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(12-01-2020 10:10 AM)dubcat14 Wrote:  

(11-30-2020 02:28 PM)doss2 Wrote:  

(11-30-2020 02:01 PM)Banter Wrote:  I personally like the Miami game. Its the only trophy game we have left, and it is a road game 45 minutes away. I think we are much better than they are, but Martin has made them into a respectable MAC team. I don't see the benefit of ditching this series just to schedule a home and home with Akron, Kent, Directional Michigan, or random Conference USA opponents.

Sure you might luck out by getting a win over one of the better Conference USA or Sun Belt teams, but you also might end up playing one who hurts our SoS even more than Miami.

Keep the game but two at Nip and one in Oxford. PBS makes no sense since Miami does not bring enough fans.

I actually think the game should coincide with Oktoberfest every year or at least once every 2 or 3 and played at PBS for easy access to both. We had that happen when Nippert was getting renovated and it was a really good atmosphere.

As for the series itself I think it should continue as is. As mentioned above, it's our only trophy rivalry, it's a good warm up game and there's still 3 other out of conference games to fill with other regional teams.

I agree. Keg of Nails is gone, Pitt is (mostly) gone, I don't see WVU anytime soon. There's something to be said for history, as it was the first college football game played in Ohio, so I think it's cool we still meet. A little OT, but Fickell mentioned on his radio show he wants to schedule more local-ish teams, such as UK's and the Indiana's of the world, which I am all in favor of, so maybe Louisville and WVU end up back on the schedule again at some point.

(11-30-2020 03:08 PM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(11-30-2020 02:11 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  

(11-30-2020 02:00 PM)skylinecat Wrote:  Now that we no longer have that slogan, my vote is to ditch it. There are about 5 other teams within 100 miles I'd try to get scheduled before Miami. They will always be there if those teams say no. I'd much rather play any of UK, UofL, OSU, Pitt, IU, Purdue, MSU, Michigan, OU, etc etc before Miami. I know we have Pitt and IU on the upcoming schedule.

The bold won't play at Nippert. We also have BC and NC State as home and return games. Arkansas in on the future schedule, not sure if they are coming to Nippert?

I'd add Northwestern, Illinois, and Virginia Tech to the list of schools I'd like to see us play around here. I think all would be willing, seeing as how two already have done so.

I doubt Northwestern would be interested. They'd rather play elite privates like Duke, Stanford, Vanderbilt. Or even Rice & Tulane.

Plus, NW is in Chicago. A lot more schools want to play in Chicago than in Urbana or Blacksburg. It's probably easier for them to get big-name schools to play in Evanston than anyone in the Big Ten other than OSU and Michigan.



Edit: I was right about who they want to play. Northwestern OOC home-and-home series since 2010 is all private schools except California, which acts more like a private school than any public school in the country

Army (1 road game @ West Point, 2011, no return game)
Rice (2010 & 2011)
Boston College (2011 & 2012)
Vanderbilt (2010 & 2012)
Syracuse (2012 & 2013)
California (2013 & 2014)
Notre Dame (2014, 2018)
Stanford (2015 & 2019)
Duke (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)

Northwestern Future Schedules:
Duke (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
Tulane (2025 & rescheduling makeup game from 2020)
Colorado (2026 & 2027)
Rice (2029 & 2031)


Compare to Illinois, which plays lower-tier P5s and sometimes uses Soldier Field as an inducement:
Missouri (2009 & 2010, both in St. Louis)
Fresno (2009 & 2010)
Arizona State (2011 & 2012)
Cincinnati (2009 & 2013)
Washington (2013 & 2014, with Illinois home game @Soldier Field)
North Carolina (2015 & 2016)
USF (2017 & 2018, with Illinois home game @Soldier Field)
UConn (2019 & 2020)

Illinois Future Schedules:
Virginia (2021 & 2022)
Kansas (2023 & 2024)
Duke (2025 & 2026)
Missouri (2027, 2028, 2029, 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035)