Coastal Carolina, Lamar, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Washington, Missouri State, Boise State and some others are doing work on their stadiums lately. Some at the FCS level are doing it to be attractive for an invite.

(04-30-2016 07:01 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Coastal Carolina, Lamar, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Washington, Missouri State, Boise State and some others are doing work on their stadiums lately. Some at the FCS level are doing it to be attractive for an invite.

Coastal carolina is part of the SBC next year

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(04-30-2016 07:29 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(04-30-2016 07:01 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Coastal Carolina, Lamar, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Washington, Missouri State, Boise State and some others are doing work on their stadiums lately. Some at the FCS level are doing it to be attractive for an invite.

Coastal carolina is part of the SBC next year

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Don't bother David with facts

(04-30-2016 07:29 PM)Stay Cool Wrote:  

(04-30-2016 07:01 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  Coastal Carolina, Lamar, Eastern Kentucky, Eastern Washington, Missouri State, Boise State and some others are doing work on their stadiums lately. Some at the FCS level are doing it to be attractive for an invite.

Coastal carolina is part of the SBC next year

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I am listing all D1 schools that are doing work on their facilities.

It doesn't seem to me like "UMass Football in Trouble" is an accurate thread title.

(04-30-2016 09:39 AM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(04-30-2016 04:57 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  It sounds like faculty wants all sports kill, and think no schools should have any sport programs at all. Glad at least they are in the minority. Imagine all the schools and universities have these type of people? It could be FSU. It could be Notre Dame. It could be Penn State.

I don't think that any noticeable group of people at PSU want to hurt the Nittany Lion football program in any way, no matter what the circumstances are. That's been made abundantly clear.

The academic leaders have deemphaisized football a number of times at ND.

They chased out Frank Leahy and Lou Holtz and wore down Ara Parseghian.

They don't want a long time, successful coach to get too powerful, so they push back against football success.

It happens when football gets too successful and so big that the Holy Cross Fathers worry think that it overshadows the academics at ND.

It is kind of a cyclical thing.

(04-30-2016 05:24 PM)LastMinuteman Wrote:  

(04-30-2016 10:58 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  But UMass is short 2 home games in 2019, 3 in 2020 assuming they get an FCS game, 2 in 2021, 3 in 2022. By comparison, Army is booked up for 2020, 1 home game short either in 2021 or 2022 (whichever year NAvy is the host for the Army-Navy game.)

That's intentional. If an Independent books too many games too far in advance, it becomes impossible to accept a conference invitation in the timeframe such conference would likely want, because it's either impossible or prohibitively expensive to clear enough dates for the new conference games. That's why Navy delayed the year they began playing in the AAC. UMass's initial strategy is going to be to fill schedules only 2 years out, as that's the usual notice time a departing conference member provides. It's a tightrope walk between not wanting to be short enough games to fill the schedule and wanting the maneuverability to accept a conference invitation if one comes up.

Exactly. If you don't have flexibility joining a conference is problematic. If you don't have things booked well out then there is always a little acid pit in your stomach.

(05-01-2016 07:49 AM)TerryD Wrote:  

(04-30-2016 09:39 AM)nzmorange Wrote:  

(04-30-2016 04:57 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  It sounds like faculty wants all sports kill, and think no schools should have any sport programs at all. Glad at least they are in the minority. Imagine all the schools and universities have these type of people? It could be FSU. It could be Notre Dame. It could be Penn State.

I don't think that any noticeable group of people at PSU want to hurt the Nittany Lion football program in any way, no matter what the circumstances are. That's been made abundantly clear.

The academic leaders have deemphaisized football a number of times at ND.

They chased out Frank Leahy and Lou Holtz and wore down Ara Parseghian.

They don't want a long time, successful coach to get too powerful, so they push back against football success.

It happens when football gets too successful and so big that the Holy Cross Fathers worry think that it overshadows the academics at ND.

It is kind of a cyclical thing.

That's a good tension to have.