Originally Posted by RealityCheck
BYU will have a harder time scheduling mid-season games than they have had in the past.
They're going to have to hold their nose here and there.
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BYU will have a harder time scheduling mid-season games than they have had in the past.
They're going to have to hold their nose here and there.
You must play 5 home games. You may count 1 game at another site toward your required home games.
Arkansas in 2010 played 2 home games in LR, and another "home" game in Arlington. But they had 5 back in Fayetteville, so they were good to go. (They could have gotten by with only 4 games in Fayetteville.)
In 2002, Tech played 2 games in Shreveport, but only 3 at JAS. We would have been zinged had the rule been in place that year.
When the rule went into effect in 2003, it also included the 15K average attendance requirement. This is when the injuns signed up for "home" games in LR. (It was a pretty slick gaming of the system. And I respect slick ...) But the attendence rule was scrapped soon after, once it looked like Duke wasnt gonna make the cut.
I predict the Vandals will ...
- Host 2 FCS teams each year in Moscow. (Idaho St will be one.)
- Host 2 FBS teams each year in Moscow. (BYU or NMSU will be one.)
- Play their 5th "home" game in Pullman (and collect a check from Wazzu, ala the injuns/hogs arrangement) every other year.
- Play their 5th "home" game in Honolulu, every other year (on very favorable terms to the Warriors), allowing them to pick up an extra garauntee game back on the mainland.
It wont be pretty ... getting to 7 wins will be daunting. But it'll be enough to keep the program afloat for awhile longer.
This post is full of good, factual information. Pretty good for a sophomoric commie.
We aim to try.This post is full of good, factual information. Pretty good for a sophomoric commie.
The original article also says that the board might give the university president permission to consider an offer to join the Big Sky Conference. If I were a betting man (and I am), my money would be on Idaho joining the Big Sky.
I hope our administration is paying attention to this. There, but for the grace of God, go I. Hopefully we are already making plans for the next round of conference shake-ups.
So, when you say "we would have been zinged", what exactly does that mean? Would we have been put on double secret probation? What would have happened to us?
HD
The NCAA sumbitches would have compelled us to play nlu every year in Shreveport with no shuttles and no billboards. They would have shut down Griffs and Johnnys and filled all our Icee machines with Pepsi. They would have named Bicknell "coach-for-life" and made the Regal Blues dress in burkas.
The attendance rule has never been scrapped...it just isn't enforced as written.
Now that is the death penalty.
So, just like the Immigration laws
My guess is that nothing would have happened. It would have been like the non-enforced attendance rule. And even if they did enforce the attendance rule, it has a lot of leeway. Year of probation or something probably would have been the case for the home game thing, too.
Idaho will do fine.
So, it's your goal (aim) just to try, eh? Spoken like a good lib. Results don't matter, just as long as you intend to try. Which also alleviates the need to actually try. You only have to have the intention of trying.
....just messing with ya! :icon_wink:
I've got my fingers crossed, but they certainly have a touch road ahead getting those home games scheduled. I mean, a school in Texas or Louisiana (or the south more broadly) has nearby teams that wouldn't mind yearly games. We might help out a Texas State with an annual game, but Idaho does so little for us and there are how many schools available a stone's throw away? I fear it would take a coordinated effort to keep them alive and I don't know that the interest is there. But seriously, I hope they make it.
University of Houston '01. Any references to "we" or "us" likely refer to UH. Cheers!
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