College Gameday coming to a long standing FCS rivalry game

[Bertram]

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[albinogriz]

WOW.... :? :roll: :|

 

[PDXGrizzly]

Glad they are going to one of the richest games in the country. I wonder what the average income of the people attending is... Too bad they are going to a game that has ZERO implications on any level.

It's not like there are games that have play-off implications happening, or two ranked teams are playing. The only thing that's going for this is the history. I have to wonder why ESPN is going to "The Game."

 

[rimrockgriz]

I watched part of the second quarter of a Harvard game this year. The players seemed to be incredibly slow. Maybe their uniforms were weighted down with money :?: ... :egriz:

 

[PDXGrizzly]

I watched part of the second quarter of a Harvard game this year. The players seemed to be incredibly slow. Maybe their uniforms were weighted down with money :?: ... :egriz:

All that gold be jinglin!

 

[oGriz]

If Gameday wanted to go to an FCS game that doesn't mean anything, the oldest rivalry game in history might have been the one to go to. 150 years in 2014. I guess that does mean something.

 

[PlayerRep]

Glad they are going to one of the richest games in the country. I wonder what the average income of the people attending is... Too bad they are going to a game that has ZERO implications on any level.

It's not like there are games that have play-off implications happening, or two ranked teams are playing. The only thing that's going for this is the history. I have to wonder why ESPN is going to "The Game."

Huge implications in the Ivy league. A Yale win moves them into a conference championship tie with Harvard, and, if Dartmouth win, also a tie with Dartmouth. This is what the Ivies play for. Also, the winner has bragging rights in one of the longest rivalries in football. Go Yale.

 

[fanofzoo]

Glad they are going to one of the richest games in the country. I wonder what the average income of the people attending is... Too bad they are going to a game that has ZERO implications on any level.

It's not like there are games that have play-off implications happening, or two ranked teams are playing. The only thing that's going for this is the history. I have to wonder why ESPN is going to "The Game."

Huge implications in the Ivy league. A Yale win moves them into a conference championship tie with Harvard, and, if Dartmouth win, also a tie with Dartmouth. This is what the Ivies play for. Also, the winner has bragging rights in one of the longest rivalries in football. Go Yale.

:whocares:

 

[PDXGrizzly]

Glad they are going to one of the richest games in the country. I wonder what the average income of the people attending is... Too bad they are going to a game that has ZERO implications on any level.

It's not like there are games that have play-off implications happening, or two ranked teams are playing. The only thing that's going for this is the history. I have to wonder why ESPN is going to "The Game."

Huge implications in the Ivy league. A Yale win moves them into a conference championship tie with Harvard, and, if Dartmouth win, also a tie with Dartmouth. This is what the Ivies play for. Also, the winner has bragging rights in one of the longest rivalries in football. Go Yale.

I agree that "The Game" is a big deal in the Ivy League. For the remaining vast majority of FCS football, it matters not.

 

[Ursa Major]

Glad they are going to one of the richest games in the country. I wonder what the average income of the people attending is... Too bad they are going to a game that has ZERO implications on any level.

It's not like there are games that have play-off implications happening, or two ranked teams are playing. The only thing that's going for this is the history. I have to wonder why ESPN is going to "The Game."

Huge implications in the Ivy league. A Yale win moves them into a conference championship tie with Harvard, and, if Dartmouth win, also a tie with Dartmouth. This is what the Ivies play for. Also, the winner has bragging rights in one of the longest rivalries in football. Go Yale.

I agree that "The Game" is a big deal in the Ivy League. For the remaining vast majority of FCS football, it matters not.

I demand that you take that back, immediately, Sir. Don't make me thrash you! You are obviously an uncouth and jealous Princeton man.

 

['68griz]

Glad they are going to one of the richest games in the country. I wonder what the average income of the people attending is... Too bad they are going to a game that has ZERO implications on any level.

It's not like there are games that have play-off implications happening, or two ranked teams are playing. The only thing that's going for this is the history. I have to wonder why ESPN is going to "The Game."

Huge implications in the Ivy league. A Yale win moves them into a conference championship tie with Harvard, and, if Dartmouth win, also a tie with Dartmouth. This is what the Ivies play for. Also, the winner has bragging rights in one of the longest rivalries in football. Go Yale.

I agree that "The Game" is a big deal in the Ivy League. For the remaining vast majority of FCS football, it matters not.

I don't, for one second, disregard the implications of this game in the Ivy League. BUT, that has NO national implication in the FCS and the vast majority of us really could care less what does and doesn't happen with Ivy League football. If they participated in the playoffs, that would be another issue, but they do not, so... To be honest, I virtually never watch/
listen to GameDay because of their focus on the SEC, so I guess I don't much care where they want to go.

 

[PDXGrizzly]

Glad they are going to one of the richest games in the country. I wonder what the average income of the people attending is... Too bad they are going to a game that has ZERO implications on any level.

It's not like there are games that have play-off implications happening, or two ranked teams are playing. The only thing that's going for this is the history. I have to wonder why ESPN is going to "The Game."

Huge implications in the Ivy league. A Yale win moves them into a conference championship tie with Harvard, and, if Dartmouth win, also a tie with Dartmouth. This is what the Ivies play for. Also, the winner has bragging rights in one of the longest rivalries in football. Go Yale.

I agree that "The Game" is a big deal in the Ivy League. For the remaining vast majority of FCS football, it matters not.

I demand that you take that back, immediately, Sir. Don't make me thrash you! You are obviously an uncouth and jealous Princeton man.

