Oh, crap, you're right. Sorry!

At least Wofford has an NCAA win recently...

Like I said, "I give in."  In order to get excited in purchasing tickets for the upcoming season who's team just came off a Sweet 16 run; ended the season playing the Big East, Big 10 and ACC; and returns the entire roster; you must get in the mindset that having Richmond being rumored as your biggest OOC home game and only one game at Memphis as your showcase away game of the year is exciting stuff.  Somehow you must find a thread of excitement to ramp up your level of anticipation. 

Unfortunately, while I realize we're a MAC school and all the rest--I was kind of hoping that for maybe just this one year we'd push the needle and add a game or two unlike a status quo type year.  Some games where you didn't have to think, and rethink, why a matchup vs. UNC-W and Delaware is something exciting.  Maybe a little reward to the seniors who showed they could go head-to-head with the big dogs and give them a chance to do it again a few times in their last hurrah as Bobcats.  And maybe it'll be there as the schedule hasn't been officially announced-just rumors.  And like I said, it's probably my fault in that I haven't made the full transition into getting excited about the type of teams we play on an annual basis.  Quite the contrary, I'm am VERY excited about my trip to Penn State coming up.  Don't have to talk yourself into why that will be fun.  But as for me, the drive to Athens for the Norfolk State game a few weeks later will take a little more imagination.  If you want to use some Dick Vitale talk, I like people who aren't afraid to play people in their OOC schedule vs. scheduling "Cup-Cake City."  And while Delaware, etc... may not be cup cakes, they just sound and smell like them.

Now how cool is that schedule?  Texas and Purdue at home.  Not a single fluff OOC game, unless of course those big name teams weren't big names 40+ years ago.

Reatlistically we know:
a.  they won't come here
b.  we can't play murders row every game of the season
c.  the gap between the Texas, Purdue, Ohio State, IU's, etc...  of the world and the MAC has probably widened significantly since then.

All I'm asking for is maybe one cool/high profile holiday/preseason tournament and getting maybe as few as one higher profile home game.  Add Memphis, Richmond, Marshall and the rest of the slate to this and I'd probably shut up and be happy.   That would be what I would consider the minimal acceptable level.   Then again, we may have tried and couldn't pull it off at which point I'd feel bad for asking for something that's not even possible.

Ok, enough is enough from me on this topic.  Gotta get psyched for the Maryland-Eastern Shore game--learn where they're from, who their mascot is, what their colors are and who in the world they play as I've never heard of them.

If anything, CG, some of the teams on this schedule were greater powers then than now.  For instance, nobody has even heard of Loyola (Chi) these days, yet in 1969, they were but a few years away from their national championship -- when they beat UCincy in the championship game.  We played them one -- and sometimes two -- times a year back in the day.  Their coach, George Ireland, was a personal friend of Gentleman Jim's.  

No, her father's name is John.  Might be an uncle or something, I suppose.

Found this interesting reference on the ever semi-accurate Wikipedia: 

I ran into Fuss a few weeks ago and he told me how nearly impossible it is to get the kind of games we want.

I understand what you are saying. I was hoping to get into a big pre-season tournament. That is the most disappointing thing for me.

Disappointing for the coaches and players, too. They wanted those chances to make an impact.

But at least the Ohio Bobcats will be playing in every one of those games.

Ohio is not on Northern Iowa's non-con schedule.

http://www.unipanthers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=26200&ATCLID=205576645

I would love a preseason tournament as bn9 mentioned but outside of that, I don't have much of a beef with the schedule.  I just hope the Convo pretzel maker is in prime form come MAC play in January.  

I'll have what he's having...

In all seriousness, though, it might be possible. I have a hard time seeing us get a "W" at Memphis, but crazier things have happened. If things go according to what we think, we're at least looking at 3 road games...
- Memphis
- Robert Morris
- UMass

Each one of those will be an absolute battle to escape with a win. I know everyone's complaining about the schedule (myself included)...but those are some darned tough road games.

Students out of session for Marshall game.