Got to wonder if that is the price of success. They've got OOC games to fill and no one wants to go there and take the beat down.

(09-21-2016 11:40 AM)DooX Wrote:  Got to wonder if that is the price of success. They've got OOC games to fill and no one wants to go there and take the beat down.

I think is was a couple seasons back they were down to the last minute getting a FCS game lined up. Some of that is of their own making by wanting a late season opponent.

I have to wonder why P5 schools even bother with this system. It's kind of a no-win situation. They pay FCS to come there. If they win, it's a game that barely counts to anyone rating teams. If they lose, it's a disaster. Now, a team like Alabama can schedule those teams because they don't lose to anyone, but teams like UNC, it surprises me. Just look at all the idiots who have scheduled NDSU over the last 4 years as an example.

(09-09-2016 05:28 PM)BDKJMU Wrote:  "Life as a College Football Cupcake: Why Smaller Teams Take Their Lumps

.....Since Grass arrived in 2014, Jacksonville State is 24-4. Two of those losses have come at the hands of FBS schools, Auburn in 2015 and Michigan State in 2014....

...."Some of these mid-major teams go play a Power Five and they're getting more than a million dollars," Grass said. "We're not getting that kind of check, even though you wish you were. But we're getting anywhere from $400,000 to $600,000, and it goes a long way, budget-wise....."
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/26622...=editorial

JMU should be like JSU- 400-600k. 550k from WVU in 2019 is great, 425k from NC State in 2018 is decent, but getting only 300k from ECU next year is crap. Heck, Akron paid 300k back in 2012 (will be closer to 315k in 2017 $$) and Akron only average 9k+ fans the season before (2012)..

How on earth can Akron afford to pay ANYONE 300k if they're pulling 9K fans to a game? If that's the average, you gotta assume our coming to town would be one of the worst attended too.

(09-21-2016 06:41 PM)JMUDunk Wrote:  How on earth can Akron afford to pay ANYONE 300k if they're pulling 9K fans to a game? If that's the average, you gotta assume our coming to town would be one of the worst attended too.

I had wondered the same thing. Read an article before we played them. It said they had needed another home game and were having problems (probably due to low payout). So they used some of the money they got from playing Michigan, also in 2013, to augment the guarantee.