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A Gateway Football Conference team will be featured on national or regional distribution in six of 12 weekends this fall, including four games that are part of the Gateway-produced television package in 2007. In addition to the league's in-house package, two Gateway teams will be featured as part of CSTV's “National FCS Game of the Week” package, while three Gateway teams will be featured on the brand new Big Ten Network.

For the ninth-straight season, the Gateway Football Conference is coordinating an in-house television package. The games will be produced for syndication on over-the-air and cable television stations throughout the Midwest. Each of the four conference-produced games will air live or taped on FSN Midwest and will be live on Fox College Sports (FCS).

The league’s production company is Metro Sports, a Time Warner-owned outlet located in Kansas City, Mo. The league’s 2007 package, plus other national and regional telecasts, is below (additional clearances may be added):

Sept. 1 Youngstown State at Ohio State -- 11 a.m. CT / 12 p.m. ET [Big Ten Network]
Sept. 1 Indiana State at Indiana -- 7 p.m. CT / 8 p.m. ET [Big Ten Network]
Sept. 8 Western Illinois at Illinois -- 6 p.m. CT / 7 p.m. ET [Big Ten Network]
Sept. 29 * Southern Illinois at Indiana State -- 11 a.m. CT / 12 p.m. CT [Gateway TV Network]
Oct. 6 * Illinois State at Missouri State -- 2 p.m. CT / 3 p.m. ET [Gateway TV Network]
Oct. 6 * Youngstown State at Southern Illinois -- 2:30 p.m. CT / 3:30 p.m. ET [CSTV]
Oct. 20 * UNI at Western Illinois -- 6:30 p.m. CT / 7:30 p.m. ET [Gateway TV Network]
Oct. 27 * Youngstown State at UNI -- 3 p.m. CT / 4 p.m. ET [Gateway TV Network]

*denotes Gateway Conference game. Check local listings for the game in your area. The above list does not include games that are part of institutional-produced packages.

That's a great opportunity for you conference. With the pending addition to the two great Dakota programs and the potential for adding the other two as they move up, have you heard any rumors of your conference moving up to the BSC level in the forseeable future? You're one of the few conferences at our level that receives at-large bids in the men's basketball tournament and I have several friends who follow both SIU and NIU as closely as I follow Montana State and GSU.

MSUGrad wrote:That's a great opportunity for you conference. With the pending addition to the two great Dakota programs and the potential for adding the other two as they move up, have you heard any rumors of your conference moving up to the BSC level in the forseeable future? You're one of the few conferences at our level that receives at-large bids in the men's basketball tournament and I have several friends who follow both SIU and NIU as closely as I follow Montana State and GSU.

UNI, not NIU!!!!! The latter is Northern Illinois U, a team which, year in and year out, refused to play UNI in football even though it's only about 200 miles away. Lots of cross-recruiting.





UNI will never go to BSC. That's been stated over and over again. Can't say what other schools are thinking long term.

Likely not: WIU, INSU, UNI, SIU

Maybe: YSU, MSU, ILSU (with a new stadium, IMO), NDSU

MSUGrad wrote:That's a great opportunity for you conference. With the pending addition to the two great Dakota programs and the potential for adding the other two as they move up, have you heard any rumors of your conference moving up to the BSC level in the forseeable future? You're one of the few conferences at our level that receives at-large bids in the men's basketball tournament and I have several friends who follow both SIU and NIU as closely as I follow Montana State and GSU.

What's up with you people thinking an entire conference can move up to the BCS! It's impossible and will never ever happen. This is the Gateway Conference: NOT THE MISSOURI VALLEY Conference. And we can cut those rumors about that too, I talked to a guy who works for each conference and said they aren't merging the Gateway into the MVC.

You guys seem to forget it costs MILLIONS to move to the BCS for scholarships, facility upgrades, and so much more! YSU would probably have the best chance to move up to the BCS, but we won't move up to the MAC because we'd need an estimated $8 million each and every year MORE than we what we have now. Indiana State is just a joke, Missouri State has a nice stadium and a nice city to work with, but they just don't show the dedication to football like they do Basketball. UNI has the basketball facility to move up, but they'd need an expansion to the UNIDome. Illinois State is supposedly looking to expand, but they keep on renovating the current facility, not sure what that is all about. Southern Illinois lacks the football facility, as does Western.

guinzone wrote:

MSUGrad wrote:That's a great opportunity for you conference. With the pending addition to the two great Dakota programs and the potential for adding the other two as they move up, have you heard any rumors of your conference moving up to the BSC level in the forseeable future? You're one of the few conferences at our level that receives at-large bids in the men's basketball tournament and I have several friends who follow both SIU and NIU as closely as I follow Montana State and GSU.

