Comments on: No more DII for the sake of Playoffs

By: David Muñoz

David Muñoz — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:05:42 +0000

Interesting thesis, but you leave out one factor: most schedules are set years in advance. Perhaps we should get an idea what the AD already has locked into place for the future, and see where the earliest available openings are.

Personally, I’d like to see Texas State adopt Fresno State’s football scheduling mentality: we’ll play anyone, anytime, and beat your ass while we’re at it.

By: Steve Smith

Steve Smith — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:27:37 +0000

You are exactly right of course but, as an ‘older’ Bobcat I wish we could beat A&M Kingsville every single year. It would fill the stadium, with their fans and ours.

But it makes no sense to harm the Bobcats to settle a personal score…..

Unlike all other TState sports, Coach Wright doesn’t schedule his own games so we’ll have to press the AD for this change.

More power to you Max Bob, you are right on!

By: slycat

slycat — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:42:35 +0000

I agree 100% that D-II teams need to be a thing of the past and we need to play exciting OOC teams. The problem is with our schools location. There are just not many teams west of the Mississippi or near us. I asked Coach Wright about this very thing at a Alumni mixer and he summed it up about like this.

With the the expense of travel its hard to get teams east of the Mississippi to come play. Odds are we will continue to see the same teams from the Big Sky and Great West Conferences. D-II games are done because it makes for easy scheduling and gives us a home game. He doesn’t seem to think theres going to be much change soon.

But the good news is we can play teams like Weber St, Montana, Portland St, Sac St, Northern Arizona, South Dakota and North Dakota.

Things can and will change though. I don;t see any reason Missouri Valley or OVC teams shouldn’t be scheduled though.