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Thu night before Labor Day weekend is much, much better than Fri night as far as traffic goes.
 
thatguyed said:
Thu night before Labor Day weekend is much, much better than Fri night as far as traffic goes.
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Hmmm really? I don't know if I agree with that as someone living very near I-95 in lower FF County. Thursday nights before any holiday weekend are often worse or equal down here than Friday nights.
 
Exit 4 said:
Hmmm really? I don't know if I agree with that as someone living very near I-95 in lower FF County. Thursday nights before any holiday weekend are often worse or equal down here than Friday nights.
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That had been my experience coming up from Stratford 4-5 years ago.
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
Tennessee is not happening. Hopefully they at least buy us out of it
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This game may never happen but there would be no buyout available as it was merely a home and home series.

The last I heard (nearly two years ago) they wanted it postponed indefinitely (with the hope that we would tell them to just cancel it). We allowed the deadline for scheduling to be removed as attempting to enforce any deadline would have led to cancelling the series.

If we get good again they may have interest in actually scheduling this game. Otherwise it will never happen.
 
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uconnell said:
Didn't NC lose power during that game, which we were winning, at the time?
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The game I'm referring to was played at the Rent. My memory is a little fuzzy on the details but from what I remember they couldn't move the ball on us the entire game until a late drive to tie, at I believe 10. Then we somehow got backed up the goal line on the next drive and had a safety called on us for holding in the endzone to make it 12-10 them. We ended up getting the ball back and got to midfield in a hurry, in an attempt to set up a game winning FG. Once we got to the 50 we hit a wall and ended the game with 4 straight incompletions.
 
TheDoggPound said:
The game I'm referring to was played at the Rent. My memory is a little fuzzy on the details but from what I remember they couldn't move the ball on us the entire game until a late drive to tie, at I believe 10. Then we somehow got backed up the goal line on the next drive and had a safety called on us for holding in the endzone to make it 12-10 them. We ended up getting the ball back and got to midfield in a hurry, in an attempt to set up a game winning FG. Once we got to the 50 we hit a wall and ended the game with 4 straight incompletions.
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2009 and UNC was ranked.
 
TheDoggPound said:
The game I'm referring to was played at the Rent. My memory is a little fuzzy on the details but from what I remember they couldn't move the ball on us the entire game until a late drive to tie, at I believe 10. Then we somehow got backed up the goal line on the next drive and had a safety called on us for holding in the endzone to make it 12-10 them. We ended up getting the ball back and got to midfield in a hurry, in an attempt to set up a game winning FG. Once we got to the 50 we hit a wall and ended the game with 4 straight incompletions.
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The Rent was packed with almost 40,000 fans. TJ Yates was UNC's QB. Cody Andres completed a great pass to Jordan Todman on 3rd and long but Dan Ryan was called for holding in the end zone with about a minute and a half remaining in a 10-10 tie. We then miraculously recovered the onside kick and reached midfield. We looked good for a last second winning FG but got pass happy and never gained another yard. Bad loss.
The game in Chapel Hill was memorable for three things:
The power went out as we sat in the stands while everyone around us stayed calm. The NC fans were great.
We had three punts blocked by one amazing player Bruce Carter and three INT's by QB Zach Frazer filling in for injured Tyler Lorenzen.
We went into the game 5-0 ranked 24th and got whomped--but oh those halcyon days!
Let's play these guys again.
 
I'd like to see us play Minnesota in the future:
  • B1G school
  • We have AD-related connections
  • Winnable games
  • Likely a September game so weather should be decent there
  • Fun city with a very nice stadium and campus
Selfishly I have family there so it's almost a guarantee that I can squeeze a road trip out of it, and they happen to be UMinn employees.
 
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I'd like to open the season with UMass and end it with BC and have BC and UMass play each other too. Give a trophy to the "Big 3" winner. Then we could dump the fcs game but since nobody wants to. E tied down to 2 games every year despite the fact that it would be good for everyone, it won't happen. BC is too pumped for Wake forest as their finale. Oy! I don't have a huge problem with an fcs game. It helps them and it is usually a win for us. And even SEC teams do it.
 
