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RE: No more Scheduling FCS teams for B1G says Lord Alvarez
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Posted: 2/15/2013 5:22 PM
RE: No more Scheduling FCS teams for B1G says Lord Alvarez
KurzND wrote:
monty5537 wrote: This is a bad idea. The 1-AA game that each team plays each year usually serves as a pseudo-scrimmage to get teams ready for the season. Almost every team plays one, very bad idea. It is a disgrace. I hope more teams take up the action and DO NOT play those teams.
Only 3 of the 124+ FBS teams have not played a FCS team since the division was made those 3 are UCLA, Southern Cal, and Notre Dame. perhaps, but how many FBS schools have helped their Heisman wannabee LB coverup a big hoax before the NC game? yea I forgot, ND ALWAYS does things the right way, above everyone else. Just ask the families of Declan Sullivan and Lizzie Seeburg.
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Posted: 2/15/2013 6:59 PM
Re: No more Scheduling FCS teams for B1G says Lord Alvarez
18% of Ron Zook's wins at the University of Illinois were against FCS teams.
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Posted: 2/16/2013 9:51 AM
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What do the Illinois, indiana, Purdue, and Minnesota ad's gain by agreeing to this? IMO this is a bad move for the big ten. It'll be funny when we have 5 wins in 2014 with a loss to a MAC team and are shut out of another bowl. --------------------------------------------- --- IlliniMac68 wrote: --------------------------------------------- --- Boomer64gaw wrote: IlliniCaboose wrote: I love that this comes from the school who has the weakest noncon in the entire nation year in year out. Exactly what I was thinking. I didn't know Alvarez was appointed into Delany's position. --------------------------------------------- If you take time to read the press on this interview you'll see he said that the Big Ten AD's have agreed on this. --------------------------------------------- |
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Posted: 2/17/2013 12:50 PM
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Or basically all of it. --------------------------------------------- --- bhots23 wrote: 619illinibooyah wrote: espn.go.com/college-foo...edule-fcs-teams
Who will Beckman play to back into a 6-6 season and Pizza bowl bid now? Great, there goes half our yearly win total. --------------------------------------------- |
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Posted: 2/17/2013 2:19 PM
Re: No more Scheduling FCS teams for B1G says Lord Alvarez
The unintended consequence is that many FCS teams rely on these games to fund a big chunk of their athletic budgets for the year. A $400k payday goes along way in paying the bills at schools like EIU etc.
Get drilled, cash check, make sportscenter once in awhile. Everbody wins
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Posted: 2/17/2013 4:58 PM
Re: No more Scheduling FCS teams for B1G says Lord Alvarez
Perhaps major colleges should go back to an 11 game regular season and one game exhibition against an FCS. The FCS schools get their payday and the competion improves for the regular season. I would rather see us beat up on Duke or Army rather than Slippery Rock or
Elon.
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Posted: 2/20/2013 10:44 AM
Re: No more Scheduling FCS teams for B1G says Lord Alvarez
I think this is all related to strength of schedule and concerns that a 12-1 or 11-2 Big 10 team would get squeezed out of a 4 team playoff, particularly adding traditional weak football programs in MD and Rutgers.
Some of the ranking evaluates both your strength of schedule, but also the strength of schedule of your opponents. If there is a cluster around the top 2 to 8 teams in the polls, the rankings could influence the committee to take a #5 Ohio State over a #4 Stanford or #3 Oklahoma, if its computer rankings are higher.
Getting a team regularly in the playoffs can only be a good thing for the Big 10 and the BTN as it tries to expand.
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Posted: 2/20/2013 12:28 PM
Re: No more Scheduling FCS teams for B1G says Lord Alvarez
Its actually forcing other conferences to review their policy on scheduling. So is the B10 a leader on this issue or will it prove to be a folly at the end of the year when there are up to 12 fewer wins in the conference because of this rule.
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Posted: 2/20/2013 5:57 PM
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Termin8or wrote: Its actually forcing other conferences to review their policy on scheduling. So is the B10 a leader on this issue or will it prove to be a folly at the end of the year when there are up to 12 fewer wins in the conference because of this rule. probably changes 12 guaranteed wins to 12 likley wins . But 12 likely wins means some program or two will lose, so it basically means 1-2 fewer wins.
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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:15 PM
RE: No more Scheduling FCS teams for B1G says Lord Alvarez
KurzND wrote:
monty5537 wrote: This is a bad idea. The 1-AA game that each team plays each year usually serves as a pseudo-scrimmage to get teams ready for the season. Almost every team plays one, very bad idea. It is a disgrace. I hope more teams take up the action and DO NOT play those teams.
Only 3 of the 124+ FBS teams have not played a FCS team since the division was made those 3 are UCLA, Southern Cal, and Notre Dame. I can feel the smugness through the computer monitor. |
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Posted: 2/21/2013 12:17 PM
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Illinois1975 wrote: Perhaps major colleges should go back to an 11 game regular season and one game exhibition against an FCS. The FCS schools get their payday and the competion improves for the regular season. I would rather see us beat up on Duke or Army rather than Slippery Rock or
Elon. Duke would have beaten us by 2 scores this year. Army probably could have beaten us too. |
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Posted: 2/21/2013 6:39 PM
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You are probably right. Are there any weaker major college teams?
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Posted: 2/21/2013 8:34 PM
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Illinois1975 wrote: You are probably right. Are there any weaker major college teams? in BCS? no, we are about the worst along with Duke , Wash St. We have hit about rock bottom as far as weak BCS conference teams.
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Posted: 2/22/2013 9:29 AM
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But this could turn out to be good financially for us. Being that weak, we would be attractive to teams from other conferences that want to schedule a sure win. We may even get a 2 away / 1 at home deal with a big name opponent and make some really big cash.
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Posted: 3/7/2013 11:05 AM
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KillerKawolski wrote: But this could turn out to be good financially for us. Being that weak, we would be attractive to teams from other conferences that want to schedule a sure win. We may even get a 2 away / 1 at home deal with a big name opponent and make some really big cash. Right. If there's no more scheduling FCS cupcakes, Illinois could be the next Charleston Southern, or dare we hope, Appalachian State. |
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