ewusigep252
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marceagfan5 said:
We also have a game at Oregon in 2022 that is scheduled at this time. That’s the farthest out game that is scheduled at this time.
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Future Schedules
- Thread starter Screamin_Eagle174
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We also have a game at Oregon in 2022 that is scheduled at this time. That’s the farthest out game that is scheduled at this time.
rontheoldwiseeagle2
Active member
Why oh why, do we always get the away game first???????????????????
dudeitsaid
Active member
rontheoldwiseeagle2 said:
That always seems to be the case. So I was surprised to see we have Western Illinois first. Maybe the start of a new trend?
NAU added....
Complete List of EWU's Future Games Scheduled . . .
SUBJECT TO CHANGE . . . *Indicates Big Sky Conference game.
2018 SCHEDULE
9/1/18 - Open
9/8/18 - at Northern Arizona
9/15/18 - at Washington State
9/22/18 - Cal Poly* (tentatively Hall of Fame Day at EWU)
9/29/18 - at Montana State*
10/6/18 - Southern Utah*
10/13/18 - at Weber State*
10/20/18 - Open
10/27/18 - Idaho* (tentatively Homecoming at EWU)
11/3/18 - at Northern Colo.*
11/10/18 - UC Davis*
11/17/18 - at Portland State*
2019 SCHEDULE
8/31/19 - at Washington
9/7/19 - Open
9/14/19 - at Jacksonville St.
9/21/19 - Open
9/28/19 - North Dakota*
10/5/19 - at Sacramento St.*
10/12/19 - Northern Colorado*
10/19/19 - Open
10/26/19 - at Montana*
11/2/19 - Northern Arizona*
11/9/19 - at Idaho State*
11/16/19 - at Cal Poly*
11/23/19 - Portland State*
Also . . .
9/5/20 - at Florida
9/12/20 - Western Illinois
9/19/20 - Northern Arizona
9/11/21 - Jacksonville State
9/18/21 - at Western Illinois
9/3/22 - at Oregon (date subject to change)
My prediction for that opening next year.....Welcome home Hennesey and Central Washington!
Complete List of EWU's Future Games Scheduled . . .
SUBJECT TO CHANGE . . . *Indicates Big Sky Conference game.
2018 SCHEDULE
9/1/18 - Open
9/8/18 - at Northern Arizona
9/15/18 - at Washington State
9/22/18 - Cal Poly* (tentatively Hall of Fame Day at EWU)
9/29/18 - at Montana State*
10/6/18 - Southern Utah*
10/13/18 - at Weber State*
10/20/18 - Open
10/27/18 - Idaho* (tentatively Homecoming at EWU)
11/3/18 - at Northern Colo.*
11/10/18 - UC Davis*
11/17/18 - at Portland State*
2019 SCHEDULE
8/31/19 - at Washington
9/7/19 - Open
9/14/19 - at Jacksonville St.
9/21/19 - Open
9/28/19 - North Dakota*
10/5/19 - at Sacramento St.*
10/12/19 - Northern Colorado*
10/19/19 - Open
10/26/19 - at Montana*
11/2/19 - Northern Arizona*
11/9/19 - at Idaho State*
11/16/19 - at Cal Poly*
11/23/19 - Portland State*
Also . . .
9/5/20 - at Florida
9/12/20 - Western Illinois
9/19/20 - Northern Arizona
9/11/21 - Jacksonville State
9/18/21 - at Western Illinois
9/3/22 - at Oregon (date subject to change)
My prediction for that opening next year.....Welcome home Hennesey and Central Washington!
marceagfan5
Active member
EWU98 said:
You are probably right on Central Washington And that last game in 2018 absolutely has to be a home game
Hopefully we get 2 home games with our open dates in 2019.
It’s pretty amazing how we haven’t scheduled a home game for the next two years yet…
Just what we need.... A really good D2 team. We should be able to find about 50 D1 teams that are worse than Central. No reason to amp up the level of difficulty. The schedule is already pretty tough.
I love all of those out of conference home games the next two years! What a welcome change.
I love all of those out of conference home games the next two years! What a welcome change.
I absolutely hate the unbalanced conference schedule. Not only do we not play everyone in the conference (which leads to strange 3-way ties/co-championships and lack of a true conference champion), but next year we don’t even play our gauranteed conference “rivalry” game against Idaho, inexplicably leaving us with only 7 conference games...
How in the hell does it happen that we get robbed of a conference game and have to scramble to find an 11th game in a 12 game season? Thanks, Big Sky conference.
:wtf:
Sorry, football-only members, but the Big Sky conference needs to look like this:
EWU
Idaho
Idaho St.
Montana
Montana St.
Weber St.
SUU
NAU
UNC
PSU
Play 9 conference games, 2 non-conference (3 in a 12 game season), and call it a day.
How in the hell does it happen that we get robbed of a conference game and have to scramble to find an 11th game in a 12 game season? Thanks, Big Sky conference.
:wtf:
Sorry, football-only members, but the Big Sky conference needs to look like this:
EWU
Idaho
Idaho St.
Montana
Montana St.
Weber St.
SUU
NAU
UNC
PSU
Play 9 conference games, 2 non-conference (3 in a 12 game season), and call it a day.
luckyintheorder
Active member
EWURanger said:
If correct, this is a half baked schedule. https://fbschedules.com/ncaa/eastern-washington/
Excited at the Jax St game because it's close, but getting a pass on Weber, UC Davis, SUU, Montana State, Idaho and playing lame duck North Dakota is trash. Don't like playing BigSky teams as regular non-conference games either, but it might be the best thing given the situation. It feels like the BigSky doesn't take Eastern seriously when you see a schedule like this. Disrespected even. :roll:
luckyintheorder
Active member
Obzerver said:Man-o-Man those 4 home games are something else. Three open dates thus far, so I assume we are talking to someone bout another home game...hopefully FCS. Can't believe we will not play Weber, UC Davis, SUU, Montana State or Idaho.
