BG back to the EAST Official!!

falconman · Post by **falconman** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:14 pm

Here it is, we are back in the East starting in 2005-06 year. Last Paragraph.

http://mac-sports.collegesports.com/gen ... 05aaa.html

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:21 pm

YES!!! I for one am very happy about this!

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:23 pm

Me too!!!!!

BGSU33 · Post by **BGSU33** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:26 pm

I know some were not sad to see us go to the West, but I was. I'm happy to be going back and I hope we stay for good. The thought of us leaving the East to make way for a school like UCF pissed me off quite frankly.

huskiealum03 · Post by **huskiealum03** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:28 pm

I'm sad that BG is leaving the west. It was a good developing rivalry, both for fans and for ESPN. Now, back to the bad, boring matchups.....

Falconfreak90 · Post by **Falconfreak90** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:34 pm

huskiealum03 wrote:I'm sad that BG is leaving the west. It was a good developing rivalry, both for fans and for ESPN. Now, back to the bad, boring matchups.....

Yes, it was a good rivalry. But as a long time MAC fan, I miss playing the traditional rivals like Miami, Ohio U and Kent State ever year.

I hope we still get to play NIU on a semi-regular basis.

bc ziggy 58 · Post by **bc ziggy 58** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:37 pm

Someone, please someone tell me that we're still going to get to kick Turdledo's a$$ this year. PLEASE!!!! I want this payback and I want it bad.

BGDrew · Post by **BGDrew** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:40 pm

Assuming that we still play Toledo at the end of the season, can we easily conceive that BG and UT could possibly play twice back-to-back in the MACC?

JohnnySwoop '85 · Post by **JohnnySwoop '85** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:59 pm

I think this is great news since I live in NE Ohio! Away games at Kent and Akron! Casino Niagra stays while roadin' it up to Buffalo...what's not to love, and yes I still expect the Toledo match up...that will remain, the gate is too good for each school to pass up.

thechuck_2112 · Post by **thechuck_2112** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:01 pm

Welcome back to the East, guys. We're glad to have both BG and its only tree back in the fold!

JohnnySwoop '85 · Post by **JohnnySwoop '85** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:06 pm

and I failed to mention that we can chalk another W up since we probably get Miami and forego NIU.

orangeandbrown · Post by **orangeandbrown** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:11 pm

Yeah, but gosh, we had all our hard games at home coming up next year, and now we might have a hard road game on the schedule.

Also, on a more serious note, as long as we play Toledo every year, while everyone else plays them in a rotation, we are at a competitive disadvantage.

momtartin · Post by **momtartin** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:38 pm

This is kind of dissapointing. I really wanted to beat up on Toledo and NIU at home this year, and really feel like we accomplished something. Moving back to the East will give us some good rivalries, and I won't mind beating the snot out of Miami, but still, NIU was getting to be a good rivalry. Oh well, I'm sure we'll see Toledo in Detroit next year then.

ffejfalcon · Post by **ffejfalcon** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:48 pm

To: Thechuck_2112 (Miami loser)

From: Ffejfalcon

The tree comment is just stupid.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:03 pm

To drag the carcass of the marketing horse back out, I hope they take advantage of this move to the east to begin/expand advertising in Northeast Ohio. They've done it in Columbus, and with the vast alumni base in the Cleveland area, not only would it be huge to strive to make the Kent and maybe Akron game like home games, but get that fan base excited enough to make a trip back to the Doyt for a game (though it might have the opposite effect, now that they know they can see BG in the northeast if they want to at least once a year close to home, they might use that as an excuse not to make the roadie.

The move back to the East and rejoining rivalries with the four other Ohio schools would also be a good opportunity to reach out to potential students in these areas, with in-state tuition rates, as opposed to the West, where all but one of our regularly scheduled (i.e. divisional) road games were out of state.

I don't know how bold it would be to put a couple billboards up around Kent/Akron/Oxford or Athens announcing BG coming to town in all brown and orange, but it couldn't hurt, right?