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Posted: 7/31/2014 10:58 AM
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Living in northern Illinois, I've been following NIU's Schedulepalooza this week. It's really exciting for their fan base. Every day this week, the school's AD dept will be presenting a new home-and-home future series for the university. Daily, they're tweeting hints about the next team to be announced. So far, they've listed San Diego State and BYU as future home-and-home series. This has been a big push by the new AD. Must admit, I'm jealous of what they're doing to build anticipation for their schedule.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 11:02 AM
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No doubt that they have a completely different philosophy about scheduling that we do. They've had some real studs at QB which is the single most important position. They are today's version of the old Miami
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Posted: 7/31/2014 11:02 AM
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Clue #1 for fans today: no team from this conference has ever played a game at Huskie Stadium. They're releasing a new clue on social media every hour in the morning.
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Posted: 7/31/2014 11:47 AM
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finnOhio wrote:expand_more
Clue #1 for fans today: no team from this conference has ever played a game at Huskie Stadium. They're releasing a new clue on social media every hour in the morning.


SEC my guess. MSU, Vandy, UK maybe?
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Posted: 7/31/2014 2:14 PM
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PAC-12?  Utah?  Wash State?
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Hint #2: The future opponent has played at least 3 games in the state of Illinois since 1927.

Hint #3: The future opponent's MBB team has played NIU in Dekalb before.

Hint #4: The documentary "Dogtown and Z-Boys"

Should be announced at 3:00 ET
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It's a home and home with PAC 12 Utah. BYU, SDSU, Utah, they'll be getting frequent flier miles.
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It's a home and home with PAC 12 Utah. BYU, SDSU, Utah, they'll be getting frequent flier miles.


Interesting that they are taking their shots out West. I guess all of those games against Big Ten and AAC are getting tiresome. I love what they are doing. Seats will be filled for these games in DeKalb.
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Posted: 8/1/2014 10:16 AM
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Here's the first clue for today:

#SchedulePalooza hint No. 1: This school has an equine science program.

FBS schools with the program: Michigan State, Penn State, Louisville, Maryland, Nebraska, Utah State.


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Schedulepalooza doesn't exactly work when you're scheduling Idaho and Southeastern Louisiana State
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A quick internet search looks like that only leaves Colorado State or University of Maryland. CSU would continue their march out west, but getting a B1G school would be quite nice for NIU.
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A quick internet search looks like that only leaves Colorado State or University of Maryland. CSU would continue their march out west, but getting a B1G school would be quite nice for NIU.

Could be Louisville or maybe Michigan State.

 
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Tyler wrote:expand_more
A quick internet search looks like that only leaves Colorado State or University of Maryland. CSU would continue their march out west, but getting a B1G school would be quite nice for NIU.

Could be Louisville or maybe Michigan State.

 


Both of those would be HUGE if they're home-and-home. Let's not forget, though, that we do have home-and-homes with Kansas and Cincinnati in the (relative) near future. I'd say that both of those are bigger than SDSU, and likely bigger in interest than Utah. Kansas has fallen since their little surge in 2008, when they went to the Orange Bowl and I believe were ranked as high as #2 in the BCS.
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Posted: 8/1/2014 12:46 PM
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#SchedulePalooza hint No. 2: NIU’s fourth opponent has changed conferences within the last five years.
#SchedulePalooza hint No. 3: you can visit a @SixFlags Amusement Park in this state.

Gotta be Maryland.


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Posted: 8/1/2014 1:52 PM
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Rutgers? No Six Flags in MD I don't think.
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Missouri. Six Flags outside St. Louis and Missouri to SEC.
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Posted: 8/1/2014 2:11 PM
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MedinaCat wrote:expand_more
Rutgers? No Six Flags in MD I don't think.


Six Flags America is in MD.
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It was Maryland. College Park in 2020. DeKalb in 2021.
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Posted: 8/1/2014 2:23 PM
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Their home schedule is looking pretty good in the next few years.

Announced OOC home games:
2015: UNLV, Murray State, Wyoming
2016: San Diego State
2017: none announced yet
2018: Utah, Idaho
2019: none announced yet
2020: BYU
2021: Maryland
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Wow, that's pretty impressive. Even more impressive is that each of these teams (in their current iteration) would be on NIU's level. This new AD is definitely putting something fun out there for the fans. Also love the use of social media with this.
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catfan28 wrote:expand_more
Schedulepalooza doesn't exactly work when you're scheduling Idaho and Southeastern Louisiana State
+1
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Posted: 8/2/2014 8:59 AM
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I worry a little about further separation between the haves and have nots by 2020. But if anyone can keep up with the big boys it's probably NIU as much as anybody this side of Boise
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This is great. Not only is NIU scheduling solid opponents, but they are releasing them in a clever way that builds hype. Well done.


I've seen some knocks on our schedule. Yes, our schedule the next couple years are weak (next year especially) BUT lets realize NIU is scheduling these games out for 2020.

By 2020, we will see Kansas and Cincinnati in Peden Stadium.

I don't disagree that the NCAA is trending towards haves and have nots. Where I differ with some on this board is what side we fall on. Lets play NIU, Kansas and Cincinnati every year. Get rid of the have-nots like Ypsilanti CC. That is a terrible home and home. Waste of time.
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Posted: 8/4/2014 7:27 AM
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The Optimist wrote:expand_more
This is great. Not only is NIU scheduling solid opponents, but they are releasing them in a clever way that builds hype. Well done.


I've seen some knocks on our schedule. Yes, our schedule the next couple years are weak (next year especially) BUT lets realize NIU is scheduling these games out for 2020.

By 2020, we will see Kansas and Cincinnati in Peden Stadium.

I don't disagree that the NCAA is trending towards haves and have nots. Where I differ with some on this board is what side we fall on. Lets play NIU, Kansas and Cincinnati every year. Get rid of the have-nots like Ypsilanti CC. That is a terrible home and home. Waste of time.


Please stop portraying Kansas like they're the lords of Big 5 football. I'll give you Cincinnati because of the regional interest and they've at least been somewhat consistently successful the last 10 years. But Kansas isn't something to get excited about. At least not for me. One glorious run back in 2007 people nowadays barely remember doesn't make them a marquee opponent in Peden.

I'll counter that Kansas is a step in the right direction for at least attempting to get better schools to visit Peden, but that's not a plateau I think Ohio needs to be shooting for.
Last Edited: 8/4/2014 7:31:16 AM by GoCats105
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GoCats105 wrote:expand_more
This is great. Not only is NIU scheduling solid opponents, but they are releasing them in a clever way that builds hype. Well done.


I've seen some knocks on our schedule. Yes, our schedule the next couple years are weak (next year especially) BUT lets realize NIU is scheduling these games out for 2020.

By 2020, we will see Kansas and Cincinnati in Peden Stadium.

I don't disagree that the NCAA is trending towards haves and have nots. Where I differ with some on this board is what side we fall on. Lets play NIU, Kansas and Cincinnati every year. Get rid of the have-nots like Ypsilanti CC. That is a terrible home and home. Waste of time.


Please stop portraying Kansas like they're the lords of Big 5 football. I'll give you Cincinnati because of the regional interest and they've at least been somewhat consistently successful the last 10 years. But Kansas isn't something to get excited about. At least not for me. One glorious run back in 2007 people nowadays barely remember doesn't make them a marquee opponent in Peden.

I'll counter that Kansas is a step in the right direction for at least attempting to get better schools to visit Peden, but that's not a plateau I think Ohio needs to be shooting for.
Kansas is 4-20 over the past 3 seasons and is historically one of the worse teams in the history of college football.
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