(10-08-2017 01:00 PM)Ewglenn Wrote:  

(10-08-2017 11:22 AM)LibertyOrangeman Wrote:  I thought I read on A Sea of Red that Liberty bought out the JMU game. Could be wrong though. I don't think it's wise for LU to play JMU in the near future while we're 1-A and they're 1-AA. JMU is better than many G5 schools and probably/maybe obviously us than us now, and we can't risk to losing to a 1-AA school in our first few years. Beating them probably can helps us with bowl eligibility due to their pedigree and number of scholarships, but losing to them would be catastrophic. We should wait to play them until we're at the stage where we should beat them. My guess is that ADIM thinks this as well.

There is no difference between beating them and beating Savannah State for bowl eligibility. LU can schedule one FCS team per year and it counts towards the 6 needed. Scheduling two would require 7 to become bowl eligible. The FCS game should be a tune up game. Give me someone like Delaware State instead.

I thought that 1-AA teams had to have X-number of scholarships in order to count towards bowl eligibility. Anyway, my point is still valid the risk weighs much more than the reward of playing JMU Ii the near future. Hopefully they'll join us in 1-A sooner than later or we'll host them again soon when we should steamroll them.