I have read that Arkansas will not play Arkansas ST in football .
Seems like a neutral site game in Little Rock would benefit St.
Kentucky did that for WKU in Nashville.

Louisiana Tech will not play ULM its closest in state FBS foe.
According to posters Tech has never sold out and it's biggest home crowd was vs ULM.

Boise State will not play at Idaho even though it's their most played rival. The series is 20-17-1 with Boise leading. Idaho once led 17-8 after a 12 game streak now Boise has the streak.

I know MSU is playing at the Michigan MAC schools to help them out. I think the Spartans should be commended for maning up.
I bet there are more examples of petty or week excuses not to play teams. Stanford plays at SJSU I believe they are not scared.

Alabama and Auburn won't play Troy, UAB, USA in football but play in other sports.

Ah, the tired old "They won't play us because they're SCARED!" whine.....this isn't going to end well.

<grabs popcorn>

(04-17-2014 05:57 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  Ah, the tired old "They won't play us because they're SCARED!" whine.....this isn't going to end well.

<grabs popcorn>

The Dallas Cowboys won't play us... Cowards.

They know they'll lose

(04-17-2014 06:05 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  They know they'll lose

georgetown-maryland
uconn-BC
texas-aggie (this will be good)
pitt-psu*

I'll just save the trouble for the rest of the thread:

If for whatever reason you think Texas A&M is unjustly ducking your team and that you feel for whatever reason we owe you a game, please direct this complaint to the nearest brick wall.

(04-17-2014 06:24 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  I'll just save the trouble for the rest of the thread:

If for whatever reason you think Texas A&M is unjustly ducking your team and that you feel for whatever reason we owe you a game, please direct this complaint to the nearest brick wall.

I don't give crap who plays who until the mouth-breather fans start sipping turd stew and claim they can't play the locals because of strength of schedule or it will hurt recruiting.

Missouri won't play Missouri State in basketball.... MSU won the last meeting in 98 or 99 I think. They only played that year because they meet in the Pre season NIT.

(04-17-2014 05:57 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  Ah, the tired old "They won't play us because they're SCARED!" whine.....this isn't going to end well.

<grabs popcorn>

I can see a P5 not playing down to some point.
I think teams like MSU and Kentucky deserve credit for being decent and fair. The we have nothing to gain argument is pretty week . I mean Alabama is still Alabama after ULM beat them.
Michigan still packs the Big House and K- State ended up being fine after losing FCS games. So what is the danger of playing close FBS schools. Alabama will play Georgia St but not Troy why?

I'm not the one to ask that.

I've stated time and again on this board I believe in freedom of association. All scheduled games should be mutual agreement only and think no school should ever be forced to play another for any reason (least of all the "they owe us because they're a local team!"

If UT says "we don't want to play A&M" then that is their right to do so and I will defend their right to do so.

(04-17-2014 06:31 PM)msu_bears Wrote:  Missouri won't play Missouri State in basketball.... MSU won the last meeting in 98 or 99 I think. They only played that year because they meet in the Pre season NIT.

Michigan and Michigan St push each other same with Duke and UNC.

Missouri St will never reach Missouri ' s status so just play them. One plus is if both teams are down it
s still a big game. Both schools in most cases are in the Same state so it benefits tax payers.

(04-17-2014 06:24 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  I'll just save the trouble for the rest of the thread:

If for whatever reason you think Texas A&M is unjustly ducking your team and that you feel for whatever reason we owe you a game, please direct this complaint to the nearest brick wall.

You didn't duck us. You played us. And it was fun.

(04-17-2014 06:44 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  I'm not the one to ask that.

I've stated time and again on this board I believe in freedom of association. All scheduled games should be mutual agreement only and think no school should ever be forced to play another for any reason (least of all the "they owe us because they're a local team!"

If UT says "we don't want to play A&M" then that is their right to do so and I will defend their right to do so.

I am in agreement. But if you have a policy of not playing me....shut your mouth about me. I don't have any respect for bullies who can talk, talk, talk, talk, about what they WOULD do to us if they played but are not willing to back up their words on the field and prove it. That violates the sports code, and the man code.

I take it you state boys still have a lot of unresolved anger issues due to Piggy refusing to play you

:)

In basketball, UC hasn't played at Miami since the nineties and Xavier hasn't been here since we upset them in 2007. I doubt either team will come Oxford again, unless we win like we did during the Wally years and agree to play two games on the road for one at home.

(04-17-2014 06:46 PM)MJG Wrote:  

(04-17-2014 06:31 PM)msu_bears Wrote:  Missouri won't play Missouri State in basketball.... MSU won the last meeting in 98 or 99 I think. They only played that year because they meet in the Pre season NIT.

Michigan and Michigan St push each other same with Duke and UNC.

Missouri St will never reach Missouri ' s status so just play them. One plus is if both teams are down it
s still a big game. Both schools in most cases are in the Same state so it benefits tax payers.

its always the same argument from their fans and AD, it will be MSU's superbowl and Mizzou gains nothing by winning...

We play teams better than Mizzou every year, we played 2 of last years final four teams this year and Mizzou has never been to a final four so them constantly saying it would be our superbowl is pretty typical of their fan's arrogance

(04-17-2014 06:52 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  I take it you state boys still have a lot of unresolved anger issues due to Piggy refusing to play you

:)

I don't want to play them ever.

But I do want some of them to stop obsessing over everything we do and say....and stop insisting that we should like their school more than our own....and that we are bad people if we don't care about the Razorbacks. That gets tiresome.

I'll give SMU some credit. Those guys agreed to play us through 2025. I think that is very smart. With only about 30 miles separating our schools, this series is like each of us adding an extra home game every other year, and the Dallas/Fort Worth media will talk up the game the entire week leading up to kick off.