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Post by Striktly on Sept 18, 2014 9:43:36 GMT -5
Some may even consider the AAMU game as a cupcake team being on the schedule. It isn't like our starters were overly worked. I think it is a matter of perspective of one's opinion. I would think that our coach and AD put some critical thought into who they schedule and why. Would VU-L have been a better opponent as we had them on the schedule for a number of years? I personally don't think so.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Sept 18, 2014 9:52:40 GMT -5
AggieMac, App St and A&T were both FCS programs last year. App St wouldn't be penalized by the playoff committee for playing us. Daddy Aggie, UNC playing us next year is irrelevant. They play in a top 5 FBS conference. They have challenges up and down their schedule after they play us next year. The current national champion is from the ACC. After A&T plays Chowan, who can we rely upon on the rest of our schedule to increase our profile? FYI, take a look at the remaining opponents on our schedule.....although it is early in the season......OUR REMAINING OPPONENTS HAVE ZERO FCS WINS....ZERO!!! We have 8 MEAC opponents left who've yet to win an FCS game. Scheduling matters.....maybe not as much from those at the top looking down; but for those of us at the bottom looking up (MEAC), every opponent counts.
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Post by DECKS on Sept 18, 2014 11:06:08 GMT -5
In all my years of watching Aggie football I have never seen scheduling a D-II opponent affect our playoff opportunities. Not one single time. The only way I ever see it as an issue is if we lose to the D-II team. Of course, if that happens we probably aren't playoff material anyways. Our problem has always been losing to MEAC teams!
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Sept 18, 2014 13:32:29 GMT -5
I don't disagree Decks.... But we really haven't been consistently good enough over the past 20 years to where playoff consideration was even warranted..... Things are different though, especially with the increased number of teams who can now participate in the playoffs (from 16 to 24)....
When at-large bids are available and the selection committee is down between A&T and White School U., you gotta believe they will be looking for an excuse not to put us in. Frankly, playing a DII/NAIA/club team is not absurd excuse to omit someone from the playoffs.
Think about this - the MEAC can now have co-champions. Theoretically, A&T and Bethune Cookman would both finish undefeated. I don't think both of us would get the automatic bid to the playoff (CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG). Based upon this, the next question would be who deserves an automatic bid? Bethune has beaten FBS Florida International and Grambling. We've beaten Elon.....I gotta say - advantage Bethune-Cookman, as far as the automatic bid is concerned.
Once again, the MEAC is not the bid dog in FCS football - we're nowhere close. As good as our program has gotten in a short period of time, it will be difficult to win the MEAC title year after year after year.....thus when an at-large bid is up for grabs, we need to have a resume that warrants one.
Honestly, based on the fact the MEAC hasn't won a playoff game since 1999....if final at-large bids are between a 9-2/10-1 A&T team vs an 8-3/9-2 team from the CAA, Southern, Southland or Missouri Valley Conference......and one of our wins is against a non-FCS opponent......we have to be willing to accept we may not get the at-large bid.
I really think we have to consider such scenarios as we move forward, especially as the at-large pool has grown in the FCS playoffs.
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Post by scaggie09 on Sept 18, 2014 13:44:17 GMT -5
Little FYI SCSU got an at large last season OOC games Benedict Coastal AAMU Clemson.... 1 win vs DII Benedict 1 win vs FCS AAMU 1 Loss vs Clemson 1 Loss vs Coastal 1 Loss in conference BCU
NCAT has 2 FCS WINS VS ELON AAMU 1 FCS L VS CCU (Ranked 4/5) at time 1 DII remains Chowan IF we don't have a conference meltdown and handle business when need be that Chowan game IMO won't hurt as bad as some might think....
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Sept 18, 2014 14:13:01 GMT -5
You brought forth a very good example scaggie09......that is a very good schedule to compare. SCSU did lose that home playoff game to Furman. I wonder if the selection committee lets MEAC schools with a similar resume in the next go-around? If so, would they grant us another home game?
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Post by aggie2ru on Sept 18, 2014 15:32:20 GMT -5
Let's keep things in it's proper prospective. Our (HBCU) sports budgets allow very little room for error and we have little to work with overall. Simply put, we cannot keep up with the "Big Boys" because we just do not have the money to enable us to do so.
I want to make this clear.........I am not advocating any mass changes because I don't think our cash flow will differ much more than what it is now.
We just need to keep doing the right thing and ("keep getting better" -Broadway).
I, too, will miss the (Chow hound)game Sat. depite owning 2 season books. This game Saturday will turn out to be a chance to pad our overall record and give folk like "Little Darren Sproles" Cohen an opportunity to rush for 150+ yds. in 1-2 quarters. There is a major difference between FBS and FCS football.
(Reason for missing the game-------the cost factor in driving from Northern Virginia to see a "cream puff" massacre)
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Sept 18, 2014 16:00:20 GMT -5
i was planning to come to the chowan game mainly because i want to attend at least 3 home games because like aggie2ru, i have 2 season tics and live in the dmv. but my referee association assigned me to referee 2 high school fall league games this sunday, so i’m not gonna be able to make it after all.
i was gonna come to the hampton game, but when they moved that one to thursday night it screwed my plans up. however, after looking our home schedule again, i just realized that the morgan game is not the following week after ghoe. at first i thought it was because its our next game on the schedule after ghoe. but when i looked more closely, i realized we have a “bye week” after ghoe but they didn’t list it on the schedule. so there’s a good chance i’ll go to the morgan game since i won’t have to make that 5 hour drive 2 weekends in a row...
