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Bowling Green was scheduled for 9/15/29 / don't know the status of that
I predict those will be conference games for the last 3 of that series
@BelinsonMattQuote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
Sounds like it's been moved to 2035.
bingo.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
This is why instead of silly talk about a 9 game conference schedule, a better question at the CUSA media days would have been to ask if they're considering a 7 game conference schedule. Almost every team in the conference must have a dozen G5 teams they'd rather schedule a home and home with than play each other (beyond the rival pairs).
You think Liberty would rather play any given CUSA game over a good SB-East team? Or that WKU couldn't find 5-6 MAC teams they'd rather play than UTEP/NMSU/FIU? For much of the conference, I would have a hard time coming up with another G5 team I'd prefer to play less (which isn't necessarily meant to be some great insult to KSU or FIU or Delaware, it's not that I'd want to play, like SJSU or Bowling Green more, it's just that I wouldn't necessarily want to play them less). And it's easy to think of lots of teams that I would rather play more than FIU or Missouri State or Delaware or well, literally anyone in CUSA.
The same thing would be true in other sports. I mean, you gotta have a conference. But instead of adding more and more teams or pretending that this group of schools has some glorious past (or future) together, let's just minimize the damage and "get by." Maybe fewer league games is a way to do that.
This would be an interesting alternative to our current strategy of "maximize the damage"Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
I emailed it in as a suggestion. You'd probably have to suggest it a little more delicately to the conference than how I put it, and I think many ADs would just say "but then I'd have to schedule another game and it'd be too haaaaaard." And there could be timing issues. Be risky. But we've actually done a great job with OOC series since 9 teams left the conference.
There is not one CUSA team I'd rather Tech play than the UNT/SMU/Tulsa/ULL/ULM/USA/USM OOC games we've scheduled. And there are probably another 6-7 I'd also feel that way about.
Think that ship has sailed and this series addition confirms that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
That is actually good thinking and I wish Southern Miss could have scheduled close schools that our fans had an interest in and could travel to instead of some of the CUSA games we have to travel to. Smart idea.Quote:
Originally Posted by inudesu
Nope -Quote:
Originally Posted by eagle in the gym
In 3-5 years the eastern schools will bolt and form their own 10-12 team conference...
At the G5 level things will shift back to regionalization when everyone except about 45 schools is relegated to AA ball
Marshall and USM refuse to separate, so that's not nothing. When we started talks to leave CUSA and you guys did not want to discuss, the Herd did. I do not think you'll see us separate from them unless one of us gets a P2 call (which is not happening).Quote:
Originally Posted by Dwayne From Minden
Why would any group of schools separate and leave a conference to form a new conference without major TV dictating? The money left behind would be greater than any new money. Plus - The Mouse is a fan of SBC.
Anything can happen. But unless you have something to back this, I will assume it is just "your gut feel" and no more.
There is no real money in any of the G5 TV deals. When you have a token hire as conference commissioner along with Presidents and ADs caving to mid-week games, we and others in CUSA are actually losing money due to ticket sales being down.
Marshall? R U kidding me? They would bolt to another conference and not think for a milli-second about some agreement with USM, or anyone else, if they liked the proposed league better.Quote:
Originally Posted by eagle in the gym
Yep and they are tied lock-step with ODU and CoastalQuote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
It's not IF but when...
Is that because of the midweek month taking away a few Saturdays from home ticket packages?Quote:
Originally Posted by PawDawg
When I saw the CUSA midweek agreement, I wondered how we could have afforded that. I think it would crush our season ticket sales to do that.
Or is that because of new opponents from long distances not stirring casual fan interest or bringing opposing fans? I would have to guess a non-conference game against us (which is smart to schedule for both schools) would bring more visiting fans to LaTech than a mid-week conference game versus ______ (fill in the blank from options).
Or a combination of the two? I have wondered if/how it affected ticket sales but didn't want to look like a visitor poster trying to start mess by asking that.
IMO ticket sales are down to lack of excitement / previous ADs tried to "fix" tailgating and we've been losing. Midweek games don't help.Quote:
Originally Posted by eagle in the gym
ticket sales are down because we hired a lame HC.Quote:
Originally Posted by sportdawg
our previous AD and president set Tech football back 20 years. (And he supposedly “got it”)
Ticket sales were down long before we hired our current HC. They were down in the last few of the glorious Holtz bowl years.Quote:
Originally Posted by revf
Our previous 2 ADs and presidents all did their part in setting Tech football back by playing the game they were dealt badly. Mid-week games is the absolute dumbest thing they could have ever allowed.