orangeandbrown wrote:According to Coach Brandon on the Wamer Show today, FIU is trying to get out of their return visit to BG next season.
If this happens after the same thing happened with USF a couple years ago, we had better learn a lesson from this and start getting on some front ends of home-&-home series from now on. You want a home-&-home with us from now on, you come here first. If not, it's no loss to us if you weren't going to return a game on the back end. Go find someone else to stick with a scheduling void. That's BS if they do this too.
The thing is those Florida schools have something we want... a game in Florida. Back when the M.A.C. was a one-bowl pony schools would try to schedule games in nice locations to serve as a trip. Remember we played Central Florida late in the season in the mid/late 90s down there. Then we also had the South Florida game as well based on the same premise.
Now, throw in the fact we recruit in Flordia the Florida schools will never come to us first because they know they have somethign we want. . . a game down there.
It may sound very much like a conspiracy theory, but I'm curious how much the finances our of athletic department are making us so open to these contract buyouts? We're letting other programs pay us to not play them and we can then, in turn, schedule road games that will possibly bring in more revenue.
I have no basis in fact, but it is conceivable that if we're hurting financially this sounds like a way to make some easy cash.
Or they buy us out for....I think USF paid us something like $150,000...and we turn around and give a 1AA school $75,000 (I recall reading somewhere that's what we gave SEMO) to come up here. Even if we don't draw flies to see that we still come out ahead
It's not the fall that hurts...it's when you hit the ground.
Just make the penalty a penalty to back out... as simple as that.... you want to back out of a home and home... $300,000 will more then stop most teams from backing out.
You'd hate to see a 1AA opponent come here to play? Didn't stop Indiana (Southern Illinois) and Northwestern (New Hampshire) from doing that this year and Ohio State has one next year in Youngstown State. Just a side note both Northwestern and Indiana got beat in those games this year.
redskins4ever wrote:Just make the penalty a penalty to back out... as simple as that.... you want to back out of a home and home... $300,000 will more then stop most teams from backing out.
That depends on how much they are getting from another team. And, of course, whether we can find a Divison I team to sign a deal like that.
redskins4ever wrote:Just make the penalty a penalty to back out... as simple as that.... you want to back out of a home and home... $300,000 will more then stop most teams from backing out.
That depends on how much they are getting from another team. And, of course, whether we can find a Divison I team to sign a deal like that.
Why wouldn't they sign it? Unless they had plans to back out all along, just play the damn game.
Can someone tell me why a program like FIU would want to back out of a game in Ohio? I mean, I know like 90% of their team is from Miami, but I would think that they may at some point want to recruit players who don't have...well...let's just say a "Florida mentality."
That being said, I wouldn't be all that disappointed to not play this group of thugs next year. I would rather not risk cheap injuries to players who have no self-control (remember what happened to AT?).
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