(09-12-2014 10:39 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 09:17 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 09:04 AM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 09:02 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  The Illini will certainly pick up the phone if NIU wants to play a game in Champaign (and we've done that a couple of times with NIU over the past decade). We're absolutely not using the 1 non-conference road game that we have every 2 years (which is the financial reality when the Big Ten goes to 9 conference games per year) traveling to DeKalb, though. That's a financial non-starter.

Play them in Chicago at Soldier Field like Iowa did. That would take away all the excuses. There'd also be a bigger crowd there than in Champagne.

The Big Ten is also requiring everyone to play one 1 P5 non-conference opponent per year. In essence, after we get done with our already scheduled series with USF and UConn, we (and effectively everyone else in the Big Ten) won't be scheduling any further G5 teams away from our home stadiums. As I've stated, every Big Ten team will now only have 1 non-conference road game per 2 years to use going forward (for better or worse, we all MUST have 7 home games per year for financial purposes - there's no use arguing about it), and when we also need to schedule another P5 school, you can do the math that the home-and-home (or even home-neutral) series is going to that P5 school.

Indiana just signed a home-and-home with Cincinnati. Is the Big 10 counting UC as a P5 for this requirement? Or are other Big 10 schools more willing than Illinois to give up their 7th home game?

Lower end P-5 conference teams with the smaller stadiums will still schedule home and home games with G-5 schools. The high end teams like Nebraska, Michigan, Penn St, and Ohio St with the 90 - 110 thousand seat stadiums will continue to pick and choose as they please just like they have done before. The SEC and ACC will continue to schedule a pay day FCS patsy every year for the the 7th home cash coffer game and an easy win either early in the season or late in the season for a breather before the season ending rivalry game like Alabama or South Carolina do. The seasonal chirping about only playing P-5 games among P-5 conferences will always go on by conference commissioners to thump their chests in the P-5 conferences at the Conference Meetings and pre season golf outings but actions will speak louder than words when the scheduling is done. The AAC, MAC, CUSA, MWC, Sunbelt, and FCS schools will still have plenty of P-5 scheduling opportunities for one and done's with the Cream of of the P-5's, and home and homes with the signature conference bottom feeders needing a 6th potential win to become bowl eligible at the end of the season.

I love all the cartel 5 fans calling this petty, while everyone of their schools runs around touting a false, P5 moniker. Whatever the impact of NIU's ad is nothing in comparison to the PR campaign put out by certain conferences and their TV overlords.

(09-19-2014 08:05 AM)panite Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 10:39 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 09:17 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 09:04 AM)Miami (Oh) Yeah ! Wrote:  

(09-12-2014 09:02 AM)Frank the Tank Wrote:  The Illini will certainly pick up the phone if NIU wants to play a game in Champaign (and we've done that a couple of times with NIU over the past decade). We're absolutely not using the 1 non-conference road game that we have every 2 years (which is the financial reality when the Big Ten goes to 9 conference games per year) traveling to DeKalb, though. That's a financial non-starter.

Play them in Chicago at Soldier Field like Iowa did. That would take away all the excuses. There'd also be a bigger crowd there than in Champagne.

The Big Ten is also requiring everyone to play one 1 P5 non-conference opponent per year. In essence, after we get done with our already scheduled series with USF and UConn, we (and effectively everyone else in the Big Ten) won't be scheduling any further G5 teams away from our home stadiums. As I've stated, every Big Ten team will now only have 1 non-conference road game per 2 years to use going forward (for better or worse, we all MUST have 7 home games per year for financial purposes - there's no use arguing about it), and when we also need to schedule another P5 school, you can do the math that the home-and-home (or even home-neutral) series is going to that P5 school.

Indiana just signed a home-and-home with Cincinnati. Is the Big 10 counting UC as a P5 for this requirement? Or are other Big 10 schools more willing than Illinois to give up their 7th home game?

Lower end P-5 conference teams with the smaller stadiums will still schedule home and home games with G-5 schools. The high end teams like Nebraska, Michigan, Penn St, and Ohio St with the 90 - 110 thousand seat stadiums will continue to pick and choose as they please just like they have done before. The SEC and ACC will continue to schedule a pay day FCS patsy every year for the the 7th home cash coffer game and an easy win either early in the season or late in the season for a breather before the season ending rivalry game like Alabama or South Carolina do. The seasonal chirping about only playing P-5 games among P-5 conferences will always go on by conference commissioners to thump their chests in the P-5 conferences at the Conference Meetings and pre season golf outings but actions will speak louder than words when the scheduling is done. The AAC, MAC, CUSA, MWC, Sunbelt, and FCS schools will still have plenty of P-5 scheduling opportunities for one and done's with the Cream of of the P-5's, and home and homes with the signature conference bottom feeders needing a 6th potential win to become bowl eligible at the end of the season.

Mean like how the school with the LARGEST STADIUM and #1 in attendance for years and years and years (Michigan) signed a deal to play home-home with UCONN (40,000 seat stadium)?

Please...tell us know.