[ATrain]

That sounds like Swinger material!?!?!?

Still say LU needs to play Troy on that open date!!!! They were scheduled to play UAB..

What SJ and FFG do with their wives is none of our business

While playing 3 FBS schools would be awesome in a way, it would also be a tad bit crazy.

[PAmedic]

would be very Chuck South of us

[olldflame]

That sounds like Swinger material!?!?!?

Still say LU needs to play Troy on that open date!!!! They were scheduled to play UAB..

What SJ and FFG do with their wives is none of our business

While playing 3 FBS schools would be awesome in a way, it would also be a tad bit crazy.

What would be even more awesome would be beating at least 2 of them, which would be very do-able in this case. App State demolished both Georgia State and Troy last year.

[flamesfilmguy]

No less creepy with that explanation ......

That sounds like Swinger material!?!?!?

[ATrain]

That sounds like Swinger material!?!?!?

Still say LU needs to play Troy on that open date!!!! They were scheduled to play UAB..

What SJ and FFG do with their wives is none of our business

While playing 3 FBS schools would be awesome in a way, it would also be a tad bit crazy.

What would be even more awesome would be beating at least 2 of them, which would be very do-able in this case. App State demolished both Georgia State and Troy last year.

Oh I agree beating 2/3 FBS would be doable, but FBS schools can do deeper in their lineups so once you factor in the potential for injuries, etc. it could also be very dangerous.

[Purple Haize]

No less creepy with that explanation ......

That sounds like Swinger material!?!?!?

He said what everyone was thinking!
Plus I love Castle and Firefly. Deep Space 9 was solid

[PAmedic]

its official

SIU

http://www.libertyflamesnation.com/libe ... -illinois/

Liberty has replaced the opening left on its 2015 football schedule from James Madison backing out, with a road trip to Southern Illinois on September 26th, as first reported by Chris Lang. Southern Illinois is a member of the Missouri Valley Football Conference where they finished 6-6 overall and 3-5 in conference play in 2014. This will be the first ever meeting between Southern Illinois and Liberty.

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Liberty has replaced its 9/26 home football game with JMU with a road game on the same day at Southern Illinois.
11:33 AM - 23 Mar 2015

[jcmanson]

its official

SIU

http://www.libertyflamesnation.com/libe ... -illinois/

As first reported by Lang on twitter.

[PAmedic]

yeah sorry I was editing as you posted

[forbidden]

Finally OFFICIAL huh, lol. either way nice little gauntlet for the team to run through with 4 roadies. One thing for sure, these guys won't be able to say that they were'nt battle tested.

[Rooster Cogburn]

Return in 2019

[Yoseph]

SIU - As an exile here in Egypt, I couldn't be happier about this replacement. I road tripped to ISU blue last fall, and this game is in my backyard!

From the local paper:

CARBONDALE -- The SIU football team will play a home-and-home series with defending Big South Conference champion Liberty beginning this year, the school announced earlier today.

The Salukis will host the Flames on Sept. 26 during Family Weekend and play at Lynchburg, Virginia, in 2017. It will be the first games ever between the two programs.

http://thesouthern.com/news/local/saluk ... 33528.html

[bluejacket]

This is a very good replacement game.

[flamesfilmguy]

So this pretty much solidifies Kennesaw as homecoming correct?

[Purple Haize]

SIU - As an exile here in Egypt, I couldn't be happier about this replacement. I road tripped to ISU blue last fall, and this game is in my backyard!

From the local paper:

CARBONDALE -- The SIU football team will play a home-and-home series with defending Big South Conference champion Liberty beginning this year, the school announced earlier today.

The Salukis will host the Flames on Sept. 26 during Family Weekend and play at Lynchburg, Virginia, in 2017. It will be the first games ever between the two programs.

http://thesouthern.com/news/local/saluk ... 33528.html

You must live near Wadsworth IL.........

[Yoseph]

About 300 miles south of there, but I did have a friend who used to live in Winthrop Harbor.

[Sly Fox]

So the news releases from both schools say the return trip to Lynchburg is in 2019 when we already have the JMU home game at a date to be determined later. We seem to have filled up that season's OOC home schedule off of one week this fall. But that doesn't take much sting out of the month straight on the road this fall.

[Purple Haize]

About 300 miles south of there, but I did have a friend who used to live in Winthrop Harbor.

I watched the Bengals / Niner SB in Winthrop Harbor!

[Sly Fox]

Which one?

[jlread]

SIU stadium looks nice and big with bleachers around the entire thing. But it still only seats 15k? Looks like instead of building upwards they have bleachers wrapping around in the end zones. Must be cheaper than stacking them higher.

[Sly Fox]

I have tons of SIU-C friends. It used to be a factory for TV sportscasters back in the day. Its main claim to fame in Illinois is its Halloween celebrations. They have a very strong FCS history and come from easily the toughest conference in the nation this past year.

[Yoseph]

I have tons of SIU-C friends. It used to be a factory for TV sportscasters back in the day. Its main claim to fame in Illinois is its Halloween celebrations. They have a very strong FCS history and come from easily the toughest conference in the nation this past year.

Yeah, the Halloween celebrations on "the strip" (business section near campus with lots of restaurants/bars) used to get pretty wild. They tried to shut that down in the late nineties (I think) by closing the bars and limiting alcohol sales at package stores for those days. Too much property damage and the school was trying to change its image. I think the lifted the ban last year let a few bars open.
They do have a strong FCS history (undefeated 83 national champs), but have been really down for several years after Jerry Kill left for Northern Illinois (then Minnesota). Saluki stadium is just a few years old. The old McAndrew stadium it replaced was a crumbling dump. The 15,000 capacity is more than enough. They averaged about 9,000 last year.

[ballcoach15]

Good to see SIU on schedule instead of a non D1 school. I was afraid we might end up with a D2 school to replace JMU. Good job by our AD.

[Sly Fox]

I have some clients near Cape Girardeau so I get the New Cairo fault area every now and then. But a trip to Carbondale is too far off the beaten path for this Texan. I know we desperately wanted to land an FCS opponent to keep Homecoming on that date, but if we had to travel this fall I can live with this deal.

[Cider Jim]

I just read on another board how much JMU actually paid to host, and the JMU fan actually provided documentation for his source: the JMU bid to host was over $200,000.


http://www.breezejmu.org/sports/jmu-bid ... 239da.html