Leatherneck Nation

ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:51 pm

Leatherneck177 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:41 pm Montana State has a game at Western on their site for September 14th 2019,

Thanks for the update.

GV Dad wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:10 am

ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:51 pm

Leatherneck177 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:41 pm Montana State has a game at Western on their site for September 14th 2019,

Thanks for the update.

Are both Montana schools home and away contracts?

ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:17 am

GV Dad wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 9:10 am

ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Sat Aug 11, 2018 9:51 pm

Thanks for the update.

Are both Montana schools home and away contracts?

Yes. At Montana State this year, vs Montana State in Macomb next year. Montana in Macomb this year, at Montana in 2021.

EDIT - we also have upcoming H&H's with North Alabama (2019/2020), Eastern Washington (2020/2021), and Southern Utah (2022/2023).

GV Dad wrote: ↑Mon Aug 13, 2018 10:08 am Do we just look for the most difficult travel possible and say, "yep, let's schedule them!" LOL

GV Dad wrote:The schedule has us not playing SDSU but also says should be a 12 game schedule? If it's 12 games, would we not play SDSU?

ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:32 pm

GV Dad wrote:The schedule has us not playing SDSU but also says should be a 12 game schedule? If it's 12 games, would we not play SDSU?

Nope, in a 12-game schedule year, the conference schedule/rotation stays the same and we add a non-conference game. There's no rule that says that non-confidence game can't be against a conference team we don't otherwise play that year (I remember a big sky team did that last year or maybe the year before). The last two years that were 12-games, we added an extra FBS.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

GV Dad wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:43 pm Let's either add a Power 5 FBS team for the payday, or add an easy FCS team to get a sure W. Eastern Washington, Montana and Montana St should never be on our schedules. Nothing to gain.

ST_Lawson wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 4:01 pm

GV Dad wrote: ↑Tue Oct 16, 2018 3:43 pm Let's either add a Power 5 FBS team for the payday, or add an easy FCS team to get a sure W. Eastern Washington, Montana and Montana St should never be on our schedules. Nothing to gain.

I don't know about "nothing to gain", necessarily. There's reasons for each type of team on the schedule.
FBS - we get $
"lower" FCS (like a Pioneer League team...Valpo, Drake, Butler, etc.) - easy win, but unless we do a H&H agreement with them, we have to pay them $ to come here.
Upper level FCS team (like the Big Sky teams) - makes our schedule tougher...I know that sounds like a bad thing, but SoS is taken into account with regards to making the playoffs
In 2015, for example, we played then #25 ranked Eastern Illinois (won), played Illinois (lost), and played at then #1 FCS Coastal Carolina (lost a fairly close one). We went 5-3 in the conference, finished 6-5 overall and 5th in the conference, but became the first 6-5 team to ever make the the FCS playoffs as an at-large (I think a team had that record and won their conference one year to get their autobid...NEC maybe). We got picked ahead of quite a few decent 7-4 teams like Northern Arizona, North Dakota (they were really pissed about that one), Towson, UT-Martin, Western Carolina, and Central Arkansas. UND was especially mad because they'd actually beaten FBS Wyoming that year. They'd gone 5-3 in-conference like us (although Big Sky, as opposed to MVFC). But because we had the #1 toughest SoS that year in the FCS...we got the spot instead of them.

We also have the MVFC/Big Sky scheduling agreement in place, and I don't know what the terms are for that. Like, if we have to schedule a Big Sky team every year, or what.