20 games, all doubleheaders again. Everyone gets a travel partners, including App State who gets paired with BYE. So as of right now, half of App State's Saturday opponents will go into that game having not played that week.

Wednesday December 30, 2015
Appalachian State at UL Monroe
UALR at South Alabama
Arkansas State at Troy
Georgia Southern at Texas State
Georgia State at UT Arlington

Saturday January 2, 2016
Appalachian State at UL Lafayette
UALR at Troy
Arkansas State at South Alabama
Georgia Southern at UT Arlington
Georgia State at Texas State

Thursday January 7, 2016
UL Lafayette at UALR
UL Monroe at Arkansas State
South Alabama at Georgia Southern
UT Arlington at Appalachian State
Troy at Georgia State

Saturday January 9, 2016
UL Lafayette at Arkansas State
UL Monroe at UALR
South Alabama at Georgia State
Texas State at Appalachian State
Troy at Georgia Southern

Thursday January 14, 2016
Appalachian State at Arkansas State
UL Lafayette at Georgia Southern
UL Monroe at Georgia State
UT Arlington at Troy
Texas State at South Alabama

Saturday January 16, 2016
Appalachian State at UALR
UL Lafayette at Georgia State
UL Monroe at Georgia Southern
UT Arlington at South Alabama
Texas State at Troy

Thursday January 21, 2016
UALR at Texas State
Arkansas State at UT Arlington
Georgia State at Appalachian State
South Alabama at UL Lafayette
Troy at UL Monroe

Saturday January 23, 2016
UALR at UT Arlington
Arkansas State at Texas State
Georgia Southern at Appalachian State
South Alabama at UL Monroe
Troy at UL Lafayette

Thursday January 28, 2016
Appalachian State at Troy
Georgia Southern at UALR
Georgia State at Arkansas State
UT Arlington at UL Monroe
Texas State at UL Lafayette

Saturday January 30, 2016
Appalachian State at South Alabama
Georgia Southern at Arkansas State
Georgia State at UALR
UT Arlington at UL Lafayette
Texas State at UL Monroe

Tuesday, February 2, 2016
UL Monroe at UL Lafayette

Thursday, February 4, 2016
UL Lafayette at Appalachian State
South Alabama at Arkansas State
UT Arlington at Georgia Southern
Texas State at Georgia State
Troy at UALR

Saturday, February 6, 2016
UL Monroe at Appalachian State
South Alabama at UALR
UT Arlington at Georgia State
Texas State at Georgia Southern
Troy at Arkansas State

Tuesday, February 9, 2016
UT Arlington at Texas State

Thursday, February 11, 2016
Appalachian State at Texas State
UALR at UL Monroe
Arkansas State at UL Lafayette
Georgia Southern at Troy
Georgia State at South Alabama

Saturday, February 13, 2016
Appalachian State at UT Arlington
UALR at UL Lafayette
Arkansas State at UL Monroe
Georgia Southern at South Alabama
Georgia State at Troy

Tuesday, February 16, 2016
UL Monroe at UL Lafayette

Thursday, February 18, 2016
UALR at Georgia State
Arkansas State at Georgia Southern
UL Lafayette at UT Arlington
UL Monroe at Texas State
South Alabama at Appalachian State

Saturday, February 20, 2016
UALR at Georgia Southern
Arkansas State at Georgia State
UL Lafayette at Texas State
UL Monroe at UT Arlington
Troy at Appalachian State

Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Georgia State at Georgia Southern

Thursday, February 25, 2016
Appalachian State at Georgia Southern
UL Lafayette at Troy
UL Monroe at South Alabama
UT Arlington at UALR
Texas State at Arkansas State

Saturday, February 27, 2016
Appalachian State at Georgia State
UL Lafayette at South Alabama
UL Monroe at Troy
UT Arlington at Arkansas State
Texas State at UALR

Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Arkansas State at UALR

Thursday, March 3, 2016
UALR at Appalachian State
Georgia Southern at UL Monroe
Georgia State at UL Lafayette
South Alabama at UT Arlington
Troy at Texas State

Saturday, March 5, 2016
Arkansas State at Appalachian State
Georgia Southern at UL Lafayette
Georgia State at UL Monroe
South Alabama at Texas State
Troy at UT Arlington

GAMES YET TO BE SCHEDULED:
UALR at Arkansas State
Georgia Southern at Georgia State
UL Lafayette at UL Monroe
South Alabama at Troy
Texas State at UT Arlington

Maybe they figured that no "off" dates would be balanced by not having to play any Tuesday games?

