The inevitable juggernaut of Georgia State football

#26
#26
Vercingetorix said:
You're an alumnus, you're an insatiable sports fan, and yet you're 50/50 on going to the first football game in your alma mater's history? WTH?

Tickets start at something like fifteen bucks. Go.
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If I didn't have to be in Savannah at lunchtime on Thursday, the decision would be easy.
 
#27
#27
Well, yeah, I can see how that would be a long-arsed day. GoToMeeting.com?

Technology is supposed to have solved all this crap by now.
 
#28
#28
Vercingetorix said:
The sad thing is that not only can that game exist and Alabama get credited with a win for it, but given the existing football system, GSU probably regards it as a coup to get the exposure and the paycheck. Bill Curry probably had to pull some favors to make it happen.
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We laugh now, but in 2013 we have South Alabama on our schedule. That will be their first season as a full fledged member of division I-A. Last year was the first time they ever even fielded a team.
 
#29
#29
orangesox said:
We laugh now, but in 2013 we have South Alabama on our schedule. That will be their first season as a full fledged member of division I-A. Last year was the first time they ever even fielded a team.
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There's a huge difference between playing a team that's in its fifth year of existence and one in its first year. By that time, they'll have already graduated their first recruiting class.

Georgia Southern went 15-0 in its fourth year, and Florida Atlantic went 11-3 in its third. South Alabama may not have the same success, but there's no reason a start-up program can't achieve respectability in a few years if they know what they're doing.

If Bama had scheduled Georgia State for 2014, there wouldn't be anything like this backlash.
 
#30
#30
how do they go from just starting a football team to D1 in 4 years? There's schools winning titles in 1-AA that haven't moved up yet. anyone know the criteria from moving up? or down even.
 
#32
#32
sorry to tell you, but once the CAA gets going full time, my alma mater, Old Dominion will dominate! Georgia State won't have a chance...
 
#33
#33
the.one.the.only said:
how do they go from just starting a football team to D1 in 4 years? There's schools winning titles in 1-AA that haven't moved up yet. anyone know the criteria from moving up? or down even.
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The criteria have nothing to do with on-field success. Otherwise, Montana would have moved up many years ago, as would Appalachian State and Youngstown State.

Montana owned Boise State and Idaho when they were all in the Big Sky. Now Boise is one of the best teams in the nation, Idaho made a bowl last year, and Montana is still kicking butt in the FCS.

Here are the criteria, per the NCAA:

An institution classified in Football Bowl Subdivision shall meet all the Division I membership requirements set forth in NCAA Division I Bylaws 20.9.1 through 20.9.5 and in addition, shall:
1. Sponsor a minimum of 16 varsity intercollegiate sports, including football, based on the minimum sports sponsorship and scheduling requirements set forth in Bylaw 20.
Sponsorship shall include a minimum six sports involving all male teams or mixed teams (males and females), and a minimum of eight varsity intercollegiate teams involving all female teams. Institutions may use up to two emerging sports to satisfy the required eight varsity intercollegiate sports involving all female teams. [Bylaw 20.9.7.1]
2. Schedule and play at least 60 percent of its football contests against members of Football Bowl Subdivision. Institutions shall schedule and play at least five regular season home contests against Football Bowl Subdivision opponents. [Bylaw 20.9.7.2]
3. Average at least 15,000 in actual or paid attendance for all home football contests over a rolling two-year period. [Bylaw 20.9.7.3]
4. Provide an average of at least 90 percent of the permissible maximum number of overall football grants-in-aid per year over a rolling two-year period. [Bylaw 20.9.7.4-(a)]
5. Annually offer a minimum of 200 athletics grants-in-aid or expend at least four million dollars on grants-in-aid to student-athletes in athletics programs. [Bylaw 20.9.7.4-(b)]
 
#38
#38
Wow . . . just looked it up and they had over 30,000 in the Dome tonight. That's a pretty big number on a weeknight with the Braves in town for a FCS game.
 
#39
#39
Announced at 30,000. The whole lower bowl was full. The student section was fairly outstanding, but it was kind of sad because they all bailed on the game at about the end of the third quarter, so when the team ran over there at the end of the game to celebrate, it was pretty much just the band and the cheerleaders left.

Despite the competition, I was pretty impressed with GSU. They looked well organized and crisp the whole game. I was expecting the Bad News Bears and instead I saw an actual football team that looked like it had, you know, played games before. They looked better organized than most of the teams UT has fielded in the last decade.

All the Shorter people I saw looked scandalized -- the place was crawling with half-naked drunken GSU coeds. I've never seen so many chicks in short shorts at a ballgame before, and I'm honestly not sure I've ever seen such a high percentage of the fans carrying around beer at a ballgame before. It seemed like there was way more drinking than at your average Falcons game. The Shorter fans sitting next to me had this horrified, frozen look on their faces the whole time like they were watching their team get its ass kicked in Sodom.
 
#42
#42
That money will go a long way for them. I would have assumed they would have made close to 6.
 
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