03-26-2012, 01:00 PM
Since i can't find the original FB schedule thread:
http://cincinnati.com/blogs/uc/2012/03/2...-schedule/
Quote:Fordham replaces TCU on UC football schedule
03/26/12 at 1:36pm
Written by bkoch
Fordham has replaced TCU on UC’s 2012 home football schedule, giving the Bearcats two FCS schools (formerly Division I-AA) on their seven-game home schedule. Delaware State is the other one.
“There’s a lot of I-A schools that have one (FCS team on their schedule) and will continue to have one,” said UC athletic director Whit Babcock. “But two is not ideal. When TCU was going to be in the league, it’s my understanding we were going to eight conference games. When they dropped out, it went back to seven, so we had to fill that game.”
The Fordham game is scheduled for Oct. 13, with Delaware State on Sept. 15. Fordham, which was 1-10 last year, played Big East member Connecticut, losing 35-3.
The Bearcats will open the season on either Sept. 6 or Sept. 8 at home against a Big East opponent, possibly in a national ESPN game. The Big East is expected to announce its schedule this week.
Babcock also said that UC will raise season ticket prices for 15 percent of Nippert Stadium, but will lower prices for 54 percent of the stadium.
“With the ticket prices, going from six (home) games to seven games is somewhat of a justification to go up,” Babcock said. “We looked at some of our most premium seating and with about 15 percent there will be a slight increase. The rest of the stadium we felt was overpriced, so we’re lowering the price to get some of our younger alumni engaged.”
TCU, which accepted membership into the Big East Conference in November 2010, opted instead to join the Big 12 during the most recent conference membership shuffle. Babcock said UC tried to fill the open date left by TCU with a game against another Division I school, but was unable to find a suitable opponent.
“I was intent on getting to seven home games,” Babcock said. “We accomplished that. I guess we could have gone on the road and played a BCS team for the money, but they wouldn’t have returned the game. There were other BCS schools that would have played us but we couldn’t match up the dates.”
Babcock said UC had discussions with schools from the Big 12 and the Southeastern Conference and also had discussions with Florida State from the Atlantic Coast Conference “but the dates didn’t match up or they just want to play us one time and didn’t want to return the game.”
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