Yep, that is the correct decision.

FCS is the same thing as G5. Slightly less cost for slightly less revenue and less exposure, even if you win five national championships in a row.

Perhaps some low hanging fruit for a FBS revival:

BYU needs 2 games for 2018 and 4 games for 2019. UMass only has 1 opening for 2018 but needs 5 games for 2019.


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(05-21-2016 07:45 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  BYU needs 2 games for 2018 and 4 games for 2019. UMass only has 1 opening for 2018 but needs 5 games for 2019.

BYU and UMass should play each other 4 times in 2019. Problem solved.

(05-21-2016 08:10 PM)Wedge Wrote:  

(05-21-2016 07:45 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  BYU needs 2 games for 2018 and 4 games for 2019. UMass only has 1 opening for 2018 but needs 5 games for 2019.

BYU and UMass should play each other 4 times in 2019. Problem solved.

Nah, you can't play the same school that many times. But if it was Home and Away same year BYU / UMass / NMSU, that would do it.

And doncha know that BYU's media partner would be just over the moon at that arrangement.

(05-21-2016 08:27 AM)MJG Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 11:56 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 07:19 PM)MJG Wrote:  

(05-20-2016 09:20 AM)MplsBison Wrote:  bragg,

but neither you nor anyone else is entitled to say "you've failed to win in FBS, therefore you don't deserve to be here -- GET OUT!"

You don't get to say that. Not for Idaho, not for Eastern Michigan -- not for any FBS team.

If they want to be there, are willing to pay the costs and can find teams to play -- that's their business. You have no right.

Idaho moved up around the same time as Arkansas St.
Won two bowl games before they reached one.
ULL has lost twenty plus times to FCS teams.
Both programs have finally put it together.
NIU and Ohio are good examples of long time losing programs that finally put it together.

Arkansas State also expanded its stadium from 18k to over 30k and built a new operations center (with construction expected to start in 2017 to replace THAT new facility).
Even with that, from 1992 to 2000 AState was far from investing like it should have short-changing the program on scholarships.
When Arkansas State was scheduling Ole Miss, TCU, Tulsa, SMU, Memphis at home Idaho had SDSU, NIU, Western Michigan.
Idaho played 6 games on the road vs FCS, ON THE ROAD.

I wouldn't say AState and Idaho were doing the same thing.

Don't be offended I used Arkansas St as an example of a school that has improved.
I would think it is a point of pride that the road was bumpy.
ASU fans credit getting the right president and AD as the reason for the improvement.
Idaho could have had a similar path not the same but similar.
Who knows what would have happened if the plan to remove the roof happened.
Thirty million has been invested in the dome in the last five years.
Maybe a couple of small upper decks like Georgia Southern did for six million.
Idaho could have gotten to 20500 seats or more than CCU will have for half the money.
Without a future conference the cheap seating expansion were pointless.

It could have been huge having a cheap expansion option for three thousand sideline seats . That was discovered during the renovations a few years ago.

Not offended but we weren't on the short end of the geography stick and our administration while bad for more than a decade didn't half-arse it as dramatically. My opinion. Idaho's moment to survive passed more than a decade ago, at that point absent a stellar product on the field it was already too late.

(05-21-2016 07:45 PM)chargeradio Wrote:  Perhaps some low hanging fruit for a FBS revival:

BYU needs 2 games for 2018 and 4 games for 2019. UMass only has 1 opening for 2018 but needs 5 games for 2019.


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If BYU, Army, UMASS, and NMST remain independent long term they should schedule each other in November to take care of the scheduling problems they have then when all the conference teams are playing each other. Throw in an FCS game at that time and they have a third of their schedules complete when it is the most difficult time for scheduling as independents for them.

Idaho could've helped with that too. That would've been four FBS games for everyone, in November.