Weddings are usually inconvenient for college football fans in the fall.
They're even more inconvenient for college football coaches.
Wagner College Coach Walt Hameline's youngest daughter, Kelly, told him last fall that she had chosen Sept. 20, 2014, as her wedding date.
It's also the same day Wagner was scheduled to play Monmouth University.
"How can you do this?" Hameline said was his reaction in an Associated Press story. "What are you thinking about? It's football season. Ever since she was a baby she went to every football game."
Instead, Monmouth, coached by Hameline's friend Kevin Callahan, helped out.
Wagner and Monmouth, rivals in the FCS Northeast Conference, will meet today at Northeast, giving the Seahawks an open date next Saturday and making the Hameline family happy.
"It's her wedding present and a lot of presents to follow throughout life," Hameline said.
Hameline is in his 34th season as head coach at Wagner. He has a career record of 217-136-2, fifth among active FCS coaches in career victories, and is also the school's athletic director.
Last year, Kelly Hameline, 28, let her father know that she had found the perfect place to have her wedding -- "The most expensive place you can find," Walt Hameline said -- on Long Beach Island, New Jersey.
Turns out, the bill was only Hameline's second-biggest problem.
"There was only like, one or two dates [available]," he said.
Still, Hameline could hardly believe what his daughter was asking.
"There's always been a golden rule in our family," he said. "Once football season starts, my wife, my family, they go to the games and we do nothing else."
So while Callahan won't be attending the wedding -- the Hawks play at Duquesne that day -- he's covered for a gift.
And Kelly Hameline, who lives in the Chicago area, will be at the Wagner-Monmouth game today.
Hamline was glad his daughter's wedding didn't conflict with Wagner's game last week at Florida International, an FBS school. He said Wagner was paid $240,000 for that trip to South Florida where Hamline's team lost 34-3.
"Let's get this straight," Hameline said, "I wasn't calling FIU up."
He said it
Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy was convicted of assaulting his former girlfriend in May and has not been disciplined by the NFL.
"They didn't get it right," wrote Charlotte Observer columnist Scott Fowler.
"Ultimately, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson have that in common. They have mishandled domestic violence issues, and the consequences keep reverberating.
"In Goodell's case, I don't think it can be fixed. He should be fired due to the lack of institutional control at the NFL offices and the tone-deaf approach he has taken to the Ray Rice domestic violence case. The only people who can fire Goodell are the NFL owners, though, and he has made billions of dollars for them. So this may not happen, although it should.
"As for Richardson, I am glad he tearfully disavowed domestic violence at an awards dinner in Charlotte Wednesday night. But it is time for Richardson to put action behind those words.
"Don't just say something.
"Do something."
SPORTS QUIZ
Before North Dakota State won the first of three consecutive FCS championships in 2011, which school won the title in 2010?
ANSWER
Eastern Washington
Sports on 09/13/2014