This sucks, I was planning on attending this. I have tons of JMU friends and they have a cool stadium.

Well that sucks. I have never been to the Washington DC area and was going to go out and spend a few days seeing the sites and then go over to the James Madison game. Not sure why we would cancel obviously we had to pay some sort of penalty. Be interesting to see what game there is to replace it.

I wonder if the Aggies will play Washington State, who is still looking for one more game.

Noooooooo! I have been checking airline prices because I was going to go. Virginia is my homeland

Did we cancel that, what happened here?

dogie wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 2:59 pm

I wonder if the Aggies will play Washington State, who is still looking for one more game.

This would make sense.

flying_scotsman2.0 wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:01 pm

Did we cancel that, what happened here?

Given that they dropped us to play WSU, I would speculate that WSU bought out that game. But this is just speculation on my part. Too bad. That game would have been driving distance for me.

3rdGenAggie wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:05 pm

dogie wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 2:59 pm

I wonder if the Aggies will play Washington State, who is still looking for one more game.

This would make sense.

Nope. WSU released their schedule and we aren't on it. Our new conference mate already stabbing us in the back, lol.

maybe it was in connection with them instead of them stabbing us in the back.

My fear is we get another power conference $$$ game instead.

Sucks. I was planning on attending, and getting to a Va Tech game as well. My wife went to school in Virginia and I’ve been to Harrisonburg many times. Beautiful area.

Aggiefan33 wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:13 pm

maybe it was in connection with them instead of them stabbing us in the back.

My fear is we get another power conference $$$ game instead.

Got $14 million in exit fees to pay off.

I don't mind that we lost this game. It was a horrible game to schedule. We shouldn't be traveling that far with the increase in the chance of losing without a fat paycheck. This was almost a guaranteed loss for us with nothing but downside to the game IMO.

Would rather have a mid-level money game (not another trip to Alabama, but something closer, like Colorado or Arizona or something)

So we have mcneese scheduled already as an fcs school. What schools still have an open date for next year?

I was looking forward to heading back to my old stomping grounds for a game. Oh well.

Maybe they will replace it with a mid-west money game. Of the teams that need another game. Give me Northwestern, Pitt or Rutgers. I could travel to any of those.

greggers1868 wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:21 pm

So we have mcneese scheduled already as an fcs school. What schools still have an open date for next year?

Answering my own question, Eric Frandsen saying we had 13 games scheduled for next year because we are on the road to Hawaii so we won’t replace the game

Stanford has an open slot.

greggers1868 wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:23 pm

greggers1868 wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:21 pm

So we have mcneese scheduled already as an fcs school. What schools still have an open date for next year?

Answering my own question, Eric Frandsen saying we had 13 games scheduled for next year because we are on the road to Hawaii so we won’t replace the game

It's possible we helped JMU and Wazzu out by working with both to get out of that game and avoid a buyout, given we had an extra game scheduled.

Interesting...

The schedule on the site here only has 11 games without JMU, including UTEP, TAMU, McNeese, and 8 conference games.

Fbschedules.com has us playing 9 conference games + the three non-conference.

BearLakeMonster wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:29 pm

Interesting...

The schedule on the site here only has 11 games without JMU, including UTEP, TAMU, McNeese, and 8 conference games.

Fbschedules.com has us playing 9 conference games + the three non-conference.

Good catch… FBS schedules only has 8 conference games for everyone else and there’s been no indication that we would do anything other than 8… so must be a mistake on FBSschedules’ part.

Kibbie Dome here we come

Teams with open slots
Stanford, Norte Dame, UConn, Duke, Pitt, SMU, FAU, Temple, Baylor, Northwestern (needs 2), Rutgers, Kennesaw State, New Mexico State, Kent State, Vanderbilt, Southern Miss, and ULM (needs 2)

CacheCow wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:38 pm

BearLakeMonster wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:29 pm

Interesting...

The schedule on the site here only has 11 games without JMU, including UTEP, TAMU, McNeese, and 8 conference games.

Fbschedules.com has us playing 9 conference games + the three non-conference.

Good catch… FBS schedules only has 8 conference games for everyone else and there’s been no indication that we would do anything other than 8… so must be a mistake on FBSschedules’ part.

FBSchedules has 9 conference games for us and New Mexico. Still seems odd.

