vs. Tenn Tech 2021, 2023

[Yadkin]

I propose getting the admissions office to cover the additional travel costs plane fare entails . I’d be fine with that IF, of course, any of these wish list programs that are constantly mentioned WANT to play us, which is liberal assumption.

[apaladin]

Agree, all but Colgate since the new AD arrived. Colgate series has been on future schedules for a long time. Looks like the Colgate series may have been cancelled or moved. We were supposed to play Colgate at home on Sept 11 2021 and now we are at Tenn. Tech the same day. It also makes only 5 home games instead of 6 for 2021. The 2023 home game with Tenn. Tech gives us 5 home games so both 2021 and 2023 ooc is complete. Anyone heard if the Colgate series has been cancelled?

We need to have schools like Colgate, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Richmond, on our schedule. I’ll keep saying it.

The problem is all of those are plane trips for them or us so they are really not feasible except maybe every once in a while.

Well Richmond would be no more of a plane trip than Cookeville would be - would it ? [Edit: looked it up, 6 h, 395 mi to Richmond; 4.5 h, 270 mi to Cookeville; so Not TOO much difference.]. Georgetown and Villanova would be plane trips, but “convenient “ ones. AND none of the schools I’ve mentioned as having on our schedule would, in my thinking, necessitate a plane trip expense by Furman more than once every 2 seasons. If we cannot afford that, maybe we just cannot afford football period.

Affirm, when you “convenient” flights do you mean for us fans or the team? Of course the team would have a charter flight so any flight would be convenient for them.

[Flagman]

Agree, all but Colgate since the new AD arrived. Colgate series has been on future schedules for a long time. Looks like the Colgate series may have been cancelled or moved. We were supposed to play Colgate at home on Sept 11 2021 and now we are at Tenn. Tech the same day. It also makes only 5 home games instead of 6 for 2021. The 2023 home game with Tenn. Tech gives us 5 home games so both 2021 and 2023 ooc is complete. Anyone heard if the Colgate series has been cancelled?

We need to have schools like Colgate, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Richmond, on our schedule. I’ll keep saying it.

You guys are trying to either kill me or make me go broke. Bucknell is a 10 hour drive to Nowhere, PA, and Holy Cross is 14 hours to Nowhere, MA. I've made the trip to Colgate. I've seen all there is to see in the region, so it's alright with me to cancel that series, especially after they screwed us on a home game. I've done the tourist bit in Boston (near Holy Cross), so that doesn't interest me, either.

I may be the only one on this board that travels to every away game, but we do have a few fans, and player-parents who travel to all of the games. We need to concentrate on scheduling games that are easy travel games. And there are plenty of teams that would be attractive match-ups in TN and NC that fit that criteria.

[Paul C]

Plane trip isn’t a “convenience” concern for Furman, it’s a cost concern. A lot cheaper to charter a couple buses than an airliner. Unless maybe a 737MAX.

[Affirm]

Agree, all but Colgate since the new AD arrived. Colgate series has been on future schedules for a long time. Looks like the Colgate series may have been cancelled or moved. We were supposed to play Colgate at home on Sept 11 2021 and now we are at Tenn. Tech the same day. It also makes only 5 home games instead of 6 for 2021. The 2023 home game with Tenn. Tech gives us 5 home games so both 2021 and 2023 ooc is complete. Anyone heard if the Colgate series has been cancelled?

We need to have schools like Colgate, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Richmond, on our schedule. I’ll keep saying it.

The problem is all of those are plane trips for them or us so they are really not feasible except maybe every once in a while.

Well Richmond would be no more of a plane trip than Cookeville would be - would it ? [Edit: looked it up, 6 h, 395 mi to Richmond; 4.5 h, 270 mi to Cookeville; so Not TOO much difference.]. Georgetown and Villanova would be plane trips, but “convenient “ ones. AND none of the schools I’ve mentioned as having on our schedule would, in my thinking, necessitate a plane trip expense by Furman more than once every 2 seasons. If we cannot afford that, maybe we just cannot afford football period.

Affirm, when you “convenient” flights do you mean for us fans or the team? Of course the team would have a charter flight so any flight would be convenient for them.

Convenient = brief, direct flight from GSP

[Affirm]

Agree, all but Colgate since the new AD arrived. Colgate series has been on future schedules for a long time. Looks like the Colgate series may have been cancelled or moved. We were supposed to play Colgate at home on Sept 11 2021 and now we are at Tenn. Tech the same day. It also makes only 5 home games instead of 6 for 2021. The 2023 home game with Tenn. Tech gives us 5 home games so both 2021 and 2023 ooc is complete. Anyone heard if the Colgate series has been cancelled?

