http://www.emueagles.com/news/2015/8/27/...50548.aspx

Overall a very nice and well balanced schedule. My only complaint is I think 3 lower division games should be the limit. Replace one of those with a division 1 chump would not have been hard to schedule nor to win. Had they done this the schedule would be perfect in my opinion. But I still like this one...

3 Major Conference teams:
Michigan St (elite)
Louisville (elite)
Penn St (winnable for a solid mid-major team)

4 tough mid-major games
Vermount (America East runner-up)
N Florida (Atlantic Sun champion)
Detroit (traditionally competitive)
Oakland (traditionally competitive

2 easy mid-major games
Nebraska-Omaha, Coppin St

4 guaranteed lower division games
Siena Heights, Marygrove, Madonna, Rochester

(08-29-2015 10:35 PM)rayEMU Wrote:  Overall a very nice and well balanced schedule. My only complaint is I think 3 lower division games should be the limit. Replace one of those with a division 1 chump would not have been hard to schedule nor to win. Had they done this the schedule would be perfect in my opinion. But I still like this one...

3 Major Conference teams:
Michigan St (elite)
Louisville (elite)
Penn St (winnable for a solid mid-major team)

4 tough mid-major games
Vermount (America East runner-up)
N Florida (Atlantic Sun champion)
Detroit (traditionally competitive)
Oakland (traditionally competitive

2 easy mid-major games
Nebraska-Omaha, Coppin St

4 guaranteed lower division games
Siena Heights, Marygrove, Madonna, Rochester

3 is to many 2 i understand. 3 and 4 are just plain stupid and useless in building a team and generating a fan base. That is unless you want to watch a dunk contest which all it's going to be as of late. and penn st is not a winable game what so ever we will be lucky to only lose by 20. 4 tough mid-majors? Not hardly.

(08-30-2015 11:52 AM)emussuperfan Wrote:  

(08-29-2015 10:35 PM)rayEMU Wrote:  Overall a very nice and well balanced schedule. My only complaint is I think 3 lower division games should be the limit. Replace one of those with a division 1 chump would not have been hard to schedule nor to win. Had they done this the schedule would be perfect in my opinion. But I still like this one...

3 Major Conference teams:
Michigan St (elite)
Louisville (elite)
Penn St (winnable for a solid mid-major team)

4 tough mid-major games
Vermount (America East runner-up)
N Florida (Atlantic Sun champion)
Detroit (traditionally competitive)
Oakland (traditionally competitive

2 easy mid-major games
Nebraska-Omaha, Coppin St

4 guaranteed lower division games
Siena Heights, Marygrove, Madonna, Rochester

3 is to many 2 i understand. 3 and 4 are just plain stupid and useless in building a team and generating a fan base. That is unless you want to watch a dunk contest which all it's going to be as of late. and penn st is not a winable game what so ever we will be lucky to only lose by 20. 4 tough mid-majors? Not hardly.

The question for many schools is:

Schedule say 3 or 4 non-D-1 games OR schedule say 1 or 2 LESS games. Play an extra non-D-1 game or two or simply not have a full schedule of OOC games.

NOT only is HOME scheduling tough but so is AWAY games. The coach who works scheduling told me this summer that as we have the game in Baltimore (w. Coppin State) that he reached to all D-I schools in the D.C. area and got no takers. We did have a verbal agreement with one big name school but they opted for another opponent instead. I can say Coach Murphy told me 6 months ago that they wanted to do 2 games in the Baltimore / Washington area. Didn't work out. But we tried.

(08-30-2015 12:31 PM)emu steve Wrote:  

(08-30-2015 11:52 AM)emussuperfan Wrote:  

(08-29-2015 10:35 PM)rayEMU Wrote:  Overall a very nice and well balanced schedule. My only complaint is I think 3 lower division games should be the limit. Replace one of those with a division 1 chump would not have been hard to schedule nor to win. Had they done this the schedule would be perfect in my opinion. But I still like this one...

3 Major Conference teams:
Michigan St (elite)
Louisville (elite)
Penn St (winnable for a solid mid-major team)

4 tough mid-major games
Vermount (America East runner-up)
N Florida (Atlantic Sun champion)
Detroit (traditionally competitive)
Oakland (traditionally competitive

2 easy mid-major games
Nebraska-Omaha, Coppin St

4 guaranteed lower division games
Siena Heights, Marygrove, Madonna, Rochester

3 is to many 2 i understand. 3 and 4 are just plain stupid and useless in building a team and generating a fan base. That is unless you want to watch a dunk contest which all it's going to be as of late. and penn st is not a winable game what so ever we will be lucky to only lose by 20. 4 tough mid-majors? Not hardly.

The question for many schools is:

Schedule say 3 or 4 non-D-1 games OR schedule say 1 or 2 LESS games. Play an extra non-D-1 game or two or simply not have a full schedule of OOC games.

NOT only is HOME scheduling tough but so is AWAY games. The coach who works scheduling told me this summer that as we have the game in Baltimore (w. Coppin State) that he reached to all D-I schools in the D.C. area and got no takers. We did have a verbal agreement with one big name school but they opted for another opponent instead. I can say Coach Murphy told me 6 months ago that they wanted to do 2 games in the Baltimore / Washington area. Didn't work out. But we tried.

maybe he should advertise on Craiges list?