2006 schedule

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 2:52 pm

Warthog wrote:I am sick of all the whining already. Last year we didn't play a home game until October and people pissed and moaned about that. Now we get "three" home games in September and people are pissed about that. What the heck do you want?

From an attendance per game perspective, we couldn't have gotten a better schedule. A home game with a Big Ten opponent. Two more home games in Sept when the weather shouldn't be a factor. Then a Homecoming game in Oct and our biggest rival in the East in Nov. What more do you people want?

I remember this, too. My only complaint is that we should have five games at the Doyt.

San Diego Falcon · Post by **San Diego Falcon** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:03 pm

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If misery loves company, so far these other schools also only have 5 home games: Kent State, Miami, CMU, Buffalo, WMU. NIU and Toledo have 6 home games, with one of those being against a I-AA team.
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Temple has just 4 home games.

EMU just released their schedule. Again, only 5 home games. It never even crossed my mind that 5-home, 7-away was going to become the standard formula for the MAC when they added a 12th game to the schedule. This increases an already-existing competitive disadvantage we had with the power conferences and will it make it harder for the BCS-buster for the new 5th BCS game to come from the MAC.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:11 pm

I've thought a little more on this. If we have any hope of drawing for Buffalo and Kent, we need the weather to be decent. We may not draw in good weather for those teams, but we will not in bad weather.

As I said, the part I can't abide is the four Doytgames.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:13 pm

orangeandbrown wrote:I've thought a little more on this. If we have any hope of drawing for Buffalo and Kent, we need the weather to be decent. We may not draw in good weather for those teams, but we will not in bad weather.

As I said, the part I can't abide is the four Doytgames.

o&b: Not to put too fine a point on it, but we don't need decent weather, we need great weather ... and we need to do well against Wisky. If either one of those doesn't happen, I predict a lot of threads moaning about our poor attendance.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:15 pm

I don't really give a fig about attendance and I don't care about the weather. I'm more concerned with how we do on the field. I think this schedule puts us at a disadvantage competitively because we play Akron, Toledo and Miami to close the year and we only get four games in our home stadium.

I guess having home games against the leagues lesser teams early on might be a confidence booster a young team needs, but I really hate having our schedule being so back loaded.

It would have been nice to play Akron in October and CMU in November or Miami in October and EMU in November. And screw the MAC, I'll take a home game against SEMO or Liberty over a road game in Philly. The MAC screwed us last year with a home game during fall break (I still think fall break is a pansy notion) and we gave up our most attractive home (as in our real home) game in years to accommodate them.

Excuse the f*** out of me if you think this is whining, but I think we'll be looked upon as a glorified 1AA program if we continue to act like one and roll over for ESPN or the MAC.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:21 pm

Ok Flip, you're not a whiner. You raised legitimate reasons for your displeasure with the schedule. And I would agree with most of the points you made here. If attendance is not a concern, then yes our November schedule looks to be grueling, at best. But hopefully that will allow our young team to get there legs under them, so to speak and be better prepared to win those games. I just think if they were too early in the season, our youth would get the best of us. I think this team will get better with each game and therefore, having the hardest games late in the season makes it more likely we that we can win those games.

And I do agree that we seem to be the league office's patsy right now. Any time they need a favor, we let them bend us over. I hope the new AD has some backbone and puts an end to this. Of course, the whole Temple joining the league and unbalanced divisions next year lends me to think that we will be getting screwed again. Think we might play in the West in football and in the East in all other sports?

At least until West KY or Middle Tenn joins. Then we will be asked to switched again.

Zom · Post by **Zom** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:26 pm

The best thing to come out of Spring Practice so far is Warthog.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:27 pm

Zom wrote:The best thing to come out of Spring Practice so far is Warthog.

Ummm...Thanks ???

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:36 pm

Flipper wrote:I don't really give a fig about attendance and I don't care about the weather.

I think any post that can effectively use the word fig is a winner, not a whiner!

Flipper wrote:And screw the MAC, I'll take a home game against SEMO or Liberty over a road game in Philly.

We've all gone 'round and 'round on the whole I-AA thing, but I've come down on the side of saying a home game against a I-AA team isn't a terrible thing. At least we'd be controlling our own schedule a bit.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:37 pm

Warthog wrote:I am sick of all the whining already. Last year we didn't play a home game until October and people pissed and moaned about that. Now we get "three" home games in September and people are pissed about that. What the heck do you want?

From an attendance per game perspective, we couldn't have gotten a better schedule. A home game with a Big Ten opponent. Two more home games in Sept when the weather shouldn't be a factor. Then a Homecoming game in Oct and our biggest rival in the East in Nov. What more do you people want?

Hear, hear. I'm with you, Wart.

rocketfootball · Post by **rocketfootball** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:45 pm

If it's any consolation, Toledo has six home games and three of them our on ESPN2.

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:46 pm

rocketfootball wrote:If it's any consolation, Toledo has six home games and three of them our on ESPN2.

Why would that be consolation?

The Niz · Post by **The Niz** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:49 pm

1987alum wrote:
rocketfootball wrote:If it's any consolation, Toledo has six home games and three of them our on ESPN2.
Why would that be consolation?

He's trying to be a deuche.

San Diego Falcon · Post by **San Diego Falcon** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:51 pm

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If it's any consolation, Toledo has six home games and three of them our on ESPN2.
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Why would that be consolation?
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He's trying to be a deuche.

The number of Toledo's home games was already posted.

And he doesn't have to try, it comes natural.

Jacobs4Heisman · Post by **Jacobs4Heisman** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 4:06 pm

The Niz wrote:
1987alum wrote:
rocketfootball wrote:If it's any consolation, Toledo has six home games and three of them our on ESPN2.
Why would that be consolation?
He's trying to be a deuche.

He should try grammar.