Originally posted by 4_tattoos
View Post
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
Game Day Frostburg Football
Collapse
Support The Site!
Collapse
X
-
Originally posted by CALUPA69 View Post
Good luck to you. Hope the VULCANS can make the short hop to BOBCATS STADIUM in the not too distant future.
Comment
-
Originally posted by 4_tattoos View Post
Odd indeed. Can't think of any advantage a team that transitioned from D3 could even have. Ah well, shoot for that MEC title for now.
Comment
-
Originally posted by boatcapt View Post
Not going to happen for a couple of pretty big reasons. First, with UNCP coming on board next year, The MEC is going to a closed football schedule...no OOC games. Now some will say that Wheeling is SURE to be closed by next year. While I don't particularly believe that-, for the sake or argument let's assume that is so. If that happened, The MEC would go back to a 10 game schedule with every team having one OOC game on rotating weeks. Since the PSAC plays their one OOC game the first week of the season, only opportunity for Cal to play Frostburg is once every 11 years.
Comment
-
Originally posted by CALUPA69 View Post
Why rotating weeks instead of all week 1 as is common elsewhere ?
Comment
-
Originally posted by boatcapt View Post
I could ask the reverse...Why all week 1 as opposed to rotating weeks as is common elsewhere? But, more precisely, The MEC has an odd number of teams so you can't have week one as your OOC week for everyone. PSAC has the ability to change and schedule OOC games throughout the year by simply eliminating the cross-over games. But they chose not to do that.
Comment
-
Originally posted by boatcapt View Post
I don't think the NCAA really wants teams to move up OR down so they put in this disencentive for a good program, like Frostburg obviously is, from moving up. As I recall, one of the major arguments that the Frostburg people that didn't want to move up used was the three years that Frostburg wouldn't be permitted to compete in the NCAA playoffs. That and the supposed HUGE cost and the end of their rivalry with Salisbury.
Salisbury will be making the jump to D1 soon because of their LAX and Field Hockey Programs. You heard it here first!
Comment
-
Originally posted by CALUPA69 View Post
Sorry, didn't mean to sound contentious, but I didn't understand why the teams couldn't play all the OOC in week 1. Are you saying that it can be done either way, but the MEC and PSAC choose opposite routes ? Thanks for the info.
Not trying to sound contentious either, but the reall issue, if the two conferences truely want to play eich other in OOC games, is the PSAC's crossover games. Eliminate them or even one and the PSAC and MEC would probably have several opportunities to play throughout the year. But I would surmise that there are reasons (no, not saying the PSAC is scared to play the MEC) that the PSAC doesn't want to or can't do that.
Comment
-
Originally posted by Real_FSU_47 View Post
This was huge in our discussions but ultimately as a public school, we could not compete with the private schools, especially the really good ones playing who dole out "Academic Scholorships" to kids with a 2.2 gpa and 800 SAT scores.
Salisbury will be making the jump to D1 soon because of their LAX and Field Hockey Programs. You heard it here first!
- 1 like
Comment
-
Originally posted by 4_tattoos View Post
That's a little hard for me to believe. Seems like a lot of renovations would be needed at Salisbury's facilities to move the entire athletic program from D3 to D1.
I wish there was a way to bring them into the MEC but they are just too far away without some other programs joining as well.
Comment
-
Originally posted by boatcapt View Post
I wish there was a way to bring them into the MEC but they are just too far away without some other programs joining as well.
Their only other option would be to force a rivalry with one of the private D3 schools in Maryland.
Comment
-
I'm pretty sure that schools need to have a conference sponsor to move up now. In this hypothetical, Salisbury would need to have a DII (or D1??) sponsor or they would be forbidden from moving up. They are in an odd area were there really aren't any DII conferences/schools near by. Probably the best fit from a distance prospective would be the CIAA were there closest opponent would be Bowie at about 110 miles...but as someone who has made the drive between the MD DC Suburbs and the Eastern Shore on more that a few occasions, that drive would be BRUTAL!
Comment
Ad3
Collapse
Comment