2008 Schedule

ZuluWarrior · Post by **ZuluWarrior** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:05 pm

[quote="1987alum"][quote="TG1996"][quote="Falcon137"]Please tell me the Minnesota game is not over Labor Day Weekend![/quote]

I believe the Pitt game is Labor Day weekend.[/quote]

Are you sure? I thought that was the Michigan game.

Sorry ... had to be done.

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Yes it did! Bravo.

bgmaggot00 · Post by **bgmaggot00** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:11 pm

Can we PLEASE get a road game at NIU? Please? I mean, we've had bad luck there of late, but I'm always game for more excuses to go back home... err... IL.

bgsufalcon24 · Post by **bgsufalcon24** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:15 pm

bgmaggot00 wrote:Can we PLEASE get a road game at NIU? Please? I mean, we've had bad luck there of late, but I'm always game for more excuses to go back home... err... IL.

Well, since we won't be playing hardly anybody in the MAC West anymore other than Toledo, that probably won't happen again for a long time.

SaxyIrishTenor · Post by **SaxyIrishTenor** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:50 pm

Any guesses about homecoming? Assuming WH's schedule is close, 10/18 would be about right but 11/1 might be late for family weekend, so that could mean 9/27 for homecoming and 10/18 for family weekend.

Not particaularly wild about either of those options.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:31 pm

That reminds me. I'll have to check when Fall Break is next year and make sure we have a home game that weekend as the MAC office will demand that or we will have to give up the Boise St game so Buffalo can play Syracuse. (Or something like that.)

mmisbg · Post by **mmisbg** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:27 pm

Warthog wrote:Looking at the calender for next year, it looks like there is an extra week in the football season. In 2007, there were only 13 Saturdays from the beginning of the season (9/1) to the weekend after Thanksgiving. In 2008 there are 14 Saturdays from the start of the season (8/30) to the weekend after Thanksgiving (11/29). So this means we could get two off weeks next year.

Hopefully, the NCAA will eventually step in and force all teams to schedule their games for the same number of weeks. It is making me sick the way teams get shuffled around at the end of the year after the season is over for some and not for others.

All teams should have to start the regular season the same week, end the regular season the same week, and have the same number of bye weeks between weeks 4 and 8...IMO. Furthermore, all rankings should get fixed at the end of the regular season. It is stupid that the rankings are not finished by now. I just don't think that teams should get rewarded or punished during weeks that either they or other teams don't play.

I really don't care what scheduling format they use, so long as it is the same for every conference.

bgsufalcon24 · Post by **bgsufalcon24** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:18 am

Warthog wrote:That reminds me. I'll have to check when Fall Break is next year and make sure we have a home game that weekend as the MAC office will demand that or we will have to give up the Boise St game so Buffalo can play Syracuse. (Or something like that.)

Good! I want to give up the Boise game. We shouldn't have to go out there (and probably lose because nobody wins there) if they never came here.

MACMAN · Post by **MACMAN** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:06 am

hummm any bets that the Minny game gets droped as will the game against the Bronco's....based on recent history it seems all to likely.

bgsufalcon24 · Post by **bgsufalcon24** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:16 am

MACMAN wrote:hummm any bets that the Minny game gets droped as will the game against the Bronco's....based on recent history it seems all to likely.

I say we just pay Boise off (or use money they had to send us in 2006/2007 for not coming here to pay off) and schedule somebody else, preferably at home for that week.

If Minny even tries to back out of their game here, we just need to remind them that they were 1-11 last year and are certainly NOT above playing a MAC team on the road. And if necessary, we tell the MAC office to go pound sand if they try to change it.

NY-BG-FAN · Post by **NY-BG-FAN** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:53 pm

Considering Minnesota played Kent State on the road last year, I don't think they'll snub us. Then again, they have a different head coach than when they went to Kent two years ago.

The question I have is, can we ever get on the front end of a home and home for security? I mean, why do we always have to play the second game? Such powerhouses as USF and FIU have screwed us on this, with Boise State in the process of doing the same. And correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't our upcoming series with Marshall have us going there first?

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:02 pm

Boise State DID NOT SCREW US. The MAC did...

NY-BG-FAN · Post by **NY-BG-FAN** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:06 pm

Flipper wrote:Boise State DID NOT SCREW US. The MAC did...

True, my bad. Thanks OU.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:30 pm

NY-BG-FAN wrote:And correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't our upcoming series with Marshall have us going there first?

Yes, we play at Marshall in 2009.

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 1:36 pm

Since I don't have any better source, I looked up the future schedules for the MAC schools at nationalchamps.net. Interesting that Akron and Ball State both already have 5 OOC games listed for 2008. Western only has 1, Eastern has 2, and Buffalo, Kent, Ohio, Temple, and NIU have 3. The rest have four.

Suffice it to say, that with the wackiness of the unbalalnced schedule and the number of schools that still need to make games, I think it is way too early to think that our OOC is anywhere near being set in stone.