We got a ton of exposure for beating the huskies. However, if you lose a play up game you likely are only making a few hundred thousand dollars after expenses. I bet half the guaranteed money goes towards travel expenses.
I totally agree. And you're right. Exposure from beating Washington very likely helped our recruiting and led to the current resurgence we are seeing. It was also awesome. I didn't sit down in my house during the second half.
I hope all FCS schools defeat FBS ones. Makes the Griz winning, if and when the Griz play the same teams in the Playoffs that defeated a FBS school in the same year, all that much more sweeter. Unless, of course, you want the Griz to forfeit their victory against the Washington Huskies a couple years ago.
The general thought was that with so many people traveling from all over the state, there was a desire to get them back on the road home as early as possible given the late season date and the possibility of poor road conditions. Having been to many noon, 1P, 2PM and night games over the last 40+ years I haven't really seen much difference in the alcohol consumption patterns of our fan base...I do notice a lot more Fireball being consumed when its cold however!
Does anyone have any idea what the net amount would be if the stadium is full or close to it ? Not just seating but everything sold.
For the games the NCAA charged $35 per ticket for, I think they brought in about $700,000 per game for the playoffs.
Who wants to watch the Griz beat Carroll 98-0? People already hate us playing D2 teams, playing weaker teams would be even worse.
Maybe it would be a good game to train younger quarterbacks since they seem to not have much play time.
They'd get better experience playing against our 3's in practice.
You know there's nothing like live game play.You can't simulate that.If some of our quaterbacks would have had it we would sure be a lot better when it matters
I don't think playing against NAIA secondaries will do anything to help prepare our guys to win an FCS national championship.
Last year we were getting Ah Yat in for live reps when the game situation allowed it. But we also don't want to deny the whole rest of the team reps against a competitive opponent in the non conference.
People were very angry about the Ferris game, and said we shouldn't be playing a d2 team. So I think they would be even more upset to play a team below d2, by playing a Montana NAIA team.
A similar situation, I manage my church league softball team. We had our first practice yesterday. Our normal pitcher wasn’t there for batting practice so I had to sub in and I’m NOT a pitcher. I may have thrown 1 out of every 15 for strikes but the batters are swinging away cus it’s practice. I’m thinking to myself “this might hurt them more then benefit them practicing against such awful pitching compared to what they’ll see in a game”. I think it’s a benefit to play equal competition for developing players then putting them up against far lesser opponents then they’ll see when it matters.
That is an absolutely great analogy. I agree with that entirely.
