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Fall wedding forces football coach reschedule game
By RALPH D. RUSSO
AP College Football Writer
NEW YORK (AP) -- You think fall weddings are inconvenient for college football fans? Imagine being a coach with a daughter who has her heart set on a Saturday in late September.
That was Wagner College coach Walt Hameline's dilemma. His youngest daughter, Kelly, told him last fall the place she chose as the site of her big day had few dates available. And the one she picked was Sept. 20, the same day Wagner was scheduled to play Monmouth University.
With the help of an old friend -- Monmouth coach Kevin Callahan -- Hameline was able to reschedule the game.
Wagner, an FCS school in Staten Island, visits its rival on the Jersey Shore on Saturday, giving the Seahawks an open date on Sept. 20 and keeping peace in the Hameline family.
Hamelin says it's Kelly's "wedding present and a lot of presents to follow throughout life."
He's just happy she didn't pick Sept, 6, when the Seahawks played at Florida International, a game Wagner was paid $240,000 to play.
7 comments:
Getting paid 240K for a 34-3 beatdown isn't so bad. That is the business of college football. You want exposure for your program and enhanced competition but not at a terrible sacrifice. Good move for Wagner.
They did the same thing @ Syracuse last year i think it was. The score was much worse, in the 50s.
It's a pretty god strategy to beef up your athletic coffers.
Looks like Fordham rolled it up against URI at home. Hard to see how it can get just destroyed one week and then put up 50 the next, unless Nova is that good, URI is that bad, and Fordham plays much, much better at home.
We'll take Fordham down next week, O-L.
That would be nice, eh? Who knows, can't rule anything out. Hope-a-hope-a-hope, as Red Skelton used to say.
Hey guys..hate to say it but FIU was not 34 points better than the wag.
That is exactly how it is oldlion and sorry Chick, CU stands a zero percent chance of defeating Fordham. Even if Nebrich does not play for whatever reason. Numbers don't lie.
So what does the final score indicate then Tony? I didn't see the game but are we talking all kinds of bad breaks for wagner? Driving downfield and fumbling at the 2? Or were they outplayed by a Di team, (a lower caliber D1 team but D1 which Wagner is not)?
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