SAD DAY
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2024 11:29 pm
July 1, 2024.
It is a sad day for me s Army is now an official member of the American Athletic Conference.
It will not be the same for me as an 8-decade fan of Army Football.
No longer will we play a truly national schedule as America's team. We are now relagated to playing a set schedule of 8 conference wana- bee teams who never were , are not now and forever will never be.
What happened to this program where we played a truly balanced schedule of a few fairly easy teams, teams with we could compete with on a yearly basis and a couple truly major teams where we would be really challenged? Where are the east's regional teams that we built a rivalry of sorts who would attract a good crowd to Michie Stadium? Where are those teams we always played that our fan base could look forward to seeing both home and away where a simple fan could travel to without being overwhelmed just to travel to a game or two?
Gone, completely gone and now forgotten. Oh, sure catch it on TV but where does that leave many of us who always enjoyed the stadium playing a team you knew for years and not now a team where you do no not even where the school is located and could really care less?
Gone are the days of local rivalries, sitting in the stands on a a cool, crisp autumnal day playing a team a couple hundred miles down the road? What excitement, what a pleasure !!
Sure, we play Navy and Air Force alright and that is great. Throw in a Temple once every two years and what is left of any regional rivalry from our neck of the woods?
To me, a steady diet of Tulsa, UAB, FAU and the like just does not cut it for me. We had that in the old C-USA and it was not good then like it will not be today with this lineup of teams. It will soon be the same old, same old schedule year after year soon prompting a state of boredom for most of our fans.
So we beat a Florida Atlantic or a Tulsa. So what? That will never replace the lineup of teams from the Big 10 or the ACC that we used to play on occasion.
To me, we sold our soul to the company store for the dollars it might bring. But then again, so what? Today, it's the dollars that count, not the tradition of the game itself.
Truly, as I said before, it is a sad day for me.
We sold our
It is a sad day for me s Army is now an official member of the American Athletic Conference.
It will not be the same for me as an 8-decade fan of Army Football.
No longer will we play a truly national schedule as America's team. We are now relagated to playing a set schedule of 8 conference wana- bee teams who never were , are not now and forever will never be.
What happened to this program where we played a truly balanced schedule of a few fairly easy teams, teams with we could compete with on a yearly basis and a couple truly major teams where we would be really challenged? Where are the east's regional teams that we built a rivalry of sorts who would attract a good crowd to Michie Stadium? Where are those teams we always played that our fan base could look forward to seeing both home and away where a simple fan could travel to without being overwhelmed just to travel to a game or two?
Gone, completely gone and now forgotten. Oh, sure catch it on TV but where does that leave many of us who always enjoyed the stadium playing a team you knew for years and not now a team where you do no not even where the school is located and could really care less?
Gone are the days of local rivalries, sitting in the stands on a a cool, crisp autumnal day playing a team a couple hundred miles down the road? What excitement, what a pleasure !!
Sure, we play Navy and Air Force alright and that is great. Throw in a Temple once every two years and what is left of any regional rivalry from our neck of the woods?
To me, a steady diet of Tulsa, UAB, FAU and the like just does not cut it for me. We had that in the old C-USA and it was not good then like it will not be today with this lineup of teams. It will soon be the same old, same old schedule year after year soon prompting a state of boredom for most of our fans.
So we beat a Florida Atlantic or a Tulsa. So what? That will never replace the lineup of teams from the Big 10 or the ACC that we used to play on occasion.
To me, we sold our soul to the company store for the dollars it might bring. But then again, so what? Today, it's the dollars that count, not the tradition of the game itself.
Truly, as I said before, it is a sad day for me.
We sold our