Why can't Haslam get some home-and-home with teams from the MEAC, SWAC, CAA, or Ivy League (if they start to participate in the post-season)?
It makes mor sense then going up against Central Washington or other DII teams.
Personally I would love to see a SWAC or MEAC team at Wa-Griz stadium.
Hogan tried to do a home and home with Dartmouth (I helped him). One problem is that the Ivies schedule way in advance, and the Ivies don't start playing until after mid-September. In the past, the Ivies played all their 3 OOC games right away. That has changed a bit. The Ivies play only 10 games. Hogan thought it would be great experience for a Griz team to experience an Ivy campus. He also discussed Harvard. Dartmouth doesn't have a great stadium, but Harvard, Yale, Penn do. And Princeton's newer stadium is pretty good, but not as good as the old bigger Palmer stadium.
The first stadium built for football was Harvard's, but Penn's stadium is older.
"Franklin Field (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) — 1895
Franklin Field has been a host for baseball, the opera, military training, soccer and a U2 concert, but it’s a football venue, first and foremost. It is the oldest college football stadium in the U.S., the site of the first game to be broadcast on radio in 1922. In addition to hosting countless Penn Quakers games, it was the site of 18 Army-Navy games. [I played in it twice.]
Harvard Stadium (Boston, Massachusetts) — 1903
Initially a gift from Harvard’s 1879 class, the stadium hosted its first football game on Nov. 14, 1903 against Dartmouth. Since then, rugby, lacrosse, soccer and ice hockey have been played in the stadium. It was the home of the New England Patriots — then the Boston Patriots of the AFL — for two seasons in 1970 and 1971." [I played in it 3 times.]
[I was told that the size of a football field is the odd size/width it is, because, when football fields were standardized, they had to choose a size that would fit into Harvard stadium.]
The Yale Bowl is big. A wooden stadium. The Rose Bowl was patterned after it, to some extent.
"Yale Bowl (New Haven, Connecticut) — 1914
An
estimated crowd of more than 70,000 people came to watch the first game at the Yale Bowl, including Presidents William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, but if they were Bulldogs fans, they left disappointed. Harvard won handily, 36-0. Yale fans left the stadium much happier on Oct. 5, 1929, when Yale beat Vermont 89-0. In 1973 and 1974, the New York Giants played their home games at the Yale Bowl." [I played in it twice.]
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