Lick This

[UNIpanther99]

Lickliter doesn't want to play us... Say What you will about Alford, but he was always in favor of the in-state games.

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[MeOW!]

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Just because he doesn't want to lose to us every year!

[DrewDog]

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Dropping the Drake game would be the one that they would get the least flack about. Curious to see how this plays out around the state.

[Newsbreaker]

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It won't play out at all. This seems to come up every single freaking year.

If Iowa tries to drop these games (or go to a "only at our place" format) UNI will raise a stink, the legislature will raise an eyebrow, the Lick will shut up and that will be that.

At the moment, we're out of their league anyway, and at worst an RPI boost for them.

[AmesPanther]

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I can understand not wanting to play on the road. Everyone wants home games without having to give up a road game for it. This didn't really come across that harsh to me. He is saying he can't pick the Big 10 games and wants to be able to pick the pre-conference ones. It is 3 games he has no control over who or where.

This is probably the best reasoning I have heard about this topic.

[AmesPanther]

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It makes sense though. If Iowa can drop that road game every other year with Drake and UNI they can pay to play some other MVC team. Playing a MVC at home every year makes more money overall and should reduce the chances of losing the game.

It's fine to play UNI, Butler, or whatever team when they aren't good. But if you are going to lose then you want to look around and at least make money losing to the team of your choosing at home.

Plus if Iowa lost to UNI and Drake it will hurt recruiting in state. If they lose to some other school it's not as big of a deal.

[UNIpanther99]

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Ames,

What other MVC school is going to accept a game at Iowa only with no return?

There is no way they drop the road games with UNI and Drake and bring in anything other than a cupcake to Carver.

[dustin86]

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Ames,

What other MVC school is going to accept a game at Iowa only with no return?

There is no way they drop the road games with UNI and Drake and bring in anything other than a cupcake to Carver.

IF they are so worried about losing to UNI and Drake that means that they are not going to bring in some top 25 school that means they will bring some team from the B&D conference (schools for the blind and deaf)

[CincyPanther88]

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If they don't want to play in Cedar Falls, that's fine. Just don't schedule them at all. We don't need to play Iowa.

[dustin86]

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If they don't want to play in Cedar Falls, that's fine. Just don't schedule them at all. We don't need to play Iowa.

IT would never happen that we would just play down there all the time. UNI atheltic department would have nothing to do with that

[Newsbreaker]

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If they don't want to play in Cedar Falls, that's fine. Just don't schedule them at all. We don't need to play Iowa.

That's a financially silly statement. We make more money of the games against Iowa and ISU than any other, and it's not really even close.

[AmesPanther]

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Bradley gave ISU 2 road games for 1 home game. That's better than 1 for 1. If Iowa dropped UNI they could sweeten the pot and get someone like Indiana State to play in Iowa City.

[ubuntuCAT]

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That's a financially silly statement. We make more money of the games against Iowa and ISU than any other, and it's not really even close.

Exactly, regaurdless of how good Iowa or ISU is having the series with them is VERY important to UNI. Financially, Recruiting, fan base

[AmesPanther]

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I guess I just look at this all as the price you pay for being good. As the program improves this is what you run into.

[Panther Cat]

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I just read that. I have a lot of respect for him, but pulling this move would lose all of that with Panther fans & Drake fans.

If he builds a program that is competting for the upper half of the Big Ten why would he not want to play UNI. We are a top half team in a league that frankly is better than a lot of "major" conferences. Playing MVC teams when they were getting no respect and losing is bad, but I think most people understand that a loss to an MVC team is not the end of the world anymore.