2016 Schedule

[kalm]

Larry rattled at least some of it off during the last post game show and that's where I got the NAU game. I googled schedules for the rest of the conference and many are not posted yet but I do know we are not playing UND or Weber in 2016.

Here's what I have so far. Feel free to make any additions you know of for sure.

@WSU
@NDSU
UNI
@NAU

@MSU 10/22
Montana 10/29
ISU 11/12
@PSU

BTW, Dopa. UND is playing Stony Brook, Bowling Green, and South Dakota next year. MSU has Idaho, Bryant, and Western Oregon.

A little closer to what you are thinking?

 

[SloStang]

EWU at Cal Poly November 5, 2016.



Cal Poly 2016 OOC schedule: @ Nevada, San Diego and @ South Dakota State

Link to schedule: http://static.psbin.com/9/l/p0njaxzxtt77aq/2016ScheduleChart.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[Obzerver]

@WSU-ouch
@NDSU-ouch
UNI-ouch
@NAU-ouch
@MSU 10/22-ouch
Montana 10/29-ouch
@Cal poly 11/5-ouch
ISU 11/12-ok
@PSU-ouch

Bad dream?

 

[marceagfan5]

Larry rattled at least some of it off during the last post game show and that's where I got the NAU game. I googled schedules for the rest of the conference and many are not posted yet but I do know we are not playing UND or Weber in 2016.

Here's what I have so far. Feel free to make any additions you know of for sure.

@WSU
@NDSU
UNI
@NAU

@MSU 10/22
Montana 10/29
ISU 11/12
@PSU

BTW, Dopa. UND is playing Stony Brook, Bowling Green, and South Dakota next year. MSU has Idaho, Bryant, and Western Oregon.

A little closer to what you are thinking?

There has been some good discussion in the future schedules sticky thread curious to hear others takes on our schedule.

Und and Msu have great schedules btw

 

[EWURanger]

@WSU-ouch
@NDSU-ouch
UNI-ouch
@NAU-ouch
@MSU 10/22-ouch
Montana 10/29-ouch
@Cal poly 11/5-ouch
ISU 11/12-ok
@PSU-ouch

Bad dream?

Not going to lie; that is an absolutely brutal schedule. Still, there's really only 2 games on there that may not be winnable.

 

[bertram]

Sept 3rd. Washington
Sept 10th NDSU
Sept 17th UNI
Sept 24th Northern Arizona
Oct 1st. UC Davis
Oct 8th. Northern Colorado
Oct 22nd. Montana ST
Oct 29th. Montana
Nov 5th. Cal Poly
Nov 12th. Idaho State
Nov 19th Portland ST

 

[kalm]

Larry rattled at least some of it off during the last post game show and that's where I got the NAU game. I googled schedules for the rest of the conference and many are not posted yet but I do know we are not playing UND or Weber in 2016.

Here's what I have so far. Feel free to make any additions you know of for sure.

@WSU
@NDSU
UNI
@NAU

@MSU 10/22
Montana 10/29
ISU 11/12
@PSU

BTW, Dopa. UND is playing Stony Brook, Bowling Green, and South Dakota next year. MSU has Idaho, Bryant, and Western Oregon.

A little closer to what you are thinking?

There has been some good discussion in the future schedules sticky thread curious to hear others takes on our schedule.

Und and Msu have great schedules btw

I missed that discussion as I'm used to the stickies not seeing much action for weeks on end. :lol:

So to fill in the blanks from Warzone's post it should be

Sept 3rd. @ Washington St L
Sept 10th @ NDSU L
Sept 17th UNI Toss up
Sept 24th @ Northern Arizona Toss up
Oct 1st. UC Davis W
Oct 8th. Northern Colorado W
Oct 22nd. @ Montana ST W
Oct 29th. Montana Toss up
Nov 5th. @ Cal Poly Toss up
Nov 12th. Idaho State W
Nov 19th @Portland ST Toss up

So 3-2 in the toss up games gets us to 7-4 and an at-large.

As for the greater discussion, I've long assumed that scheduling one-off or home and homes with weak FCS opponents is damn near impossible or else we'd be doing it, but then you look at UND with less of a gate than we have and it obviously can be done. Perhaps they have big donors that help foot the bill of bringing a Bryant out to Grand Forks?

I agree with Dopa's perfect scenario of one money game, one FCS elite program, and one FCS patsy. That's what we should be striving for every year.

