Future Schedules

[unipanthers8907]

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Not that it is relevant to football, but didn't Cal Poly come within a hair in OT of making the NCAA basketball tournament last year?

I think they did make it. Wichita State mopped the floor with them

[06panther10]

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http://es.pn/15C3ijp

Maybe we should consider this?

North Carolina and wake forest (both ACC schools) are starting a nonconference home and home football series in years where they will not play during the regular conference season.

It's hard enough for us to find teams to put on our schedule, maybe this could be a solution.

[jegbomb52]

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http://es.pn/15C3ijp

Maybe we should consider this?

North Carolina and wake forest (both ACC schools) are starting a nonconference home and home football series in years where they will not play during the regular conference season.

It's hard enough for us to find teams to put on our schedule, maybe this could be a solution.

I think thats a great idea when western illinois, illinois state, or sdsu rotate off the schedule, don't think we want to add a flight trip to it though. Is sdsu a flight or bus?

[06panther10]

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I think thats a great idea when western illinois, illinois state, or sdsu rotate off the schedule, don't think we want to add a flight trip to it though. Is sdsu a flight or bus?

Great in theory, but the non conf series that we have actually been able to get have been long flights anyway. Northern Colorado, SFA, EWU, Cal Poly, etc.

Why not fly to Youngstown or Indy St? (other than the fact that they are horrible towns)

[TravelingPanther]

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The Big Sky has also had teams doing this.

[vbfan19]

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I think thats a great idea when western illinois, illinois state, or sdsu rotate off the schedule, don't think we want to add a flight trip to it though. Is sdsu a flight or bus?

I rather doubt we'll see NDSU, SDSU, or USD rotate off of UNI's schedule.

When they added USD, many of the eastern schools complained about cost of travel, having to fly out to the Dakotas, so the conference set up the whole scheduling rotation with the premise of those eastern schools not having to ever make two Dakota trips in the same conference season.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that means that UNI will play all 3 Dakota schools every year.

[TravelingPanther]

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I think WIU and maybe IlSU are protected as well.

[BCPanther]

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Illinois State is our next no-play. Already announced.

I would imagine it will be Missouri State next...

[jegbomb52]

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Illinois State is our next no-play. Already announced.

I would imagine it will be Missouri State next...

awesome, so we added new members to the valley and they are taking away a bus trip. thats irresponsible, they should always make certain they remove a flight...

[JD720]

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Does the rest of the league have the same issue? Has there been any talk of going to a 9 game league schedule?

[06panther10]

Future Schedules

Troy said on OPR tonight that Hawaii recently called, wanting to schedule another game with us for 2017. He said we could not make it work that year, but its possible that we could be going back out there in 2019 or 2020. Very cool!

[Panthers to the Bone]

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...and would like a service academy on the schedule in the future also. Bring on the US Merchant Marine Academy! Just kidding...

[ubuntuCAT]

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Troy said on OPR tonight that Hawaii recently called, wanting to schedule another game with us for 2017. He said we could not make it work that year, but its possible that we could be going back out there in 2019 or 2020. Very cool!

Why is this cool? We traveled a million miles. Played way late, nobody watched, lost, and made no money.

[otter]

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Why is this cool? We traveled a million miles. Played way late, nobody watched, lost, and made no money.

I watched...for awhile and then fell asleep....but then a woke up again and watched another 5 mins until I fell asleep again

[Blue42]

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Why is this cool? We traveled a million miles. Played way late, nobody watched, lost, and made no money.

Good points.

But if you could get this game scheduled in a year where you're not playing another FBS game...and could get Hawaii to put up a decent guarantee...it might be worth it.

Would be nice to have this on the schedule 4 or 5 years out. Gives you a little something extra to talk to recruits about. Come to UNI...you'll get to play an FBS game every year...including a trip to Hawaii. Not a bad thing.