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Hammy doesn't seem interested in traveling out west unless it's a league game. Would be an awesome series. Would they come here though?
 
However the downside to such a series would be fan travel for either team to either location.
 
Fan travel would definitely suck. But the home team would likely have a sell out in the series. Boise has no problem with that, and a game with someone of their reputation would likely sellout the Joan.
 
Also, games like the one proposed here are the way the G5 schools can help their own cause. The top schools need to play each other more often.
 
As a Boise fan, it would be great to schedule you guys... Although it won't happen.
Boise's OOC is full till 2019, where we already have scheduled Florida State, Cincinnati, & BYU.. No need to schedule Marshall.
 
Originally posted by toohandsome:
As a Boise fan, it would be great to schedule you guys... Although it won't happen.
Boise's OOC is full till 2019, where we already have scheduled Florida State, Cincinnati, & BYU.. No need to schedule Marshall.
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Yeah, we of all people understand advance scheduling of OOC games. Throw in cancellations resulting from conference reorganizations and we get 11-2 Boise State in a major bowl instead of 12-1 Marshall. Too bad the bowl playoff committee doesn't understand as well.
 
I would love to always have our OOC schedule have two P5's (one mid, one top), a MWC team, and a rivalry game (Ohio, ECU, UCF, those guys up north). As long as we could still arrange to have six home games, that would always be a pretty exciting schedule without SOS concerns.
 
Hamrick has said multiple times he wants to schedule regional OOC games so the fans can travel. That and his penchant for only doing 1 FOR 1's will make it difficult to get a lot of schools west of the Mississippi in here. jmo.
 
Originally posted by dherd:
doug smock had a column today regarding a thought
i've had since all the playoff committee rankle started.

schedule boise state - it would fill both stadiums here and
there and tv would be sure to grab it up.

lets settle this on the field.

http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20150118/GZ02/150119230/1144









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Why do you think that Boise, with VERY few of their fans traveling to Huntington, would sell out when Kansas State and Virginia Tech didn't??
 
Originally posted by Herdmeister:


Originally posted by dherd:
doug smock had a column today regarding a thought
i've had since all the playoff committee rankle started.

schedule boise state - it would fill both stadiums here and
there and tv would be sure to grab it up.

lets settle this on the field.

http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20150118/GZ02/150119230/1144









This post was edited on 1/19 6:23 PM by dherd
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Why do you think that Boise, with VERY few of their fans traveling to Huntington, would sell out when Kansas State and Virginia Tech didn't??
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people would come out of the woodwork for that game. consider this past season when
the peach/fiesta bowl invitation was between the two schools. that same scenario will
play out the next few years - of course ucf ecu memphis and louisiana tech etc will have
something to say about it, but we and they are both going to have very good teams for
years to come, and i think the tv appeal would be huge for that game.

regarding schedules if you get the right tv package schedules will be changed to accommodate
the game. we know that from experience.

and wv-celt made an excellent point: "Also, games like the one proposed here are the way the G5
schools can help their own cause. The top schools need to play each
other more often."
 
Originally posted by Herdmeister:


Originally posted by dherd:
doug smock had a column today regarding a thought
i've had since all the playoff committee rankle started.

schedule boise state - it would fill both stadiums here and
there and tv would be sure to grab it up.

lets settle this on the field.

http://www.wvgazette.com/article/20150118/GZ02/150119230/1144









This post was edited on 1/19 6:23 PM by dherd
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Why do you think that Boise, with VERY few of their fans traveling to Huntington, would sell out when Kansas State and Virginia Tech didn't??
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Virginia Tech didn't because we were terrible at the time. Casual fans didn't want to come see an average (by their standards) Va Tech team beat up on us. The K-State game had just shy of 37,000 people. Maybe not a sell out but I'd take that crowd all day every day.
 
When BOSIE played Youngstown at our stadium in 1994 for the national championship they brought about 400. What makes you think they bring more now?
Posted from Rivals Mobile
 
From our perspective:

Huge value in Huntington. Little value in Boise.

From Boise perspective:

Huge value in Boise. Little value in Huntington.

I'd love it.
 
Bet that before such a game or series is scheduled, you'll more likely see Hammy renew another series with Kent, Akron, Ohio -U, or even schedule another MAC series like Bowling Green. More than likely there'll be more games with MAC foes before any series with a Mountain West foe.
 
Originally posted by SuperAnjario:
From our perspective:

Huge value in Huntington. Little value in Boise.

