Folks, I didn’t have the chance to post this yesterday because there was a women’s basketball game last night so I wanted to do it today. I thought some of you may find interesting some of the comments from Jeff Tingey when I spoke with him yesterday on the coaches’ radio show.
Jeff and I talked about his role on the committee that seeds and picks the teams for the FCS football playoffs and what it is like in that room, I asked him about his thoughts on the fall sports that wrapped up…football, volleyball and soccer and then I asked him about scheduling, specifically the issues surrounding ISU and the difficulty in getting home games for any sport on a regular basis.
Jeff started with football and talked about how having Idaho back in the football mix is a very good thing. The two should be playing every year as a “rival.” He said that over the past two years he’s called basically “every” FCS school in the Midwest and the East to ask about a home and home series. He said the usual response from the A.D.’s that he speaks with is, “why should we go all the way out to Idaho to play you when there are a bunch of teams within driving distance we can play if we want to?” He said that he has been speaking with a school (he would not name it) in particular and that something may be worked out for a home and home series in the future. He was pleased with the progress the team made this year and said that “you don’t go from 2-9 to 9-2 in a single year.” He’s hoping ISU can build on this season and maybe win six or seven games next year because there were very competitive this past season save for one or two games.
Regarding the other sports and their scheduling issues he said that basically there were two reasons for what has been happening. First, and he was honest, he said ISU simply doesn’t have the money to pay teams to come to Pocatello and secondly he said that unless you are football and can charter right in to Pocatello, teams have to fly into either Boise or Salt Lake City and bus to Pocatello and he said coaches simply “don’t want to have to deal with that.”
Just wanted to pass it along since Jeff said this on-air in case you missed the show. If I think of anything else he said of note I’ll post it here.
PBP
Jeff and I talked about his role on the committee that seeds and picks the teams for the FCS football playoffs and what it is like in that room, I asked him about his thoughts on the fall sports that wrapped up…football, volleyball and soccer and then I asked him about scheduling, specifically the issues surrounding ISU and the difficulty in getting home games for any sport on a regular basis.
Jeff started with football and talked about how having Idaho back in the football mix is a very good thing. The two should be playing every year as a “rival.” He said that over the past two years he’s called basically “every” FCS school in the Midwest and the East to ask about a home and home series. He said the usual response from the A.D.’s that he speaks with is, “why should we go all the way out to Idaho to play you when there are a bunch of teams within driving distance we can play if we want to?” He said that he has been speaking with a school (he would not name it) in particular and that something may be worked out for a home and home series in the future. He was pleased with the progress the team made this year and said that “you don’t go from 2-9 to 9-2 in a single year.” He’s hoping ISU can build on this season and maybe win six or seven games next year because there were very competitive this past season save for one or two games.
Regarding the other sports and their scheduling issues he said that basically there were two reasons for what has been happening. First, and he was honest, he said ISU simply doesn’t have the money to pay teams to come to Pocatello and secondly he said that unless you are football and can charter right in to Pocatello, teams have to fly into either Boise or Salt Lake City and bus to Pocatello and he said coaches simply “don’t want to have to deal with that.”
Just wanted to pass it along since Jeff said this on-air in case you missed the show. If I think of anything else he said of note I’ll post it here.
PBP
