Future Schedules

[9YRPLAN]

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iowa just released their schedules for 2013-2016 and we know UNI is on there in 2014. however, they play Missouri state, NDSU, and illinois state in the other years.

i find this very disappointing. i see little reason for iowa or ISU to ever play an FCS buy game that is not against UNI. does UNI ask too much for the game compared to those schools? is it simply for variety?

[clenz]

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Iowa....honestly BCS schools period....should never have to play FCS schools.


I don't know if UNI is asking too much, I'm sure they are paying NDSU and MSU more than UNI and ISUr

[9YRPLAN]

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i dont have a problem with it until the games stop selling out due to lack of interest. its a good opportunity for the FCS team and often an easier game for the BCS team.

[Silent Earl]

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Iowa knows if they play UNI too often UNI will eventually win a game. That would cause something akin to nuclear meltdown in hawkeyeland. They escaped by the skin of their teeth last time. They want to schedule UNI infrequently enough that no starter for UNI ever plays Iowa more than once in their college career.

Iowa State is willing to play UNI much more frequently because we've already beaten them several times. They don't like it much, but they get over it. They don't have the same delusions of grandeur in Ames that they do in Iowa City.

[Panther-Sheik]

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iowa just released their schedules for 2013-2016 and we know UNI is on there in 2014. however, they play Missouri state, NDSU, and illinois state in the other years.

i find this very disappointing. i see little reason for iowa or ISU to ever play an FCS buy game that is not against UNI. does UNI ask too much for the game compared to those schools? is it simply for variety?

Shouldn't Iowa and Iowa State also be "expected" to play UNI and Drake in basketball every year, then? For the record, I agree with you and think it would be good for UNI and the state to be the FCS buy game every year. Shoot, I'd like to see UNI on Iowa AND Iowa State's schedule on years where UNI can make it work.

[ubuntuCAT]

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Shouldn't Iowa and Iowa State also be "expected" to play UNI and Drake in basketball every year, then? For the record, I agree with you and think it would be good for UNI and the state to be the FCS buy game every year. Shoot, I'd like to see UNI on Iowa AND Iowa State's schedule on years where UNI can make it work.

I think what 9yr is getting at is in football UNI is a high quality team and puts more butts in the seats or draws more fan interest than any other FCS team. Plus they are in-state and IMO get a good deal on the guarantee.

[Codytwo]

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Considering that the Board of Regents gives Iowa and Iowa State more money than UNI, they should mandate some sort of sports agreement between the 3 state schools.

[panther-state]

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Considering that the Board of Regents gives Iowa and Iowa State more money than UNI, they should mandate some sort of sports agreement between the 3 state schools.

I don't know about any sort of sharing or athletic based deal. But overly adequate funding is not necessary at Iowa and ISU when they generate enough money both in and out of sports to cover their behinds while we are severely underfunded all around. I don't understand the logic behind that

[Codytwo]

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I know my thought is impossible, but I wish that there was some sort of mandated agreement that would minimally benefit UNI.

The Board of Regents is the only group that I know could possibly do this with the intent of forcing all three state-funded schools to support each other in the athletic arena.

[9YRPLAN]

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I don't know about any sort of sharing or athletic based deal. But overly adequate funding is not necessary at Iowa and ISU when they generate enough money both in and out of sports to cover their behinds while we are severely underfunded all around. I don't understand the logic behind that

You are confusing general fund support for athletics with subsidizing in state students tuition costs.

I havent decided my stance on the uni funding issues yet. People see the stats and think that uni is getting screwed, but i dont agree with that. If uni needs XXX million dollars to get the job done, why does it matter if the students come from iowa or out of state? If uni had demographics similar to iowa then the numbers wouldnt look so lopsided.

[casbern]

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If uni needs XXX million dollars to get the job done, why does it matter if the students come from iowa or out of state? If uni had demographics similar to iowa then the numbers wouldnt look so lopsided.

Regarding general fund support: I guess this is my issue. UNI will never have demographics similar to Iowa or Iowa State. UNI can't because UNI is not allowed to add duplicative majors/minors if Iowa State or University of Iowa has them.

A good example was the effort to bring a journalism major to UNI back in 2009, but was met by the BOR with distain because it was duplicative.

If UNI cannot expand it's repertoire, and is in fact, decreasing their offerings, how are they to attract a more wide variety of students like at ISU or U of I?

Because funding is based on FTE enrollment and ISU and Iowa are rewarded for bringing in out of state students because they can charge out of state tuition, UNI gets penalized for having a 92-95% Iowan population. The funding is not adequate and the demographics will never be the similar. If you are going to fund these three institutions, you need to fund them on an individual level based upon their merits, and not lump them together and fund them on FTE alone.

[9YRPLAN]

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that makes sense. its the funding decreases that are causing the issue. that should be addressed first.

[lakesbison]

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Barta at Iowa is from NDSU and he has refused to play NDSU for about 3 years now, he finally gave in ..................

I do agree with you guys, I always thought MINNESOTA should play NDSU every year and IOWA should play UNI every year.

[06panther10]

UNI @ Wisc, and UNI @ Iowa will both kick off at 2:30 and will air on the Big Ten Network per UNIPanthers.com today.

[casbern]

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UNI @ Wisc, and UNI @ Iowa will both kick off at 2:30 and will air on the Big Ten Network per UNIPanthers.com today.

So when is James Delany going to ink our contract?