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TaleofTwoDogs

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Interesting.... Ivory tower meets athletics. Got to give them credit for the tough schedule. The last northeast school we played was also a UM (Maine) and we know how that turned out.
 
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I suppose it depends on when it is effective. The article says that the same move has been tried before with no results, so I doubt they'd be able to can things before this fall. Did you read the one comment to the article? It was sort of humorous, but holds a lot of truth.
 
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patdog

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Well 17. We're about to get screwed. Hopefully, they'll at least stay I-A through 2017 and then move back to I-AA instead of dropping football entirely. Then we could just let the 2020 game be out I-AA game that year.
 
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TaleofTwoDogs said:
Interesting.... Ivory tower meets athletics. Got to give them credit for the tough schedule. The last northeast school we played was also a UM (Maine) and we know how that turned out.
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Yeah, that is quite a schedule they set for themselves. Looking for a large payout perhaps? Three SEC schools plus Boston College, and maybe some others I didn't notice. They should've scheduled Alabama and Florida State while they were at it.

Hopefully this one won't turn out like the Maine game, but it's not inconceivable that they could beat South Carolina.
 
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RocketDawg said:
I suppose it depends on when it is effective. The article says that the same move has been tried before with no results, so I doubt they'd be able to can things before this fall. Did you read the one comment to the article? It was sort of humorous, but holds a lot of truth.
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UMass has had the same type discussions for years past .. and will continue into the future.

It was just a few years ago that they left FCS for FBS and the MAC. They left the MAC when they were going to be required to have all their sports move to the MAC. UMass didn't want to have their basketball team tied to playing a MAC schedule, so they are now a struggling independent in a conference driven FBS.

Flashback .. "The University of Massachusetts football program is moving to the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) and will become a football member of the Mid-American Conference (MAC). UMass will play a full FBS and MAC schedule beginning with the 2012 football season. Starting in 2013, UMass will be eligible for the MAC Championship and bowl participation."
 
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we need to go ahead and schedule a rematch with maine before they follow UMASS.
 
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i was watching a REAL SPORTS the other day and they showed the follies of Rutgers trying to stay relevant in ncaa football. there are only 26 schools in the ncaa that make a profit in sports (we were one of them i think), and Rutgers is trying and failing to spend their way into this sports profit group. they cut the library's budget by .5 million and announced a 200K coaching raise in the same week there. they are passing on some of the burden to the students by hiking tuition $1000 and had a huge increase overall. in 42 of the states, the head football coach is the highest paid public employee. they then talked about eastern michigan which has the worst football attendance in the nation and how the head coach is getting paid mega bucks to have an awful record and pathetic (even by croom standards) crowds. power 5 is killing some schools....glad we are in it.

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