Cuse to play St.John's and Nova at MSG

[mcs333]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab...reat-unless-expense-georgetown-232049766.html

Very smart of Cuse. Help's with alumni in NYC and recruiting. UCONN needs to schedules games every year at MSG and Barclay Center to keep our recruiting pipeline open to NYC. All set for this coming season. Hope to hear we are scheduling more games here in the future.

 

[Ts5034]

Agree 100%. I think its great we play at the Barclays AND MSG next year. It sucks we will lose the Garden with this new conference because no St Johns and no conference tournament there. Id like to see us work out a deal with St Johns going forward and try to schedule more neutral site games there

 

[HuskyBballFan]

We're going to play more games in NYC this year than half of the Big East teams.

 

[Robertelamin]

I would love if UConn would make the same deal with Nova and St Johns, a home and home with Georgetown and maybe a home and home and neutral in Boston with PC (not sure if that is possible). We recruit NYC, DC area and Boston pretty hard so lets get it done!

 

[upstater]

I would love if UConn would make the same deal with Nova and St Johns, a home and home with Georgetown and maybe a home and home and neutral in Boston with PC (not sure if that is possible). We recruit NYC, DC area and Boston pretty hard so lets get it done!

I really don't get this thinking. You are limited in your amount of OOC games. It used to be we could schedule about 4 top conference OOC games a year. Now the school has ramped up our non-conference schedule with 7 games against BCS teams, which eats heavily into the revenue source known as non-conference cupcake games. Instead of the normal 7 games, they are down to 4 or 5 because of the schedule. They have to have those home games to make money.

And now we're talking about scheduling all these ex-BE teams? (Personally, I'd be in favor of St. John's). The question you have to ask is, at whose expense? This year we have games against Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Washington, Texas, and maybe I'm wrong but Tennessee (?)... Who do you eliminate?

 

[SubbaBub]

Schedule St John's at MSG in years we don't already play there. Alternate Gtown and MD so we play there every other year. F- Nova as we will be playing Temple in Philly. Random games with Depaul, Marquette and other team near Chicago but nothing regular.

Other games are tune ups or made for TV. Heck, I am sure Duke would play us at MSG.

No more handouts to the C7. We do what's best for us.

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[HuskyBballFan]

I really don't get this thinking. You are limited in your amount of OOC games. It used to be we could schedule about 4 top conference OOC games a year. Now the school has ramped up our non-conference schedule with 7 games against BCS teams, which eats heavily into the revenue source known as non-conference cupcake games. Instead of the normal 7 games, they are down to 4 or 5 because of the schedule. They have to have those home games to make money.

And now we're talking about scheduling all these ex-BE teams? (Personally, I'd be in favor of St. John's). The question you have to ask is, at whose expense? This year we have games against Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Washington, Texas, and maybe I'm wrong but Tennessee (?)... Who do you eliminate?

The Tennessee series is over and the Texas series may or may not be resumed. A Stanford series will start this year.

 

[upstater]

The Tennessee series is over and the Texas series may or may not be resumed. A Stanford series will start this year.

I can't keep up with it, but you get my point. Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Washington, Stanford and maybe Texas. How much more room can there be on the schedule? Very little. Personally, I'd much rather UConn schedule competition from these conferences than face the likes of Villanova.

St. John's is different since UConn has a bigger history with them, and they are really the only school I'd like to see them keep playing from the Catholics. Georgetown is of course a big name program but in my mind, playing them is no different than playing Maryland and the like.

 

[UConn9604]

Extending the series seems like a shrewd decision by both parties.

For Villanova, it's the chance to sustain a historic rivalry against an elite opponent, one that will also provide a neutral-court game in a city that's an alumni hotbed and at an arena that will host the new Big East tournament. For Syracuse, it's the opportunity to keep a longtime rivalry going and to maintain a recruiting presence in Philadelphia, the city that produced recent stars Dion Waiters and Scoop Jardine and current big man Rakeem Christmas.

I actually like it when people call Syracuse "elite." What's the best word for "three times elite," anyway?

 

[WestHartHusk]

Extending the series seems like a shrewd decision by both parties.

For Villanova, it's the chance to sustain a historic rivalry against an elite opponent, one that will also provide a neutral-court game in a city that's an alumni hotbed and at an arena that will host the new Big East tournament. For Syracuse, it's the opportunity to keep a longtime rivalry going and to maintain a recruiting presence in Philadelphia, the city that produced recent stars Dion Waiters and Scoop Jardine and current big man Rakeem Christmas.

I actually like it when people call Syracuse "elite." What's the best word for "three times elite," anyway?

UCONN.

 

[CL82]

Extending the series seems like a shrewd decision by both parties.

For Villanova, it's the chance to sustain a historic rivalry against an elite opponent, one that will also provide a neutral-court game in a city that's an alumni hotbed and at an arena that will host the new Big East tournament. For Syracuse, it's the opportunity to keep a longtime rivalry going and to maintain a recruiting presence in Philadelphia, the city that produced recent stars Dion Waiters and Scoop Jardine and current big man Rakeem Christmas.

I actually like it when people call Syracuse "elite." What's the best word for "three times elite," anyway?

UConn.

 

[CL82]

UConn.

Dang, lost on the draw.

 

[Pudge]

Why St. John's?

Do Fordham ... better school & we don't have to hear from a crazy Queens alumni base (namely the Fat One).