USD and scheduling

[JayJ79]

has the MVFC finalized/released any info as far as how they'll do the conference scheduling once USD joins as a 10th team?

I read somewhere that they would stick with an 8-game conference slate, with rotation as far as which team wasn't played each year. But it was also mentioned that "rivalries would be protected".

So I'm just curious if they had figured out any of the specifics yet.

[achrist70]

Re: USD and scheduling

The problem with us is that just about everyone in the conference I would consider a rival.

[Newsbreaker]

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The problem with us is that just about everyone in the conference I would consider a rival.

And just about everyone would consider us a rival as well.

[BCPanther]

Re: USD and scheduling

Simply playing someone every year doesn't make them a rival.

Newsy's statement is much more accurate...

[JayJ79]

Re: USD and scheduling

of late, I would deem that SIU would be who I consider to be UNI's most heated football rivalry. but who knows what the league office will say.

[panther-state]

Re: USD and scheduling

If the league doesn't consider that the biggest rivalry then I'd like to know what they're smoking. I could care less about 10, 20 or 50 years ago, the past couple of seasons SIU-UNI has been huge. The Dakotas can bicker about whose $#!+ smells worse but even with SIU having a "down" year I thought they came out wanting to pop us in the mouth and I'd say they accomplished that. This year should be another great matchup. And the next year, and the next year, and the next year....

[JayJ79]

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If the league doesn't consider that the biggest rivalry then I'd like to know what they're smoking. I could care less about 10, 20 or 50 years ago, the past couple of seasons SIU-UNI has been huge. The Dakotas can bicker about whose $#!+ smells worse but even with SIU having a "down" year I thought they came out wanting to pop us in the mouth and I'd say they accomplished that. This year should be another great matchup. And the next year, and the next year, and the next year....

UNI/SIU HAS been quite the matchup for the past decade or so.
but that doesn't mean that the league will "protect" it, if it complicates things too much to do so.

The fact that evidently SIU has some sort of arrangement with the league that promises them that they won't have to travel to the Dakotas (USD, SDSDU, NDSU) more than once in any given season could mean that they're put in the opposite "division" from UNI, if that is how they do things.

[achrist70]

Re: USD and scheduling

My Order of Rivalry

SIU
NDSU
SDSU
Youngstown
Illinois State
Missouri State
Western Illinois
South Dakota
Indiana State

For me the first two are easy, after that I really wouldn't argue with anyone, I do think that Indiana State belongs in the final spot though.

[Hail Our Panthers]

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How about we wait for NDSU to beat us at least one time before we call them our second biggest rival. I mean, yeah, their fans come here and talk a big game but don't they have to beat us at least once?

[achrist70]

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How about we wait for NDSU to beat us at least one time before we call them our second biggest rival. I mean, yeah, their fans come here and talk a big game but don't they have to beat us at least once?

True, but there is a lot of history there.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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I posted this back in November.

http://www.panthernation.com/showpost.php?p=247769&postcount=67

It's a breakdown that I see as being pretty much the only way they can split the divisions and still keep SIU/InSU from going to the Dakotas but once per year (which is supposedly the deal).

Warning: it's in depth and wouldn't pass Twitter qualifications.

[BCPanther]

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NDSU is, at best, 5th after SIU, MSU, YSU, and WIU.

C' mon, they have only been in the league for three years...

['70 Grad]

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Remember when "Bear Week" signalled a big rivalry?

Now pretty much fallen off the map, even with our old coach at the helm!

[Newsbreaker]

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I don't know about divisions, but they absolutely need to "protect" UNI/SIU. Not only because of the rivalry but because that game determines the league title more often than not.

[JayJ79]

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I posted this back in November.

http://www.panthernation.com/showpost.php?p=247769&postcount=67

It's a breakdown that I see as being pretty much the only way they can split the divisions and still keep SIU/InSU from going to the Dakotas but once per year (which is supposedly the deal).

Warning: it's in depth and wouldn't pass Twitter qualifications.

one YSU fan thinks that youngstown has the same arrangement as SIU/InSU