We need to have schools like Colgate, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Richmond, on our schedule. I’ll keep saying it.

You guys are trying to either kill me or make me go broke. Bucknell is a 10 hour drive to Nowhere, PA, and Holy Cross is 14 hours to Nowhere, MA. I've made the trip to Colgate. I've seen all there is to see in the region, so it's alright with me to cancel that series, especially after they screwed us on a home game. I've done the tourist bit in Boston (near Holy Cross), so that doesn't interest me, either.

I may be the only one on this board that travels to every away game, but we do have a few fans, and player-parents who travel to all of the games. We need to concentrate on scheduling games that are easy travel games. And there are plenty of teams that would be attractive match-ups in TN and NC that fit that criteria.

One such trip every 2 seasons would kill or break you? No. You already travel to every game, so you evidently must have sufficient money, time, energy, and good health to manage that. I’m talking max about only 1 additional such game every 2 years. You already are OK with traveling to Martin, TN, apparently. Martin is 8 hours, 500 miles. Clarksville again? Tennessee State? Campbell? I’m OK with playing any of those. Not OK with those plus Kennesaw GA and Jacksonville AL being as our only OOC FCS games.

[apaladin]

Agree, all but Colgate since the new AD arrived. Colgate series has been on future schedules for a long time. Looks like the Colgate series may have been cancelled or moved. We were supposed to play Colgate at home on Sept 11 2021 and now we are at Tenn. Tech the same day. It also makes only 5 home games instead of 6 for 2021. The 2023 home game with Tenn. Tech gives us 5 home games so both 2021 and 2023 ooc is complete. Anyone heard if the Colgate series has been cancelled?

We need to have schools like Colgate, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Richmond, on our schedule. I’ll keep saying it.

You guys are trying to either kill me or make me go broke. Bucknell is a 10 hour drive to Nowhere, PA, and Holy Cross is 14 hours to Nowhere, MA. I've made the trip to Colgate. I've seen all there is to see in the region, so it's alright with me to cancel that series, especially after they screwed us on a home game. I've done the tourist bit in Boston (near Holy Cross), so that doesn't interest me, either.

I may be the only one on this board that travels to every away game, but we do have a few fans, and player-parents who travel to all of the games. We need to concentrate on scheduling games that are easy travel games. And there are plenty of teams that would be attractive match-ups in TN and NC that fit that criteria.

One such trip every 2 seasons would kill or break you? No. You already travel to every game, so you evidently must have sufficient money, time, energy, and good health to manage that. I’m talking max about only 1 additional such game every 2 years. You already are OK with traveling to Martin, TN, apparently. Martin is 8 hours, 500 miles. Clarksville again? Tennessee State? Campbell? I’m OK with playing any of those. Not OK with those plus Kennesaw GA and Jacksonville AL being as our only OOC FCS games.

Where did Martin, Tn come from? If you are talking about TTU, it’s in Cookeville which is 268 miles. 4+ hours.

[Affirm]

Agree, all but Colgate since the new AD arrived. Colgate series has been on future schedules for a long time. Looks like the Colgate series may have been cancelled or moved. We were supposed to play Colgate at home on Sept 11 2021 and now we are at Tenn. Tech the same day. It also makes only 5 home games instead of 6 for 2021. The 2023 home game with Tenn. Tech gives us 5 home games so both 2021 and 2023 ooc is complete. Anyone heard if the Colgate series has been cancelled?

We need to have schools like Colgate, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Richmond, on our schedule. I’ll keep saying it.

You guys are trying to either kill me or make me go broke. Bucknell is a 10 hour drive to Nowhere, PA, and Holy Cross is 14 hours to Nowhere, MA. I've made the trip to Colgate. I've seen all there is to see in the region, so it's alright with me to cancel that series, especially after they screwed us on a home game. I've done the tourist bit in Boston (near Holy Cross), so that doesn't interest me, either.

I may be the only one on this board that travels to every away game, but we do have a few fans, and player-parents who travel to all of the games. We need to concentrate on scheduling games that are easy travel games. And there are plenty of teams that would be attractive match-ups in TN and NC that fit that criteria.

One such trip every 2 seasons would kill or break you? No. You already travel to every game, so you evidently must have sufficient money, time, energy, and good health to manage that. I’m talking max about only 1 additional such game every 2 years. You already are OK with traveling to Martin, TN, apparently. Martin is 8 hours, 500 miles. Clarksville again? Tennessee State? Campbell? I’m OK with playing any of those. Not OK with those plus Kennesaw GA and Jacksonville AL being as our only OOC FCS games.