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Post by aggierattler on Sept 19, 2014 13:04:24 GMT -5
No one had posted on this thread in the past 21 hours, Boy, is this game losing steam or what??
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Post by marchingband1969 on Sept 19, 2014 13:51:47 GMT -5
No one had posted on this thread in the past 21 hours, Boy, is this game losing steam or what?? There's not much to talk about in this game...other than the "doom & gloom" Aggies that worry about this being a trap game, everybody else believe this game will be over by the second quarter. And the bulk of the conversation is around whether we should play this type of school. I don't think anyone on this board knows for sure how this game will impact our playoff chances. Heck we could win out and still get slighted in the playoffs and never know why. Every school schedules a team that their staff and fans believe is a cupcake. And 99.9% of the time it is a cupcake and they win. So why all of a sudden did that practice change for A&T? What did we do that requires us to only play FCS teams? If we win out this year we "should" get an invitation to the playoff but there's no guarantee. Let's focus on beating everyone on our schedule and let the selection committee deal with the decision to put us in.
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Post by aggie2ru on Sept 19, 2014 14:02:59 GMT -5
No one had posted on this thread in the past 21 hours, Boy, is this game losing steam or what?? There's not much to talk about in this game...other than the "doom & gloom" Aggies that worry about this being a trap game, everybody else believe this game will be over by the second quarter. And the bulk of the conversation is around whether we should play this type of school. I don't think anyone on this board knows for sure how this game will impact our playoff chances. Heck we could win out and still get slighted in the playoffs and never know why. Every school schedules a team that their staff and fans believe is a cupcake. And 99.9% of the time it is a cupcake and they win. So why all of a sudden did that practice change for A&T? What did we do that requires us to only play FCS teams? If we win out this year we "should" get an invitation to the playoff but there's no guarantee. Let's focus on beating everyone on our schedule and let the selection committee deal with the decision to put us in. And you know this
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Post by ohsixrain on Sept 19, 2014 17:04:48 GMT -5
I don't disagree Decks.... But we really haven't been consistently good enough over the past 20 years to where playoff consideration was even warranted..... Things are different though, especially with the increased number of teams who can now participate in the playoffs (from 16 to 24).... When at-large bids are available and the selection committee is down between A&T and White School U., you gotta believe they will be looking for an excuse not to put us in. Frankly, playing a DII/NAIA/club team is not absurd excuse to omit someone from the playoffs. Think about this - the MEAC can now have co-champions. Theoretically, A&T and Bethune Cookman would both finish undefeated. I don't think both of us would get the automatic bid to the playoff (CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG). Based upon this, the next question would be who deserves an automatic bid? Bethune has beaten FBS Florida International and Grambling. We've beaten Elon.....I gotta say - advantage Bethune-Cookman, as far as the automatic bid is concerned. Once again, the MEAC is not the bid dog in FCS football - we're nowhere close. As good as our program has gotten in a short period of time, it will be difficult to win the MEAC title year after year after year.....thus when an at-large bid is up for grabs, we need to have a resume that warrants one. Honestly, based on the fact the MEAC hasn't won a playoff game since 1999....if final at-large bids are between a 9-2/10-1 A&T team vs an 8-3/9-2 team from the CAA, Southern, Southland or Missouri Valley Conference......and one of our wins is against a non-FCS opponent......we have to be willing to accept we may not get the at-large bid. I really think we have to consider such scenarios as we move forward, especially as the at-large pool has grown in the FCS playoffs. I think we are putting too much thought into all of this...at the end of the day the selection committee isn't gonna reference our resume over the last 20 years just to keep us out the rankings or playoffs. They will judge you on this year's body of work. If we take care of what we can control, we should be just fine.
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Post by aggierattler on Sept 19, 2014 19:59:34 GMT -5
There's not much to talk about in this game...other than the "doom & gloom" Aggies that worry about this being a trap game, everybody else believe this game will be over by the second quarter. And the bulk of the conversation is around whether we should play this type of school. I don't think anyone on this board knows for sure how this game will impact our playoff chances. Heck we could win out and still get slighted in the playoffs and never know why. Every school schedules a team that their staff and fans believe is a cupcake. And 99.9% of the time it is a cupcake and they win. So why all of a sudden did that practice change for A&T? What did we do that requires us to only play FCS teams? If we win out this year we "should" get an invitation to the playoff but there's no guarantee. Let's focus on beating everyone on our schedule and let the selection committee deal with the decision to put us in. And you know this I told you guys earlier that, "I GOT IT!" There's nothing to be concerned about in this game and we should roll with nothing short of a 75-point shutout. In fact, I'm not even going to check the score, because I know that it will be a utter rout. GIFSoupMY EYES ARE FIRMLY SET ON HOWARD!!!!
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Post by VA's Finest on Sept 19, 2014 22:43:05 GMT -5
DRiving from northern Virginia is rough for this one, though I left Woodbridge at noon, will be in Greensboro tomorrow. I really just enjoy seeing the Aggies play no matter the opponent.
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Post by aggie62 on Sept 19, 2014 23:13:48 GMT -5
I can't get to Greensboro this weekend but I plan to watch the game on the internet.
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