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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 16, 2019 9:54:22 GMT -5
i don't think wssu nor any team in the ciaa can stay within 35 points of beating us nowadays. it would be an "extremely" low risk of losing to them, but our freshmen and backups could benefit big time from that experience and that atmosphere. my primary rationale for playing a d2 team is not for an easy win, instead its to give our freshmen and backups an opportunity to play extended minutes in a real college football game. we didn't play a "cupcake" game last year and that's why our backup redshirt sophomore qb fowler still has not seen extended minutes in a real college football game. playing wssu on labor day weekend would kill two birds with one stone. it would allow our inexperienced players to get extended playing time and it would also allow us to "pad our pockets" financially... Do yall go to the events with our coach. Yall know Washington and Broadway are different right? Washington wants to be a FCS power. Playing WSSU isn't going to accomplish that. And not help out our at large chances for playoffs if we dont win the MEAC. And yes we got in playing Chowan in 16 but that was due to us winning the FBS game. We will schedule a bad FCS team. Like this Charleston Southern game should be easy seeing that they are on probation i hear what you're saying but me personally, i don't believe in scheduling in anticipation of a "tie" or an at large bid. i believe in scheduling based on the best interest of developing my team to win championships and to me that means preparing my backups in the event they are called upon to replace a starter when there are injuries down the road. the way i see it, if we "take care of business" like we ought to, there's no need for a tiebreaker or an at large bid. and having a redshirt freshman scholarship backup qb last year who still has not played any meaningful minutes is "inexcusable" to me. if we had not brought in an fbs transfer qb, what in da hail would we do if carter gets injured? and even our fbs transfer qb is relatively inexperienced. i would've felt far more comfortable had fowler played 2 quarters against a d2 team than havnig only taken a couple of "meaningless" snaps against fcs competition. i'm not worried about ties and at large bids, and i don't like my team thinking ties and at large bids. we play to win championships "outright". we don't play to "back into" postseason play...
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Post by ohsixrain on Jul 16, 2019 10:03:46 GMT -5
Do yall go to the events with our coach. Yall know Washington and Broadway are different right? Washington wants to be a FCS power. Playing WSSU isn't going to accomplish that. And not help out our at large chances for playoffs if we dont win the MEAC. And yes we got in playing Chowan in 16 but that was due to us winning the FBS game. We will schedule a bad FCS team. Like this Charleston Southern game should be easy seeing that they are on probation i hear what you're saying but me personally, i don't believe in scheduling in anticipation of a "tie" or an at large bid. i believe in scheduling based on the best interest of developing my team to win championships and to me that means preparing my backups in the event they are called upon to replace a starter when there are injuries down the road. the way i see it, if we "take care of business" like we ought to, there's no need for a tiebreaker or an at large bid. and having a redshirt freshman scholarship backup qb last year who still has not played any meaningful minutes is "inexcusable" to me. if we had not brought in an fbs transfer qb, what in da hail would we do if carter gets injured? and even our fbs transfer qb is relatively inexperienced. i would've felt far more comfortable had fowler played 2 quarters against a d2 team than havnig only taken a couple of "meaningless" snaps against fcs competition. i'm not worried about ties and at large bids, and i don't like my team thinking ties and at large bids. we play to win championships "outright". we don't play to "back into" postseason play... I tend to agree with you Oleschool but, ties do happen and in the event of a tie you want to be positioned to be eligible for an at-large bid. We could actually do both...prepare the team to win championships and schedule to be in a position to get an at-large in case we do not win the MEAC out right.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 16, 2019 10:20:49 GMT -5
i hear what you're saying but me personally, i don't believe in scheduling in anticipation of a "tie" or an at large bid. i believe in scheduling based on the best interest of developing my team to win championships and to me that means preparing my backups in the event they are called upon to replace a starter when there are injuries down the road. the way i see it, if we "take care of business" like we ought to, there's no need for a tiebreaker or an at large bid. and having a redshirt freshman scholarship backup qb last year who still has not played any meaningful minutes is "inexcusable" to me. if we had not brought in an fbs transfer qb, what in da hail would we do if carter gets injured? and even our fbs transfer qb is relatively inexperienced. i would've felt far more comfortable had fowler played 2 quarters against a d2 team than havnig only taken a couple of "meaningless" snaps against fcs competition. i'm not worried about ties and at large bids, and i don't like my team thinking ties and at large bids. we play to win championships "outright". we don't play to "back into" postseason play... I tend to agree with you Oleschool but, ties do happen and in the event of a tie you want to be positioned to be eligible for an at-large bid. We could actually do both...prepare the team to win championships and schedule to be in a position to get an at-large in case we do not win the MEAC out right. i just don't like thinking "ties and at large bids". and i most definitely don't like my backups not playing extended minutes until someone goes down with an injury. if i'm coach washington this year, i would make sure that ifedi plays in "every game", albeit as a backup. but akin to the role that carter played last year, except not calling a whole bunch of qb draws. the thing i'd like about playing wssu labor day weekend is that wssu is not just any ole d2 team. our backups would not be able to just go thru the motions because wssu would be playing their "hardest" against us. plus, playing before a "packed house" would most definitely benefit our inexperienced players, it would totally get the "jitters" out. as an alternative, i can see scheduling a "very weak" fcs team that we can put away in the first half instead of playing wssu. but it would really have to be a "very weak" fcs team like a non-scholarship fcs team (pioneer league) so that i could be sure that my backups would see plenty of playing time. but i still don't like playing for "ties and at large bids"...
