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Post by aggiegrad97 on Mar 21, 2023 21:57:04 GMT -5
hbcugameday.com/2023/03/20/sc-state-ad-hoping-former-meac-schools-can-help-football-scheduling-issue/Came across this article highlighting SC State’s struggles with scheduling and how the AD directly called out (seemingly genuinely, not passive aggressively) us and a few others for potential matchups. I know people always point to the lack of HBCU games but the SC State rivalry seemed to be something that was important to players I’ve talked to (because of how competitive it was) and older alums specifically. Would anybody seriously be open to it in the future, or not?
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Post by A&T-roy on Mar 21, 2023 22:00:54 GMT -5
hbcugameday.com/2023/03/20/sc-state-ad-hoping-former-meac-schools-can-help-football-scheduling-issue/Came across this article highlighting SC State’s struggles with scheduling and how the AD directly called out (seemingly genuinely, not passive aggressively) us and a few others for potential matchups. I know people always point to the lack of HBCU games but the SC State rivalry seemed to be something that was important to players I’ve talked to (because of how competitive it was) and older alums specifically. Would anybody seriously be open to it in the future, or not? HAIL YEAH! We need to get that 8th in a row! And I wish we could play them every year like I hope we can play NCCU every year. We'll see what happens. P.S. I'm a young and old alum.
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Post by A&T AGGIE 96 on Mar 22, 2023 10:01:24 GMT -5
Sounds like she wants more than to rekindle old rivalries...she want some to the teams that left to come back to the MEAC. I feel for the scheduling pinch she is in, but that's wishful thinking at best.
“It is difficult having only five opponents in the MEAC playing football. We need some people to come back to the MEAC. It would be lovely to welcome some Pirates and some Aggies back to the MEAC,” Campbell said with a grin. “Just giving them a shout-out. And we can welcome some (Winston-Salem State) Rams too.”
SCSU is always a good game, but I don't think our program shouldn't be looking south to schedule opponents...we should be looking north and In state. I would rather see Norfolk, and Howard as HBCU opponents...and I would like to see WCU as an in state pick up. SCSU will have to look for the SWAC if they want more HBCU games, and more OOC with SoCon matchups in the future.
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Post by DOOMS on Mar 22, 2023 10:48:34 GMT -5
The goal is to make the Celebration Bowl so the strength of schedule shouldn't be a big issue. Schedule Savannah State, Benedict, and Allen and pay them a pittance to come to Urngeburg. Problem solved.
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Post by DECKS on Mar 22, 2023 15:15:34 GMT -5
The goal is to make the Celebration Bowl so the strength of schedule shouldn't be a big issue. Schedule Savannah State, Benedict, and Allen and pay them a pittance to come to Urngeburg. Problem solved. Not quite. MEAC teams will have six non-conference games. Problem is that after week 4 most potential opponents will be into conference play. They may have to consider playing a couple of conference mates twice.
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Post by DOOMS on Mar 22, 2023 15:18:45 GMT -5
Ugh.
I assume that also applies to scheduling us though.
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Post by Jesse Jackson's Side eye on Mar 23, 2023 19:13:39 GMT -5
The goal is to make the Celebration Bowl so the strength of schedule shouldn't be a big issue. Schedule Savannah State, Benedict, and Allen and pay them a pittance to come to Urngeburg. Problem solved. Not quite. MEAC teams will have six non-conference games. Problem is that after week 4 most potential opponents will be into conference play. They may have to consider playing a couple of conference mates twice. Playing conference members TWICE?!?!?
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Post by saabman on Mar 23, 2023 21:03:35 GMT -5
The goal is to make the Celebration Bowl so the strength of schedule shouldn't be a big issue. Schedule Savannah State, Benedict, and Allen and pay them a pittance to come to Urngeburg. Problem solved. Playing alot of D2 programs is not in SCSU DNA. SCSU had always played a challenging schedule. Mostly FCS ,FBS and one D2 . I don't see SCSU schedule as a program that is CB focused, but as a program that positions itself in a position to possibly get a FCS invitation by there strength of schedule if they fall short of the CB. Also in my opinion SCSU should always be on our schedule just like NCCU is because of the Rivalry effect..i.e Battle of the Carolinas and Bands. You don't get that from Norfolk or any of the Northern MEAC programs .