Where did Martin, Tn come from? If you are talking about TTU, it’s in Cookeville which is 268 miles. 4+ hours.

Flagman said there are plenty of FCS in TN & NC to choose from (and “that are attractive matchups”).
I was trying to think of where in TN & NC they are. I know where TTU & APSU are. I also know where FCS UT Martin is. Do you? Yes, we still need Colgate et al on our list. I do not consider TTU, UTM, Campbell, APSU, TSU to be all that “attractive” as matchups. Colgate, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Lafayette, Richmond, Davidson, all are liberal arts colleges that are rated academically higher than we are, AND play FCS plus other similar athletics to us. There are many other liberal arts colleges rated higher than us, but most of those are DIII. It would be fine with me if we would become DIII like Sewanee and W&L, except for the likelihood that a lot of people (such as those on this board and many others) would get “bent out of shape” and stop giving any money to the school (even though other constituencies may very well be likely to give more money to the school).

[MNORM]

Agree, all but Colgate since the new AD arrived. Colgate series has been on future schedules for a long time. Looks like the Colgate series may have been cancelled or moved. We were supposed to play Colgate at home on Sept 11 2021 and now we are at Tenn. Tech the same day. It also makes only 5 home games instead of 6 for 2021. The 2023 home game with Tenn. Tech gives us 5 home games so both 2021 and 2023 ooc is complete. Anyone heard if the Colgate series has been cancelled?

We need to have schools like Colgate, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Richmond, on our schedule. I’ll keep saying it.

You guys are trying to either kill me or make me go broke. Bucknell is a 10 hour drive to Nowhere, PA, and Holy Cross is 14 hours to Nowhere, MA. I've made the trip to Colgate. I've seen all there is to see in the region, so it's alright with me to cancel that series, especially after they screwed us on a home game. I've done the tourist bit in Boston (near Holy Cross), so that doesn't interest me, either.

I may be the only one on this board that travels to every away game, but we do have a few fans, and player-parents who travel to all of the games. We need to concentrate on scheduling games that are easy travel games. And there are plenty of teams that would be attractive match-ups in TN and NC that fit that criteria.

So you're saying Maine is out?

[Affirm]

Agree, all but Colgate since the new AD arrived. Colgate series has been on future schedules for a long time. Looks like the Colgate series may have been cancelled or moved. We were supposed to play Colgate at home on Sept 11 2021 and now we are at Tenn. Tech the same day. It also makes only 5 home games instead of 6 for 2021. The 2023 home game with Tenn. Tech gives us 5 home games so both 2021 and 2023 ooc is complete. Anyone heard if the Colgate series has been cancelled?

We need to have schools like Colgate, Holy Cross, Bucknell, Richmond, on our schedule. I’ll keep saying it.

You guys are trying to either kill me or make me go broke. Bucknell is a 10 hour drive to Nowhere, PA, and Holy Cross is 14 hours to Nowhere, MA. I've made the trip to Colgate. I've seen all there is to see in the region, so it's alright with me to cancel that series, especially after they screwed us on a home game. I've done the tourist bit in Boston (near Holy Cross), so that doesn't interest me, either.

I may be the only one on this board that travels to every away game, but we do have a few fans, and player-parents who travel to all of the games. We need to concentrate on scheduling games that are easy travel games. And there are plenty of teams that would be attractive match-ups in TN and NC that fit that criteria.

So you're saying Maine is out?

I’ll bet he’s not saying it’s out for some short-notice playoff game even if it’s below freezing in December or even first round in late November. Likewise Northern Iowa, etc.

[Roundball]

I think our AD and HC should check with every fan to make sure the schedule is okay with them.

[Affirm]

I think our AD and HC should check with every fan to make sure the schedule is okay with them.

That would be possible. How many actual “fans” are there, anyway? However, I say the AD & HC are & should be attuned to the overall interests of the university & its constituencies. AD & HC should know & pursue what is best for the overall “health” & overall benefit of the university. Football is not a separate entity unto itself.
[Perhaps your comments were sarcasm & not serious statements.]

[Roundball]

I think our AD and HC should check with every fan to make sure the schedule is okay with them.

That would be possible. How many actual “fans” are there, anyway? However, I say the AD & HC are & should be attuned to the overall interests of the university & its constituencies. AD & HC should know & pursue what is best for the overall “health” & overall benefit of the university. Football is not a separate entity unto itself.
[Perhaps your comments were sarcasm & not serious statements.]

Well, my little smiley face was winking. Yes, it was sarcasm. Some on this board think the schedule should revolve around them.