our best. But you can’t tell me for a second that if he was, say, suspended for the WMU and couldn’t play, that we would have then been expected to get beat, at home, with all of our other starters able to play, by the score of 45-14, to WMU. I’m not doubting for a second our team lost its wind after Omar went down. In fact, when he went down, our season did a 180 and we never were able to fully recover and I feel that play basically summed up or entire 2005 campaign. What’s more, the WMU game didn’t hurt as bad to me as the lost to Akron did. The infamous goal-line stands, again, with Akron haunted us all over again and our turnovers and tentative play just doomed us. But every game is a new encounter. Injuries happen, turnover happen, big plays happen, etc. You can’t take any team lightly, period. Not a WMU team you beat the year before 52-0, or a Temple team you scored 70 points on the last two years. What’s in the past is in the past, every season and every game is a new one. The success BG had from 2001-2005 will not win us a single game in 2006.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Fri Apr 07, 2006 4:20 pm

orangeandbrown wrote:See, I'd tell them it was a neutral field. Neutral baby! Do you want this to be a neutral field? I didn't think so! I wanted to go out and un-neutralize that field...we need to de-neutralize and re-energize that field.

That's what I'd do.

BGSUFootballFan · Post by **BGSUFootballFan** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:42 pm

i know i have been out of the loop like all off season... but i thought we were supposed to play Boise St at home? what the heck happend to that?

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:49 pm

BGSUFootballFan wrote:i know i have been out of the loop like all off season... but i thought we were supposed to play Boise St at home? what the heck happend to that?

OU sucks.

BGSUFootballFan · Post by **BGSUFootballFan** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:53 pm

OU sucks? i dont get it..?

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:57 pm

BGSUFootballFan wrote:OU sucks? i dont get it..?

Search schedule. It's all there

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:14 pm

BGSUFootballFan wrote:i know i have been out of the loop like all off season... but i thought we were supposed to play Boise St at home? what the heck happend to that?

We will play the Boise State home game in 2007. It has been replaced with a road game at Temple.

Boise State will instead play Utah, which had an opening after they and/or Ohio a contract between those two schools.

svillefalcon · Post by **svillefalcon** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:10 am

Strouse wrote:So yea, I have yet to see it written, but if I've missed it, sorry. This has to deal with the Wisconsin game being played in Cleveland. My take on it is that I'm sure Brandon will be convincing the guys that this is an away game. It's on neutral turf, and comparing the following that Wisconsin has to the following BG has, the crowd will quite possibly be 3/4 Wisky fans. In my mind, the only thing that makes this a Home game for us is everyone calling it home. I sure hope that BG makes an excellent stand against Wisconsin and beats 'em. If the band goes, I'll be there!!

i heard that they were only being allotted 10,000 tickets...anyone know if taht is true? and if so, you think that we will only have about 3,000 people there?