(06-02-2014 06:13 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  We're stuck with FCS games for a while to get out of the scheduling 'hole' created by 2 for 1's and payday games. Unless we want a few seasons with 5 home games. In 2019 and 2020 we play on the road at USM and Tulane. It wouldn't be so bad to just have 5 home games those two years as the 6th game would be really close to Mobile. Especially in 2019, when we have a road game at Troy as well.

So if we wanted to dump FCS games... He're what we are looking at

2016 - we have 5 home games and 6 away games
2017 - we have 5 home games and 6 away games
2018 - we have 5 home games and 5 away games
2019 - we have 4 home games and 6 away games
2020 - we have 5 home games and 6 away games
2021 - we have 5 home games and 5 away games
2022 - we have 5 home games and 4 away games

Here are our options.

1) Keep kicking the can down the road by moving the backlog of games outward. That would be assume we can find teams willing to come to Mobile first. That generally tends to be difficult.

2) Schedule FCS games in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 to even it all out. We would be able to do the following with FBS schools - away 2018 home 2019; home 2021 away 2022.

We'd then have an open home and an open away game for 2022.

3) Suck it up and go with 5 home games in a couple of years.

I have no idea what we should do. My guess is that we'll just keep trying for option 1. I'd prefer a combination of 2 and 3. If we ever went for a 5 game home schedule, 2019 would be the year as we have road games at USM and Troy that year.

I think its a lot harder to fill a series that needs a home game first (because lots of schools would rather get the home game first). So it might be worth it to FCS it out of this mess so we have maximum flexibility in scheduling in the future.

Heck, we'll probably be independent. Perhaps you should try a home game in 2016 or 2017 and return the trip in 2018. Personally against schedule any games with teams that voted against us. This includes MAC teams as some like Ohio put out the call as soon as we reject all sports in the MAC.

Personally would like to see App Stat at home and Georgia Southern away and then flip it. Can see a lot of other combination but those two we have history with and are most desirable.