2016 Schedule Released

[vbfan19]

Re: 2016 Schedule Released

No...the board of regents do....meaning...we have to ask them for $ so we basically have to play on the road early to get big checks. If they were more understanding then we could play a normal schedule.

statistically, a "normal schedule" for a FCS team (or a G5 team for that matter) contains a guarantee game (i.e. "playing on the road early to get a big check")

[Mudrafan]

Re: 2016 Schedule Released

statistically, a "normal schedule" for a FCS team (or a G5 team for that matter) contains a guarantee game (i.e. "playing on the road early to get a big check")

Agreed, but that isn't the point. The point is that we often have to play two in order to make things work. Also, our success keeps us from getting home/aways consistently against "winnable" FCS teams.

[vbfan19]

Re: 2016 Schedule Released

Agreed, but that isn't the point. The point is that we often have to play two in order to make things work. Also, our success keeps us from getting home/aways consistently against "winnable" FCS teams.

Often? I can only think of it happening two years. (Iowa and Hawaii in 2014, and Iowa and Wisconsin in 2012)

And any FCS game is "winnable" for UNI.

[claw]

Re: 2016 Schedule Released

A few things.

1) For some reason we refuse to buy wins and will always play two of our OOC games on the road. The gate from the buy game would easily cover the expense of the guarantee.

2) The league has a hard on for everybody playing 8 consecutive weeks so we're forced into a bye week in September each year when we've got nice weather and would draw good crowds.

3) The Dome is not available for the second to last week every year, so they aren't going to make us play the last two weeks on the road and we have to finish away-home every year.

4) I believe we're punished for playing indoors, as is NDSU, because the league knows they can play here without any weather issues in late October and November.

5) The league is on a two year schedule rotation and, for the life of me, I can't figure out why year one and year two are so drastically different. I get if a game or two is shifted, but they're radically different from year one to year two.

6) Has to be a first that we played our last league game at home against SIU last year and we'll turn around and play them for our first league home game next year. Why they didn't give us back to back trips to SDSU or NDSU to try to balance the schedule going forward is beyond me. Oh wait, its not, heaven forbid the eastern schools have to get on a plane and head west an extra time.

I saw you involved in this conversation on twitter, but I saw this posted on twitter and thought it was worth sharing here for the sake of discussion.

https://twitter.com/cdlenz/status/687758931024678912

[pantherclaw]

Re: 2016 Schedule Released

I saw you involved in this conversation on twitter, but I saw this posted on twitter and thought it was worth sharing here for the sake of discussion.

https://twitter.com/cdlenz/status/687758931024678912

THAT is pretty damning and whoever is the new AD's first stop in STL should be the commish's office with this spreadsheet and ask why the bias.

[ronfitch]

Re: 2016 Schedule Released

I saw you involved in this conversation on twitter, but I saw this posted on twitter and thought it was worth sharing here for the sake of discussion.

https://twitter.com/cdlenz/status/687758931024678912

Good info. Miss clenz on this board.

[95UNIGRAD]

Re: 2016 Schedule Released

I saw you involved in this conversation on twitter, but I saw this posted on twitter and thought it was worth sharing here for the sake of discussion.

https://twitter.com/cdlenz/status/687758931024678912

Wow. Had no idea it was that bad. Why the disparity between NDSU and UNI? Would love to hear the explanation for this.

We don't make it any better by having so many road games before conference, but if the conference schedule was fair, having those non-con road games wouldn't put us through the ringer so badly at the beginning of every season.

[vbfan19]

Re: 2016 Schedule Released

if the start of the conference season was home-heavy for UNI, then I'm sure people would be complaining about having to play alot of road games "down the stretch" in the late season.

[claw]

if the start of the conference season was home-heavy for UNI, then I'm sure people would be complaining about having to play alot of road games "down the stretch" in the late season.

A little balance would be nice

[06panther10]

if the start of the conference season was home-heavy for UNI, then I'm sure people would be complaining about having to play alot of road games "down the stretch" in the late season.

If they did it for 10 consecutive years? Then yes, they would.

Nice job of whiffing the point of the discussion again.

[Mudrafan]

Re: 2016 Schedule Released

Often? I can only think of it happening two years. (Iowa and Hawaii in 2014, and Iowa and Wisconsin in 2012)

And any FCS game is "winnable" for UNI.

so...in other words...two out of the last four years. Also, again, we play top level FCS games as the lower levels won't play us.