Who is Lincoln University and Why did Idaho State Schedule Them?

[84CatGrad]

ISU beats Lincoln 90-0. ISU was up 69-0 at half. Lincoln (out of Oakland, CA) is an NAIA school. Why?

[justafan]

pretty pathetic anyway you look at it. I hear the gris are trying to schedule them for next year......

[AFCAT]

ISU beats Lincoln 90-0. ISU was up 69-0 at half. Lincoln (out of Oakland, CA) is an NAIA school. Why?

I posted this on another thread. Lincoln is not a football team. They are a money making scam for unethical coaches and school administrators and a sacrificial lamb for opposing teams. Any school that schedules them should be ashamed and not get credited for a victory.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2 ... 320308007/

[damnyoutuesday]

They are a team that only plays road games. They are a joke and I'm disappointed our conference mates schedule them

[nevadacat]

Who knows?

In 1985, we hosted Eastern Oregon, an NAIA school. The starters only played the 1st quarter. It was 73-0 at half. In the 2nd half, we only ran two plays that weren’t FB/HB dives. Those two plays were long TD runs by Corey Lamey. We finished 86-0. The outcome was always certain, only the magnitude was undetermined.

Mr. Parac must have had a good reason to schedule that game, but I don’t know what it was. Maybe the ISU AD had a good reason, too.

[AFCAT]

Who knows?

In 1985, we hosted Eastern Oregon, an NAIA school. The starters only played the 1st quarter. It was 73-0 at half. In the 2nd half, we only ran two plays that weren’t FB/HB dives. Those two plays were long TD runs by Corey Lamey. We finished 86-0. The outcome was always certain, only the magnitude was undetermined.

Mr. Parac must have had a good reason to schedule that game, but I don’t know what it was. Maybe the ISU AD had a good reason, too.

Forty years ago, Eastern Oregon had an established football program that played in a football conference and had (still does) a college campus. Lincoln doesn’t even have a home football field, plays all away games, has no football conference, and its campus consists of one small building. The ISU AD was looking to fill a home, non-conference game slot. I get it, scheduling games is hard. Scheduling Lincoln does the ISU players, coaches, fans, and the university no favors though. I bet even Eastern Oregon would have given ISU a better game than Lincoln did.

[PapaG]

Who knows?

In 1985, we hosted Eastern Oregon, an NAIA school. The starters only played the 1st quarter. It was 73-0 at half. In the 2nd half, we only ran two plays that weren’t FB/HB dives. Those two plays were long TD runs by Corey Lamey. We finished 86-0. The outcome was always certain, only the magnitude was undetermined.

Mr. Parac must have had a good reason to schedule that game, but I don’t know what it was. Maybe the ISU AD had a good reason, too.

Then the 1985 team proceeded to lose every remaining
game except beating the Gris halfway through the season.

Backed up a national title with 2-9 record in ‘85 and it took almost 2 decades to become consistently good again.

[nevadacat]

Who knows?

In 1985, we hosted Eastern Oregon, an NAIA school. The starters only played the 1st quarter. It was 73-0 at half. In the 2nd half, we only ran two plays that weren’t FB/HB dives. Those two plays were long TD runs by Corey Lamey. We finished 86-0. The outcome was always certain, only the magnitude was undetermined.

Mr. Parac must have had a good reason to schedule that game, but I don’t know what it was. Maybe the ISU AD had a good reason, too.

Forty years ago, Eastern Oregon had an established football program that played in a football conference and had (still does) a college campus. Lincoln doesn’t even have a home football field, plays all away games, has no football conference, and its campus consists of one small building. The ISU AD was looking to fill a home, non-conference game slot. I get it, scheduling games is hard. Scheduling Lincoln does the ISU players, coaches, fans, and the university no favors though. I bet even Eastern Oregon would have given ISU a better game than Lincoln did.

Saw your link after I posted and learned they are not even NAIA as the OP stated. I see where you are coming from. Yuck. Just like to give the benefit of the doubt, except for the gris, of course.

[damnyoutuesday]

I would 100% rather MSU, and Big Sky members as well, schedule the Frontier Conference NAIA teams (Tech, Western, Carroll, etc) instead of scam program Lincoln

[JDoub]

Who knows?

In 1985, we hosted Eastern Oregon, an NAIA school. The starters only played the 1st quarter. It was 73-0 at half. In the 2nd half, we only ran two plays that weren’t FB/HB dives. Those two plays were long TD runs by Corey Lamey. We finished 86-0. The outcome was always certain, only the magnitude was undetermined.

Mr. Parac must have had a good reason to schedule that game, but I don’t know what it was. Maybe the ISU AD had a good reason, too.

I remember that game - word on our team was that Eastern Oregon's HC was connected to Dave Arnold, who made it happen.

It was quite the gap going from Eastern Oregon to the Florida Gators a couple years later.

[SonomaCat]

https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/ar ... 067946.php

[coloradocat]

Idaho State killed Lincoln. They forfeited their game last week and the "postponed" this week's game. They are getting decimated by injuries and can't field a team.

[kwcat]

https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/ar ... 067946.php

Maybe just as controversial as Lincoln university’s football team is the link to the supposed news site.
I have a pop-up blocker and still the number of ads that pop up wouldn’t allow me to get all the way through the article before I lost patience. Lol.
I don’t know anything about Lincoln University nor the coaching staff. Maybe they deserve a chance to get their program off the ground and this is the only way they can do it. Or maybe it’s crooked to the bottom. Don’t have time to do the detective work.

[110010110]

https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/ar ... 067946.php

From the article; "the Bengals could have set the Big Sky record for points scored in a game — a mark set in 1980 by Portland State with 105 points — had both coaches not agreed to play eight-minute quarters in the second half."

I don't think I have ever heard of a mercy rule being used in college football before. Thats incredibly embarrassing for everyone involved. Even though Lincoln is not an NCAA sanctioned team (or NAIA, or any other governing body for that matter) the NCAA needs to end this by not recognizing games played against this "team". If they make it so its not a "countable" win at all then schools would have 0 reason to schedule them as having an extra bye week would honestly be better.

[PapaG]

I would 100% rather MSU, and Big Sky members as well, schedule the Frontier Conference NAIA teams (Tech, Western, Carroll, etc) instead of scam program Lincoln

I pretty sure I went to an MSU-Montana Tech game back in the mid-90s that was somewhat competitive. Had plenty of open rows around my friend and me.

[TomCat88]

The ISU opponents we should be checking out are unlv and New Mexico. They led unlv 31-24 and unm 22-17 both midway thru the fourth quarter. The Bengals come to Bozeman in two weeks. Unlv is 4-0, New Mexico is 3-1.

[Colter_Nuanez]

https://www.sfgate.com/collegesports/ar ... 067946.php

From the article; "the Bengals could have set the Big Sky record for points scored in a game — a mark set in 1980 by Portland State with 105 points — had both coaches not agreed to play eight-minute quarters in the second half."

I don't think I have ever heard of a mercy rule being used in college football before. Thats incredibly embarrassing for everyone involved. Even though Lincoln is not an NCAA sanctioned team (or NAIA, or any other governing body for that matter) the NCAA needs to end this by not recognizing games played against this "team". If they make it so its not a "countable" win at all then schools would have 0 reason to schedule them as having an extra bye week would honestly be better.

Only comparable scenarios I've seen covering the Big Sky is when Portland State beat North American University 94-0. They played a 5-minute 4th quarter.

The other NAU is literally a remodeled hotel by the Houston airport that acts as a for-profit, private university. Wild times...

https://www.na.edu/