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Post by novafan2 on Feb 18, 2019 23:23:47 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on football at the FCS level? Personally, I find it way more enjoyable than the FBS level. I hope Nova never goes to the FBS, There is a 24 team playoff to crown a true national champion and who doesn't like seeing those FBS teams lose in the early weeks of September to the FCS teams. I think ND State would have given UCF a run for their money if they played. Just curious what your thoughts are with football on the FCS level. Nova and Georgetown in football needs to happen btw.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Feb 19, 2019 0:04:37 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on football at the FCS level? Personally, I find it way more enjoyable than the FBS level. I hope Nova never goes to the FBS, There is a 24 team playoff to crown a true national champion and who doesn't like seeing those FBS teams lose in the early weeks of September to the FCS teams. I think ND State would have given UCF a run for their money if they played. Just curious what your thoughts are with football on the FCS level. Nova and Georgetown in football needs to happen btw. A few thoughts. Georgetown has played at this level for 25 years and it unfortunately gets a big yawn from those fans who have held on through 18 losing seasons in 19 years with this program. I was at a lunch in DC a week ago with an alumnus who works in the media who was convinced Georgetown played "the deaf school" (Gallaudet) in football. They do not. But the likes of Davidson and Marist and Columbia have not moved the needle, either. At least teams like JMU and Delaware bring an exciting brand of football to Villanova Stadium. But Georgetown fans have been trained that their team could not dare take the field against a scholarship team much less compete, notwithstanding that every other PL team but Georgetown is already running at 60 scholarships and somehow the Hoyas did OK this past year. The jump from a 60 to a 63 scholarship opponent isn't the same as going from the Ivy League to the SEC. I've been arguing for a game with Villanova to anyone who will listen. Andy Talley wanted nothing to do with it because he thought it would bring his program "down" to this level and lead to chatter that Villanova should play in the PL instead. And if Villanova is favored, that's fine. Rivalries don't exist in theory but in practice. And while we're at it, Georgetown should schedule Butler for the same reason. Every PL school is loading up on I-A guarantee games except for Georgetown. Holy Cross gets Navy and Syracuse this year, next year Fordham goes to Hawaii. Colgate travels to Air Force, Bucknell opens at the Linc vs. Temple. None of them will win, of course, but it's a pretty good recruiting tool. A game with Marist, of course, doesn't really compare. You may already know this, but Villanova was probably a week away in the early 2010's from joining Big East football until Pitt (with ESPN's tacit assistance) pulled the rug out of the TV negotiations which led to the split of the conference. VU was working on a deal in place to play games in Chester and go to 85 scholarships. In hindsight, Villanova in the Big East for basketball and football in the CAA worked out better than being an AAC school and playing Tulsa and SMU at Talen Energy Stadium. I-AA/FCS is what it is, but it really doesn't move the fan base. |
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Post by novafan2 on Feb 19, 2019 20:33:45 GMT -5
I remember that ordeal in 2010 about Nova possibly going to FBS and it didn't happen, It was right after Nova won the championship in 2009. I was happy Nova didn't make the move up, even more so now considering what happened with conference realignment. I am the minority but most don't like football for Nova at the FCS level and say it should be shutdown. I would much rather see Nova in the FCS and compete in the playoffs instead of some obscure bowl called the Chez It Bowl or whatever God awful bowl games are out there. Villanova is playing at Penn State in a few years from now and looking forward to that. I haven't followed Georgetown in football but I still regard them as Nova's main rival regardless of the sport they are playing and a game between the two would be a lot of fun.
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Post by hoya9797 on Feb 20, 2019 13:01:10 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on football at the FCS level? Mediocre to garbage football. |
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Post by teddy16 on Feb 20, 2019 16:35:01 GMT -5
Garbage? I get you are not a fan, but.... garbage. Interesting.
There are a lot of very good athletes who play FCS
Ball. A # whom end up in NFL camps. GU has a handful of
Exceptional players. I am sure you are comfortable in
Anonymity making the claim that FCS is garbage
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Post by Problem of Dog on Feb 27, 2019 22:24:23 GMT -5
What are your thoughts on football at the FCS level? Personally, I find it way more enjoyable than the FBS level. I hope Nova never goes to the FBS, There is a 24 team playoff to crown a true national champion and who doesn't like seeing those FBS teams lose in the early weeks of September to the FCS teams. I think ND State would have given UCF a run for their money if they played. Just curious what your thoughts are with football on the FCS level. Nova and Georgetown in football needs to happen btw. A few thoughts. Georgetown has played at this level for 25 years and it unfortunately gets a big yawn from those fans who have held on through 18 losing seasons in 19 years with this program. I was at a lunch in DC a week ago with an alumnus who works in the media who was convinced Georgetown played "the deaf school" (Gallaudet) in football. They do not. But the likes of Davidson and Marist and Columbia have not moved the needle, either. At least teams like JMU and Delaware bring an exciting brand of football to Villanova Stadium. But Georgetown fans have been trained that their team could not dare take the field against a scholarship team much less compete, notwithstanding that every other PL team but Georgetown is already running at 60 scholarships and somehow the Hoyas did OK this past year. The jump from a 60 to a 63 scholarship opponent isn't the same as going from the Ivy League to the SEC. I've been arguing for a game with Villanova to anyone who will listen. Andy Talley wanted nothing to do with it because he thought it would bring his program "down" to this level and lead to chatter that Villanova should play in the PL instead. And if Villanova is favored, that's fine. Rivalries don't exist in theory but in practice. And while we're at it, Georgetown should schedule Butler for the same reason. Every PL school is loading up on I-A guarantee games except for Georgetown. Holy Cross gets Navy and Syracuse this year, next year Fordham goes to Hawaii. Colgate travels to Air Force, Bucknell opens at the Linc vs. Temple. None of them will win, of course, but it's a pretty good recruiting tool. A game with Marist, of course, doesn't really compare. You may already know this, but Villanova was probably a week away in the early 2010's from joining Big East football until Pitt (with ESPN's tacit assistance) pulled the rug out of the TV negotiations which led to the split of the conference. VU was working on a deal in place to play games in Chester and go to 85 scholarships. In hindsight, Villanova in the Big East for basketball and football in the CAA worked out better than being an AAC school and playing Tulsa and SMU at Talen Energy Stadium. I-AA/FCS is what it is, but it really doesn't move the fan base. Playing Gallaudet is not that much of a stretch now that we're scheduling Catholic. |
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Post by FormerHoya on Mar 14, 2019 8:17:21 GMT -5
In the late 90s we scrimmaged Galluadet.
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Post by SSHoya on Mar 14, 2019 8:31:27 GMT -5
In the 1970s we played both Catholic and Gallaudet when we were in Division III.
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