Morgan State of the MEAC........so another MEAC team comes to Huntington first game of the season. Thoughts?
FCS opponent is.......
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They are cheap home game and it gives us a better chance along with Akron as warm up games to take down Louisville and Pitt.
Don't think I would consider Akron a warm up game but yeah I agree. This is something we have been missing last few years, and it used to be common practice...........having your first game as the tune up game. I don't like that first week bye though.
It is what it is. It is an 8K student ubran black college from Baltimore. Won 4 official games, plus an outlaw game, last year. The will bus over, take their asswhipping, and probably stop at Wendy's in Fairmont on the way home.
I wish UC would suck it up and go I-AA. We could play them every year.
I wish UC would suck it up and go I-AA. We could play them every year.
WV schools like UC and Shephard should consider moving up to the 1AA level and join the Big South
Not surprised at all, just part of Mike Hamrick's mantra, "do it on the cheap"!!!
yep. Thats why we went the cheapo route on all the athletics facilities recently too.
Well Air Force wasn't too good to play them last year, I don't mind it for a tune up game. Wish it was some school a bit more local though, I think Morgan St. is in MD.
Just speculation but a good number of local FCS teams are decent, then again how local do they need to be? Personally we do not need to be playing good FCS teams, as we all know of the number of upsets they provide each year. Maybe a FCS team we have a little history with, ETSU is coming back on board with football.
not sure who all falls in the local fcs teams, but for eku other than one game at miami (oh) the rest of their fbs games (and they've had a couple seasons where they played two) over the last 5-6 years have been p5 opponents, you know schools that pay more than we can offer.
i'm guessing the bigger name (if that makes any sense) fcs programs can get much larger checks by going to uk, louisville, indiana, tennessee, etc. we (and a lot of other g5 programs) are stuck with meac type opponents.
except there are plenty of schools that want to keep playing them, especially as long as they count towards bowl eligibility.
