Bowling Green replaces Western Michigan on the Spartans' 2007 schedule. The change was made at the request of the Big Ten and to assist conference officials in resolving other scheduling issues between league institutions and other Mid-American Conference opponents. The home game originally scheduled with Western Michigan will be rescheduled in either 2009 or 2010. The Falcons will be making their first trip to Spartan Stadium since 1981. The Spartans have won 13 straight and 20 of the last 22 meetings against MAC teams.
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How stupid is this. They drop the local MAC team (probably because how bad would it look for a loss to them) to pick up another MAC team and they blame it on MAC Big Ten scheduling problems. Ridiculous.
MSUSpartans.com meant to Wrote:Bowling Green replaces Western Michigan on the Spartans' 2007 schedule. The change was made at the request of Michigan State University to avoid playing Western Michigan University in 2007, a year in which the Broncos would probably be favored on the road at Spartan Stadium. The home game originally scheduled with Western Michigan will be rescheduled in either 2009 or 2010, when hopefully Michigan State will have improved. The Falcons will be making their first trip to Spartan Stadium since 1981. The Spartans have won 13 straight and 20 of the last 22 meetings against MAC teams.
connerito Wrote:How stupid is this. They drop the local MAC team (probably because how bad would it look for a loss to them) to pick up another MAC team and they blame it on MAC Big Ten scheduling problems. Ridiculous.
I can't say that I find it ridiculous at all. The conference members, as a whole, have made a mess of their OOC schedules. And the league office has had to try to patch things the best they can.
Bowling Green was going to need a 4th non-conference game after bailing on Boise St. again. So they office made a deal.
Besides, it looks like WMU got a home game out of the deal vs. a Big Ten team. WMU is bringing in Indiana instead of playing at Michigan St.
http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/m-foot...sched.html
mattsarz Wrote:Bowling Green was going to need a 4th non-conference game after bailing on Boise St. again. So they office made a deal.
While that is what many have been thinking, that is still not official. And Boise St. announced a tentative out-of-conference schedule earlier this week and they are still listing a trip to Bowling Green on 9/29. So we will have to wait and see. As it stands now, BG is playing at Minnesota, at Michigan St, at Boston College and hosting Boise St for their four ooc games.
http://www.broncosports.com/ViewArticle....LID=807561
Lets face facts Michigan State is as gutless a program as there is anywhere in the country. They need 3 non confrence wins to get some hype going into the ND game every year so they can steal the national spotlight if they have a good team or not. They know they won't win 5 confrence games so they have a razor thin margin to squeak into a bowl game. The last half decade they have missed out on that goal through complete ineptitude and now that they have a half way compotent coach they feel like they can hold serve with bad non confrence games that they have no chance of losing, and beat Northwestern and Indiana on a regular basis. If they go 6-6, or 7-5 year in and year out then they will satisfy their dull normal fan base who feel like 1965 was last season, and that they are a nationaly elite program despite decades of evidence to the contrary.
I'm not saying that WMU is so much better than BG. I'm only saying that this season WMU had a more legitimate chance to beat MSU than BGSU does and that the cowards who run that abortion of an athletic department in East Lansing made this decision because of that fact. They were provided cover by their confrence, and able to reschedule when they feel like they will have more control over the outcome. I hope they never win another football game ever again.
mattsarz Wrote:connerito Wrote:How stupid is this. They drop the local MAC team (probably because how bad would it look for a loss to them) to pick up another MAC team and they blame it on MAC Big Ten scheduling problems. Ridiculous.
I can't say that I find it ridiculous at all. The conference members, as a whole, have made a mess of their OOC schedules. And the league office has had to try to patch things the best they can.
Bowling Green was going to need a 4th non-conference game after bailing on Boise St. again. So they office made a deal.
Besides, it looks like WMU got a home game out of the deal vs. a Big Ten team. WMU is bringing in Indiana instead of playing at Michigan St.
http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/m-foot...sched.html
That IU home game has been on the slate for a while. WMU has paid a few visits to Bloomington and is getting paid back.
I believe the general has got it right.
Liam9903 Wrote:I'm not saying that WMU is so much better than BG. I'm only saying that this season WMU had a more legitimate chance to beat MSU than BGSU does and that the cowards who run that abortion of an athletic department in East Lansing made this decision because of that fact. They were provided cover by their confrence, and able to reschedule when they feel like they will have more control over the outcome. I hope they never win another football game ever again.
Most MAC teams would have a good chance at beating Michigan State. It will be interesting to see how they will make due without Drew Stanton.
BG Warthog Wrote:mattsarz Wrote:Bowling Green was going to need a 4th non-conference game after bailing on Boise St. again. So they office made a deal.
While that is what many have been thinking, that is still not official. And Boise St. announced a tentative out-of-conference schedule earlier this week and they are still listing a trip to Bowling Green on 9/29. So we will have to wait and see. As it stands now, BG is playing at Minnesota, at Michigan St, at Boston College and hosting Boise St for their four ooc games.
http://www.broncosports.com/ViewArticle....LID=807561
Actually, I forgot that they could do 13 games because they have an away game vs. Hawai'i. But I also believe that they made the series with Southern Miss under the pretense that the BG game was going to be cancelled. I've read at a couple different places that BG or the MAC forwarded Boise St. a list of teams needing a OOC game because the MAC wasn't going to fill the game.
The MAC owes Boise St. a team to play in Boise in exchange for Boise not playing in BG last year. Short story is the MAC needed BG available for a league game the date they were scheduled to play Boise. The MAC office facilitated having the Utah-Ohio matchup and the BG-Boise matchup changed to Utah-Boise and Ohio and BG both playing MAC games. To entice Boise to agree to this, the MAC promised to send another MAC to Boise for a 2007 game. That appears even less likely to happen then the Boise at BG game.
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lol, the writer was STRONGLY encouraging MSU not to go the FCS category. hahahaha
If only they could find a way to duck the rest of the big ten they might actually have a decent football program
thegeneral Wrote:lol, the writer was STRONGLY encouraging MSU not to go the FCS category. hahahaha
Hondo is the most self serving reporter that I have ever come across. Anytime that he quotes someone, he says that they say his name first, e.g. 'Hondo, I think that you are right'.
It's like reverse name dropping. This guy has almost no credibility.
Here's is what went down according to two seperate sources in Lansing:
Chryst is looking to spread out the 'big-money' games for MAC teams. He approached MSU and asked them if they would be willing to swap WMU for BG. In return, MSU will play WMU in either 09 or 2010. MSU agreed to the deal as long as they get WMU in either of those years. Apparently, WMU had little say in the whole process.
2009 could be interesting with the possible situation of playing UM and MSU in the same season.
Still, in-state MAC vs. Big Ten matchups are more interesting to the participants and their fans than interstate ones. It's too bad that, for whatever reason, this particular matchup was nixed. I was looking forward to this game. Bah.
I find it very hard to believe that we allow the Confrence to make final choices in our scheduling without consulting member institutions. That sounds like some BS used to satisfy sparty fans that they are elite and taking on all comers. I don't buy it. Scheduling phiosophy can't be applied uniformly through the confrence office. The schools themselves have to have a say. WMU is a seperate entity from the MAC they should have a say in who we play 8 times a year anymore than that would be overstepping their role as a confrence. If that is true which it probably isn't since Michigan State has every reason in the world to get out of this game.
The MAC has had to take more control over the scheduling because several individual schools have had fiascos the past few seasons. Like scheduling two opponents on the same day or dropping a team from the schedule without bothering to notify them.
I cannot believe that an athletic department would do that.