The CAA and SLC have weak OOC schedules, easy early round draws in the playoffs, and were exposed for it in the semi's this year. There's something to be said for challenging yourself but the kicker is we're still going to have to go through the MVFC in the playoffs and it's a far easier task making them come to Cheney. An extra win at the hands of a weak FCS opponent makes that more likely.

 

[Hambone]

Is it Wazzu or UW in 2016? I thought it was Wazzu.

 

[EWUSigep447]

Sept 3rd. @ Washington

Is it Wazzu or UW in 2016? I thought it was Wazzu.

Kalm means @ Washington State

...I wish we played this game last year ('14) with VA, Forte, McDonald, Mcarthy, Hamlin, Rodgers, and Coop. A victory over UW or WSU is overdue :thumbdown:

 

[kalm]

Sept 3rd. @ Washington

Is it Wazzu or UW in 2016? I thought it was Wazzu.

Kalm means @ Washington State

...I wish we played this game last year ('14) with VA, Forte, McDonald, Mcarthy, Hamlin, Rodgers, and Coop. A victory over UW or WSU is overdue :thumbdown:

Thanks, fixed it.

 

[LDopaPDX]

Some ADs get it, other don't. Montana State has brought in East Tennessee State and Bryant in back to back years. It can be done. And getting teams to Grand Forks? That ought to be impossible. You couldn't find a more remote outpost. You either fly charter, take 3-4 flight legs, or fly into Minneapolis and bus it out West. How they can get teams easier than us is absurd.

I stand by my assertion that we aren't trying hard enough. It's a shame that our AD seems to be working against us with his scheduling instead of helping the team achieve their goals. We could conceivably be pretty good and out of the mix by the end of September. The weather is great in Cheney during the month of September, why are we so unilaterally opposed to playing at home early in the year? It makes absolutely no sense to me.

 

[marceagfan5]

We need to make it a priority to schedule 6 home games at least every other year. NDSU, MSU, and UM would lose their minds it if they didn't play 6 home games a year in an 11 game season, but for some reason we are fine with 5 and sometimes even 4. We also need to schedule easier games. The Big Sky is going to test us plenty, right now its the 2nd best FCS conference, we don't need to schedule insanely difficult out of conference games ever year! I think the players love the FBS game so its good to keep that, then we need to pay a crap FCS team or even a D2 to come to Cheney, last schedule a home and home with a decent FCS team every year. That guarantees 6 games every 2 years and a decent schedule. Hopefully we've gone away from the 2nd FBS game...

MSU, UND, and UM have proven you can bring crappy FCS teams out west in non conference...as Kalm pointed out UND and MSU's schedules next year. The Griz have an open date and St. Francis coming to Missoula. They also play at UNI, so i'd bet big money they schedule a pushover in their 3rd game...

Look at the year we won the national championship, we played an FBS game, a home game (kind of) against a D2, and a FCS home game, it worked. We lost two games, were seeded and made a run in the playoffs. Technically every time we've played a D2 home game the last 6 years we made the playoffs, the two years we didn't play a D2, we didn't make the playoffs.

If anyone is curious how NDSU, who has won the last 4 chippers schedules, here is their non-conf for their title runs:

2011 - home against Lafayette, home against St. Francis, FBS at Minnesota
2012 - home against Robert Morris, home against PV A&M, FBS at Colorado State
2013 - home against Ferris State, home against Delaware Sate, FBS at Kansas State, this was even a 12 game year where they only scheduled 11 games because they didn't want to screw up their system of scheduling that works and put themselves in a bad situation
2014 - at Weber, home against the Griz, home against Incarnate Word, FBS at Iowa State

Our schedule is booked for next year so it will be interesting to see how we schedule our 3rd game in 2017 for non conf. Right now we play at Texas Tech, play a home game against NDSU, and have an open slot. Would love to see us schedule another home game in 2017 and I'd be disappointed if we dont...

 

[sammamisheag]

Curious to get Chaves' response if the scheduling is reflective to budgeting or lack there of?

 

[clawman1]

The $$$ aspect of scheduling is going to be changing. The power 5 conferences are getting close to not allowing their members to schedule FCS schools, that is those that haven't already done so. Schools like Eastern that have come to rely on that revenue from major schools will have a big dent in their budgets. Unlike the Montanas, NDSU, and other programs that draw 20,000+ fans for a cupcake game Eastern does not have the luxury of bringing in lesser schools to fill the schedule, we need to travel to get a paycheck.

