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2015 Schedule

At this point, I don't care who they are playing , I am not "giving" and I am not "going" ! It saddens me but Keeping Collins closed the door for me !
 
McCandyman said:
Footballfan15 said:
Wow the players have to be really pissed about that
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Why do you think the players would be "really pissed about that?"
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I can only guess as to why Footballfan15 thinks the players would be really pissed about that. I'm assuming that he is referring to the fact that they Bears do not have a money game next year. The kids love the opportunity to play in the bigger stadiums and in front of bigger crowds despite the possibility for a blowout. So instead of having a game like that next season they get to play Western State, Houston Baptist and Abilene Christian. Not particularly something to get excited about.

As for going 0-11. That seems a stretch even for this coaching staff. Looking at the schedule, I count at least 8 winnable games. Of course those 8 games could just as easily be losses. Will they win all 8 of those games? Based on this staff's history it is highly doubtful. Hopefully the don't sleep on Western State. Western State took CSU-P to the wire this last season.
 
McCandyman said:
Footballfan15 said:
Wow the players have to be really pissed about that
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Why do you think the players would be "really pissed about that?"
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As a player you love playing in those games. There is something about being able to test yourself against the "big time players". Yes, there is a good chance you are going to take a beating, but there is also that slim chance to pull an upset.
 
McCandyman said:
Footballfan15 said:
Wow the players have to be really pissed about that
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Why do you think the players would be "really pissed about that?"
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Do you think in 10 years the players will say , wow i remeber the game I beat Abliene Christian at home 31-20. Hell no. You say stuff like I remember the time I played at the University of Utah, or Michigan St, or Kansas. Who cares if they lose. When recruited, d1 AA schools usually talk about scheduling and entice players to join a program saying things like "We are trying to schedule this team on the road blah blah, their stadium holds 40,000 etc etc , it gets really loud. So now when players see this schedule it kind of lets them down.
 
At this point I applaud them for scheduling some winnable non conference games, I'm surprised we're not @NDSU.
 
5minmajor said:
It looks like Ernest has himself a fairly soft schedule.
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I don't see soft, 6 of these teams we lost to the last time we played them. We cant expect Houston Baptist to turn the ball 4 times at home and Abilene Christian is no slouch and NAU is not going to be a Sunday stroll. There are 8 games that look more like loses than wins, and after 2 years ago we cant look past the D2 team on our schedule. Now having said that we do have some things going for us. The QB job will be a battle the RB position will have young hungry runners. The rumor is we are going to use the TE this year the O-line will have more than 6 players to choose from(and the kids who redshirted last year should at least take 2 or 3 jobs) The D-line is younger and hungry as are the LBs we have some decent talent at DB . Now for the bad news The special teams are still being coached by Collins. The staff is still the same as last year so there is no reason to think it will be anything other than run, run, pass then punt. this is the most vanilla offense ever. With that being said I am cautiously optimistic. Although I do think a bad year next year might actually get this staff the boot. I just hope this year doesn't screw up recruiting.
 
As a fan, that schedule sucks. Not one interesting non-conference game and one at the end of the season?

Even the big sky schedule is dull with no Montana teams (not that we have control over that). Kind of fits with he "who gives a crap" attitude I have for the football program.
 
Bears should not lose to Western State, that said It would not be the first time. Seems Western snuck in here and stole one from the Bears during one of the NC seasons.

Abilene Christian is another matter altogether, we do not have a good history with them, and likely they will beat the pants off of us at the end of the season.

Looks like a one win season next year, should do wonders for attendance and recruiting, again.

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Abilene Christian is another matter altogether, we do not have a good history with them, and likely they will beat the pants off of us at the end of the season.
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Yes they owned UNC for a long time much like North Dakota State did for so many years. Then we got it turned around with NDSU right up until the time we made the jump to Div 1-AA . Since then so many of teams we were at parity with our better have moved in opposite direction they have gotten better and we have become bad. It killed me watching NDSU and SDSU game last week. NDSU National Champions 3 years in a row and we lose another year because we can not make a change on a coach with 9 victories in 4 years.
 
Well, in North Dakota, NDSU and UND is really all there is. In Colorado there is much bigger competition, no matter how bad it is. The investments have been made and continue to be made at CU, CSU, and AFA, UNC does not rate with these budgets nor with the public in general. As a D-1 program in Colorado, UNC is and will remain a bastard stepchild in the eyes of the powers that be in Colorado with regards to funding athletics.

The whole concept to go to D-1AA (FCS) in the start was the notion there was a nitch here for that level given the rich recruiting ground the front range is, it is a valid argument, but again UNC went into it with out funding or commitment to fund to the level to be successful. We got away with it two times earlier while crawling out of the RMAC, GMAC, and into the NCC but the step to the BSC was way too big to fake it this time.

This is starting to look dismal, and terminal. Apparently there is no hope of funding this program to be competitive, they are just happy being a doormat in football in exchange for saying they are D-1.
 
Is it possible that the reason we don't have a money game this year is that the team that was scheduled to play us reneged on their contract so they didn't have to play us? There is a lot of pressure on the FBS schools to have a strong strength of schedule to qualify for bowl games. Are we that bad that they don't even want to play us for a guaranteed win in fear that we could ruin their bowl chances?
 
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