There were some comments a few weeks back on our Fordham board that knocked those that called for us to schedule a few IA games. I believe the rationale is mostly that getting your tail whooped is a morale killer and it also exposes your team to more injuries given the improved level of play, more speed, more size, etc.

What do you guys think?

As a former player, I would have loved to have played as many IA games as possible, regardless of the fact that we would have taken a beating.

Add to that the possible payout and the ability to use that as a recruiting tool, and I think it's a no brainer to schedule them.

Then again, I played in the time when we "built a helluva lot of character" at Fordham, which basically means that I would have preferred to tell people that we got shellacked by Penn St. than to have been shellacked by Holy Cross (back in HC's scholly days) ... or Colgate ... or Lehigh ... or Lafayette ... so I may be a bit biased.