Do't have any stats to back this up, but playing a sisters of mercy schedule like this cannot help recruiting. Can see Eastern winning all these games except UW but are recruits watching?
luckyintheorder said:Obzerver said:Man-o-Man those 4 home games are something else. Three open dates thus far, so I assume we are talking to someone bout another home game...hopefully FCS. Can't believe we will not play Weber, UC Davis, SUU, Montana State or Idaho.
Do't have any stats to back this up, but playing a sisters of mercy schedule like this cannot help recruiting. Can see Eastern winning all these games except UW but are recruits watching?
North Dakota State recruits just fine and have almost completely gone the paddy-cake route recently.
I think that one BCS game, the conference games, and the playoffs are what gets noticed. For that matter, I see no benefit to playing a power FCS team from another part of the country. I’d rather see us take one BCS game, one somewhat competitive FCS game that we should win, and one SWAC/Pioneer/NEC type team that we’ll beat 99/100 times.
luckyintheorder
Active member
LDopaPDX said:luckyintheorder said:Obzerver said:Man-o-Man those 4 home games are something else. Three open dates thus far, so I assume we are talking to someone bout another home game...hopefully FCS. Can't believe we will not play Weber, UC Davis, SUU, Montana State or Idaho.
Do't have any stats to back this up, but playing a sisters of mercy schedule like this cannot help recruiting. Can see Eastern winning all these games except UW but are recruits watching?
North Dakota State recruits just fine and have almost completely gone the paddy-cake route recently.
I think that one BCS game, the conference games, and the playoffs are what gets noticed. For that matter, I see no benefit to playing a power FCS team from another part of the country. I’d rather see us take one BCS game, one somewhat competitive FCS game that we should win, and one SWAC/Pioneer/NEC type team that we’ll beat 99/100 times.
Was just speculating. If Eastern had won 6 of the last 7 Natty's would be more inclined to completely agree, certainly understand your point of view. Not usually involved in the scheduling debate and know your model, which sounds pretty good to me, has been espoused before, just thought the recruiting angle hadn't come up, your thoughts usually run to the playoffs. I am just seeing the best up and coming programs with the some of the better coaching staffs in BSC getting a pass on Eastern and leveraging that in the living room. Might have just needed something else to worry about after watching a lot of NDSU this past week
You’re certainly right about the fact it sure helped Montana not to have to explain a 30 point loss to Eastern to recruits.
So far as recruiting goes, I’m not that worried about the Montana’s. They’ll always get a few kids, and they’ll always get mired recruiting sub-par kids out of Montana. For every baller you can get in Montana, you sift through 5 kids that looked just as good or of HS that really aren’t good at all.
The two schools that worry the hell out of me are UC Davis and Weber. The worst thing for us is a situation where Weber becomes the dominant program in Utah (a surprisingly good HS football state) and UC Davis gets the first choice of the Cali kids that want to stay in-state. Both of those two programs have a lot of upside if they can look like a superior alternative to the other FCS schools in their respective states.
So far as recruiting goes, I’m not that worried about the Montana’s. They’ll always get a few kids, and they’ll always get mired recruiting sub-par kids out of Montana. For every baller you can get in Montana, you sift through 5 kids that looked just as good or of HS that really aren’t good at all.
The two schools that worry the hell out of me are UC Davis and Weber. The worst thing for us is a situation where Weber becomes the dominant program in Utah (a surprisingly good HS football state) and UC Davis gets the first choice of the Cali kids that want to stay in-state. Both of those two programs have a lot of upside if they can look like a superior alternative to the other FCS schools in their respective states.
luckyintheorder
Active member
Nailed it on Davis and Weber. you're probably right that winning has more impact than playing a tougher conference slate and think Ranger's point on the unbalanced schedule all sort of play together. Feel like we're this close to figuring all this out. Now if only someone in authority would listen.LDopaPDX said:
It isn't like you just pick teams to play off the shelf. At this point EWU is limited to teams that have opening either 2nd or 4th week of the season, then are they willing to come to Cheney? Teams like NDSU and Montana have the advantage of drawing 15-20,000 fans. Good luck with that playing a non-conference game in September.
It is easy to come up with an idealistic schedule but finding opponents that want to play along is another matter.
It is easy to come up with an idealistic schedule but finding opponents that want to play along is another matter.
clawman said:
Claw, all of this is fine and well, but my problem with next year’s schedule is that on the surface it looks like
we’re being ROBBED of an 8th conference game, leaving the AD to try to find alternatives...something we typically struggle with.
How is this conference schedule going to work? UND does not count as a conference “W” unless they’re going to make some special exception for us. We only have 7 conference games...how will that effect the regular season conference championship and the auto-bid? Also, why are we not playing Idaho, who is now one of our 2 gauranteed annual “rivalry” games (the other being PSU).
I am of the frame of mind that the conference should pony up on the bill of bringing a team to come into Cheney next year. This scheduling nightmare and the UND exit has nothing to do with EWU and everything to do with the BSC. They should fix it.
marceagfan5
Active member
I wonder if the UND game is non conference? I can’t imagine that we don’t play Idaho next year since they are our Rival, pretty sure they and PSU are the only guaranteed games each year...
Next year is a 12 game year so we will have 4 non conf opponents
Next year is a 12 game year so we will have 4 non conf opponents
