CWU vs NWM

[Wildcat Khan]

It is an old story from my travel days. I was flying out of SFO to Frankfurt on Lufthansa. The pilot was reading the pre-flight message in German, and when he was finished he would read it in English. He described the route we were taking and the various cities we would fly over. He said "Boise, Iowa". The other one that cracked me up was how hew pronounced "Helena, Montana".
Hell Ena, Montagna.

That's a funny story! I think all they do now is point out natural landmarks it feels like on planes or give updates on the final destination.

[Runnin' Cat]

Are you moving Tim to Iowa? lol

Speaking of Tim, I'd love to hear his thoughts in LSC/GNAC merger thread. I know they will be a good read.

It is an old story from my travel days. I was flying out of SFO to Frankfurt on Lufthansa. The pilot was reading the pre-flight message in German, and when he was finished he would read it in English. He described the route we were taking and the various cities we would fly over. He said "Boise, Iowa". The other one that cracked me up was how hew pronounced "Helena, Montana".
Hell Ena, Montagna.

[Wildcat Khan]

I used to live in Boise, Iowa.....

Are you moving Tim to Iowa? lol

Speaking of Tim, I'd love to hear his thoughts in LSC/GNAC merger thread. I know they will be a good read.

[Runnin' Cat]

I meant to say Northern Iowa.

I used to live in Boise, Iowa.....

[Goods]

Isn't Northern Idaho in Couer D'Alene? I didn't know they had a football team...

I meant to say Northern Iowa.

[IronOre]

Looks like it's Northern Iowa:

https://college-football-results.com/f/centwash.htm

According to that website, CWU has played Boise State four times. Crazy.

[cwfenn]

My guess is a typo for Colorado? Well, that area of Idaho does look a lot like northern Colorado in the mountains. lol

Looks like it's Northern Iowa:

https://college-football-results.com/f/centwash.htm

[Wildcat Khan]

Yeah, North Idaho is a community college at that.

If they were D1, it would mean 3 D1 schools in the Spokane area. Still, even with 2 that is 2 more than the Tri-Cities which is a bit surprising of no universities near the metro area. I did though on local radio hear an ad for going to CWU for academics.

[IronOre]

My guess is a typo for Colorado? Well, that area of Idaho does look a lot like northern Colorado in the mountains. lol

Yeah, North Idaho is a community college at that.

[Wildcat Khan]

Isn't Northern Idaho in Couer D'Alene? I didn't know they had a football team...

My guess is a typo for Colorado? Well, that area of Idaho does look a lot like northern Colorado in the mountains. lol

[IronOre]

I'm lazy, but I guess I'm lazy with work. I looked up their schedule from 1985 through this year. We are 5-17 against FCS teams since 1985.
1-7 vs. EWU (last played this year)
0-3 vs. Montana (last played in 2020)
0-1 vs. Idaho (last played in 2019)
0-1 vs. Portland St (last played in 2018)
1-1 vs. Idaho St (last played in 2009)
0-1 vs Cal Poly SLO (last played in 1996)
2-1 vs. St Mary's (last played in 2002, no longer has football)
1-1 vs. Montana St (last played in 2002)
0-1 vs Northern Idaho (last played in 1999)

Also of note: the 1988, 1989 and 1990 teams were great. 30-3-1, one loss each year in the playoffs. That was a few years before my time. I was a college kid from 1995-2000.

Isn't Northern Idaho in Couer D'Alene? I didn't know they had a football team...

[Goods]

I see a lot of open D2 games across all four super regions, but I do believe we need an FCS game to fund some of the trips. Wish there was a way to do what we did in 2009 when we opened with Colorado Mesa and then stayed on the road and beat UMD on national TV. This is 2 weeks before school started. I wish we could do something like that with a Commerce, Tarleton, Abilene Christian, SFA, etc and then stay in Texas for a "league" game within the LSC. That would be expensive, but it would guarantee a money game.

Of course, it all makes sense to me from the comfy confines of the "what if we had unlimited resources because running cat, iron ore, kahn and tav donate 7 figures a year" part of my football brain.

[Goods]

I wonder how difficult it is to schedule those Big Sky games. I would assume we can't play UM, MSU, EWU, PSU every 3-4 years, or maybe we can. I don't believe we've played Montana State since 2002 when we upset them on homecoming, but I'm too lazy to find a list of historical FCS games.

I'm lazy, but I guess I'm lazy with work. I looked up their schedule from 1985 through this year. We are 5-17 against FCS teams since 1985.
1-7 vs. EWU (last played this year)
0-3 vs. Montana (last played in 2020)
0-1 vs. Idaho (last played in 2019)
0-1 vs. Portland St (last played in 2018)
1-1 vs. Idaho St (last played in 2009)
0-1 vs Cal Poly SLO (last played in 1996)
2-1 vs. St Mary's (last played in 2002, no longer has football)
1-1 vs. Montana St (last played in 2002)
0-1 vs Northern Idaho (last played in 1999)

Also of note: the 1988, 1989 and 1990 teams were great. 30-3-1, one loss each year in the playoffs. That was a few years before my time. I was a college kid from 1995-2000.

[IronOre]

I wonder how difficult it is to schedule those Big Sky games. I would assume we can't play UM, MSU, EWU, PSU every 3-4 years, or maybe we can. I don't believe we've played Montana State since 2002 when we upset them on homecoming, but I'm too lazy to find a list of historical FCS games.

CWU has played EWU (several times), Montana (twice), Montana State (went to that game), Idaho State, and Portland State (went to that game too) that I know about.

[Goods]

And we've got 3 great FCS teams to try to schedule. Montana, Montana State, and EWU all made the FCS playoffs along with Sacramento State and UC Davis from the Big Sky. For WOU I can see them maybe scheduling Sacramento State and UC Davis for bus ride FCS games along with of course Portland State.

The real shame is we can't have a great conference like the Big Sky in D2 for West of the Rockies as they would say on Coast to Coast AM.

I wonder how difficult it is to schedule those Big Sky games. I would assume we can't play UM, MSU, EWU, PSU every 3-4 years, or maybe we can. I don't believe we've played Montana State since 2002 when we upset them on homecoming, but I'm too lazy to find a list of historical FCS games.