(07-29-2015 11:33 PM)Ken Barna Wrote: Dear vannzee,
After Central and Western play their wonderful games against Oklahoma State and Michigan State, they have no one of importance for years after that. Your original point was about Central and Western just beating the crap out of Eastern in scheduling. Now you have switched to the entire MAC for scheduling. Which is it?
How's that school in Ann Arbor doing for scheduling powerhouse non-league games? Not so hot.
I don't care whether you show up for any of Eastern's home games, because you will most likely be in Ann Arbor anyway. We on this board can accept criticism and the truth, but the season has not even started and all of a sudden you blast Eastern with your Bob Wickersham logic. Maybe you should wait to see how this season unfolds. Then we can see what there is to talk about.
Michigan is a different standard. If Michigan scheduled the likes of Army, Old Dominion and Wyoming the locals would revolt, there's a huge difference between Michigan's scheduling needs and that of a MAC school.
Yes I mentioned the entire MAC as an example in my post, because last I checked the schools in question (EMU, WMU and CMU) all play in the Mid American Conference.
You can say that Central and Western have no one of importance coming in to their house for the time frame mentioned but neither does Eastern. By virtue of this year alone (and CMU's past home game vs Syracuse and pending home game vs Kansas), the quality of a non conference home game in Kalamazoo and Mount Pleasant is higher than that of the games being scheduled in Ypsilanti, I don't see how this is even being debated.
Are you telling me you rather go out to Rynearson to see EMU play Morgan State than a Oklahoma State? In one case they might win in front of 3 thousand fans but even if they lose in front of 20 thousand fans, at least you had 20 thousand fans there.
EMU's scheduling hurt the team in 2011 when they went 6-6. They beat two FCS schools (Howard and Alabama State in weeks 1 and 2). The NCAA only recognizes one win against FCS schools as counting towards bowl eligibility. Had they played one more FBS program, they may have finished bowl eligible.
Also, if we are only allowed to discuss football in season on this board, then that would lead to a boring December-July. Boards are for sharing opinion, which we have both done and for debating, which we are engaging in. Also, was not my intent to hijack this into a scheduling conversation.
Cheers!