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19-20 MBB Schedule Release!

Here's another one - Nov. 30th, UConn Hockey is playing Miami (OH) at 4 PM, which is a nice OOC game. Football is on the road at Temple. MBB is playing Maine the next day, against the NFL.

Why not just move the hockey game earlier, have a little Dan Hurley action, get fans to come into Hartford, spend the day there, organize a FB viewing party someplace (hopefully during the 3 hours they need to convert the arena over, but I doubt they'd get that lucky with the time slot). Gets Miami out of town sooner, too. Everyone wins. Great day for UConn, Hartford, the fans.
 
The schedule is fine outside of the St. Peter's Peacocks, New Hampshite, NJIT back to back to back. Can't do anything about the days and time slots, this conference blows and doesn't get good time slots.

Do we beat Iona?
 
Chief00 said:
Half the home schedule (9 Games), including most key games, conflicts with the NFL. This is attendance suicide. I would blame the AAC breakup for the conference games, however 4 non conference games or 44% of these Sunday games can be just chalked up to the Athletics Dept incompetency. A disturbing trend we have cataloged.
Too many administrators with fancy tittles get paid too much to screw up too often.
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Susan herbst has fancy tittles
 
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Does anyone in the AD have an ounce of scheduling creativity? We all know they don't have much when it comes to logos...
 
zls44 said:
Uh, the Wolf Pack are *why* UConn *can't* play at the XL Center most Saturdays. The state of Connecticut pays MSG $1.5 million every year for it, too.

Blaming the AAC is fun, I get it, but that's not a problem after this year. The Wolf Pack thing? *THAT'S* the real problem.
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That problem needs to be fixed now. But the Wolf Pack play away sometimes and you also have Gampel - so it part of the mess but not the sole reason.
I would start by setting an example and firing whoever does the schedule.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
You get the XL crowd pissing and moaning about weekday games at Gampel being too difficult to get to on week nights and long drives home after game gets over.
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But you don't get the XL crowd pissing and moaning about weekday games at the XL. They like them. So of course UConn gave them mostly Sunday games.
 
Did anybody look at the Wolfpack schedule before going off on these rants? The Wolfpack are away on three of the five weekends of the Sunday XL games.
 
bendm said:
what?
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Don't know how scheduling works, but I assume TV has a huge hand in game dates / times. AAC seems to be the bottom of the pecking order to get on ESPN channels, and because of this UConn keeps getting stuck with a lot of 9PM weekday tips and bad weekend start times (Sunday afternoon games).

While it will no longer matter for us, thankfully, I'm curious to see when the they move the bulk of the AAC content to ESPN+ if the conference will get more "primetime" games on that platform. Less 9PM Wednesday games and more Saturday night contests.
 
Wordbomar said:
Literally LOL’ing at all the XL only ticket holders whining. Welcome to the crap slate that Gampel ticket holders has been accustomed to since 2015.

Good thing this will all be fixed next year.
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the out of conference gets better next year? There's two major problems with this year's XL edition:
Sundays galore
a boring (putting it politely) OOC schedule
 
beerfan said:
Did anybody look at the Wolfpack schedule before going off on these rants? The Wolfpack are away on three of the five weekends of the Sunday XL games.
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From Borges' article, they were also trying to avoid 2 games in 3 days. Because the league TV slots on the ESPN networks are primarily on Thursday for the AAC, that means they can't play the following Saturday to not let this happen, hence the other factor for Sunday games. This is something that will be less of an issue in the Big East
 
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beerfan said:
Did anybody look at the Wolfpack schedule before going off on these rants? The Wolfpack are away on three of the five weekends of the Sunday XL games.
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It's not the Wolfpack, it's the American.

And it's not really the American, it's television.

There is only so much real estate on Saturdays and the networks have decided that they are not spending much of it on the American Conference. We're counter-programming cannon fodder for the cable stations so that they do not have to run a test pattern opposite the NFL.
 
Storrs South said:
From Borges' article, they were also trying to avoid 2 games in 3 days. Because the league TV slots on the ESPN networks are primarily on Thursday, that means they can't play the following Saturday to not let this happen, hence the other factor for Sunday games. This is something that will be less of an issue in the Big East
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In the old Big East, I feel like we usually played Saturday and then had Big Monday games? Wasn't that 2 in 3?
 
McLovin said:
While it will no longer matter for us, thankfully, I'm curious to see when the they move the bulk of the AAC content to ESPN+ if the conference will get more "primetime" games on that platform. Less 9PM Wednesday games and more Saturday night contests.
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it wont matter cause they would still be online only and going head to head with good primetime games on tv
 
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Thanks for nothing DB the db
Looks like the head idiot and his minions threw darts at a calendar with dates and start times
As usual his aim is untrue
This idiot has to go and soon - does Miss Suzie have room in her Stamford condo?
The XL schedule is a crap show - hopefully full of early season Ws but where are the competitive matches? Thank God for Memphis
 
Towney007 said:
That's really all i'm saying. The XL ticket holders got ripped off.


Like the Florida game I get. If it's in Gampel the atmosphere is amazing. If it's in the XL, they're packing the house and maximizing profit. Both are good, right so who really cares?

I'm even fine w/ most of the good conference games being in Gampel.

But you can't even scalp your first five XL games on that schedule. Might as well own Alabama hockey tickets.
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Whats wrong with my Roll tide ice tickets?
Want to take a road trip?
 
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gwhuskyfan said:
And this sad XL Center season ticket holder gave in and got Gampel seats today...
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Glad you were able to purchase some seats at Gampel
But in reality - it's sad that there are seats still available:(
 
ConnHuskBask said:
In the old Big East, I feel like we usually played Saturday and then had Big Monday games? Wasn't that 2 in 3?
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True. Then either it's a thing Hurley personally doesn't like or they don't think it's worth it based on the TV slots given on those days (the Saturday/Monday slots in the OBE days were the best time slots to have in CBB).
 
This is BS. For a decade, me and 3 alumni go up on a Saturday and go to Ted’s for a Sat 4 or 7 game then go back to Ted’s after and stay at Nathan Hale Inn. Not possible on a Sunday. Maybe go up for one of the Sunday games and go to Ted’s pre-game, but will have to go home after instead of making a fun night of it...
 
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