 

[LDopaPDX]

The $$$ aspect of scheduling is going to be changing. The power 5 conferences are getting close to not allowing their members to schedule FCS schools, that is those that haven't already done so. Schools like Eastern that have come to rely on that revenue from major schools will have a big dent in their budgets. Unlike the Montanas, NDSU, and other programs that draw 20,000+ fans for a cupcake game Eastern does not have the luxury of bringing in lesser schools to fill the schedule, we need to travel to get a paycheck.

And no one is arguing we shouldn't travel. Here's where the nonsense comes into play...

How on Earth can we get UNI, North Dakota State, and Sam Houston State to play us in home/home arrangements, but not the aforementioned Bryant and East Tennessee State? That's like Wazzu getting home/homes with Ohio State and Florida, but not being able to secure home/homes with San Diego State or Nevada. There is no logic to that. It would be easier to schedule the patsies than it is to get the premier programs.

Jeezus, we just lost a home basketball game to Morehead State. Why not use that opportunity to figure out what it would take to get a home/home out of their football team... we've got to be communicating with their AD already.

And here's the real downside, we could be a better football team than Montana State next year. They go thru their non-con at 3-0 and we might be 0-3. We could blow them out and still miss the playoffs while they get in. And let's be honest, we've got a lot of bandwagon fans that might not stick with us if we suddenly start missing the playoffs every year. There's far too much downside in the risks we take.

 

[LDopaPDX]

BTW, I'd guarantee that the power 5 conferences as a whole will not eliminate FCS games. Period. I could give a laundry list of reasons; let's just say it isn't happening. a 12- or 13- game schedule with additional cupcake games each year is far more likely than the elimination of FCS games from the BCS teams.

 

[marceagfan5]

The $$$ aspect of scheduling is going to be changing. The power 5 conferences are getting close to not allowing their members to schedule FCS schools, that is those that haven't already done so. Schools like Eastern that have come to rely on that revenue from major schools will have a big dent in their budgets. Unlike the Montanas, NDSU, and other programs that draw 20,000+ fans for a cupcake game Eastern does not have the luxury of bringing in lesser schools to fill the schedule, we need to travel to get a paycheck.

I get what you are saying, but we need to look at it in a bigger picture...

paying someone to come here gives us a better chance to win, more wins mean more playoff appearances and higher seeds in the playoffs. When that happens more fans and support to the program increase and we don't need all the pay day travel games...

We start to schedule too many away games against difficult teams, we will lose more games, not make the playoffs and start to lose a lot of our fans...

I wish we would look ahead at what success can bring to the program down the road rather than trying to find an extra $100k for our budget year in, year out...

 

[air045]

Guys funding a program with this facility has to be a challenge. Throw in the fact of ewu success would make scheduling a nightmare. Which brings us to the old scab of this facility. Until we update the high school bleachers, we're always going to play more road games. This facility cannot financially support the team anymore, period. Ewu cannot afford not fixing them. I think the gateway is to much, scale it down to something actionable now! If those bleachers remain another year, I'm going to be entirely disappointed because it's not that hard to just fix just that side of the stadium (at least), so it's not an embarrassment. It's time for the talking about it to end. I've been to BSUs visiting bleachers, surely something like that is possible.

With reasonable facilities. I bet he could get the academies or mountain west teams to travel here and have sell outs. Its time for some action , leadership need to fix the freaking bleachers or at least be more transparent on why they can't. It's now becoming a joke.

 

[allweatherfan2]

+ Administration and Trustees are you listening?

 

[kalm]

Guys funding a program with this facility has to be a challenge. Throw in the fact of ewu success would make scheduling a nightmare. Which brings us to the old scab of this facility. Until we update the high school bleachers, we're always going to play more road games. This facility cannot financially support the team anymore, period. Ewu cannot afford not fixing them. I think the gateway is to much, scale it down to something actionable now! If those bleachers remain another year, I'm going to be entirely disappointed because it's not that hard to just fix just that side of the stadium (at least), so it's not an embarrassment. It's time for the talking about it to end. I've been to BSUs visiting bleachers, surely something like that is possible.

With reasonable facilities. I bet he could get the academies or mountain west teams to travel here and have sell outs. Its time for some action , leadership need to fix the freaking bleachers or at least be more transparent on why they can't. It's now becoming a joke.

FBS teams can only come here if we move up. But good post otherwise.