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9 minutes ago, dmksioux said:

It's all about bids/money after the seeded teams.  If we bid enough, we will get a home game...

I realize that, I'm saying since they've been releasing weekly rankings and everyone knows we'd be the 9 seed in that situation, would they set us up with a team we would outbid like Western Illinois, rather than someone like Montana who would outbid us to avoid sending the #9 team in their rankings on the road?

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27 minutes ago, northdakota18 said:

I'm confident we'll get the 8 seed, but say we don't, with this year being the first year the committee came out with weekly lists at the end of the year; does anyone else think we would be set up with a home game since it would basically be public knowledge that we are the 9 seed and it would look bad on the committee to send us on the road? Maybe I'm giving the committee too much credit but that's my thought process.

I am with you.  It would look bad to put the #9, #10, #11, #12 seed on the road.  For the most part, these guys should know enough to not let it happen.

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6 minutes ago, northdakota18 said:

I realize that, I'm saying since they've been releasing weekly rankings and everyone knows we'd be the 9 seed in that situation, would they set us up with a team we would outbid like Western Illinois, rather than someone like Montana who would outbid us to avoid sending the #9 team in their rankings on the road?

I believe they match up the teams first and then open the bids.  So to answer your question, I believe you are giving the committee to much credit.  They will pair teams up based on regionalization, unless they change from previous years.  I know they are giving lip service to not do regionalization, but until they actually follow through on it, you have to suspect it will remain the same.

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6 minutes ago, northdakota18 said:

I realize that, I'm saying since they've been releasing weekly rankings and everyone knows we'd be the 9 seed in that situation, would they set us up with a team we would outbid like Western Illinois, rather than someone like Montana who would outbid us to avoid sending the #9 team in their rankings on the road?

That's a really good point  that I didn't really think about before you said it. Of course teams (like SDSU last year) have probably been the 9 team sent on the road, but this is the first year that everyone knows for a fact who the #9 team is. Given that both are flights, I would think that they'd match whoever is #9 and #10 (UND, SDSU, Richmond, UCA) with teams that they could outbid. It would look really bad to have UND go play at Montana.

 

Great point.

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I'll never understand the lack of clock management skills from college coaches. Why W&M took a timeout on 3rd and 4 at the beginning of the play clock when the clock was running is beyond me. That single handily cost them 3 points as Richmond kicked a FG with 4 seconds left in the half.

Richmond 13

W&M 6

Half

W&M has had the play in the red zone 3 times and only has 6 points. The big story line for the second half is if Richmond's QB is out for the day. 

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1 minute ago, AJS said:

I'll never understand the lack of clock management skills from college coaches. Why W&M took a timeout on 3rd and 4 at the beginning of the play clock when the clock was running is beyond me. That single handily cost them 3 points as Richmond kicked a FG with 4 seconds left in the half.

Richmond 13

W&M 6

Half

W&M has had the play in the red zone 3 times and only has 6 points. The big story line for the second half is if Richmond's QB is out for the day. 

You beat me too it. 

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1 minute ago, bang said:

Well we struggled against Montana State. 

That was 8 weeks or so ago.  You'd think how a team is playing coming down the stretch should factor into it just a little bit.  However we were rolling our last 3 games last year and it didn't matter but who knows. 

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