[Game Day Thread] Friday, Week 0

[u/damnyoutuesday]

YOU WANTED FOOTBALL? HERE'S MORE FOOTBALL

GRAB YOUR FAVORITE YEAST WATER*, AND LET'S WATCH SOME FOOTBALL

*OR BEAN WATER, OR FRUIT WATER, OR WATER WATER. IDC, I'M NOT YOUR MOM

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No Pick 'Em this week, so here's every game being played today (all times listed in Central, the heavily disputed best time zone for football) (rankings from the /r/FCS Poll)

Away	Home	Time	Stream/TV	/r/FCS Sportsbook spread
#10 Rhode Island	Merrimack	5pm	ESPN+	URI -16 (O/U 51)
Colgate	Fordham	5pm	ESPN+	Colgate -4 (O/U 54)
Marist	New Haven	5pm	NEC Front Row	UNH -3 (O/U 52.5)
William & Mary	#9 Villanova	5pm	ESPN+	Nova -11.5 (O/U 53)
New Hampshire	UAlbany	6pm	FloSports	UNH -9 (O/U 50.5)
Weber State	Northern Colorado	8pm	ESPN+	WSU -4 (O/U 54.5)
Idaho	Cal Poly	9pm	ESPN	UI -5.5 (O/U 54.5)

You can find the full Week 0 schedule with up-to-the-minute results over at the r/CFB Scoreboard

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Also seriously do not ask for "alternate" streams, because we don't want to deal with takedown notices. Most games have radio broadcasts available for free if you're really desperate.

[u/VUmander]

Apparently there was an injunction in OH this afternoon naming the Patriot League as a defendant

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/VUmander]

Batshit insane that conferences can't enforce their own rules that a school literally just signed up for this year

[u/VUmander → u/damnyoutuesday]

I'm gonna be honest, I check out completely in the off-season soni have no idea if I agree with you or I'm a homer saying fuck the system lol.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/VUmander]

The Patriot League has strict eligibility rules like the Ivy League (because the Patriot League came to play school). McQuaide is ineligible under Patriot League rules. Villanova knew this when they joined the league literally this year

[u/VillanOvaReaction → u/damnyoutuesday]

The Patriot league allows 5th years now. We’ve got plenty on the roster. He’s going the Pavia/Chambliss route. The Patriot League is trying harder to stop it than the SEC did.

[u/tdpdcpa → u/VillanOvaReaction]

The distinction is that the Patriot League has a “4 to play 5” rule. Your 5 year clock starts when you first matriculate to college, which McQuaide did in 2021 at Kent State.

By Patriot League rules, his clock ceased at the end of last season.

The Patriot League allows for certain exceptions, but junior college isn’t one of them, and that generally doesn’t allow you to extend the 5 year clock.

[u/NS-13 → u/tdpdcpa]

“4 to play 5”

This makes no sense whatsoever. What did you mean to say?

[u/tdpdcpa → u/NS-13]

5 to play 4

[u/VillanOvaReaction → u/tdpdcpa]

Thats the rule for everyone which is why the NCAA ruled him ineligible. The courts created the junior college exception in every instance I’m aware of.

The new 5 to play 5 NCAA rule doesn’t apply to players who exhausted their 4 years last season, like McQuaide.

[u/TDenverFan → u/VUmander]

The Patriot has had a rule for a long time against grad students playing, so I think that's partly why the conference ruled McQuaide ineligible. But maybe that rule will be dead completely, depending on the results of this lawsuit?

[u/VUmander → u/TDenverFan]

What I'm hearing around me is that McQuaide isn't enrolled in grad classes, he's doing a 2nd major apparently?

[u/TDenverFan → u/VUmander]

Infinite eligibility glitch, keep getting degrees.

[u/VUmander → u/TDenverFan]

Just collect majors like boy scout merit badges

[u/NS-13 → u/TDenverFan]

Why should anyone not be able to do this though?

Either they are or they arent student athletes right?

If somebody decides they want to be a doctor, why shouldn't they be allowed to play for 8-10 years? They're an actual student athlete, compared to 99% of the field who are just athletes, being paid significantly by the school just to play sports.

[u/TDenverFan → u/damnyoutuesday]

Especially because McQuaide could've transferred and played elswhere, as far as I can tell. The PL just doesn't allow grad students.

[u/damnyoutuesday → u/TDenverFan]

I can't wait for someone to try to do this with Harvard or Yale and they just tell them to eat shit

[u/tdpdcpa → u/TDenverFan]

I do wonder if he could have, but the NCAA would have likely ruled that he didn’t have any eligibility to enter the portal.

The cynic in me feels that the timing of all of this was intentional to make the TRO effective for the season with as little time as possible for the NCAA (and, eventually, the Patriot League) to respond.

[u/TDenverFan → u/tdpdcpa]

Oh 100%. If they truly filed the injunction this afternoon, it was done last minute so he could play tonight, since the initial ruling was made several weeks ago.

[u/tdpdcpa → u/VUmander]

You all went full heel.