RE: Any chance we ever move to a better conference?
Dogpick – the following is a compilation taken directly from your posts with answers in bold.
-- If I am going to get off my buttocks to attend a college football game more than once a year it just won't be against a school that I could not locate on a map. I guess I was just saying--hey, could we ever get into a conference to play schools that appeal to most other non-hardcore fans?
No, because you have no understanding of what it takes beyond "your" desire to be in any other conference. Do you move just for football, what happens to travel costs, other sports, etc.? "Hard-core fans by your definition – better known in the real world as Herbstreits – are only enamroed by Top 25 BCS match-ups -- although you obviously don't care about those teams when they play schools you're not impressed by (as in Florida vs. Bowling Green, Alabama vs. Florida Atlantic, LSU vs. Idaho, Oregon vs. Arkansas State, Texas vs. Wyoming, Kansas State vs. North Texas.)
-- I'm not really concerned with the investment or cost. I just want more exciting opponents. I guess I am selfish, but I want more excitement. The Orange Bowl was fun. 2003 was fun. (Sorry us die-hards on this board define Huskie games and victories as fun.)
-- Well, I doubt I will spend much time here after today. (Clearly that wouldn't bother some us simpleton die-hards.) Seems most aren't real excited about seeing NIU play against better teams and just want to make excuses why we can't instead of thinking about how we can. Again, I wasn't suggesting USC or Ohio State or Alabama. I was just hoping for some exciting opponents that make me get off my rear end and go to the game. I don't mind missing a MAC opponent. I can catch the score on my cell phone and smile if NIU won. I guess I am a September fan and a bowl game fan. (Once again, see previous reference to Herbstreits.)
-- I bet I go to maybe one Huskie home game next year at the most because I just don't care about beating Ball State or Toledo or UW-Whitewater or whoever we have on the home schedule. (For the record, NIU has not played UW-W since 1965.)
-- I would definitely get season tickets and head to DeKalb for every game if the competition was better. I'm not sure why this gets some of you so upset. Why wouldn't you want more out of life? For goodness sake it is just a question. If the answer is no then fine.
(The answer was no, but you keep wanting everyone to simply agree with you when we know it's not as simple as scheduling every home game gainst some school that would excite you. Why in heaven Tulane coming to DeKalb would excite you is impossible to understand. If you honestly think Tulane is better than the top MAC teams, your level of football knowledge is a LOL.)
-- Why don't you want all the games to be against exciting opponents except maybe one scrub warm up per year against a team like Eastern Michigan? (Because it's not feasible or possible in the real world.)
-- Screw the BCS. If you can get the Canes in DeKalb I would have no problem paying at least $400 for four seats to that game. Heck, I would probably go $600 or more. (Are you a donor at any level at any school? Because it takes donors and die-hard fans to eleveate a program and sustain it; anyone else is just a band-wagon jumper. Note the massive drop in attendance at Illini games.)
-- Please schedule exciting teams so that me and a whole bunch of others will want to rock that stadium. (Some of us die-hards don't care if you and others like you get your rocks off somewhere else, I would rather sit next to real Huskie fans even for UT-Martin.)
-- The reason is because people like me just prefer more exciting teams that are more well known nationally and just don't care about Toledo or any other MAC school.
You seem to believe NIU can just call up anyone and schedule them. You clearly do no understand that those BCS schools you're so excited to see are either possibly afraid to face the Huskies in DeKalb or they just don't schedule home-and-away. Hell, some of them won't even schedule 3-for-1; sometimes they prefer to buy one or two 'home wins' to complete their out-of-conference schedules.
Post after post sounds the same…If I am going to get off my buttocks…I just want more exciting opponents…I am selfish…I was just hoping for more exciting opponents that make me get off my rear. Aside from the me, me, me, one of the best answers came from Armour248 who summed it up “Unfortunately (you have) a lot to learn regarding conference alignment/scheduling and the financial impact of those decisions.”
While you didn’t like (really read) the replies, some of the knowledgeable and reasonable folks on this board (again, us simpleton die-hards), are offended by your lack of knowledge and reality. Why so many people, myself included, had to reply to you was because your naïveté and selfishness became infuriating.
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