:lol: I remember going to a high end party in Kansas City where there was a large contingent of Ivy Leaguers. They said silly things like "I attended Hahvahd," or ""how was the crew team this year?" They asked me "which university did you attend?" When I said University of Montana they uniformly were rude thereafter. I can say with certainty that every Ivy Leaguer that I have met has been an arrogant and elitist prick. I'm sure there are ones that are nice, but I have yet to meet one. Since I have never met PR in person, I can't say one way or the other.

Oh, and their conference, while historic, is irrelevant.

 

[GrizLA]

Huge implications in the Ivy league. A Yale win moves them into a conference championship tie with Harvard, and, if Dartmouth win, also a tie with Dartmouth. This is what the Ivies play for. Also, the winner has bragging rights in one of the longest rivalries in football. Go Yale.

I agree that "The Game" is a big deal in the Ivy League. For the remaining vast majority of FCS football, it matters not.

I demand that you take that back, immediately, Sir. Don't make me thrash you! You are obviously an uncouth and jealous Princeton man.

:lol: I remember going to a high end party in Kansas City where there was a large contingent of Ivy Leaguers. They said silly things like "I attended Hahvahd," or ""how was the crew team this year?" They asked me "which university did you attend?" When I said University of Montana they uniformly were rude thereafter. I can say with certainty that every Ivy Leaguer that I have met has been an arrogant and elitist prick. I'm sure there are ones that are nice, but I have yet to meet one. Since I have never met PR in person, I can't say one way or the other.

Oh, and their conference, while historic, is irrelevant.

I find it to be almost the total opposite of your experience. Even tonight, I am going out with a Stanford Ph. D. and a Princeton guy and his Denver U wife. They love my old Butte and Montana stories and all have gone out of their way when traveling in the NW to visit UM and Butte. I've never once felt slighted or disparaged by a grad of the "elite" colleges because, actually, most are from lower and middle class families that the endowment funds for those places actively recruit. You might need to just get out more. Montana is always an icebreaker in social events..People love to hear about it...like it's a foreign place. Butte, of course, actually is..

 

[IdaGriz01]

:lol: I remember going to a high end party in Kansas City where there was a large contingent of Ivy Leaguers. They said silly things like "I attended Hahvahd," or ""how was the crew team this year?" They asked me "which university did you attend?" When I said University of Montana they uniformly were rude thereafter. I can say with certainty that every Ivy Leaguer that I have met has been an arrogant and elitist prick. I'm sure there are ones that are nice, but I have yet to meet one. Since I have never met PR in person, I can't say one way or the other.

Oh, and their conference, while historic, is irrelevant.

"Back in the day," I had to travel to Washington D.C. on a regular basis (you don't want to know). That damn place is infested with Ivies. Out of a couple dozen I met, maybe two or three were real human beings. Despite a lot of talk about striving for "diversity," a substantial fraction of their student bodies are from "old money" and do indeed come across as elitist pricks. And, while they do receive a good (but expensive) education, it's not any better than any number of public universities around the country. (What they do get is lots of valuable contacts for a later political or business career.)

But: Want to get an earful? Ask an MIT grad what he/she thinks about Harvard students. Back before I knew better, I got one -- damn good engineer, BTW -- started over a few [? ] beers. The jokes aren't jokes to them. I finally escaped by pleading a need to get rid of some of the beer.

Edit: Added note re GrizLA comment. Princeton, while it is Ivy League, is different. I met a few Princeton scientists, and they were uniformly scary-smart ... but easy to get along with (for another scientist, anyway). As for Stanford, while they have pretensions, they are not, of course, Ivy League.

 

[GrizLA]

:lol: I remember going to a high end party in Kansas City where there was a large contingent of Ivy Leaguers. They said silly things like "I attended Hahvahd," or ""how was the crew team this year?" They asked me "which university did you attend?" When I said University of Montana they uniformly were rude thereafter. I can say with certainty that every Ivy Leaguer that I have met has been an arrogant and elitist prick. I'm sure there are ones that are nice, but I have yet to meet one. Since I have never met PR in person, I can't say one way or the other.

Oh, and their conference, while historic, is irrelevant.

"Back in the day," I had to travel to Washington D.C. on a regular basis (you don't want to know). That damn place is infested with Ivies. Out of a couple dozen I met, maybe two or three were real human beings. Despite a lot of talk about striving for "diversity," a substantial fraction of their student bodies are from "old money" and do indeed come across as elitist pricks. And, while they do receive a good (but expensive) education, it's not any better than any number of public universities around the country. (What they do get is lots of valuable contacts for a later political or business career.)

But: Want to get an earful? Ask an MIT grad what he/she thinks about Harvard students. Back before I knew better, I got one -- damn good engineer, BTW -- started over a few [? ] beers. The jokes aren't jokes to them. I finally escaped by pleading a need to get rid of some of the beer.

Edit: Added note re GrizLA comment. Princeton, while it is Ivy League, is different. I met a few Princeton scientists, and they were uniformly scary-smart ... but easy to get along with (for another scientist, anyway). As for Stanford, while they have pretensions, they are not, of course, Ivy League.

Spent a lot of time in Palo Alto...I'm not pretentious...Stanford..if you've got it, don't flaunt it...

 

[Bertram]

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[#15 Fan]

I thought like 10-11 years ago they visited another Ivy League school...? I remember Corso wearing the Ol' Ben Franklin wig/outfit I thought.

 

[CDAGRIZ]

:lol: I remember going to a high end party in Kansas City where there was a large contingent of Ivy Leaguers.

That's a good one!

 

[KingsValleyGriz]

I think it's cool GD is covering it. I sure as heck like it better than if they were going to say Idaho State or Northern Colorado, two places that would show horrible on TV.

I beat this GD shows well and maybe lead to more to come down the road at other well showing and supported FCS programs.!

Heck maybe even the Griz UND game can get them to roll in to Missoula next year.