Game Day Frostburg Football

[boatcapt]

Why rotating weeks instead of all week 1 as is common elsewhere ?

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.

[CALUPA69]

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.

Why rotating weeks instead of all week 1 as is common elsewhere ?

[boatcapt]

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.

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.

[boatcapt]

Good luck to you. Hope the VULCANS can make the short hop to BOBCATS STADIUM in the not too distant future.

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.

[4_tattoos]

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.

[Real_FSU_47]

Whys is that? I'm not hip to the D3 to D2 transition as far as post season eligibility goes.

[4_tattoos]

Whys is that? I'm not hip to the D3 to D2 transition as far as post season eligibility goes.

[CALUPA69]

Good luck to you. Hope the VULCANS can make the short hop to BOBCATS STADIUM in the not too distant future.

[Real_FSU_47]

[CALUPA69]

I'm a bit late to looking at the BOBCATS recent success in football so if someone could explain how a nothing program prior to'16 all of a sudden takes off. Presumably in D3 it wasn't scholarships. Did the arrival of DELANE FITZGERALD from SVU really make all the difference or has there been a significant boost in funding? Their MBB program still looks to be not good. Any FROSTBURG STATE fans have any insight? It actually is a very easy ride from CAL U for all D2 sports.

[4_tattoos]

PG is a very good football county. Many good players there. But it is economically depressed. As you point out, they get quite a few of their recruits because they can't afford to pay R&B for an out of county college. Similar with Baltimore players...jump on 95 or the BW Parkway and they are home in less than 30 minutes.

In addition to that Bowie State has a commuter rail station right on it's campus... technically it may not be physically on campus property, but it's right there for people that either can't or don't want to drive to Bowie

[boatcapt]

Our in state tuition is cheaper then Bowie. 22k on average vs 18k on average now most of Bowie students commute from home so that helps with costs

PG is a very good football county. Many good players there. But it is economically depressed. As you point out, they get quite a few of their recruits because they can't afford to pay R&B for an out of county college. Similar with Baltimore players...jump on 95 or the BW Parkway and they are home in less than 30 minutes.

[Real_FSU_47]

Our in state tuition is cheaper then Bowie. 22k on average vs 18k on average now most of Bowie students commute from home so that helps with costs

[boatcapt]

Bowie St continues to win, and they are currently ranked. Will be difficult to compete with them, especially since Bowie State's tuition is lower than Frostburg.

Bowie typically only recruits PG county and to a lesser extent, the Baltimore area (not that they don't get the occasional MD player from elsewhere). Frostburg has a great swath of MD down to the northern DC suburbs and across the MD/PA border were they will be ULTRA competative vs out of state teams that have traditionally recruited in those areas. As out of state teams have shown in the past, these areas produce really good players.

[ShoNuff]

Bowie State too. Frostburg's success in D2 will probably effect Bowie the most.

Bowie St continues to win, and they are currently ranked. Will be difficult to compete with them, especially since Bowie State's tuition is lower than Frostburg.