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Elon swaps ACC teams on future football
schedule
By Adam Smith / Times-News
Published: Friday, August 1, 2014 at 00:37 AM.
ELON — The top line of Elon’s football schedule for 2015 has changed, with Boston
College dropping off and Wake Forest coming on, in what amounts to a swap of
Atlantic Coast Conference opponents.
Elon will open that season in Winston-Salem rather than Chestnut Hill, Mass., a move
engineered by first-year coach Rich Skrosky that figures to benefit the Phoenix on
several fronts.
“It wasn’t anything against Boston College,” Skrosky said. “And with them both being
in the ACC it made it easier, because they cooperated with one another to make sure
BC had a game. So it worked out really well.”
The change reduces the travel-expense load Elon would have faced in 2015, when its
Colonial Athletic Association schedule requires road trips to the Northeast for league
games at Maine, New Hampshire and Stony Brook (located in New York on Long
Island).
It also fits the template Skrosky wants to apply to Elon’s future schedules, especially
in regard to guaranteed money games against Football Bowl Subdivision teams, who
operate a level above the Phoenix of the Football Championship Subdivision.
“The FBS games, if we can keep those in the Southeast, I really would prefer that,”
Skrosky said. “The out-of-conference philosophy moving forward, I’d like to get
teams in the Southeast for the most part.”
Securing the date with Boston College had been a source of pride for former Elon
coach Jason Swepson, who played at Boston College and later coached there from
1999-2006 as an assistant under Tom O’Brien.
Elon was to receive a $400,000 payout from Boston College for the 2015 game. That
sum will be less because Wake Forest pays in the range of $175,000 to $225,000,
with perhaps $250,000 as a ceiling.
But despite that disparity Elon stands to collect more of a net gain out of the switch,
given the decreased travel expenses in play. A bus ride to Wake Forest has replaced
what would have been flights to and from Boston, along with a hotel stay up there.
“We’ll end up making more,” Skrosky said.
Elon swaps ACC teams on future football
schedule
By Adam Smith / Times-News
Published: Friday, August 1, 2014 at 00:37 AM.
ELON — The top line of Elon’s football schedule for 2015 has changed, with Boston
College dropping off and Wake Forest coming on, in what amounts to a swap of
Atlantic Coast Conference opponents.
Elon will open that season in Winston-Salem rather than Chestnut Hill, Mass., a move
engineered by first-year coach Rich Skrosky that figures to benefit the Phoenix on
several fronts.
“It wasn’t anything against Boston College,” Skrosky said. “And with them both being
in the ACC it made it easier, because they cooperated with one another to make sure
BC had a game. So it worked out really well.”
The change reduces the travel-expense load Elon would have faced in 2015, when its
Colonial Athletic Association schedule requires road trips to the Northeast for league
games at Maine, New Hampshire and Stony Brook (located in New York on Long
Island).
It also fits the template Skrosky wants to apply to Elon’s future schedules, especially
in regard to guaranteed money games against Football Bowl Subdivision teams, who
operate a level above the Phoenix of the Football Championship Subdivision.
“The FBS games, if we can keep those in the Southeast, I really would prefer that,”
Skrosky said. “The out-of-conference philosophy moving forward, I’d like to get
teams in the Southeast for the most part.”
Securing the date with Boston College had been a source of pride for former Elon
coach Jason Swepson, who played at Boston College and later coached there from
1999-2006 as an assistant under Tom O’Brien.
Elon was to receive a $400,000 payout from Boston College for the 2015 game. That
sum will be less because Wake Forest pays in the range of $175,000 to $225,000,
with perhaps $250,000 as a ceiling.
But despite that disparity Elon stands to collect more of a net gain out of the switch,
given the decreased travel expenses in play. A bus ride to Wake Forest has replaced
what would have been flights to and from Boston, along with a hotel stay up there.
“We’ll end up making more,” Skrosky said.