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EWU blew a 14 point lead in the 4th quarter and lost 41 - 38 it was sort of like our Portland State game. EWU only punted twice...both in the 4th.

I noticed that...

They should have got a home game. Didn't they earn the auto-bid from the Big Sky?

CATS2000 wrote:I noticed that...

They should have got a home game. Didn't they earn the auto-bid from the Big Sky?

Two years ago, MSU earned the auto-bid for the BSC and played away at Northern Iowa as well. EWU's W/L record was not great (Didn't the Griz have a better record?

Thus as another link indicated, give me a High School game instead of North Dakota, Cal Poly, and SFA (did I say HS instead of Div-II?) and we're in (looking at home play off games).

BobcatLionFan wrote:

CATS2000 wrote:I noticed that...

They should have got a home game. Didn't they earn the auto-bid from the Big Sky?

Two years ago, MSU earned the auto-bid for the BSC and played away at Northern Iowa as well. EWU's W/L record was not great (Didn't the Griz have a better record?

Thus as another link indicated, give me a High School game instead of North Dakota, Cal Poly, and SFA (did I say HS instead of Div-II?) and we're in (looking at home play off games).

LOL! Don't the Griz schedule a "high school" game every year to pad the record???

CATS2000 wrote:I noticed that...

They should have got a home game. Didn't they earn the auto-bid from the Big Sky?

Only the four seeds are guaranteed home games. After that, the location of the other games are decided by bid; thus UM with their 23K attendance gets a home game with a higher bid and not EWU with their 8500-10000K attendance.

Yeah - I looked into it a little bit. The Griz are buying these games like they are the Notre Dame of D1 football...

I wonder how many of their at-large bids were strictly a financial decision. It's all about the $$$ in the NCAA. Kinda sad.

CATS2000 wrote:Yeah - I looked into it a little bit. The Griz are buying these games like they are the Notre Dame of D1 football...

I wonder how many of their at-large bids were strictly a financial decision. It's all about the $$$ in the NCAA. Kinda sad.

So, the Griz getting into the playoffs 13 years in a row, becoming the national runner up in 1996, 2000, 2004, and winning the title in 1995 and 2005 is all money and politics??? We should thank God for Dennis Washington. Look at the teams we played in the last ten years. The Cats have doubled the amount of DII teams we played. Not to mention we have more IA teams under our belt in the last ten years as well. Look it up pinche. Oh, and remember Saint Mary's? Solid team you scheduled there. Humboldt state was another solid one. Chadron State? Great team I'm sure. Oh, do you remember playing Fort Lewis? Hell, it wasn't even 8 years ago. The funny thing is, with your padded schedule you couldn't win the Sky or get into the playoffs.

This wasn't necessarily a knock on the griz but more on the NCAA in general.

You bring up all these runner-up and national titles but what was the griz record in these playoff games on the road? They seem to play well when they can buy 1 or 2 home games in the post-season... Except this year.

CATS2000 wrote:This wasn't necessarily a knock on the griz but more on the NCAA in general.

You bring up all these runner-up and national titles but what was the griz record in these playoff games on the road? They seem to play well when they can buy 1 or 2 home games in the post-season... Except this year.

Well, two NC Titles on the road. How is anybody's record on the road during the playoffs. You earn home games by winning. The years the Griz have had lots of success at home during the playoffs meant they won on the road. The years they have not... they were losing on the road. It goes with any team. I'll pull up Georgia Southern (6 IAA titles) and you'll see the same thing. The years they did well they won on the road to get those home games in the playoffs. Moot point. And don't get me wrong. The Cats really are on the up and up I think. The program really has turned around from a decade ago. I don't think total Griz domination is going to happen at this point. Will we (or you for that matter) have long win streaks like the past... probably not. Two three years at the most.

Totally relying on my weak memory here, but isn't James Madison (last year) the only I-AA team to ever play and win all their playoff games on the road? If it wasn't JM, it was somebody else in this decade....

Thus, it is obvious that playing home playoff games, buying them or not, is the key to winning I-AA titles. I'd be completely happy with MSU buying home playoff games. Too bad you just can't buy the playoff spot as well

Bleedinbluengold wrote:Totally relying on my weak memory here, but isn't James Madison (last year) the only I-AA team to ever play and win all their playoff games on the road? If it wasn't JM, it was somebody else in this decade....

Thus, it is obvious that playing home playoff games, buying them or not, is the key to winning I-AA titles. I'd be completely happy with MSU buying home playoff games. Too bad you just can't buy the playoff spot as well

Yeah. One example. Good stuff. Holds up in the court of???