NCAA going back and changing neutral site games.
- Thread starter DesotoCountyDawg
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On deck: Bama football home games in Starkville.
I don’t have problem with this. If you change arenas but are still paying in your city/direct area it should be a home game.
Probably the right move. But this should have been decided months ago. When you change the rules in the middle of the season, you really make yourself look like a Mickey Mouse operation.
No. The Memphis/SF game was played in the Chase Center which is I think less than a mile from their campus but not their regular venue.
The NCAA should make a rule that says if you play a game within X amount of miles from your campus, it still counts as a home game. Teams are rigging the system to get neutral site games for what really should be home games. We played Rutgers last year in an arena that was 30 miles from Rutgers’ campus but it counted as a neutral site win. But we also benefited from it this year by playing Utah at a “neutral site” in Tupelo.
Since Ole Miss has campuses in Tupelo and Desoto County, they should have been Neutral+ wins… **
Nah, the Chase Center is only 4 miles from the University of San Francisco campus. The Tupelo Coliseum is 63 miles away from Mississippi State and the Jackson Coliseum is 127 miles away from Mississippi State. Neither come close.
The only real way a State game played off campus would be considered a home game is if it was played in Starkville High's Gym.
So when we played football games in Jackson it was considered a Neutral site?
If you play a game in your home state where the crowd is totally in your favor I don't really see that as a 'neutral' site. So I would say if you play a game in your home state it should not be considered neutral site unless both teams playing are from the same state. There may should be exceptions where the in state school is playing an out of state school where the out of state school is closer to the venue than the instate school (like MSU playing a Louisiana team on the MS Gulf Coast) but I guess there could be some rules to cover that unique situation.
Half our fans are penning letters to the NCAA to ask for our wins over SWAC teams in Jackson to be converted to Quad 1 for playing in a third world country
