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WIU712- Look at who they play.As far as the WESTERN game a few years ago. One must wonder if WESTERN just avoided getting caught with their pants down-so to speak. Too many 3rd and 4rth string too early in the game- to avoid blowing them out. "Good for area college football", not to embarrass (sp) a local college???? That was my theory.
I'm done with QU smack. If it's anything but a blow out this next year, I'm discarding all WESTERN clothing etc.- out of embarrassment myself.
Men's BB is a different story. They would probably cream DT. The GLVC is a good BB conference.That's my compliment to them. Probably why WESTERN won't play them in BB.
These early morning tirades of mine must stop. Maybe I need to up my medications!!!
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Why are there two bye weeks? I'm glad WIU finally has one in the middle because it can often come in at the perfect time to get guys healthy. Having a bye week before a stretch against UNI, SIU, IL ST and YSU will be good. The 11/22 game against YSU should be the beginning of the playoffs not the last game of the season. Seems the season got stretched out a week. That will make for some even colder playoff games.
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Thanksgiving will be one week later next year on November 27th. The play-offs always start on the first Saturday after Thanksgiving which will be November 29th next year.
As for the 2 BYE weeks next year (Sept 27th and Oct 25th):
With now 9 teams in the Gateway, we will be playing 8 Conference games and 3 non-conference games each season. Also with 9 teams, there will always be one "odd" team each week with either a BYE or a non-conference game while the other 8 teams pair up against each other.
It would be nice to move that Nov 22nd game with Youngstown to either Sept 27 or Oct 25 so that it wouldn't come at the start of the Fall Thanksgiving Break. But most likely, that is not possible. We have to assume that Youngstown already has games scheduled on those 2 dates. But if Youngstown is free on either one of those 2 dates, perhaps that game could be moved.
Go Leathernecks !!
Go Westerwinds !!
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Ahhh...yet another reason why I only wanted Sout..I mean one team to join the conference and replace WKU.
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One advantage to having 9 teams is that everyone will be playing 4 conference games at home and 4 on the road.
With 8 teams, 4 teams will have 4 home games while the other 4 teams will only have 3 home games.
I think that the Dakota teams were a "paired item". I think it would have been difficult to take one without the other.
I wonder if there is any thought of adding a 10th team ???? I know that Southern Utah wanted to join a few years back. And we already play them in the Summit. But I think at that time, there was not much support from Youngstown State and Western Kentucky to add Southern Utah.
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| Suprised SDSU beat NDSU today. I thought ND was a lot better. Guess thats just more parity for the Gateway next season
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| If your going to go down to DII and get a team, get a team that will make a game. I heard Northwest Missouri State wanted to play Western IL. last season, but they declined. You want to make your program great, play more great teanms, even if they come from DII.
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turkcat- I'm all for playing some quality D2 schools. The MIAA would provide that. Pitt State, NW Missouri, Central- all would be excellent competition for WESTERN. As the saying goes, they have everything to gain, and WESTERN has a lot to lose if beaten. However, as a fan, I believe these would be good non- conference tests.
My wife and I have our graduate degrees from Truman- known as NE Missouri back then. I coached HS football and track in Missouri for ten years. I am very familiar with the MIAA, and it's level of football.A lot of folks unfamiliar with quality D2 programs don't always appreciate the skill level of these schools. Two or three MIAA schools could compete in the Gateway.
Same reasons why Missouri State won't play any upper ranked MIAA teams. They played Truman a few years ago, but generally stay away from the MIAA.
Except for Quincy, I do believe the 2008 schedule is a good one.I guess you will always need a weaker team as a filler- for many reasons.
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