What's up with you people thinking an entire conference can move up to the BCS! It's impossible and will never ever happen. This is the Gateway Conference: NOT THE MISSOURI VALLEY Conference. And we can cut those rumors about that too, I talked to a guy who works for each conference and said they aren't merging the Gateway into the MVC.

You guys seem to forget it costs MILLIONS to move to the BCS for scholarships, facility upgrades, and so much more! YSU would probably have the best chance to move up to the BCS, but we won't move up to the MAC because we'd need an estimated $8 million each and every year MORE than we what we have now. Indiana State is just a joke, Missouri State has a nice stadium and a nice city to work with, but they just don't show the dedication to football like they do Basketball. UNI has the basketball facility to move up, but they'd need an expansion to the UNIDome. Illinois State is supposedly looking to expand, but they keep on renovating the current facility, not sure what that is all about. Southern Illinois lacks the football facility, as does Western.

I think you've got some messed up definitions here. Nobody said that anyone was going to move to the B(C)$. That by definition is restricted to the Pac-10, Big 10-Ahem-11, Big XII, SEC, ACC, and A-10. Of course, THAT's not going to happen as those pansies don't want to split their pie. Just look at all the whining that ensued when Boise took down OK: "They don't belong!" etc, etc. Sounds to me like the dude was talking about moving the team to the FBS, which is another proposition together. THAT is theroetically possible. The conference would be hoping to find a no-name bowl and would therefore lose out on FCS playoff spots. In that regard, it would be an eminently horrible idea. Not to mention costly. But impossible? Hardly. There's been loose talk of moving the Sky up as a conference to the FBS for quite some time. Probably not in the cards what with the financial situations of at least half the schools. But it IS theoretically POSSIBLE, guinzone.

YSU already has a TV deal for all their 7 home games, and with 3 more away games on TV, we will be well covered for 10 of the 11 games this season. I'm hoping WFMJ picks up the Indiana State game, they used to always pick up the WKU Game.

Go Gateway

Add the SIU-Northern Illinois game to the schedule. It is being broadcast by Comcast and Fox Sports Midwest.

guinzone wrote:

MSUGrad wrote:That's a great opportunity for you conference. With the pending addition to the two great Dakota programs and the potential for adding the other two as they move up, have you heard any rumors of your conference moving up to the BSC level in the forseeable future? You're one of the few conferences at our level that receives at-large bids in the men's basketball tournament and I have several friends who follow both SIU and NIU as closely as I follow Montana State and GSU.

What's up with you people thinking an entire conference can move up to the BCS! It's impossible and will never ever happen. This is the Gateway Conference: NOT THE MISSOURI VALLEY Conference. And we can cut those rumors about that too, I talked to a guy who works for each conference and said they aren't merging the Gateway into the MVC.

You guys seem to forget it costs MILLIONS to move to the BCS for scholarships, facility upgrades, and so much more! YSU would probably have the best chance to move up to the BCS, but we won't move up to the MAC because we'd need an estimated $8 million each and every year MORE than we what we have now. Indiana State is just a joke, Missouri State has a nice stadium and a nice city to work with, but they just don't show the dedication to football like they do Basketball. UNI has the basketball facility to move up, but they'd need an expansion to the UNIDome. Illinois State is supposedly looking to expand, but they keep on renovating the current facility, not sure what that is all about. Southern Illinois lacks the football facility, as does Western.

Well, excuse me! I realize my mistake in that the BCS conferences are the six major conferences and I also understand Utah and boise played in a BCS Bowl Game. Should have simply asked if there's any thoughts of moving up to wannabe status like the WAC, MAC, C-USA, Mountain West, Sun Belt (and actually, the ACC and Big East) I mean, why do you think Bobby Bowden made sure Wayne Hogan had FSU join the ACC instead of the SEC

Those of you in sports management understand a university simply has another set of accounting rules to account for the scholarships afforded our student athlete, so the cost is, for lack of a better term, written off. Anyway...

MSUGrad wrote:Those of you in sports management understand a university simply has another set of accounting rules to account for the scholarships afforded our student athlete, so the cost is, for lack of a better term, written off. Anyway...

If that is the case, then YSU would be in the MAC. And they aren't. You don't just write that stuff off my friend; because if you could, then you'd see more than just 1 school every 2 years move up to the big time.