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Subject: Future Football Schedules Author: JóDete93 [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 15:44:41 12/08/04 Wed 2005 2006 2007       Sept.             3       at URI Sept.             2      URI Sept.              8      ALBANY            10      at Duquesne              9     at Albany            15      COLUMBIA            17       COLUMBIA            16     at Columbia            22      DAYTON            24      at Lafayette            23     OPEN            29      at Colgate              30     at Holy Cross   Oct.      1      OPEN   Oct.       6     LEHIGH              8      at Brown Oct.      7     DUQUESNE             13     at Georgetown            15      at Colgate            14     MARIST             20     at Lafayette            22      at Georgetown            21     COLGATE             27     at Marist            29      HOLY CROSS            28     at Bucknell                 Nov.      3      HOLY CROSS Nov.      5      BUCKNELL Nov.     4     LAFAYETTE             10      at Duquesne             12      LEHIGH            11    at Lehigh             17      BUCKNELL             19      ALBANY            18    GEORGETOWN                                      *As noted before the 2005 Columbia game may be played away in order to accomodate renovations to Jack Coffey. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date are you kidding me??? These schedules are insulting and lack any imagination. As a fan, I have NO interest in watching us play crappy football teams like Marist and Albany. There is no incentive for fans to buy season tickets and attend these games. This is more proof that the folks making these schedules aren't getting enough oxygen. (NT) bfg 15:49:37 12/08/04 Wed I looked at 2007 again and aside from Columbia our OOC schedule consists of Albany, Dayton, Marist and Duquesne. Unfortunately Fordham Prep was not available!! (NT) -- JóDete93, 16:10:17 12/08/04 Wed Did we try Xavier (HS, not University)? (NT) -- bfg, 16:11:02 12/08/04 Wed They don't want to get skunked by yet another better band at halftime. Plus X-Squad drill team would REALLY make the intercampus three legged race look cheesy. Though I guess if Fordham isn't able to schedule Army, Xavier is the closest thing locally! (NT) -- Ram '91 Xavier '87, 10:16:40 12/09/04 Thu Re: This is disappointing. What about some A-10 or SoCon clubs? Or another Ivy or two, or Army, which is looking to play some 1-AA's? (NT) -- Go...'gate, 19:12:41 12/08/04 Wed Playing Army with non-scholarship players would subject them to injury. Very bad dea. (NT) -- Rambacker, 23:23:39 12/08/04 Wed Fordham players aren't "non-scholarship," since they receive generous aid that is only available to football players. In I-AA, only a handful of schools spend more on football scholarships than Fordham. Of course, the last time Army football played a PL representative was 2002, and they lost to lowly Holy Cross. I assume the injury remark was sarcasm. (NT) -- $3,255,639 FY 04 football expenditures, 01:11:18 12/09/04 Thu Fordham should not play any 1-A football games unless we go full scholarship. Not a good idea for injury reasons. (NT) -- Rambacker, 09:05:50 12/09/04 Thu Now you're just repeating yourself (NT) -- $$$, 19:08:42 12/09/04 Thu No, I'm restating the obvious for those posters above who don't get it. (NT) -- Rambacker, 20:53:55 12/09/04 Thu Not obvious...in fact completely off base and unsupported by any facts. (NT) -- $$$, 22:26:03 12/09/04 Thu The facts support the statement unequivically. Find another hobby besides trolling on another school's message board. (NT) -- Rambacker, 23:13:10 12/09/04 Thu Who are you calling a troll? Scanning this board, I don't see a single post from you where you aren't whining about who Fordham's playing or how awful the facilities are. You will not be taken seriously by anyone in authority at Fordham. Stick to subjects you know something about. (NT) -- $$$, 13:59:07 12/10/04 Fri He would have nothing to write about then. (NT) -- #44, 15:04:49 12/10/04 Fri Go troll on another school's board and stop being so threatened by my posts. (NT) -- Rambacker, 12:19:22 12/11/04 Sat Creativity not one of your strong points, eh? (NT) -- $$$, 13:48:16 12/11/04 Sat Why so obsessed with my posts? Are they hitting a nerve? (NT) -- Rambacker, 21:06:45 12/11/04 Sat Re: I don't agree. PL and Ivy teams have been doing it for years (HC beat them three years ago)and will return to doing so in the very near future; they have approached PL and Ivy teams for future games. Fordham is the most natural match-up. This is simply a terrible scheduling job. (NT) -- Go...'gate, 10:52:50 12/09/04 Thu