Where should SEMO set its sights after 2009?
Southeast isn't even four games into its football season and the blogosphere has an eye toward 2010.
Funny how a 1-2 start and an agonizing Family Weekend loss at home makes the eye wander.
Amid the buzz that Southeast will play Ole Miss in 2010 (99.9 percent unlikely), here are a few scheduling items to mull over while gearing up for the drive Saturday to Martin, Tenn.:
Ball State is penciled in as Southeast's FBS opponent for 2010. The date is Sept. 2 in Muncie, Ind., but there's a chance that date could change after Ball State said last week that it wants to shuffle its big-money dates with Purdue and Iowa (talk about a money game: Ball State stands to make $800,000 for going to Iowa City, but just $350,000 for playing at Purdue).
Southeast is down to play Purdue in 2011 for its annual FBS matchup, a trip likely worth about $350,000. That means any date against Ole Miss wouldn't come until at least 2012, but with the Rebels already booked with Central Arkansas, Tulane and UAB in 2012, SEMO would have a hard time finding an open spot that year, too.
On a side note, Ole Miss is scheduled to play a team familiar to SEMO in 2011 — Southern Illinois.
Looking at 2012, several teams within reasonable driving distance from Cape Girardeau do have home dates available for FCS teams looking for a payday game. Among them: Kentucky, Vanderbilt, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Memphis and Mizzou.
Who should it be?
6 comments:
I'd add Louisville, Mississippi St, Auburn & Northwestern as schools within a bus ride of Cape for potential future games. If the money is right, just about all of the MAC schools plus some schools like UAB & Tulsa.
Al
I'd love to see SEMO pick up a team like Vandy or Memphis -- a 3-hour drive isn't bad.
Iowa has told Ball State that if they want to cancel the game, that they have to pay the 800k as a buyout.
We are still an opponent short for 2010! Who else we playin non-conference?
I'm almost sure it won't be Quincy next year -- they picked up SIU.
Who knows who its gonna be because now they only have an open slot on nov 6th.
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