Is home game with Wyoming in jeopardy?

Sidejudge · Post by **Sidejudge** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:09 pm

According to ESPN, there are rumors...rumors mind you...that BG may have a "...scheduling conflict..." with our home game with Wyoming on October 3rd. But how about Miami digging into their pockets to pay out $750,000 to cancel their game with Colorado to play Kentucky for their opener. Sheeesh!

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/others/0-4-9 ... games.html

Class of 61 · Post by **Class of 61** » Sun Mar 01, 2009 7:50 pm

Sidejudge wrote:According to ESPN, there are rumors...rumors mind you...that BG may have a "...scheduling conflict..." with our home game with Wyoming on October 3rd. But how about Miami digging into their pockets to pay out $750,000 to cancel their game with Colorado to play Kentucky for their opener. Sheeesh!

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/others/0-4-9 ... games.html

If this proves to be true, who will we blame THIS time? Last time it was OU who screwed up, if I recall correctly, and the dominoes fell, costing us a home game against Boise. How the heck can we schedule too MANY OOC games?...or is this part of the problem with an uneven number of teams in the MAC, especially E.Div.? Since I was planning on bringing my daughter and grandkids to at least one game again this year, I was anticipating the Wyoming game as a good one to see for them. Now?????

BourbonFalcon · Post by **BourbonFalcon** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 1:50 pm

If I was a Miami Alum I'd be pretty ticked. Paying that much money to a quality home opponent just to schedule a neutral field game?? I wonder what the justification is for this change? It all seems pretty absurd to me.

redskins4ever · Post by **redskins4ever** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 2:07 pm

I don't like it.

It was Kent State who scheduled 7 OOC games last time.

To me its stupid...but to alot of people its an economic thing. We can make more money with a game at PBS... allegedly. None of this has been confirmed by anyone. So far its been a collection of internet rumors and murmurs.

NickSkin · Post by **NickSkin** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:37 pm

Miami will not be paying Colorado $750k

In fact it appears that BG or Toledo may end up hosting Colorado this year.

http://www.buffzone.com/blogs/buffzone- ... /28/miami/

BgWaRrIoR · Post by **BgWaRrIoR** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:01 pm

NickSkin wrote:Miami will not be paying Colorado $750k

In fact it appears that BG or Toledo may end up hosting Colorado this year.

http://www.buffzone.com/blogs/buffzone- ... /28/miami/

Wouldn't mind hosting Colorado at all. To me it seems like the best scenerio would be dumping Wyoming on Akron and picking up Colorado. Its doubtful Wyoming would care, they have a better chance against Akron anyways.

Class of 61 · Post by **Class of 61** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:36 pm

BgWaRrIoR wrote:
NickSkin wrote:Miami will not be paying Colorado $750k

In fact it appears that BG or Toledo may end up hosting Colorado this year.

http://www.buffzone.com/blogs/buffzone- ... /28/miami/
Wouldn't mind hosting Colorado at all. To me it seems like the best scenerio would be dumping Wyoming on Akron and picking up Colorado. Its doubtful Wyoming would care, they have a better chance against Akron anyways.

Of course, you're ASSUMING that Akron's open date co incides with the MU-Colo. scheduled game...and that BG vs. Wyo. ALSO is scheduled for the same date... lots of ifs, ands or buts...
Speaking of But(s), I would think that Akron's new stadium might be an attractive TV situation for the Buffs too.... I hate like heck to see BG get screwed out of a game again (and I still think was OU that had the foul up, not that it makes any difference now). But I'm also ASSUMING that Colo. would be a heck of a better draw for us than Wyoming would be...so who knows.

Falconboy · Post by **Falconboy** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 5:44 pm

If we indeed ended up bringing Colorado here instead of WY, I can't say that I'd be sad at all but if we ended up bringing in a worse opponent like a D1-AA team or something , then I'd be pissed. I hope we aren't losing too much money for doing this if we are dropping the Wyoming game.

MarkL · Post by **MarkL** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 6:14 pm

Man, hosting Colorado would be pretty cool. I gotta feel for Wyoming in that their future is in the air and worse, in the hands of the MAC scheduling folks.

If we come out of this deal still playing Wyoming at home, I'll be happy. If we come out of it playing Colorado at home, I'd be pumped! That would be a great opportunity for our team and for Coach Clawson to have a home and home with two Big 12 teams in his first year.

redskins4ever · Post by **redskins4ever** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:44 pm

Colorado if bought out... will not be going on the road... what dream world are you all living in.

MarkL · Post by **MarkL** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 10:18 pm

Yeah I guess I read that wrong. I was interpreting that as they would go on the road to either BG or UT and was honestly wondering why.

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:18 pm

I just hope whatever hangup BG may be having with its schedule is something in our favor, such as a possible change to improve our situation - like hosting Colorado (with a return to beautiful Boulder) and having Wyoming's return game down the road (say in the next year or two), and not that Wyoming is trying to back out all together such as the recent problems we've had with USF and FIU. I found it very curious that FIU was able to make its way to Northwest Ohio last year and play Toledo.

doughash · Post by **doughash** » Mon Mar 02, 2009 11:43 pm

The ESPN blog has been updated with comments from Christopher and Chryst:

http://myespn.go.com/blogs/others/0-4-1 ... uling.html

The headline scares me but it's not as bad as it sounds. A couple comments from Christopher:

"What I've told Rick [Chryst] is that we're fine with the four games we have now," Christopher said. "We've got four contracts and we expect to play those four games. If there is a scenario that would help the conference or help Bowling Green, we would be willing to listen to that. One of things we don't want to do is go to five home games and seven road games. This is the first time in I don't know how many years that Bowling Green is in a position to have six home games. It's something that when I got here was important to get that sixth home game. That's something I want to keep."

bgsufalcon24 · Post by **bgsufalcon24** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:43 am

Good for GC, sticking up for our home dates.

OptionQB · Post by **OptionQB** » Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:50 am

Why can't Marshall and Akron play on Sept. 26, freeing up BG to go to Colorado?

A home game with Colorado would be ideal, but another "higher" profile game against a BCS opponent is better than playing Marshall.

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