BearLakeMonster wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:46 pm

CacheCow wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:38 pm

BearLakeMonster wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:29 pm

Interesting...

The schedule on the site here only has 11 games without JMU, including UTEP, TAMU, McNeese, and 8 conference games.

Fbschedules.com has us playing 9 conference games + the three non-conference.

Good catch… FBS schedules only has 8 conference games for everyone else and there’s been no indication that we would do anything other than 8… so must be a mistake on FBSschedules’ part.

FBSchedules has 9 conference games for us and New Mexico. Still seems odd.

Maybe we’re playing New Mexico as a non-conf game haha

SLB wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:45 pm

Teams with open slots
Stanford, Norte Dame, UConn, Duke, Pitt, SMU, FAU, Temple, Baylor, Northwestern (needs 2), Rutgers, Kennesaw State, New Mexico State, Kent State, Vanderbilt, Southern Miss, and ULM (needs 2)

Of those, I would schedule FAU or Kennesaw State cause we are going to need to find impact players for next year, and Florida and Georgia are likely places kids are going to be from and want a game scheduled there for them. Maybe the kid who replaced Jalen Royals on his high school team after he left would be more interested in coming here if we accommodate him by scheduling Kennesaw for him.

It was worth scheduling the Temple game if it was the difference between us having the services of Rahsul Faison and not.

Northwestern, Vandy, or Stanford (if we need to get some kind of payout) or ULM, Southern Miss or NMSU if we don't and want it to be a future home-home.

No need to travel to the Eastern time zone.

3rdGenAggie wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:16 pm

Aggiefan33 wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:13 pm

maybe it was in connection with them instead of them stabbing us in the back.

My fear is we get another power conference $$$ game instead.

Got $14 million in exit fees to pay off.

Press conference before playing Georgia “we just here so we don’t get fined”

Could we be scheduling them (OSU or WSU) on one of the dates they play each other?

Wazzu just published a schedule that includes Jaimie Madison and not us

trevordude wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:42 pm

Kibbie Dome here we come

lol this years team loses that game.

Well I don’t have to book an expensive air bnb now. We are less than two hours away and now that’s gone

Have to think of another future trip to see the aggies and all you schlubs some other time

CacheCow wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:54 pm

BearLakeMonster wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:46 pm

CacheCow wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:38 pm

BearLakeMonster wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 3:29 pm

Interesting...

The schedule on the site here only has 11 games without JMU, including UTEP, TAMU, McNeese, and 8 conference games.

Fbschedules.com has us playing 9 conference games + the three non-conference.

Good catch… FBS schedules only has 8 conference games for everyone else and there’s been no indication that we would do anything other than 8… so must be a mistake on FBSschedules’ part.

FBSchedules has 9 conference games for us and New Mexico. Still seems odd.

Maybe we’re playing New Mexico as a non-conf game haha

UNC played Wake Forest in a "non-conference" game a fear years ago. They weren't scheduled to play for 8 years or something under the ACC schedule, and they wanted to keep the regional rivalry alive. So it is possible that both USU and New Mexico had an opening next year and decided to play a "non-conference" game against each other.

dnews article on the topic: https://sports.yahoo.com/utah-state-foo ... 44138.html
not a lot of "investigative journalism" here...this thread crowdsourced most of the same information in the article. but thought it was helpful to have it in print. also of value: the teams with open dates still and numbers of openings. i say we schedule NW or Stanford and get as much coin as we can out of what should be something of a competitive game (depending on what happens this offseason?) without jumping all the way across the country as others have mentioned.

rAggie wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 2:52 pm

This sucks, I was planning on attending this. I have tons of JMU friends and they have a cool stadium.

I'm friends with the JMU cheer coach - was hoping for a reconnect with him and seeing behind the scenes to a real D1 cheer program. We were then going to do a drive up the east coast before flying to Utah and catching the next week's home game.
Bummed that this game isn't happening

Aggie84025 wrote: ↑

November 1st, 2024, 2:56 pm

Well that sucks. I have never been to the Washington DC area and was going to go out and spend a few days seeing the sites and then go over to the James Madison game. Not sure why we would cancel obviously we had to pay some sort of penalty. Be interesting to see what game there is to replace it.

I think we're trying to keep the football team as far from DOJ headquarters as possible.

It’s disappointing to see the game canceled—was really looking forward to visiting JMU and exploring the area with friends.