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The YO Show:
Agreed with the NEVER should play at Dayton sentiment here. Unless we go the way of Western Illinois and squeak into the playoffs and have to play them at Dayton, only way I could accept that under fathomable current / relative future conditions.

IAA Fan:
Just a few things:

1. Again with the MAC ...that conference is dead to us. No return ...no home.
2. Chief ...we have no choice. As these partial-scholarship teams get more players, there will be no more home-only teams for us. Dayton, Duquesne and RMU will ALL expect returns.
3. Go, it is more than just a few people, it s recruiting. We recruit quite a bit from SEOH. We even have a summer camp there. This is what we need.

ytownchief22:
Who cares about a home and home. Go to their place and whoop their butts. What happened to playing the Montana's and McNeese St's and heck I think we even played Cal Poly, Hofstra and all them one year. Get back to those schools. Playing the Dayton and Duquesne's of the world do not get you prepared for MVFC football. Just another W on the schedule, which in turn actually hurts our playoff chances.

pioneer9:
Not sure that I agree with the Duquesnes and Daytons dragging us down. In fact, in some cases I think they might (unfairly as it is) drag us up (the perception that Dayton is a playoff team but is, in actuality, equivalent to a lower level MVFC team). The reason people have talked about, say, Ohio State's OOC schedule in the past, is because their conference didn't offer them a lot of ranked games... the idea being that they played weak OOC AND weak conference opponents. OOC has little to do with YSU's specific playoff situation... it is entirely based on our conference. We are guaranteed 4 or 5 ranked games a year in conference games alone. Why play 1 or 2 more when they can only hurt us?

You're pretty much guaranteed to go 2-1 against an FBS and 2 medium/low teams and you will have to go at least 5-3 in conference to have a chance at playoffs. On a good year, you MAY go 2-1 OOC games against an FBS and 2 ranked teams and you STILL have to go 5-3 in conference to have a chance at playoffs. And as far as preparation for MVFC football, there are pros and cons to playing both Dayton/Duquesne and Montana/McNeese St.

The problem isn't the OOC. We have to perform better in-conference... plain and simple.

Wick250:
IAA Fan, you do understand that Dayton, Duquesne, and RMU have very few fans.  With ideal weather conditions, they draw at most several thousand, and many of those are students who probably don't pay.  They will never be in any position to demand a return game from a full scholarship FCS program.  That guarantee would bankrupt them.  I would be willing to wager that the guarantee that YSU gives to those schools is more than the total of their gate receipts for their home games for the entire year.

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