What the hey? Playing Oct 7th and then turning around and playing Oct 10th? Did they really need to do that? Seems SUU is having loads of schedule issues...

Beazer pieces together SUU football schedule
By RICH JOHNSON
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CEDAR CITY - When Ken Beazer left Utah State to become Southern Utah's athletic director, the Aggies' athletic director told him football scheduling would be his greatest challenge.

"He's right," Beazer said.

Scheduling has been a headache for Beazer since he took over in January. The Thunderbirds were dropped by UNLV, Northern Arizona and Idaho State, and Division I-A schools have backed off after initial offers of six-digit money guarantees.

"I've had no less than a dozen Division I-A teams call me, even as recently as (Friday) morning, asking me if we would come play them," Beazer said. "When I informed them that we're not a counter, they backed off."

A "counter" is a term used to describe whether I-A teams can count a game against a I-AA squad toward a bowl berth. According to NCAA bylaws, a I-AA team is a counter only if it averages 90 percent of the permissible scholarship equivalencies.

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Current 2006 Football Schedule

Date Opponent Time Location
Sept. 2 Montana Tech 6 p.m. Cedar City
Sept. 9 Western State 6 p.m. Cedar City
Sept. 16 at Weber State TBA Ogden
Sept. 23 Texas State (Homecoming) 6 p.m. Cedar City
Sept. 30 at Cal Poly* 7 p.m. San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Oct. 7 at McNeese State 6 p.m. Lake Charles, La.
Oct. 10 at UC Davis* TBA Davis, Calif.
Oct. 28 North Dakota State* 1 p.m. Cedar City
Nov. 11 South Dakota State* 1 p.m. Cedar City
Nov. 18 at Southern Illinois 2 p.m. Carbondale, Ill.