CUSA Championship
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I’m not even joking when I say I could see it being played at whatever team is within the lower COVID rate at the time.
There's always Jones' Complex down in Frisco. If he throws the right amount of $$$ towards the Commissioner's Office, who knows? We may end up with a CUSA Championship game being played under some kind of "Bubble" down there "deep in the heart of Texas"!!
To ignore the clutter in this thread and answer your question directly,
No. MU will host. Everyone else will have a loss and MU is ranked higher (obviously) than anyone else.
After our opponent complains of having to come to Huntington, the league will determine the title game will played at a high school field in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Depends, are we going to win the series of potato sack races on alternating Sundays until a champion is crowned?
Seriously though, if MU wins its final two games. The championship game will be in Huntington. If my memory serves me the team with the best record hosts and if its a tie then it comes down to ranking (Sagarin?) to decide on the host team. There is no way any CUSA team will have a better record or be ranked higher than we are if we win out.
Seriously though, if MU wins its final two games. The championship game will be in Huntington. If my memory serves me the team with the best record hosts and if its a tie then it comes down to ranking (Sagarin?) to decide on the host team. There is no way any CUSA team will have a better record or be ranked higher than we are if we win out.
Las Cruces......Las Cruces.....Oh yeah. The town our 1972 NCAA team was shipped off to for a 1st round March Madness game. Team that beat us was later found guilty of NC2A violations and their win was invalidated.....a year after!!
^^^^ I think our backs are against the wall with Bowls ^^^^
I read where Boise St was rescheduled.
Too bad 1/2 the forum will be dead before 2027.
2020 Boise State at Marshall football game rescheduled for 2027
The Boise State Broncos at Marshall Thundering Herd have agreed to reschedule their postponed football game in 2020 to the 2027 season.
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Too bad 1/2 the forum will be dead before 2027.
I do remember.
It went to highest ranked.
Rice and MU were basically within a small margin of one another. Rice got the craptastic home field.
I hated it, felt it was bullshit...
But Chuck Landon also said for everyone to be ready for the title game at home.
Now, it is a decisive conclusion that MU would host.
Did you really type out NCAA and then NC2A?
That would be Marshall.
Never seems to be a problem for MU to be healthy...and as far as I know, no team has cancelled because of contact tracing TO Marshall after having played.
Hoo hoo hee hee!!!!
Alright, lets apply COVID....
Cancelled games because MU has COVID...0
Cancelled games because MU's opponent has COVID...3+
Ummm, W-S, 1972. Wasn't that the year that the current CUSA Commissioner was heading up the NCAA enforcement division? If so, can we see a pattern here?
We're already pushed into bowl season. Two of the bowls tied into CUSA and that we're predicted to play in are already 2 and 8 days out from the Championship game. We're just going to have to cut our losses and move on.
I could see ESPN pushing bowls back because as it stands right now, lock downs are gearing back up and really espn has nothing to lose by pushing the early bowls back to be the later bowls
I would say this is doubtful... In many states the COVID-19 positivity rate is on the rise again, just like it was in Feb/March and it makes sense that the holiday season is only going to exacerbate that. The only way pushing the bowl games back works is basically if you halt the entire season (every team in the country) and then resume whenever the positivity levels begin to decline. Which could be several weeks or even months. I would say its extremely unlikely that the conferences, states, ESPN, bowl games, etc are cool with waiting until late January, February or later, to play bowl games.
Unfortunately, what is a more likely scenario is what happened with the NCAA tournament and this whole dog and pony show gets shut down altogether.
My best guess is everyone tries to soldier on as scheduled, and whether a team plays 5, 7, 8, 9 or however many games, the bowl games are played as scheduled to get this season wrapped up as quickly as possible.
It may be unlikely to get everyone to consent, obviously not every state is facing the same restrictions from local governments, but from a media perspective, what does espn have to lose by delaying some of the early bowls? Or even the entire bowl season a few weeks, a month etc. No basketball is being played in this scenario to eat up air time, which if a bowl game can't be played, no basketball will be going on either. Maybe there are several squads who don't agree to play later, won't know unless it gets to that point. It's all a money prospect for ESPN, which if the bowls don't get played, they don't get paid, if several states are on lock down, maybe some can't be played or move the hosting location. Given the cancelled games to this point, they have already lost a good amount of $$$$, I am betting they would be game as long as they can get someone to fill the slots.
NBA basketball starts on Dec. 22. It will be on ESPN multiple nights a week. They also have Monday Night Football until the playoffs begin... Not to mention ESPN just laid off half its staff. I think the worldwide leader in sports is very familiar with how to balance their budget with our without the 0.8 viewshare that the Idaho Potato Bowl between Wyoming and North Texas will bring in at 5 p.m. on a Wednesday, whether the date is Dec. 23 or Feb. 23.
Won't argue, you do make some points. I would disagree that they know how to manage, had to lay off half of the staff doesn't suggest that. .8 is still something, and 0 is nothing. At this point, considering the cancelled games they had scheduled to air, that didn't get played and the total number of bowls that are still on, seems to me they would really want them to be played, NBA or no, NFL or no, college football gathers eyes that those two don't. I am sure I am not the only one that stopped watching the "pro's" for years now.
