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Hey Leatherneck Fans!
The 2008 Football Schedule is out. Once again, there will be 6 home games. With now nine teams in the Gateway, we will always have 4 Conference games at home and 4 Conference games on the road every year.
Season will start on Saturday, August 30th vs Arkansas.
Homecoming will be October 18th vs Indiana State.
A schedule oddity has us playing Northern Iowa at home again next year. With 19 of 22 starters back plus our kicker & punter, perhaps we can pay them back!
Sat, Aug 30 Arkansas at Fayetteville, Ark. TBA
Sat, Sep 06 Quincy (Hall of Fame Game) Macomb, Ill. TBA
Sat, Sep 13 South Dakota State * at Brookings, S.D. TBA
Sat, Sep 20 Stephen F. Austin (Family Weekend) Macomb, Ill. TBA
Sat, Oct 04 Missouri State * at Springfield, Mo. TBA
Sat, Oct 11 North Dakota State * at Fargo, N.D. TBA
Sat, Oct 18 Indiana State (Homecoming) * Macomb, Ill. TBA
Sat, Nov 01 Northern Iowa * Macomb, Ill. TBA
Sat, Nov 08 Southern Illinois * at Carbondale, Ill. TBA
Sat, Nov 15 Illinois State * Macomb, Ill. TBA
Sat, Nov 22 Youngstown State * Macomb, Ill. TBA
Sat, Nov 29 NCAA Playoffs at TBA TBA
* Conference Games
Go Leathernecks !!
Go Westerwinds !!
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QUINCY? What a junk program. Very poorly funded, poor support etc. etc. etc.You think St. Francis was bad- wait till you see this joke of a program. Oh,wait, they came within a touchdown of WESTERN a few years ago- and they STILL talk about it. Why schedule this type of poor quality?
Otherwise , the schedule looks good. QU is the type of athletic program that likes to think they are "big", but, they are NOTHING. Blow them out big time.
Guess you know my opinion here. Won't spend any money to watch that kind of junk. No, me nor anyone in my family ever had any association with them.
Actually, the rest of the schedule looks good.
I have seen some local articles by Quincy media types. They always build up QU to the point of being pathetic homers. Pie in th sky.
I'll stop rambling and venting. Sorry.
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| Interesting to see Patterson took the bye week during the middle of the season. This is so dumb. The ISU game and YSU game will be played while the students are on Thanksgiving break. These are two big games and that will leave Hanson Field with a crowd of about 300 during these games . . .
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| i would like to see them play monmouth college they would put up as good of a game as quincy. If not in football atleast basketball or baseball. the whole non conf basketball sch. is naia or d3 schools i think.
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We'll be told how this game is good for college football in western illinois. Right. I agree, if you want to play this skill level, get a quality institution-Monmouth or Knox etc. Quincy can hardly keep their doors open.
My last comment on them.
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Thanksgiving will be late next year: November 27, 2008.
So it won't impact the game on November 15th vs Illinois State.
The November 22nd game vs Youngstown State will be the first Saturday of Fall break as the last day of classes before the break next year will be November 21st.
Hopefully if we are in the running for a Gateway Championship, the students will stick around for one more day. Of course, the University will have to help out by leaving the dorms open on for that extra day.
I dont know if Coach Patterson had any choice as to the "bye" week. With now 9 teams in the Conference, it seems like one team will always have a bye week while the other 8 pair-up.
The Men's Basketball schedule does include road games at Kansas State, Missouri, and UCLA.
Go Leathernecks !!
Go Westerwinds !!
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| knox is probably worse than quincy at football
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At least it's a quality institution! That's it, I'm done making childish comments
It looks like a good schedule-especially for home games.
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Quincy University was 6-5 this year. It's second winning season in a row.
Quincy lost their first game of the season to Southern Illinois in Carbondale, 59 - 14.
Quincy gave us a very tough game just a few years ago.
Go Leathernecks !!
Go Westerwinds !!
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