I remember going to a game at Cornell to watch SU Football. We had 3 Carloads of friends - it was in maybe the late 70’s. I assumed it was to watch us play Cornell there. In fact a friend who was a grad student there met up with us. Who did we play? I am getting old.
SU played BC at Cornell in 1979 while the Dome was being built.
Thank you - I knew I was there and assumed that we had played Cornell at Cornell. Mind is going
- well maybe it’s gone.
Seems like 50 year old dudes is a solid percentage of our fanbase... Fire the buses back up down in Scranton?
I think there are a lot of people that have gone to games so they could say they saw those coaches. And to say GMac would just be an opposing coach is selling it short. He's GMac.
I wonder if that’s on the verge of changing now that the Ivies will be allowed to compete in the FCS playoffs?
Ivy League football to compete in FCS playoffs beginning next season
The Ivy League announced Wednesday its football programs will compete in the FCS playoffs beginning next season.www.boston.com
You could probably go as low as 30. I'm sure a bunch of dudes that were preteens and teens can trace the origins of their fanhood to the GMac era.
We didn't do it when Orr was there, yet we played Eastern Michigan 5 times in 7 years after Rob Murphy went there. We had nothing to gain and the fanbase had no reason to care about that game, so it's not all that crazy a thought to bring in a GMac team.
The reason you see me responding is quite frankly because you keep responding to posts that I write. The only one that seems to really care about this is you. And for the record, I haven't said we shouldn't do it. Just that it doesn't do anything for us. You keep saying that we would have a little fun with it. Until this thread, I haven't given a second thought to Siena. And now I am done with the subject.
Yeah, we should never schedule lower level teams like the Big 12 does to try and blow them out to help our metrics.
You're right. I do care. Not so much about whether we specifically play Siena but the idea that we should avoid low level teams for fear that losing to them hurts us. I just hate that we entertain the idea of losing to scrubs because we have to have such a specifc strategy to barely be on the right side of the bubble. Good teams don't worry about the bubble. They kill lower level teams that are used as tune ups and fight with other good teams for seeding. Those are the discussions I want to have. Every good team schedules teams that can't help them with getting into the tournament, so schedule a few of Cornell, Colgate, St Bonny, Buffalo, Siena, etc. If we struggle against them, the writing is on the wall.
We're not embarrassed because we schedule low level teams. We've been embarrassed because we've sucked. Stop sucking and those games become the dunk contests that we saw in the late '80's.
The issue this all those games are buy games. I think we should play low and mid majors to try and enhance our metrics as well, but there’s a cost and some schools may have a higher cost for buy games than others. In this era we need to be spending our money elsewhere.
Great kid. And born right here.Let's get back to Siena Basketball. Gavin Doty worked all off season with Brandon Triche.
Think we need to gain some buzz with the younger fanbase...and that would mean winning seasons and getting into the tourney, so that should be our priority.
If cost is the issue, I agree, we should spend our money wisely. Until now, that was not what I had seen expressed.
We need to do more than just make the tournament. Buzz isn't created by just squeaking in on the right side of the bubble. We need to return to relevancy by getting back into the rankings and staying there. That gets media outlets talking about in season matchups against other good teams and puts us in the discussion for confrence titles and FFs come March.
What cares about the capital region. The capital region couldn’t care less about CNY.
agreed on all count. Siena isn’t one of those matchups