From Boise perspective:

Huge value in Boise. Little value in Huntington.
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Huge value in Boise? What could Boise gain from such a matchup? Deserved or not, Boise is the Top Dog among the G5 right now. Why would they want to give Marshall (or ECU, Memphis, et al) a chance to knock them off that perch?

A Boise-MU series would be great for Marshall and great for college football fans in general. Great for Boise? Not so much.
 
It wont happen for 100 reasons but not the least of which is you would essentially create an elimination game in the first 3-4 weeks of the season. The loser would have no chance to attain the G5 access spot.

Getting screwed in week 13 sucks, but it is better than knowing you have 0 chance in week 4.
 
Originally posted by TwolfHerdfan:
Hamrick has said multiple times he wants to schedule regional OOC games so the fans can travel. That and his penchant for only doing 1 FOR 1's will make it difficult to get a lot of schools west of the Mississippi in here. jmo.
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Yes, but I think that was before we had these new regional conference members. I have zero inside knowledge, but I would imagine that is not as big of a criteria now that we have Charlotte, WKU, MTSU, and even ODU.
 
The only OOC G5 games we need to be scheduling are MWC, AAC, Ohio, and NIU. MAYBE whoever's been hot recently in the SBC.

So bring on Boise, Coloroado St., AF, Utah St., and old CUSA teams. Let's start proving we're the top of the G5 by beating these teams yearly; let's prove we're as good as anyone by taking out good P5 teams yearly.
 
Originally posted by FlyHawk98:

Originally posted by TwolfHerdfan:
Hamrick has said multiple times he wants to schedule regional OOC games so the fans can travel. That and his penchant for only doing 1 FOR 1's will make it difficult to get a lot of schools west of the Mississippi in here. jmo.
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Yes, but I think that was before we had these new regional conference members. I have zero inside knowledge, but I would imagine that is not as big of a criteria now that we have Charlotte, WKU, MTSU, and even ODU.
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odu is about as regional as central michigan was when we were in the mac.
 
It may not be about the same distance, but the drive is way easier to ODU. Just hop on I-64, get off the exit a few miles from the University.

7 hours isn't too bad for a ball game. Anything over 4 hours (WKU) and you're looking at a weekend trip anyway. Also, I personally love the tidewater area.
 
Originally posted by connsinfonia:


7 hours isn't too bad for a ball game. Anything over 4 hours (WKU) and you're looking at a weekend trip anyway. Also, I personally love the tidewater area.
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that's kind of my point, our fans got used to day trips in the mac, you could do miami, ohio, toledo, bowling green, kent, akron, all in a day (depending on kickoff, i guess). odu really doesn't fall into that category.
 
I see your point. I started Marshall in 2005, so I never got to experience the day trips of the MAC.

However, I think we can all agree that CUSA is much more regional since the big realignment. 7 hours to ECU, 8 to Memphis and UAB, 11 to Southern Miss, and 12 to UCF.... Give me 4 to WKU, 5 to Charlotte, 6 to MTSU, 7 to ODU, and a vacation to Southern Florida (when I can afford it) any day! And if that's regional enough to justify playing some good MWC teams, all the better.
 
The Only MAC team we should be playing is Ohio, period

We want National respect, we need to play only the BEST G5 schools no matter the conference and mid level P5 schools

Enough of this "Oh we need games the fans can travel too" because that mindset got us in the mess we had this year and got us in the same conference with ODU and UNCC
 
Unless they move to the MAC we won't play them...

But seriously the issue of "fan travel" at what point is that more important than advancing our program? I mean I get that you don't want to play every road ooc game on the west coast, but I would tell the fans who couldn't travel to boise to suck it up because it would be great for our program.
 
Originally posted by connsinfonia:
I see your point. I started Marshall in 2005, so I never got to experience the day trips of the MAC.

However, I think we can all agree that CUSA is much more regional since the big realignment. 7 hours to ECU, 8 to Memphis and UAB, 11 to Southern Miss, and 12 to UCF.... Give me 4 to WKU, 5 to Charlotte, 6 to MTSU, 7 to ODU, and a vacation to Southern Florida (when I can afford it) any day! And if that's regional enough to justify playing some good MWC teams, all the better.
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i grew up going to games with my dad and grandfather in the southern conference days, 4.5 we had app state, 4 to etsu, 5.5 to utc, vmi 3.5, etc...the longest trips were to the citadel and then ga southern that were shorter than most of our trips currently in cusa.
 
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