Scheduling Problems? Skip a team!

DevilGrad · Post by **DevilGrad** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:11 pm

In assessing this mess, it's useful to keep two NCAA rules in mind. First, we are all required to play at least five home games to maintain I-A status. Thus, I doubt very much that you will see many 11-game schedules. Second, IIRC, in order to host a conference championship game, a conference must be divided into two divisions, and the divisional opponents must all play each other. That complicates life a bit.

Our AD is telling folks that he thinks this could work out as a "net plus" for Miami. He is a congenital optimist, but he may also believe that, in the long run, Miami (at least) can get a better football schedule by being tied to the MAC for only seven games.

factman · Post by **factman** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 5:16 pm

We have another "Miami guy" that you are more than welcome to have back!

redskins4ever · Post by **redskins4ever** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 6:53 pm

I wouldnt be hard on your AD, I think he is getting railroaded as he is the youngest AD in the conference in terms of experience on the job.

I give Rick Christ the Middle finger and tell him that his other moronic schools that over scheduled including Temple can go F themselves in the backyard. Temple will end up with six home games this year and you are getting screwed out of yours? When did the MAC become Temple's little B!$%&? Its like they are Marshall... and trust me Temple is no Marshall.

I bombarded my AD last year with emails over weeknight games and cancelled my season tickets... I suggest the Falcon Faithful do the same and let Christopher know that no Boise = No Season tickets.

Or have Sebo walk in and say... I am sorry... I left my check book at home.

rocketfootball · Post by **rocketfootball** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:34 pm

Toledo was going to have 7 home games this year, 3 non-conference home games (1 away), and 4 conference games at home (with 4 away). If a home conference game got dropped and we didn't find a replacement, at least we would still have 6 home games with an 11 game schedule. Probably not too many MAC schools in that kind of position though.

factman · Post by **factman** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:08 am

Well aren't you special?

rocketfootball · Post by **rocketfootball** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:30 am

factman wrote:Well aren't you special?

Yes, we are. We have a football coach that can actually coach and make adjustments and an AD that can schedule.

Zom · Post by **Zom** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:32 pm

All you need now are eleven players that can hang together at any given time, and you'd have a cracking program, eh what!

atrackbg · Post by **atrackbg** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:56 pm

the boise game is on for sure. it was stated on bgfalcons.com. also i believe the minnesota and boston college games are a lock as well.
heres the list of teams that need 1 or 2 games:

One Game Needed
Houston
Illinois
Indiana
Louisiana Tech
Michigan
Middle Tennessee
Nevada
New Mexico State
Rice
Tulane
Tulsa
Vanderbilt
Wisconsin

Two Games Needed
Hawai'i
Louisiana-Monroe
North Texas
Southern Miss

Lord_Byron · Post by **Lord_Byron** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:37 pm

atrackbg wrote:the boise game is on for sure. it was stated on bgfalcons.com.

If you can post a link to that, it would add to the credibility of your post.

redskins4ever · Post by **redskins4ever** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:01 am

The assumption that the game on a website gives no one any credibility because you don't when the schedule was last updated.

rocketfootball · Post by **rocketfootball** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:01 am

atrackbg wrote:the boise game is on for sure. it was stated on bgfalcons.com. also i believe the minnesota and boston college games are a lock as well.

No offense, but BG isn't even doing its own OOC scheduling.....Rick Chryst and the MAC office is doing BG's scheduling. Boise State has said that BG is asking to move the game back once again. And the MAC promised a home game against a MAC school for BSU after moving the game back last year and right now it looks like that 2nd MAC game for BSU in 2007 won't happen either. To say the least, Boise State is not happy with the MAC.

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:24 am

We aren't too happywith the MAC either...at least I'm not. For the second year in a row we're playing "schedule bitch" on behalf of the conference.

Gee...I hope we can keep at least one OOC home game out of the four or five we're going to play.

atrackbg · Post by **atrackbg** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:35 am

it was posted a while ago on bgfalcons. but i went to find credability for it and found it. i went to minnesotas, bc's, and boises athletics sites and we are on all of their schedules. so as far as i know, we're playing those teams. all 3 of them have released their non conference schedules.

Rightupinthere · Post by **Rightupinthere** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:38 am

Flipper wrote:We aren't too happywith the MAC either...at least I'm not. For the second year in a row we're playing "schedule bitch" on behalf of the conference.

Completely agree. We first move over to the East for "the benefit of the MAC" and now our AD is bending over backwards - or in this case frontwards - in order to satisfy those schools which were a touch reckles with scheduling their own OOC games.

I'm thinking of a compound word which begins with "cluster".

redskins4ever · Post by **redskins4ever** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:16 pm

Actually BG wanted to be in the East... but got shoved to the West when UCF and Marshall were in the conference... when those two schools left they moved BG to the East where they belong all along.