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17 minutes ago, dmaxel said:

And how much is Florida paying us to play them this year? Probably around the million mark, right?

Well RV set the deal so I assume Florida will cover our airfare on Spirit Air and throw in 15 fee checked bags and cover our insurance co-pays for up to 20 injuries. I think they are also throwing in a free pregame meal from Perkins(tip not included).

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This type of scheduling takes a lot of the financial rewards away from playing the guaranteed away game.   You spend approximately half of your guarantee for playing the Florida and UT's of the nation for a game to balance the schedule that few care anything about.    I like the away game against a big time P5 club because I believe its helps in recognition, recruiting and obviously financially.  

However, I would prefer an every other year 5 home game schedule and another home and away series with a solid opponent than playing a lower division school every year.   It makes a lot of financially sense and would provide a lot more scheduling opportunities.

Despite what a few think, no scheduling philosophy is going to make everyone happy.   RV came up with his scheduling objectives based not only on the expressed displeasure of fans about years without 6 home games, but I believe that McCarney wanted the lower division opponent to ease the schedule.   A lot of irony in that thought.  

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23 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:

This type of scheduling takes a lot of the financial rewards away from playing the guaranteed away game.   You spend approximately half of your guarantee for playing the Florida and UT's of the nation for a game to balance the schedule that few care anything about.    I like the away game against a big time P5 club because I believe its helps in recognition, recruiting and obviously financially.  

However, I would prefer an every other year 5 home game schedule and another home and away series with a solid opponent than playing a lower division school every year.   It makes a lot of financially sense and would provide a lot more scheduling opportunities.

Despite what a few think, no scheduling philosophy is going to make everyone happy.   RV came up with his scheduling objectives based not only on the expressed displeasure of fans about years without 6 home games, but I believe that McCarney wanted the lower division opponent to ease the schedule.   A lot of irony in that thought.  

This.

And if you are playing SMU every other year in Dallas, you can use that game as a pseudo-home game while playing a team in OOC at HOME that people want to see.

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12 minutes ago, greenjoe said:

I wonder how many Texas 1-AA teams would come to Apogee for less than that guarantee and maybe bring some fans with them.

 

Extra points to anyone that can tell me what city Buthune-Cookman is from without looking.  I'm counting on your honor here.

 

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Only because I read an article in the Orlando newspaper about their qb, I'm saying they are in Orlando or a suburb of Orlando.

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3 hours ago, greenjoe said:

I wonder how many Texas 1-AA teams would come to Apogee for less than that guarantee and maybe bring some fans with them.

 

Extra points to anyone that can tell me what city Buthune-Cookman is from without looking.  I'm counting on your honor here.

 

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I would guess somewhere in the South. Georgia?

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3 hours ago, greenjoe said:

I wonder how many Texas 1-AA teams would come to Apogee for less than that guarantee and maybe bring some fans with them.

 

Extra points to anyone that can tell me what city Buthune-Cookman is from without looking.  I'm counting on your honor here.

 

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Jacksonville or Daytona or somewhere thereabout. 

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4 hours ago, greenjoe said:

I wonder how many Texas 1-AA teams would come to Apogee for less than that guarantee and maybe bring some fans with them.

 

Extra points to anyone that can tell me what city Buthune-Cookman is from without looking.  I'm counting on your honor here.

 

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I would guess that they're originally from the City of Bethune, the old culinary capital of northern France.

Hey, my 1000th post. Only took me 13.2 years. Maybe that's a good omen for tomorrow, so I'll quit posting until post-game.

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