Milanmiracle,
From reading your posts on the Valpo board, I know that you recognize the disparity between our programs and opposed this game. I assure you that few YSU fans took any pleasure from what transpired today. You might not know how nonscholarship FCS football started, and you might wish to share this with your Valpo colleagues. You and everybody else in the Pioneer League is a victim of the most unjust decision that the NCAA ever formulated. Several decades ago, Dayton dropped from scholarship to nonscholarship football, joined D3 where they belonged, and promptly won several national titles. Other D3 schools cried like little girls, and the NCAA removed Dayton from D3 and created this farce called nonscholarship IAA (at the time) football. The complaints from the whiners were that since Dayton played DI basketball they somehow had an advantage with their football program. That was complete nonsense but the NCAA used it to justify this bogus classification. This "Dayton rule" now maintains that schools that play DI basketball must place their football programs in DI, scholarship or not. The hypocrisy of all this is that the NCAA allows exceptions for other sports. D3 Johns Hopkins is allowed to play DI lacrosse. D2 Ferris State and Duluth play DI hockey.
As far as the size of the guarantee that YSU paid to Valpo, none of us know. For whatever reason, the YSU administration guards the guarantee amounts for non-conference games like they were plans for the Manhattan Project. If you guys find out on your end, please inform us.
