Posted by sjs81 on 9/7/2007, 12:18 pm, in reply to "SJSU and Cal Are Discussing Football Series" --Previous Message--
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Even though all the games would likely be played in Berzerkly, perhaps teh contract could include a bigger share of the gate receipts for SJS.
: Cal, SJSU officials in talks about renewing
: football series
: By Jon Wilner
:
: Friday, September 7th, 2007 at 3:12 am
:
: The Spartans and Bears haven’t met since
: 1996, but they used to play each other all
: the time. Now, Dick Tomey and Jeff Tedford
: are trying to re-start the series.
:
: Tomey told me Wednesday that after he was
: hired (winter of 2004), he approached
: Tedford about getting the Spartans on Cal’s
: schedule.
:
: “We’d like to play you guys,” Tomey said.
:
: “We should play,” Tedford responded.
:
:
: With the head coaches having given the
: go-ahead, athletic department officials from
: both schools are trying to make it work.
:
: Because of scheduling commitments, the
: earliest the teams could meet would be 2010,
: Tomey said.
:
: “We tried to play next year, but we couldn’t
: get the date,” Tomey said.
:
: SJSU’s schedule is more flexible because the
: Spartans have four non-conference openings
: dates, the Bears only three (Pac-10 teams
: play nine conference games).
:
: Increasing the possibility of a Cal-SJSU
: series is that Spartans athletic director
: Tom Bowen used to work at Cal and has a good
: relationship with Cal boss Sandy Barbour.
:
: Again, nothing is official, and we don’t
: know how many the games will be in the
: contract — although you can be pretty sure
: all the games will be at Cal.
:
: Getting Cal on the schedule would fit with
: what Tomey wants to do with the four
: non-conference openings in SJSU’s future
: schedules:
: * Continue the series against Stanford.
:
: * Play one national game, like Nebraska in
: ‘08 and USC in ‘09.
:
: * Play two regional games against Mountain
: West (San Diego State) and/or Division I-AA
: teams (UC Davis, Cal Poly).
:
: What Tomey doesn’t want to do is what he’s
: doing right now: playing BCS-conference
: teams on the road in back-to-back weeks,
: first Arizona State, now Kansas State.
:
: “That’s ludicrous,'’ he said.
:
: Tomey and athletic director Tom Bowen tried
: to get out of the Kansas State game, which
: was scheduled by Chuck Bell, but couldn’t.
:
: Here’s a look at SJSU’s future
: non-conference opponents:
: 2008
: at Nebraska, at Stanford, UC Davis, San
: Diego State
:
: 2009
: at USC, at Stanford, Cal Poly, Utah
:
: 2010
: at Arizona State, at Stanford, at Utah,
: Sacramento State
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