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Date Posted: 09/15/15 10:58:29am Tue
Author: The Future
Subject: Re: Future Football Schedules
In reply to: Gate Raider 's message, "Re: Future Football Schedules" on 09/15/15 10:37:42am Tue

Colgate is in a tough spot when it comes to scheduling early season home games.

If you want an FBS game, you have to play them early and you won't get a home game in return. (Delaware won't come to Hamilton--so that hurt last year's schedule.)

That leaves five home games.

Three of these will always be Patriot League games--which means end of the season/bad weather (league games are always basically at the end of the season).

That leaves two games (three in 12 game seasons).

The Ivies don't play football until the end of September and you need to play them home and home and play them at the end of September/early October before their league games start. That's a narrow window and means you will for sure have an away game every other year during this part of the schedule (when the weather is at its best).

Who do you find to play early in the season that will give you a home game (can't be an Ivy/FBS) and can't be another stretch game (though I would be fine with that) and can't be an NEC team (which freaks out alumni)?

It really narrows down who you can play and in part explains why Colgate teams have typically been road warriors and why the even year schedules are stuck in a bit of no-home-games-early rut right now.

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[> [> [> Re: Future Football Schedules -- 'gate73, 09/15/15 12:55:30pm Tue

>Colgate is in a tough spot when it comes to scheduling
>early season home games.
>
>If you want an FBS game, you have to play them early
>and you won't get a home game in return. (Delaware
>won't come to Hamilton--so that hurt last year's
>schedule.)
>
>That leaves five home games.
>
>Three of these will always be Patriot League
>games--which means end of the season/bad weather
>(league games are always basically at the end of the
>season).
>
>That leaves two games (three in 12 game seasons).
>
>The Ivies don't play football until the end of
>September and you need to play them home and home and
>play them at the end of September/early October before
>their league games start. That's a narrow window and
>means you will for sure have an away game every other
>year during this part of the schedule (when the
>weather is at its best).
>
>Who do you find to play early in the season that will
>give you a home game (can't be an Ivy/FBS) and can't
>be another stretch game (though I would be fine with
>that) and can't be an NEC team (which freaks out
>alumni)?
>
>It really narrows down who you can play and in part
>explains why Colgate teams have typically been road
>warriors and why the even year schedules are stuck in
>a bit of no-home-games-early rut right now.

In the late 60s and early 70s, we were lucky to have three home games a year. At that time, none of the Ivies (except perhaps Cornell) would play at Andy Kerr. We were a road team.


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[> [> [> Re: Future Football Schedules -- Gate Raider, 09/15/15 5:34:55pm Tue

Well,okay you win but, get some games against the SoCon. Furman is coming to Hamilton in 2017 for the second time. They were at Colgate a few years ago. The SoCon also has The Citadel, Wofford and VMI. Colgate goes to Richmond next year and they come to Hamilton in 2017. The CAA also has William & Mary, Maine, Elon, Villanova, Stony Brook and Albany (who we play). We should be able to schedule home and homes with any of those teams. To heck with Delaware.


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