(07-08-2014 10:41 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(07-08-2014 10:30 PM)1845 Bear Wrote:  

Quote:I don't feel sorry for them at all. Their problems would be solved if they were willing to play games on the road instead of insisting on 7-8 home games every year.

Sadly money is the reason for that. Teams usually make more paying somebody to come play at their place in return for no exchange game.

Its not like the AD's are trying to screw smaller schools over as some goal in and of itself.

Exactly. I feel sure that if NIU or anybody else were to make it financially neutral Oklahoma State or whomever would be more apt to schedule 1 for 1's, but the idea that schools should lose money just to be fair is asinine. I don't see anything about NIU coming to Clinton, SC in a return game with Presbyterian.

The point is that they can schedule plenty of schools. If they only make $1 million instead of $2 million by playing on the road, they can still make a go of it. No one is forcing them to do everything for the money. I mean, look at the facilities. They have plenty of money.

NIU did play Oklahoma State at home once, back in 1994. I don't know how they did it though. In NIU's case it's been partly the fault of our previous AD.