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rugbdawg

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I would like to avoid Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, Nebraska, and Texas A&M. Three of those teams are out of our league and the other two have the resources to be in the very near future. I would like to see a home and home with Colorado, Okie State, Iowa State(a road game we could win?), Baylor. That would cover a non-conference game for 8 years if we could make them all happen and it wouldn't hurt the budget. Then we could start the cycle over again.
 
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Goat Holder

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I mean, ****, go out there and beat mfers. I understand wanting to have 7 home games for the fans, revenue, etc. But you have to line up and play the game and quit making excuses. We should ALWAYS schedule a D2 or D1AA team each year. Hell I bet Southern, Jackson St., Alcorn St. and Delta St. would absolutely LOVE to play us. Play 'em.
 
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rugbdawg

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stuffed by Houston or Rice. At least we would have a chance to stop them on defense.
 
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Especially the first game of the year. I don't see why a coach can't get his team motivated for the opener. I say we play USM the first game of the year in Jackson or something. We could get that for cheap. If we come out fired up, we would beat USM 9 times out of 10.
 
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Xenomorph

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...Byrne said something like "I don't want to say never, but right now it's not in our plans." Smart man.
 
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Luther Van Dam

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<font face="Georgia" size="2"><font face="Georgia" size="2">I talked to an athletic director last week of another institution that has a couple of major markets near his campus and he's going to play some of the schools, at home at their campus and have the return game at a neutral site near the smaller school's campus.</font>
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Arkanasas did this with La. Monroe last week. ULM was the home team with the game being in Little Rock. I don't know what the gate split was between the two schools. The netural site return home game also allows the smaller school the ability to meet the 15,000 minimum average attendance figure that is necessary to remain in the bowl subdivision. ULM, ULL, Ark. State are all potential possibilities for netural site games in Memphis or Jackson.
 
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muddawgs33

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Coast Dawg said:
I wish he would have asked Byrne about USM
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<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">Will Ole Miss or MSU ever consider playing Southern Miss again?</font></font></p>

<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">At the moment, no.</font></font></p>

<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">"I never want to say never," said new MSU athletic director Greg Byrne. "But right now, it's not in the plans."</font></font></p>

<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">At Ole Miss, Robert Khayat made it clear in February, when he told the Hattiesburg American: "As long as I am chancellor it's not ever going to happen."</font></font></p>

<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">Ole Miss athletic director Pete Boone, like Byrne at MSU, didn't want to say never, but did say USM isn't on the radar for the coming decade.</font></font></p>

<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">Byrne wouldn't discuss specifics, other than to say playing USM is a "no-win" situation for MSU.</font></font></p>
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topdawg.sixpack

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muddawgs33 said:
<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">At Ole Miss, Robert Khayat made it clear in February, when he told the Hattiesburg American: "As long as I am chancellor it's not ever going to happen."</font></font></p>
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HammerOfTheDogs

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Other schools in BCS conferences are playing Div. 1-AA schools from their own State once a year. Why not play JState, Valley and alcorn, instead of SE Lousyana? It'd be good publicity, not to mention higher attendance for a game that normally doesn't draw flies.
 
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JSU and Alcorn's band at halftime - actually to watch them march onto the field is worth the price of admission.

However, We have the best looking Dog in the business.
 
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Todd4State

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To respond to several: NO to the SWAC. D-2 games won't happen because they don't count towards our 6 needed for a bowl, so no Delta State. We will never play JSU, Alcorn, Valley, etc. as long as we won't play USM because then USM will say that we are being cowards. It will just fuel their arguement.

Our problem with playing a team like say, ULM on the road is we don't have a viable place to move the game to. I know I don't want to watch us play ANYONE at the Vet. I'm from Jackson to, but it would be a royal cluster<17> no matter who we played. In fact, I'd consider playing ULM in Monroe a wash at worst.

Personally, where our program is I don't like playing any BCS schools, unless it is someone that royally sucks, like Duke. We need to win as many games as we can, and heck we can't handle many non-BCS teams right now.

We need to go this route if at all possible:

I-AA like Souteastern La. NO to Appalachain State.
Alumni road trip special: Consensus seems to be Tulane, which I like as well.
C-USA/should be in C-USA special: like La Tech
Sun Belt special: Florida International since everyone else is from La.

I'd also like to play a service academy because they draw well and are very beatable.
 
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Irondawg

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Hell, let's just expand it to 10 conference games and then leave 2 open spots for teams to play with. That would ensure 7-8 home games basically every year for SEC teams.

The downside is that it makes it damn near impossible to get a lot bowl eligible teams - much less one that could win the national title.

I'm not saying that's the best solution, but something to discuss.
 
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fishwater99

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<font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">For future reference, here's your upcoming non-conference football schedules:
</font><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">2009</font>:</font> <font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">La Tech, Ga Tech, Houston, at MTSU
</font><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2"><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">2010</font>:</font> <font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">Memphis, UAB, at Houston, one opening to fill
</font><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">2011:</font> <font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">Tulane, at Memphis, at UAB, one opening to fill
</font><font face="georgia,palatino" size="2">2012 and beyond: Wide open

You would think the new AD would figure this **** out...

So in 2011 we only have 6 home games...That is unacceptable...
We need to have 7 or 8 home games every year, I don't care who we play...
Once again the other Miss school finds a way and we can't do **** right....

Thanks Greg
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graddawg

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More like Thanks LT. Most, if not all, of those games were scheduled a long time ago.
 
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HammerOfTheDogs

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Let's schedule JSU, Valley or Alcorn for the August game. Keep the MState band in the stands with their shorts and t-shirts, and watch the SWAC band perform.

Back in 1969, I was living in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The schools had recently integrated, so Jacksonvile had black students. However, they played Fayetteville E.E. Smith, an all-black school. The Jacksonville fans had NEVER seen an all-black high school marching band before, and just blew everybody away. We were in the stands next to their band, and when they marched back from their halftime show, they were chanting, "WE..IS...NUMBER ONE AND YOU IS NUMBER TWO!"</p>
 
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