No doubt. “It was one of the greatest games the FCS has seen.”
Reminder. Griz are 2-and-0 all-time against App State.
Meet Malachi Jones. “Jones, who caught five passes for 69 yards in his first college game, is the son of the late Andre Jones, a linebacker on the Notre Dame team that won the 1988 national title who went on to play for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Detroit Lions.”
Man those Griz were big. “I was like, ‘I’m going to have to go around those guys. I can’t go through them.’”
Overwrought Griz fan prediction. “My head really wants me to pick App by somewhere around 7 to 10 yards. Mostly because I see the Griz as young, untested, and a team that made errors against USD that they just cannot do on the road.”
A SoConversation. Inevitable trouble when coaches have son on team, and what’s the deal with uh-nother division name change?
Triple-options collide. El Cid gets Stink before heading to Boone.
Meanwhile, over in the CAA. League meeting today to talk possible invites. No announcements expected.
Look who’s debating making like the Jeffersons. We beat them once.
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This guy seriously thinks the Griz can put up 42 points against our defense? Hopefully their team is just as clueless and it gets wofford halloween ugly.
Appftw,
That's exactly what I was thinking. Our defense gave up 3 TDs in 198 degree weather vs. an FBS opponent and Montana is going to score 6 TDs at The Rock?
If that's not wishful thinking then what is?
I say we stay hot and our defense feeds off the crowd and we bring it home 38-17.
It's Great To Be A Mountaineer!!!
Extreme Cold was their home field weather advantage the last two meetings in Missoula. The Rock will have it's home field weather advantage this time, Rain.
so who (and why) decided that FBS gets more scholarships than FCS? i'm not being sarcastic, i really don't know… i'd like to see everyone get the same and remove the confusion (as in basketball, everyone is the same)
then let conferences work together to come up with a playoff system that suits them, or no playoff if that suits them… Mineke and Tosititos and Joe's Body Shop can sponsor bowl games and Verizon or Sprint can sponsor playoffs for smaller schools and Visa or whoever can sponsor some four team " bigboy playoff" (don't you need more than 2 games for a playoff?) for their championship…
example, NIT and NCAA basketball tournaments, all Div 1… there are enough schools/teams for everyone to get a piece of the pie, and groupings/leagues/whatever can be decided by size of school…
perhaps i'm just not smart enough to know why this would not work… i await enlightenment from the auspicious posters of AppFan.com…
Here comes an AIG "But we beat Michigan"
Does he think that's funny or something?
I'll doubt you will see any post because I think that is one of the unanswerable questions. I think the limit was so that Alabama wouldn't have 300 players with scolarships to keep them from playing on the rivals teams. I think it might have been part of Title IX to fund women sports.
Man I hate I can't make it to the Rock this weekend!!! Anyone know of any bars/viewing parties in the Raleigh area that might be showing the game?
42 … hmmm
I feel a bad moon rising …
fishinflorida
Good question. The scholarship difference definitely puts into place an institutional advantage where the rich get richer.
The extra cost of scholarships would wreck most FCS programs. You have to remember that you double the number of extra football scholarships to comply with title IX.
If the move has to be made FishInFlorida has come up with the best idea I have heard yet. hats off to a guy who has come up with a solution instead of an argument.
Agree that it sounds like a good solution. Problem is, the BCS schools are not interested AT ALL in equality. Bad for their bottom line.