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Jul 16, 2019 11:44:37 GMT -5
You may not like it.....but our athletic dept's bank account and profile do..... Let's go back to 2015, when there was a 3-way tie between us, NCCU and Bethune-Cookman.
I'm sure Central had their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th string players all over the field when they beat Lane 72-0.....but they played no OOC FCS competition, despite beating us in the season finale......the end result - the Eagles were siting on their couches, watching us play in the Celebration Bowl.
I'm sure Bethune-Cookman had their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th string players all over the field (or maybe not) when they beat Lane 7-3....but guess what? They had NO OOC FCS victories.....the end result - the Wildcats were sitting on their couches watching us play in the Celebration Bowl.
That 1st Celebration Bowl victory was an absolute springboard for our program.....and the biggest factor that got us there was because we played a hard-fought, ugly game against Elon (I was there)......BUT WON! Central and Bethune-Cookman had their waterboys in their games vs Lane....they didn't get the big paycheck; they didn't get the national notoriety; they got ZILTCH; NOTTA...
You have to cover all of your bases, OSA. I love our OOC schedule this year. Elon, Charleston Southern and Duke. All of these games are winnable. All of these games are benchmark games for our program.
Everyone has their opinions on this one, which I respect.....but our program is too strong and healthy to be throwing a week away playing non-FCS/FBS competition.
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 16, 2019 11:51:00 GMT -5
like i said, fowler has "zero" meaningful playing experience and that's "inexcusable"...
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jul 16, 2019 11:53:05 GMT -5
How is that inexcusable when he has been third on the depth chart since he got here?
How many 3rd string quarterbacks get meaningful playing time?
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on Jul 16, 2019 11:56:38 GMT -5
Either you're good enough to get on the field or you're not.
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Post by captaggie on Jul 16, 2019 12:10:06 GMT -5
Agree with NSS. Don't see the benefit of playing D2 games. An effective rotation strategy will get players the experience needed.
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Post by Gator on Jul 16, 2019 12:34:38 GMT -5
I see no D2 teams in the future on our schedule!
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 16, 2019 13:19:32 GMT -5
How is that inexcusable when he has been third on the depth chart since he got here? How many 3rd string quarterbacks get meaningful playing time? the ones who have an opportunity to play against d2 teams...
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 16, 2019 13:20:39 GMT -5
Agree with NSS. Don't see the benefit of playing D2 games. An effective rotation strategy will get players the experience needed. broadway didn't do it that way and he built the program that we now have...
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Post by Aggie Monster on Jul 16, 2019 13:53:29 GMT -5
I think Broadway would be proud of our scheduling. He scheduled that d2 cupcake because thats where he thought our program was at the time and we neeeded that game. I dont think he would schedule them now.
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Post by AggieGroove on Jul 16, 2019 13:57:36 GMT -5
I think Broadway would be proud of our scheduling. He scheduled that d2 cupcake because thats where he thought our program was at the time and we neeeded that game. I dont think he would schedule them now. And more importantly, he publicy stated the reasons he scheduled this way to get the team accustomed to winning... He stated we didn't know how to win....period!
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Jul 16, 2019 14:12:10 GMT -5
I think Broadway would be proud of our scheduling. He scheduled that d2 cupcake because thats where he thought our program was at the time and we neeeded that game. I dont think he would schedule them now. broadway scheduled at least one d2 team "every year" he coached at a&t. we were well beyond "needing an easy win" by year seven of coach broadway's tenure, yet we still had a d2 team on our schedule. mind you, we had already won or tied 3 meac championships by then...
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Post by Bornthrilla on Jul 16, 2019 14:23:36 GMT -5
How often does Aggie Stadium sellout out side of homecoming and maybe NCCU . But this year Howard comes to town . That game should Easley me a standing-room-only game . That's it. Last time we sold out a non Homecoming or NCCU/ WSSU game was 99. We played FAMU. Game was for Meac title. The 100 came up for the 1st time in 20 years I was at that game. We did not sell it out. I believe the official attendance was around 18,000.
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