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[QUOTE="PhatOrange, post: 3294880, member: 229"]
I know it's never going to change so this is just small talk, ...but I think it's bad for the game and completely unnecessary.  20 years ago teams started the Season the first week of March (some schools maybe the last week of Feb.) we're talking lets say 2000.  Teams were still getting in 14 games AND still having a Memorial Weekend FF.  The difference is playing 1 game a week now.

Going way back teams were starting in March and maybe playing 10-12 games.  Obviously now there are more games.  I remember us northern teams opening our seasons in the south getting in 2 or 3 early games down there.  Usually spring break time.  Nobody up here had turf back then.  Coyne and that was about it.

Starting Feb 15 in NY and playing outdoors in 20 degrees is just bad for the game.  Basically playing 2 games a week for a few weeks would eliminate Feb games.   This 1 game a week thing is stupd.  Teams could play Sat/Sun, Tue/Wed.  I don't understand the need to start so early in Feb.

I don't want to hear about travel schedules or conference playoffs, thats bunk because we watch hoops do it.  Teams could play locally midweek.  Syracuse, Albany, Cornell, Colgate, Binghamton, Hobart, Army.  For Albany they could UVM, UMass, Fairfield, Yale, Quinipiac and anyone in NEngland really.  These are mid week bus trip games that can be played on Weds in April or March.

Teams just playing a few more mid-week games instead of this once a week nonsense is all that is needed.
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