Future Schedules

[06panther10]

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This has potential to be an all time bad weekend in the dome, with the combination of poor attendance, a ton of bison fans, and potentially bad UNI team...

[Newsbreaker]

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Is there any reason that UNI can't move this game back to a night kickoff?

[Panthers to the Bone]

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Could probably get the game on KWWL if they moved it back to 6:30PM. Any Notre Dame football game would be over by then (UND hosts Michigan at 2:30PM).

I agree with what has been said. This is poor scheduling. We know that the Iowa/ISU game is the same weekend every year. With 2 BCS games seeming like a staple in future seasons, it makes sense that UNI should be playing one of those games the 2nd weekend of September every year. The gate just isn't very good when UNI is going up against Iowa/ISU game(s).

[06panther10]

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We need to at least try to move this to a different day, or move it to a 6 or 7 PM kick at the very least.

With Iowa being a likely top 10 team and ISU coming off of a bowl win, that will be a huge game.

What a ridiculous schedule we have...

[Newsbreaker]

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We need to at least try to move this to a different day, or move it to a 6 or 7 PM kick at the very least.

With Iowa being a likely top 10 team and ISU coming off of a bowl win, that will be a huge game.

What a ridiculous schedule we have...

I have at least some faith they will see the light on this one. I know they don't like the night kicks because of past attendance, but we're up against the one true juggernaut on the State of Iowa sports calendar, and this time it's a HUGE game for UNI.

[06panther10]

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Thats just the thing. It would be one thing if we were playing St Francis or something, but we are playing a tough league opponent that will bring a ton of fans. This is an important game, in which we need the strong home field advantage of the dome with a lot of loud UNI fans.

Not to mention, it is our first game of the year, after having our off week during week 1....stupid. This is about as bad of a scenario as we could have.

[JayJ79]

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Jeg is right, its absolutely no secret what date this game is going to be played, why do we continue to schedule home games on those dates??

And people claim that we aren't Iowa's "little brother"?

[JayJ79]

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This has potential to be an all time bad weekend in the dome, with the combination of poor attendance, a ton of bison fans, and potentially bad UNI team...

I dunno. I'd have to give the "all-time bad weekend in the dome" designation to the one in 2006 where we lost to a frickin D2 UND squad

[Anne Frank]

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And people claim that we aren't Iowa's "little brother"?

I'm not sure, but I don't think we have much control over the schedule of league games.

[Anne Frank]

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And people claim that we aren't Iowa's "little brother"?

I'm not certain, but I don't think we have total control over when our league games are scheduled.

[JayJ79]

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I'm not certain, but I don't think we have total control over when our league games are scheduled.

From the MVFC Football Procedures (2009, as the 2010 procedures aren't up yet):

4.3 Schedule.

• 4.3.1 Round-Robin. The conference will conduct a round-robin schedule each season.
• 4.3.2 Scheduling Principles. The conference schedule will incorporate the following scheduling principles:
  • a. The first three weeks of the season will be open to schedule non-conference opponents.
  • b. Conference games will be scheduled the following nine consecutive Saturdays with a bye week for each team within the conference schedule.
• 4.3.3 Schedule Changes. Teams have the flexibility to make changes by mutual agreement and with written notification to the conference office. If mutual agreement cannot be reached by the two teams involved, the conference schedule will prevail.

The league is not going to mandate that a conference game has to be played in week 2, nor that a team has it's bye week in week 1.

My guess is that on the original conference schedule, UNI/NDSU was slated for Sept. 25th (the first week of "regular" conference play), but UNI proposed changing it, perhaps to accomodate the Iowa State game.

[Panther-Sheik]

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I really like the idea of moving the kick off back a few hours, but I also don't think we are enlightening Farley or the A.D. with the fact that this is a terrible schedule this year. In other words, I don't think they intended going in for the off week to be Week 1, or to have the league put the first game on the same weekend as IA vs. ISU. I heard that they working to rearrange things up until a couple months ago but i guess it didn't work. Looks to me like we got bit with the return trip to USD and then just probably have a hard time finding teams that will schedule us without compensation (either $$ or return trips).

[achrist70]

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Here's what I know:

The schedule sucks this year

We need to find a way to win the NDSU game whether there are 17 or 17,000 people in the dome.

[jegbomb52]

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Hmm... the USD trip bit us? Ya, no shat. Nothing says power like traveling to a DII transition school. We need to start scheduling like one of the elites, rather than Indiana State.

[06panther10]

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Here is the problem, the schedule sucks EVERY year.

Are we not one of the FCS power teams? Are we not a top 5-10 program in the last 30 years?

Then why the hell can't we have a little more leverage and power over our schedule? There are plently of great FCS programs that have 6-7 home games every season, and never have these ridiculous problems with their schedules. Why are we going to USD? We should just tell them to screw off and come play us in CF again this year like every other FCS power would do.

In '07 we didn't play a home game for like 6 consecutive weeks. In '08 we didn't get our final game against nicholls until the summer and had to play them on a Wednesday night after a tough game a few days before. This year we only have 5 home games with an off week in week friggin 1, and play one of our toughest home games the same exact time as the cy-hawk game.