Sioux vs Colgate, Nov. 15?

[nodakvindy]

Colgate's game this weekend versus Georgetown has been cancelled due to a norovirus outbreak on the Georgetown campus. Makeup is unlikely due to the open weeks not matching up. But Colgate's open week does match up with ours on Nov. 15. This would be an intriguing matchup with a school that is somewhat well known. They also happen to play hockey, so perhaps a weekend could be set up down the line with a football-hockey combo.

[undchris]

Colgate's game this weekend versus Georgetown has been cancelled due to a norovirus outbreak on the Georgetown campus. Makeup is unlikely due to the open weeks not matching up. But Colgate's open week does match up with ours on Nov. 15. This would be an intriguing matchup with a school that is somewhat well known. They also happen to play hockey, so perhaps a weekend could be set up down the line with a football-hockey combo.

I think it would be great for the Sioux to have one more game added to their schedule. But with travel, expenses and such short notice, that is virtually an impossible thing for them to accomplish . 3 weeks off in a row sucks donkey butt to not being able to listen to UND football. Luckily (hopefully) this will be the only time that this will never happen.

Besides that, does anyone really know why the Sioux weren't able to schedule at least one more DII team this year to make 11 games?

Anyhow GO SIOUX!

[star2city]

The difficulty with both Colgate (and earlier, Cal Poly) in scheduling another game has to do with budgets (and UND being a non-counter). Both Colgate and Cal Poly had road games scheduled that were cancelled. For either to have scheduled a home game, they would have needed to cover much of the opponent's (e. g. UND's) travel cost. Since both schools had already sold season tickets for their existing home schedule, they kind of get in a bind to gain any revenue from an additional home game: charge everyone an additional cost (which would tic over season ticket holders) or let them in free (and not recoup the cost). The same would be true for UND: an extra $120 + hadn't been budgeted for another team to travel to GF - and if it had, season tickets would have been more costly upfront.

N Mexico State basically needed another home game (their home game was cancelled) to satisfy ticket holders that had already paid for a cancelled game.