Exit 4 said:
You realize that all the G5 programs play one cupcake game a year against FCS competition and that all but the B1G also do the same? Until the rest of the ACC stops scheduling a single FCS game, we shouldn't stop either. I like playing the local FCS programs (sans Holy Cross which seems entirely too small) like Maine and URI, I think its good for all of us.
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The sad reality is that WE'VE turned into the cupcake for our opponents over the last 7 years!
 
freescooter said:
I'd like to open the season with UMass and end it with BC and have BC and UMass play each other too. Give a trophy to the "Big 3" winner. Then we could dump the fcs game but since nobody wants to. E tied down to 2 games every year despite the fact that it would be good for everyone, it won't happen. BC is too pumped for Wake forest as their finale. Oy! I don't have a huge problem with an fcs game. It helps them and it is usually a win for us. And even SEC teams do it.
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The last thing we need is another fake trophy.
 
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TheDoggPound said:
The game I'm referring to was played at the Rent. My memory is a little fuzzy on the details but from what I remember they couldn't move the ball on us the entire game until a late drive to tie, at I believe 10. Then we somehow got backed up the goal line on the next drive and had a safety called on us for holding in the endzone to make it 12-10 them. We ended up getting the ball back and got to midfield in a hurry, in an attempt to set up a game winning FG. Once we got to the 50 we hit a wall and ended the game with 4 straight incompletions.
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Randy never called a TO on either of their scoring drives.
 
TheDoggPound said:
I want to play UNC again, that holding call in the endzone when we were absolutely dominating them still pisses me off.
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Dominating them? I don't think so. We went up 10-0 early in the second half, then watched the rally and tie it, and where deep in our own end in the last 2 or 3 minutes when the Safety occurred.
 
BC usually ends with Syracuse. I would not count on getting an annual game with them unless it's a 2 for 1 deal. We're better off opening with UMass where we get a 2 for 1 deal with the 1 road game being at Gillette. Go get games with Boise St, BYU, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan St, etc. I would give 2 for 1 with Michigan, tOSU, USC, ND, PSU.
 
NE Football said:
BC usually ends with Syracuse. I would not count on getting an annual game with them unless it's a 2 for 1 deal. We're better off opening with UMass where we get a 2 for 1 deal with the 1 road game being at Gillette. Go get games with Boise St, BYU, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan St, etc. I would give 2 for 1 with Michigan, tOSU, USC, ND, PSU.
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Michigan St, tOSU, PSU, ND, USC aren't taking a 2 for 1. At best you're getting a one and done with these schools. Look at what happened with Michigan and ND. What's happening with Tennessee. They think they're "too good" to come to a G5's stadium. If all stars align, the big schools will agree to play you st MetLife or Gillette.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
Michigan St, tOSU, PSU, ND, USC aren't taking a 2 for 1. At best you're getting a one and done with these schools. Look at what happened with Michigan and ND. What's happening with Tennessee. They think they're "too good" to come to a G5's stadium. If all stars align, the big schools will agree to play you st MetLife or Gillette.
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Exactly right. The best we can hope for is one of those big name schools to play us at MetLife.

We gave away a big home game with BC to Fenway just for the extra dollars. If that's direction we want to go, we might as well try to schedule big name schools for Metlife and hope they bite.
 
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SubZero said:
Exactly right. The best we can hope for is one of those big name schools to play us at MetLife.

We gave away a big home game with BC to Fenway just for the extra dollars. If that's direction we want to go, we might as well try to schedule big name schools for Metlife and hope they bite.
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I'd love to see a game once in a while at the MetLife or Gillette, if we could get the "bigger" named schools to come, I think every couple years it would be nice little weekend trip for everyone.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
I'd love to see a game once in a while at the MetLife or Gillette, if we could get the "bigger" named schools to come, I think every couple years it would be nice little weekend trip for everyone.
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I would rather play at Fenway or Yankee Stadium
 
huskymedic said:
Novelty has worn off football @ baseball stadiums... only if there are no other options.
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I just really don't like the idea of playing college football games in NFL stadiums, especially in places like East Rutherford or Foxboro. It worked last year in Houston but, obviously, that's in the same city as the school
 
huskymedic said:
Novelty has worn off football @ baseball stadiums... only if there are no other options.
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I never really liked the idea to begin with. Sight lines for baseball are different than football. Just seems to me like no seat is a good seat when football is played at a baseball stadium.
 
Would love uconn to use their New York presence to play some big boys at MetLife. Will be difficult getting teams to come to the rent until we can hopefully get back in P5 conference or until the AAC gets more respect
 
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