🏈 GaState on 2010 schedule

[XXL TideFan]

I had heard (don't know where) that CNS wanted GaState replaced with a bigger opponent. Anyone know anything about it?

 

[planomateo]

I SAY we go for a MWC team - TCU or Utah.

damn spelling/grammar. (edit)

 

[RollTideinGA]

I saw we for a MWC team - TCU or Utah.

huh?

 

[planomateo]

oops, typo. fixed above.

 

[elbatider]

huh?

I'm scratching my head as well. It hit me yesterday that we will be playing four teams next year that were playing New Year's Day, not to mention two that played today and one on New Year's eve. There is a place on the schedule for Georgia State.

 

[252BAMA]

I would think that if he was not "on board" with the original decision to schedule Georgia State, then Georgia State would not be on board the schedule.

 

[BamaCore]

I forget, is Georgia State making the jump from Division II to Division IAA, or is it from IAA to IA?

 

[XXL TideFan]

I believe that it is their first FB team.......................ever.

 

[RollTideRandy]

I believe that it is their first FB team.......................ever.

That is correct. They are JOINING Div 1AA next year.

I hear Ga St's head coach (former Bama coach Bill Curry), is not thrilled with this game either. Ga St signed the game because they thought the publicity it would get being Bill Curry's return to Tuscaloosa would be good for them, but Curry thinks it will be too much of a circus.

 

[252BAMA]

Georgia State will compete at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS, formerly known as NCAA Division I-AA). The Panthers will begin playing in the Colonial Athletic Association, the top FCS conference in the nation, in 2012.

 

[BamaCore]

I believe that it is their first FB team.......................ever.

Oh...WOW. lol

 

[bamabarney]

If I remember correctly they were added to the schedule just over the summer.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

They're filling the slot from Chattanooga this year, giving us a weak opponent and then six days til aubrun.

 

[Oiler99]

If it wasn't Georgia State, it would just be somebody else, right? A Chattanooga, or Arkansas State, etc.

 

[alagator]

That is correct. They are JOINING Div 1AA next year.

I hear Ga St's head coach (former Bama coach Bill Curry), is not thrilled with this game either. Ga St signed the game because they thought the publicity it would get being Bill Curry's return to Tuscaloosa would be good for them, but Curry thinks it will be too much of a circus.

Did not Curry coach in Tuscaloosa with one of his Kentucky teams?

If so, it will be a 'been there, done that' kind of thing. I doubt there will be much, if ANY, talk outside Atlanta about such a historic encounter. I doubt ESPN spends more than twelve seconds on the importance of Curry returning to coach a game in Bryant-Denny stadium bringing in a Georgia State team - even if it might be his first trip back.

 

[ExiledTidefan]

It's just been so long ago now, and so much water has passed under the bridge, that hardly anyone will care. Of course, losing the game would be a bit more of a story now, wouldn't it? Of course, we all realize that this is a near impossibility. Georgia State is in Atlanta, correct?

 

[It Takes Eleven]

It's just been so long ago now, and so much water has passed under the bridge, that hardly anyone will care. Of course, losing the game would be a bit more of a story now, wouldn't it? Of course, we all realize that this is a near impossibility. Georgia State is in Atlanta, correct?

Yes, in urban Atlanta. It's largely a commuter campus with very little on-campus housing (probably less than 5,000 for a 30,000 or so undergrad enrollment).

 

[It Takes Eleven]

Did not Curry coach in Tuscaloosa with one of his Kentucky teams?

If so, it will be a 'been there, done that' kind of thing. I doubt there will be much, if ANY, talk outside Atlanta about such a historic encounter. I doubt ESPN spends more than twelve seconds on the importance of Curry returning to coach a game in Bryant-Denny stadium bringing in a Georgia State team - even if it might be his first trip back.

Yes, it won't be his first return. Curry's (and Stallings') last year in '96 was a 35-7 Bama win in Tuscaloosa. The next year, Bama lost at Lexington to a Tim Couch led team in Mumme's (and Dubose's) first season.

 

[alagator]

It's just been so long ago now, and so much water has passed under the bridge, that hardly anyone will care. Of course, losing the game would be a bit more of a story now, wouldn't it? Of course, we all realize that this is a near impossibility. Georgia State is in Atlanta, correct?

Would not be the first time a Curry led team from Georgia came into Alabama and left with a monumental upset victory.

He brought a Georgia Tech team into Atlanta one year (I was a UA student at the time) and beat one of Coach Bryant's teams. That was the only victory by Tech in a 1-10 season.

I remember the actual game, but cannot recall the year. Michigan was ranked #1 and they announced their loss during our game, at a time when we had a lead. We all started chanting "We're #1" over and over and over. About 90 minutes later we had much egg on our face.

I will say though, I would rate a 2010 victory by Georgia State as even more infamous that that circa-1980s game.

 

[ExiledTidefan]

Wow, thanks for that memory Alagator. I had forgotten about that story. What year was that? Late 1970's or early 1980's?

Nevertheless, Georgia State will in no way be able to compete with Alabama next year, even if we played 10 players on both sides of the ball.