It would not be worth playing Army or Navy or any 1-A's while we're a need-based program. We'll get too banged up and it will affect our ability to compete against our league foes. And where would our "home" game against Army or Navy be played? Certainly not on Coffey Field. We would never have a true home game against them unless we built a real football stadium. (NT) -- Rambacker, 16:01:57 12/09/04 Thu Re: Playing Army for a team in the NYC area may as well be a home game; it's such a great venue that many FU people will make the trip. Colgate has found this as well. (NT) -- Go...'gate, 16:36:04 12/09/04 Thu Why get beat up by Army or Navy without a true home game and have it affect our ability to win league games? Unless we have full rides, it's a mistake to put the players at risk of injury and doesn't serve our alums well when we can't compete. When we go full scholarship 1-AA, then it becomes viable. (NT) -- Rambacker, 20:57:21 12/09/04 Thu It's doubtful that we'd ever have a home facility big enough to lure Army or Navy to Rose Hill. HC used to be able to schedule home-and-homes w/ Army b/b they have over 25,000 seats at Fitton Field. I don't recall that Lafayette or Colgate ever hosted Army but did play them regularly @ West Point. I would have no problem if we played them on the road occassionally w/o a reciprocal home game. Even if we built a 15,000 seat state of the art stadium tomorrow, I wouldn't expect Army to play us @ RH. (NT) -- bfg, 07:50:05 12/10/04 Fri Re: Pl and Ivy teams have been playing almost exclusively at Army since the 1960's. Only exceptions have been Penn in 1985 and Yale in the late 80's early 90's. If you want a home game with Army, even in the A-10, you are dreaming. Take the home game for the halo effect it will have on your program. (NT) -- Go...'gate, 12:20:39 12/10/04 Fri Re: ln support of Rambacker's point (the "dreaming" comment was out of line on my part), however, I agree that if Fordham is to support an A-10 or equivalent 1-AA scholarship program, facilities, administration and marketing need upgrading. More alumni involvement is also needed. (NT) -- Go...'gate, 12:27:17 12/10/04 Fri I think HC may have hosted Army in the 80's and early 90s but they're the exception since they have one of the largest I-AA facilities in the country. Even BC played there (Flutie's last game in N. England was @ HC). (NT) -- bfg, 12:38:41 12/10/04 Fri Outside of my insane loyalty to Fordham, there is no legitimate reason for me to continue to buy season tickets for these types of opponents!!!!!!!! (NT) -- NJRAMFAN, 22:40:40 12/08/04 Wed Marist, Duquesne and Albany..... please fire Frank Mc... ambition and foresight non existent... (NT) #3 16:14:08 12/08/04 Wed That is really pathetic. There is no reason to have any of those teams on the schedule. Way to aim high. (NT) -- CKRAM98, 17:11:22 12/08/04 Wed Wow. I want to stay in the PL but this is a return to DIII. Put in Kings Point and Pace and we have ourselves a new league. Not good, I hope Columbia doesn't get mad and drop us. (NT) An Old Coach 20:30:04 12/08/04 Wed Why would Columbia get mad and drop Fordham. What a childish thing to say. (NT) -- unbelievable, 23:19:01 12/08/04 Wed It was said in disgust. (NT) -- An Old Coach, 16:10:45 12/09/04 Thu Yup, the downsizing of our schedule continues. The Brown series ends after 2005, and we replace Brown with Marist. The URI series ends after 2006, and we replace URI with Dayton. I know we're getting Yale in 2008, and I can't complaim about that, but our scheduling for the next few years leave us with no other way into the I-AA playoffs other than winning the PL. It's disappointing that we choose not to challenge ourselves, and the comments here reflect that. (NT) JoltinJoe 20:37:00 12/08/04 Wed Re: Any open dates up there? Looks like there might be one in '06 or '07, but I may be counting wrong. (NT) -- Go...'gate, 20:39:58 12/08/04 Wed Re: I'm wrong - all eleven games unless NCAA grants the special 12-game waiver on of those years. You really have to say that there are no quality OOC opponents, except perhaps Albany, which has some A-10 aspirations and decent facilities. (NT) -- Go...'gate, 20:42:43 12/08/04 Wed next 12 game allowed season will be 2008 (NT) -- ncaa, 23:13:18 12/08/04 Wed This OOC schedule is terrible and I'm disappointed that FU could not leverage a PL Championship in 2002 to upgrade our program/schedule/facilities. What a waste, I have no interest in any of those OOC games. This is a joke and wreaks of incompetency, I'm embarrassed. 2004 will be my last year on the President's Club (member since mid-1990s) unless things change soon and significantly for the better. (NT) Smar Llabtoof 15:43:54 12/09/04 Thu