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Post by aggieman70 on Feb 11, 2016 17:13:18 GMT -5
I was talking this over with my wife a few days ago and she made a point that attendance and ticket sales for next season should go up because its a more attractive home slate. She has a point when you look at who should be coming into Greensboro this fall and being a fairly attractive home slate of games with all except one game being in the much warmer weeks and months: Labor Day Opener TBA Hampton Norfolk FAMU (Homecoming) SCSU Of course the MEAC could very well derail the logical schedule as they have before with substitute dates and changes. Hilton is not going to let us have 4 home games and 7 on the road. And yes, Hampton/Norfolk State back to back at home as well as GHOE/SC State back to back at home going along with our CB victory/national championship should have the Game Zone buzzing all season. I read last night where FAMU set a program record with 3,600+ football season tickets sold last season. Does anyone know if we are in that ballpark? If we're not selling 10,000, why do we limit the # of season tickets an individual can purchase. Makes absolutely no sense to me. If I want to buy (12) why in the world would you only sell me 6 when you end up not selling all the season tickets year after year.
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Post by numberonebrave on Feb 11, 2016 18:04:48 GMT -5
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Post by marchingband1969 on Feb 11, 2016 18:14:53 GMT -5
Prices will not go up, there will be an additional fee for "parking lot maintenance " or some such nebulous use " placed on the amount you pay for the ticket. Much like the republicans increasing fees is not the same as raising taxes... adding fees is not the same (sic) as increasing prices Hot dang, we must gonna get fresh gravel in the parking lot. Hope they fill them mud holes over near where I park.
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Post by aggieman007 on Feb 19, 2016 4:39:34 GMT -5
Still no schedule?
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Post by Gator on Feb 19, 2016 7:24:17 GMT -5
Just heard from a reliable source that the Labor Day game opponent being negotiated is St. Aug.
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Post by JeffAggieFan on Feb 19, 2016 12:39:40 GMT -5
Well it will not be Shaw. Shaw will be playing Limstone College
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Post by Maxell on Feb 19, 2016 12:50:53 GMT -5
Just heard from a reliable source that the Labor Day game opponent being negotiated is St. Aug. They won one game last year(1-9). They beat Shaw in the last game of the season. They have a new coach. Their interim coach was just made permanent today.
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Post by marchingband1969 on Feb 19, 2016 13:52:27 GMT -5
Well the team can use a game against St. Aug as a scrimmage and us A&T fans can use it as nice cookout with friends. The game will be a minor distraction. By the way, as soon as the ink dries on that contract, the A&T Sports Marketing Department needs to get the word out. My family (Sons and grandkids) have already started making plans for the summer. We need to get to folks before they book something else on that weekend. By the way, they should call that weekend the "Aggie Family Summer Reunion" and serve free hotdogs and punch to everybody that buys a ticket. Make it a big deal.
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Post by DECKS on Feb 22, 2016 7:30:18 GMT -5
Makes no sense to schedule this game. It looks like most MEAC schools are committed to following the SWAC model of money games, D-2' and NAIA.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Feb 22, 2016 7:55:45 GMT -5
Why in the hell are we scheduling DII competition, knowing we are already going to play 2 FBS schools?? We need an OOC FCS opponent on our schedule....preferrably a beatable opponent (ie. Davidson or Campbell). I'd even play a weak SWAC school.....
We know the CB rules....why don't we follow them? When we did last year, it led to us playing in the bowl game....why change in 2016, just because we have 2 FBS teams?
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 22, 2016 8:15:25 GMT -5
The last sentence answers itself. Broadway's first concern is winning the conference. He wants that warm-up game. He's almost always done it that way.
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Post by A&T AGGIE 96 on Feb 22, 2016 9:58:57 GMT -5
Slow down guys...you all act as if you know something or coach and administrators don't. When gas Broadway not had a game like this on the schedule. There is a method to his madness.
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Feb 22, 2016 10:18:15 GMT -5
This has nothing to do with folks thinking we're smarter than Broadway or the administrators..... One of the major tiebreakers for the CB is OOC FCS COMPETITION - YOU WIN, YOU GET 4 POINTS..... --The MEAC has had multiple 1st place ties over the past few years --Our win vs Elon last year got us in. Central had no FCS wins to hang its hat on..... Until we have an MEAC championship game, if we don't have at least one OOC FCS game on the schedule, we're not putting ourselves in the best possible position to be in the CB. FYI --- we've lost to Central twice. We go to them this year. NCCU goes to Bethune Cookman this year. Don't be surprised if another 1st place tie may come up again. I'm not just critical of us ---- Central apparently hasn't learned its lesson either. They have Duke, Western Michigan and St Aug on their 2016 schedule......NO OOC FCS COMPETITION. Are we the only ones on this site who understand the tiebreaker rules?
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 22, 2016 10:34:42 GMT -5
It appears it's not as big an issue to the decision-makers. Or they faced difficulties finding a winnable home game at the d-1 level to fit that time slot.
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Post by The Professor on Feb 22, 2016 10:40:06 GMT -5
I don't think finding a FCS school is that easy. Looks like taking off Elon of the schedule might end up biting us
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