Re: 2025 Football Schedule
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
August 30th - vs Southeastern (LA)
September 6th - @ LSU
September 13th - vs New Mexico State
September 20th - vs Southern Miss
September 27th - @ UTEP
October 9th - @ Kennesaw State
October 21st - vs Western Kentucky
October 28th - vs Sam Houston State
November 8th - @ Delaware
November 15th - @ Washington State
November 22nd - vs Liberty
November 29th - @ Missouri State
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
A Thursday and 2 Tuesday home games.
DEI Judy still at work to keep the worst TV deal in college football.
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
No Middle, JSU, or FIU. That part is fine.
I'm not sure there is a team in our conference that is going to be of more interest than any other. Possibly SHSU because they're closest. Liberty or WKU because they're likely to be good (maybe JSU will join them in this, but we'll see post-RichRod). I guess the western teams have the most history with us, but I don't know that either side considers those rivalry games in any way (and UTEP is leaving anyway).
The who of it all is just what it is for this conference. Other than the pairs of rivals these 12 teams don't care about each other so it doesn't really matter who plays who, we just all need a conference and a schedule and this is what's available.
The mid-week continues to be bad. Based on the logic above it shouldn't matter who we get mid-week vs who we get on a Saturday (not to any real degree) but I guess if you wanted something extra to be mad about on top of the pure existence and scope of mid-week, you'd probably want your worst draws then since you're going to be pretty limited - so (grading on a curve) maybe you'd rather have SHSU on a Saturday and NMSU on a weeknight or something? But that's probably not a huge deal. It's giving up 2 home Saturday games at all that's the issue. At least we avoid the Thur-to-next-Tue turnaround this year with byes built into October and just 3 instead of 4 mid-week games overall. That's an improvement.
Somehow Missouri State got 2 road games and just 1 home mid-week game. I'd think schools would be fighting for that set-up, so it's curious that a newbie got it. But I wonder if schools if bother lobbying for that kind of thing or if they just get what they get?
There has been uncertainty about whether our media deal was "everyone plays 4 mid-week games in October" or "CUSA provides X number of mid-week games in October and it just makes more sense for the whole conference to pivot to avoid going back and forth from Sat to Thur" and this year's schedule makes me think it's the later. Several teams just have 3 mid-week games and byes in October. That's better (and a small argument for the over-expansion we've done).
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
Our leadership has failed.
They got excited about having 3000 at a MBB game the other night.
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
Apparently Liberty managed to get only 2 mid-week games (and only 1 at home). What the heck? We're a legacy member of this conference with specific circumstances and demographics that make those game worse for us than for some others. Why can't we get just one mid-week home game?
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
Quote:
Originally Posted by
inudesu
Apparently Liberty managed to get only 2 mid-week games (and only 1 at home). What the heck? We're a legacy member of this conference with specific circumstances and demographics that make those game worse for us than for some others. Why can't we get just one mid-week home game?
Our leadership continues to fail.
Liberty is DEI Judy's new UAB
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
Quote:
Originally Posted by
inudesu
Apparently Liberty managed to get only 2 mid-week games (and only 1 at home). What the heck? We're a legacy member of this conference with specific circumstances and demographics that make those game worse for us than for some others. Why can't we get just one mid-week home game?
Robert Conquest's Third Law: the behavior of every large bureaucracy can be explained by assuming it is run by a cabal of its enemies
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Blue Dawg
Robert Conquest's Third Law: the behavior of every large bureaucracy can be explained by assuming it is run by a cabal of its enemies
Profound!
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
As part of the festivities for Homecoming Weekend, our contest against Sam Houston has been moved from Tuesday, October 28th to Friday, October 31st.*
The game will serve as our Homecoming game.
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
Quote:
Originally Posted by
sportdawg
As part of the festivities for Homecoming Weekend, our contest against Sam Houston has been moved from Tuesday, October 28th to Friday, October 31st.*
The game will serve as our Homecoming game.
Hm, if only there were a way to make attendance even lower than a Tuesday night game...
Re: 2025 Football Schedule
I rather we have the Homecoming game on Saturday afternoon/evening with no internet tv broadcast.
Homecoming on Friday night (on Halloween) is stupid.
