Official 2008 Football Schedule

[andy1]

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Having taken the train out west before, plan to arrive in Provo a day early. We arrived at our destination 6 hours late and left Iowa 3 hours late. The worst thing in the world would be if you were stuck on the train in the middle of nowhere when the game was starting. There are times when you sit in the train for an hour not moving. It must have been waiting for another train to pass or something, but I was not impressed with Amtrak at all.

[dustin86]

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Can you like drink on the train or not?????

[Big Cats]

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You can bring your own liquor/beer on board ONLY if you have sleeper accomodations reserved. If you are in coach you cannot. Amtrak expects coach passengers to purchase their drinks from the club car.

[06panther10]

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Schedule watch, day 100....

[UNI MadCat]

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(In the Notes section of the Grace article MT linked in another thread)

QUEST FOR 12TH GAME: Farley said there's still hope for the Panthers securing a 12th regular-season game this year. The date in question is Sept. 13. "The odds are against it, but we do have one that's a real possibility as of (Saturday)," Farley said.

Doesn't that seem like an oxymoron?

Anyone know who this "real possibility" is that the odds are against us bringing in?

[06panther10]

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Maybe we begged Drake again for the oppotunity to beat them down another year...

[TravelingPanther]

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wish we could get this done.

[UNI MadCat]

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wish we could get this done.

Agreed. At this point, I think any game is better than no game. We don't know how the comittee will handle the 12 games this year and I would hate to see us go 7-4 and be picked over in favor of an 8-4 team just b/c they had another win (maybe even against a non-schollie).

Heck, bring in Davidson... its a non-schollie school yes, but we can play off their national hype for b-ball and they'll probably pay to send 500 students to the game.

[UNI MadCat]

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Agreed. And to that end, there are a lot of non-schollie schools out there that have a name-recognition element associated with them. Yes, to us on this board we would know the level of competition we are bringing in, but to the majority of the 10,000-16,000 fans an extra weekend of football in the dome would bring in, a game vs these teams is no different in their eyes than a Cal-Poly, Stephen F Austin, etc. And even if the name recognition comes from b-ball… there are still recognizable names out there.

I find it hard to believe that all of these schools have their schedules completed (or that we couldn’t offer a similar buyout like we did with Drake last year; ~$7,500). I understand travel is difficult for a lot of these but couldn’t we offer a $40,000 guarantee for a game and still make a profit?

Some names…

• Davidson
• Butler
• Dayton
• San Diego
• Valpo
• Georgetown
• Bucknell

[Panther AC]

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(In the Notes section of the Grace article MT linked in another thread)

QUEST FOR 12TH GAME: Farley said there's still hope for the Panthers securing a 12th regular-season game this year. The date in question is Sept. 13. "The odds are against it, but we do have one that's a real possibility as of (Saturday)," Farley said.

Doesn't that seem like an oxymoron?

Anyone know who this "real possibility" is that the odds are against us bringing in?

Nicholls State

[UNI MadCat]

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Nicholls State

That's not too shabby if proved true and it works out. Basically a .500-type team thats full-fledged schollie FCS. That's a good tune-up.

(Especially if we can avoid a return trip down to LA during an 11-game year!!)

[TravelingPanther]

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Nicholls State

With travel and knowing we need the date, they're probably asking a boatload of cash.

[Panther AC]

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They're asking for more like two boat loads!

[TravelingPanther]

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They're asking for more like two boat loads!

that's too bad. would be nice to see some southland opponents again.

[UNI MadCat]

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Not trying to ask you to give up insider info but what is "two boatloads"? Does that mean a lot of money or perhaps money AND a return trip? Both?

(ps - what does an FCS school typically give a visiting FCS school as a guarantee these days?)