FBS boils down to dollars and cents(sense?). The BSC is a joke. I would think that if the numbers were there, and there was a place to jump TO, the Griz would be like a Skydiver waiting for the right moment to bail out. First order of business, is cut the umbilical cord with the scats, and take their parachute with us, out the doorway. Analogy City.
No FBS football conference prohibits, by rule, home and home games with FCS teams. The policies like bowl eligibility and revenue generation make scheduling H&H games with FCS schools prohibitive to the FBS school. And that's not talking about putting your football team in a no-win situation with reputational damage (i.e. win and you were expected to win, lose and you suffer the embarrassment of losing at a lower division school. Although it could be said that a FBS school losing at home to a FCS school is a bigger embarrassment and often costs coaches their jobs.) In essence, the risk of a FBS school scheduling a H&H football series with a FCS school is so risky as to be prohibitive.
Bookmark this, so next time someone asks why the Griz don't schedule Carroll or Tech in the pre-season, the retort is quick and painless.
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Yet the NCAA didn't prevent Army from playing Yale in 2014 nor Western Kentucky from playing Indiana State in 2009 nor UConn from playing Stony Brook in 2006.
Why would a FBS school agree to play at a FCS Montana?
I was always led to believe Idaho (no, you da ho, I da pimp), backed out of a game in 2004 with an excuse that was interpreted by those I know to mean they were tired of takin' an ass whoopin' four straight years.
Yale beat Army that day.
Because they sued the NCAA, when their bid to become FBS was denied, and they won and were then allowed to become FBS but their efforts to fundraise to build an FBS stadium failed to materialize so no FBS level football team would play them as long as they had a high school stadium so they had to come begging for H&Hs with BSC teams and Montana felt sympathy and granted them a H&H.
So no reason.
Don't know what happened in those cases, Minn. and maybe the NCAA regs have changed, but there was a reason why we didn't play our next-door neighbors for almost 15-20 years, and at least at the time 22 years ago, the Idaho AD got a pretty good butt chewing from the NCAA not to be traveling to WA-GRIZ anymore--we would have to travel to the giant warehouse in Moscow known as The Kibbie ( Keebler) Dome, and we didn't, probably because Idaho didn't have enough $ to pay us to make the game financially worthwhile for us. We both didn't just decide in 2004 with The Little Brown Stein at stake in this historic border war we were both too important to play each other any more, home and home.
The fargodome is a total dump but I agree let’s play a home and home.
But at least there’s no rule against it, so anything’s possible. Just ask Yale.
Hate to blow this up but Yale is the only legit claim here I think. From what I can find Indiana St beat W Kentucky in ‘09 in Kentucky and I believe Stony Brook and UConn have only played once in ‘14 since UConn’s move up.
Can't trust the damn internet anymore. Guess it's back to pencil and paper and books for me.
No worries. A redit convo does mention Youngstown St hosting Akron in 2019 and Illinois St hosting Ball St in 1990 which I verified. Apparently Ball St and Illinois St actually had a home and home schedule in ‘13/‘14 but the ‘14 game was scratched last min before the ‘13 game and the ‘13 game was rescheduled for Ball St. Also, both Army and Navy played visitors to 11 Ivy/CAA games in the 80’s along with Northwestern at Princeton in ‘86. Intresting side note, in ‘16 NAIA Trinity hosted FCS Valparaiso. Along all that being said, unfortunately the Reality Cops Duo of Kem and HHB are correct. In today’s era, no FBS team is gonna schedule a road game at Montana.
Actually, Butler has a game scheduled for this season at D-III Hanover. You got to love those Pioneer League schools, taking the adage, anyone, anywhere, anytime to new depths of mediocrity. But they have an automatic bid.
Me too.