EDIT: In the absence of a travel partner for App, this actually looks like a pretty ideal schedule. It probably would have been better to give App a mid-season off week, though.

What peeves me the most is that right now, all of App's Saturday opponents will have either only played on Tuesday or not at all that week while we have a Thursday night game every week.

(04-13-2015 12:37 PM)T-Dog Wrote:  What peeves me the most is that right now, all of App's Saturday opponents will have either only played on Tuesday or not at all that week while we have a Thursday night game every week.

Gotcha...didn't even notice that. I wonder if that was a wrinkle that was too difficult to iron out while keeping the "weekend in another state" road trips. It seems like something could be done differently, but it's frying my brain trying to work it out right now.

It can be done. This reeks of no one agreeing with it so the office takes advantage of our AD transition to **** us over.

And I don't want to hear any **** from the west about New Mexico State.

I agree it puts App at something of a disadvantage. We need to do 1 of 2 things. Either get a 12th eastern team, even if it is Liberty or reduce the 20 game conf schedule to 16. If the conference schedule is reduced to 16 all teams should go to con tournament though--- top 5 get byes 6 plays 11, 7'plays 10 and 8 plays 9. Then you are down to 8 teams and the format can be what it was this year.

I agree that it does give a possible advantage with teams coming to Boone on Saturday having not played on Thursday. However, the schedule is better from a travel standpoint. There won't be any situations where teams get to Boone before we do. All away games are back to back in the same state.

It is better than last year

I thought the coaches hated the men's and women's double-headers and schedule and fussed about it... So why was it agreed upon again?

(04-13-2015 12:41 PM)T-Dog Wrote:  It can be done. This reeks of no one agreeing with it so the office takes advantage of our AD transition to **** us over.

And I don't want to hear any **** from the west about New Mexico State.

There IS a solution close by in Lynchburg...

Apparently there are only 2-3 schools who are against double headers.

(04-13-2015 01:04 PM)SkullyMaroo Wrote:  I thought the coaches hated the men's and women's double-headers and schedule and fussed about it... So why was it agreed upon again?

It would mean one trip to Boone for you guys instead of two and vice versa. I suppose that could factor into it.

(04-13-2015 12:41 PM)T-Dog Wrote:  It can be done. This reeks of no one agreeing with it so the office takes advantage of our AD transition to **** us over.

And I don't want to hear any **** from the west about New Mexico State.

NMSU ALL SPORTS!

Sorry, couldn't resist .... .. .

On a serious note, I've no problem adding JMU ...
Drop Idaho, then add Mo. St.

Probably the 2 best programs left to add .. ..

(04-13-2015 12:41 PM)T-Dog Wrote:  It can be done. This reeks of no one agreeing with it so the office takes advantage of our AD transition to **** us over.

And I don't want to hear any **** from the west about New Mexico State.

Liberty

The best possible solution here is to insert the games against the traditional rivals on the Tuesday before team's play App State.

Or how bout "hey, we can't make this schedule perfect, let's make of it what we can?" rather than go from one extreme to the other. Have everyone have a "take one for the team" week or two, rather than go in no lube on one member.

It'll have to be completely redone when we join on July 1st anyway.

(04-13-2015 01:51 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  It'll have to be completely redone when we join on July 1st anyway.

(04-13-2015 01:51 PM)BeliefBlazer Wrote:  It'll have to be completely redone when we join on July 1st anyway.

That's not what your administration has told the Missouri Valley Conference. Sounds like UAB want's no part of the SBC.

We can hope. To me UAB entering to give us 12 in Olympic sports and Idaho leaving to give us 10 in football would bea good outcome.