SAD DAY

[RABBLE]

Rabble…your memory of a “steady diet of Big 10 and ACC teams” on the schedule is skippng a few decades of Army football history. The lineup in the AAC isn’t replacing those teams…we’re just swapping Ga Stare for UAB and Coastal Carolina for ECU.

There are pros and cons to joining the AAC, but losing some mythical schedule of big time football teams on the Army schedule is just not a factual problem with joining the conference. The quality of opponents will be the same as what we’ve seen on Army’s schedule for the last 30-40 years. With the one positive that the days of 2 I-AA teams on the schedule in a season are probably over

On my post, I said a steady diet of the teams we WILL be playing in the AAC, not the BIG 10 and AAC teams we played sporadically over the years in the past. That schedule will be long gone but fondly remembered
by me since as a kid back in the 40's.
Back in the 40's we had only Michigan and Penn as top-drawer opponents for the most part besides the Navy game. Today, we have a plethora of no truly national teams on this schedule, taking away ND which we will never play on an annual basis anymore. Some other BIGGIE opponents maybe, but where will that get us ?
What do we REALLY have left from now on to play? Take away the CIC run and nothing really gets to me to set a date on a game I MUST see away which I always made it on my travel list. From now on--nothing.
Conversely, how many fans will want to come all the way from Tulsa, Oklahoma to watch a game at Michie?
A few die-hards maybe, but that is it. This year we have nearly more than a half of a stadium due to construction. Even then, we will not sell out, sans Air Force, on any game we play home.
My point is, West Point does not care whether the stadium is sold out or not. Embedded with a new cash flow from the AAC and the continuing cash coming from CBS Sports still in the mix until 2028, those running the show will not be concerned that how many seats will remain empty.
It is all business and the bottom line is all that matters. That will be the way it is from now on.
OK, I'm old and nostalgic. Pouring in thousands over the decades in support of my favorite sports team, I feel as I near my end, it is NOT a good way to go out. In the long run, winning tradition has been compromised by the money that has infiltrated the whole system we see today. I am sad over all this as I must accept the things I cannot change.

[Oliphant]

We were scheduled to play Oklahoma at home in 2020.

[RABBLE]

We were scheduled to play Oklahoma at home in 2020.

We should have rescheduled that very game because of covid to the open slot we had this year if the Sooners had an open date. If not, schedule them on the very first time in the future. We owe then that game as they wished at the time.
So what do we do with this Notre Dame game as their home game in this year's open slot? We schedule them as THEIR HOME game 50 miles from our home in Yankee Stadium.
By the way, we owe Notre Dame not a damn thing. What they owe us is a game at Michie Stadium.

Our administration in a word or two---IS NUTS !!!!!!!

[ArmorDude]

From seeing games on TV, it doesn't look like Michie was ever near capacity ... most of the times it looked 50% full. So it wasn't like Army has been drawing huge crowds, which means low gate revenue.

I doubt the drop-off in attendance, if any, will be noticeable.

Army now has a guaranteed source of income from the conference.