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 23, 2023 21:25:35 GMT -5
The goal is to make the Celebration Bowl so the strength of schedule shouldn't be a big issue. Schedule Savannah State, Benedict, and Allen and pay them a pittance to come to Urngeburg. Problem solved. Playing alot of D2 programs is not in SCSU DNA. SCSU had always played a challenging schedule. Mostly FCS ,FBS and one D2 . I don't see SCSU schedule as a program that is CB focused, but as a program that positions itself in a position to possibly get a FCS invitation by there strength of schedule if they fall short of the CB. Also in my opinion SCSU should always be on our schedule just like NCCU is because of the Rivalry effect..i.e Battle of the Carolinas and Bands. You don't get that from Norfolk or any of the Northern MEAC programs . Bandheads prefer NSU not SCSU
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Post by DECKS on Mar 24, 2023 6:02:15 GMT -5
I think we have eight conference games in the CAA so we don't have the flexibility to keep all of our MEAC rivals. We keep nccu and no guarantees for anyone else. Our non-conference portion should be:
nccu FBS team Non MEAC FCS opponent
There no point in leaving if we want to fill our non-conference schedule with MEAC teams. Just my opinion.
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 24, 2023 7:33:17 GMT -5
SC State and NSU will probably rotate on and off the schedule. We will play one of the two every year…
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Post by AggieGroove on Mar 24, 2023 8:37:48 GMT -5
SC State and NSU will probably rotate on and off the schedule. We will play one of the two every year… Why not Howard occasionally?
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Post by DOOMS on Mar 24, 2023 8:42:23 GMT -5
Playing alot of D2 programs is not in SCSU DNA. SCSU had always played a challenging schedule. Mostly FCS ,FBS and one D2 . I don't see SCSU schedule as a program that is CB focused, but as a program that positions itself in a position to possibly get a FCS invitation by there strength of schedule if they fall short of the CB. Also in my opinion SCSU should always be on our schedule just like NCCU is because of the Rivalry effect..i.e Battle of the Carolinas and Bands. You don't get that from Norfolk or any of the Northern MEAC programs . Bandheads prefer NSU not SCSU IMO, at this juncture Steat's primary goal is (or at least should be) revenue. I assume that's the reason the interim AD is mentioning certain former rivals. Trying to angle for a playoff spot in the Celebration Bowl era is at best foolhardy and also close to impossible. The last time Steat played a playoff-level schedule and came in second in the conference they were spurned for a playoff bid for a Wofford team that they actually beat head-to-head. I doubt they ever want to experience that again. A CB bid comes with increased exposure and revenue, two things Steat desperately needs. In addition, Steat is the closest MEAC team to Atlanta and has a ton of alumni within a three hour drive. If I'm the AD I'm taking the easiest route to the CB while also trying to increase ticket sales, which means poaching from other MEAC champion level coaching squads (check), enticing old rivals to come for a visit (attempting to check), and putting enough local cupcakes on the schedule to get ticket sales and keep the team relatively healthy and rested throughout the season (no check... yet). I believe playoff bids is the absolutely last thing on the ADs mind and bandheads are probably also pretty low on the list.
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 24, 2023 8:42:26 GMT -5
SC State and NSU will probably rotate on and off the schedule. We will play one of the two every year… Why not Howard occasionally? NSU and SCSU bring more paying customers and their bands.
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Post by A&T-roy on Mar 24, 2023 9:12:47 GMT -5
I think we have eight conference games in the CAA so we don't have the flexibility to keep all of our MEAC rivals. We keep nccu and no guarantees for anyone else. Our non-conference portion should be: nccu FBS team Non MEAC FCS opponent There no point in leaving if we want to fill our non-conference schedule with MEAC teams. Just my opinion. I might want to alternate the Non-MEAC FCS opponent with an MEAC opponent, but I would lean towards an MEAC opponent and it being SCSU.
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