Houston Baptist adds three opponents to future football schedules
The Houston Baptist Huskies have added Eastern Kentucky, Lamar, and UTEP to their future football schedules, per their official website.fbschedules.com
HBU is the new Texas Southern/UAPB. Senter and UTEP are so lazy, they just schedule the same shitty schools.
Uh no. There’s many FCS teams in Texas, not just HBU. Sorry, for wanting a little bit different team. I wish UTEP played 3 P5 schools and NMSU every football season.
I'm with you on this one. SEC schools schedule an FCS opponent each season. What reason is there to jump all over UTEP for doing the same. It counts for bowl eligibility.
It’s not because they’re FCS. We have scheduled them before, we’re unable to get another school instead? Remember when we used to play Texas Southern and Pine Bluff all the time? Same thing. Their status isn’t the problem, I would rather see another team. That’s all.
Well, we got to see Stephen F. Austin and Abilene Christian last year, so we've seen several other Texas FCS teams. Eventually, a repeat is inevitable.
Those were scheduled last minute and were replacements for Texas Tech and NMSU.
Who cares why it happened?! You mentioned wanting to play someone other than HBU. We played 2 FCS teams not named HBU. Now it doesn’t meet your criteria for WHY we played two teams not named HBU.
The bold says it all.... Who in their right mind wakes up and wants to complain. I want to speak to your manager's manager. Tell him or her Karen sent you
At least UTEP gets a million dollar payday which helps the athletic department stay afloat.
That is fine, just saying I would rather see other teams come here. I would rather see them play NMSU and 3 P5 teams 1 year, then NMSU, one “winnable” game, and 2 P5 teams the next. Repeat
Stop complaining! HBU came here in 2016 and 2019. The other 127 FCS teams are unavailable.
But also scheduled at the last minute to replace Texas Tech and NMSU, during a pandemic. Not scheduled years ahead like all the other games.
That’s a no win situation. Win and nobody gives a shit cuz that’s what you’re supposed to do against an fcs team. Lose and it can bury a team for a while. Talk about buzz kill. An early season loss to an FCS team and most fans are ready to pack it in. And we all know utep is quite capable of shitting the bed. A win is a win is a win regarding bowl eligibility. Just get the win and build off of it.
Well, nothing more than if we lose to NAU or ACU. Chances of that happening decrease by playing HBU, though.
I understand the logic of an easy win. I’m just speaking from a fan’s perspective.
I understand. Its probably worth saying, in all reality the difference between any of the teams mentioned is negligible. None are even ranked in the top 50.
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Explanation from Senter is mainly money. They don't make enough money if a P5 team comes here, they rather play a P5 away than play them at home. UTEP playing UNM (for example) is there no payout just whatever you make from ticket sales for that game and I don't remember the exact wording for getting a P5 team here but the financials didn't help.
Yeah, that is true and I am not advocating to play P5 teams here. I think it’s better for UTEP to play them on the road.
