Sun Belt Conference Presidents- No more body bag games
They don’t like their schools being on the losing end of lopsided games. From the Palm Beach Post-
Sun Belt Conference presidents are tired of their football teams starting the season with lopsided defeats.
They have proposed a policy that would require Sun Belt teams to play more home games and fewer mismatches on the road games that make money but almost assure humiliating losses.
The proposal, which will likely be finalized this summer, calls for the eight Sun Belt football schools to play at least 11 home football games in a two-year period. That would cut down on road games against top Division I-A teams that often pay as much as $600,000 a game.
“I think what the presidents are seeing is there has to be a balance,” Sun Belt Commissioner Wright Waters said.
FAU raised $1.8 million in 2006 by playing four consecutive road games against teams from BCS conferences. The Owls (5-7) had seven road games and five home games, but started the season with four consecutive road losses by a combined score of 192-18.
This year’s schedule is less brutal, but includes road games at Oklahoma State (Sept. 8 ), Kentucky (Sept. 29) and Florida (Nov. 17).
“We would like to wean ourselves away from the need to rely on the payday games,” said FAU President Frank Brogan, who endorses the plan.
College football is like a business, they need a source of revenue(customers) in order to be still be in business. These schools find it profitable to be big school’s whipping boy of the week. I’d really be surprised if the Sun Belt Presidents end this practice. It will be an act of masochism if they do.
The University of Miami Football team was often hired for these types of games in the 1970′s. When they began beating up on the teams(Like Notre Dame) they were hired to lose to, alot of these schools stopped scheduling the Hurricanes.
- Giving Jerry Jones His Due
- Jaguars to Make Cowboys Wear Dark Jerseys in Heat
- Easiest College Football Schedules
- Fixing College Football
- Nebraska and Colorado Bolt Big 12: Who’s Next?
- Jewish NY Jet fans unhappy about 2009 NFL schedule
- The Suns’ Win Streak Hits 28…
- NFL Owners Caving In?
- Cowboys Get Six Prime-time Games in 2007
- NCAA Worried About Coaching Arms Race
- Eight is Enough- Edmonton beats Chicago 8-4
- Lydia Ko wins New South Wales Open
- The Comeback I- Pittsburgh Penguins beat NY Islanders 5-0
- Seattle Mariners Outfielder Greg Halman stabbed to death at age 24
- Hee Young Park wins CME Titleholders Championship
- Oklahoma State Women’s Basketball Coach Kurt Budke dead at 50
- Costly mistake- Blackhawks waive Rostislav Olesz
- Manager Tony La Russa announces retirement
- Puck Drop- Florida Panthers start the 2011-12 NHL season
- 13-time PGA Tour winner Dave Hill dead at 74
Comments are Closed