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http://www.emueagles.com/schedules.asp?path=football

Is it good enough???? From a revenue standpoint its great. But if we're talking wins and losses it might be brutal. I'd be willing to trade the Vandy game for a lower profile D1A game at home (Florida International or someone like that). Even the MAC schedule is tough with games @CMU, OU, NIU, and UT. 7 MAC games and, of course, EMU plays only 3 at home. Thanks MAC office.

I will say that every home game is winnable, including NW. I expect the defense to be progressively improved. The offense has a lot of question marks. We need Andy healthy.

P.S. Welcome to the forum Superfan.

I checked the EMU schedule against the UM schedule. UM plays at home on the same day as EMU three times including both of the September dates. Not surprising since UM plays EIGHT friggin home games! (I wish the NCAA would regulate this but they are only interested in $$$). Once again UM can win all their games early, say "look how great we are" then get their butts kicked when they go on the road. I think the NCAA should mandate that BCS schools play at least one road game at a non-BCS school every two years. Level the field.

Anyway, its important that EMU starts the home games at night - especially on those September dates.

I wouldn't expect a lot of Ws out of this schedule but the Eagle gridders are going to play a lot of quality teams this season. If the old adage about getting better by playing better teams holds true, this team will be much improved by the end of the season. The Howard game is interesting. It might be the best attended home game after the Northwestern game at Ford Field. I'm not a big fan of scheduling FCS schools, but that looks like a good pickup.

TheWoodenNickle Wrote:I checked the EMU schedule against the UM schedule. UM plays at home on the same day as EMU three times including both of the September dates. Not surprising since UM plays EIGHT friggin home games! (I wish the NCAA would regulate this but they are only interested in $$$). Once again UM can win all their games early, say "look how great we are" then get their butts kicked when they go on the road. I think the NCAA should mandate that BCS schools play at least one road game at a non-BCS school every two years. Level the field.

Anyway, its important that EMU starts the home games at night - especially on those September dates.

Just thinking about the potential traffic messes during those conflict days...they should regulate that!!!!

Ball State and Howard look like they should be W's. After that it is tough to find 4 more wins on that schedule. Vandy is beatable, WMU at home is a toss up just because of the nature of these games. N'Western at Ford Field has a chance to be a very good game. Bowling Green, @Ohio, and @ Central will determine the season. If you get 3 wins there then you have an upper division squad with momentum going into the next year. It looks like a 5-7 schedule to me right now though w/ wins over Ball State, Howard, Vanderbilt, Bowling Green, and Ohio.