The Flyers will travel to Las Vegas week 3 to face power house Before shop Gorman
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Flyers travels to Las Vegas. Schedule posted.
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That should put the game during the second weekend in September. The same weekend as the Canelo Alvarez/Terrence Crawford fight that was just announced. The Bears also play in Vegas next year, could possibly fall on that weekend??? Start making travel plans now Flyer fans.
Here’s a thought…why doesn’t ESTL go independent in football? Would allow them to have a dynamite regular season schedule and then play where they belong for the playoffs.
ESL plays the schedule they do because it’s hard to get games locally. Had it not been for Mt Carmel and Loyola the last 2 years stepping up would have been another out of town game.
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Only option I could come up with that could get them to 8a.
would conference kick them out if they pulled football, just something I thought about.
That is one of the valid questions. Other sports at ESL aren't so successful that it would warrant being kicked out in all other sports just to benefit one program.
Secondarily, scheduling 3-4 nonconference games against willing and appropriate opponents is a cakewalk compared to finding 9 dates. Most teams are pretty locked in weeks 3-9. Short of an IMG or Bishop Gorman, most power programs don't have the schedule flexibility to say "sure we will schedule you for a week 5 game." So weeks 3-9 kind of become a black hole that only get filled out of sheer scheduling serendipity.
It seems to me they only care about getting their ass kicked in the playoffs by ESL not the regular season.
Prior to GC and Collinsville leaving the swc scheduling two open dates were challenging some years. Now they have 4 open dates. 2 years ago they only played 8 games because a local team (De Smet) bailed on them right before the season to play another swc team.
Idk if thats really the issue. The conf currently has 6 teams. If they drop to 5 they lose some of those auto bids to playoffs. They did allow Collinsville to drop out of football and stay in everything else.
No one really has leverage by threatening to leave/kick someone out. The conf is left with 5 members. No auto bids for champs and the remaining 5 schools have 1 additional week to fill. ESL then has 9 open dates to fill there football schedule.
No leverage. If ESL wasn't a a founding member the conference would have kicked ESL out a long time ago. That being said, the minute ESL leaves, several schools would line up to join the conference making it bigger and stronger. You have to know and understand the dynamics of the metro east. Yes, the conference allowed Collinsville to remove football however, ESL currently don't participate in ALL sports. Collinsville leaving for football is equivalent to ESL not having a soccer team. The bottom line is that the rule helps the conference and has zero negative affect. In their eyes everything is working well.
