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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 3229080, member: 5832"] I don't think our OCS schedule will hurt us too much. I think the overall OCS is pretty decent. Indiana, Florida (possibly twice), Xavier, St Joseph's, Villanova - that's all great. Where the schedule is bad is that only one of those games is here. I've been saying it - i'm all for lighting money on fire to get out of the AAC and enter the Big East and then just settle up with Ollie. But SOMEONE has to pretend like money is an actual thing over there. Running that kind of deficit is bananas and now you're in a year with a whole bunch of other financial issues laid out on top of it - and this is what they came up with? They just did this huge season ticket drive and the thanks everyone gets is a game vs. Maine on one Saturday? WTF? And look, I hear people the coaches getting caught out in between on Providence; but is this schedule really that much better with them on it? Like this home schedule is atrocious from a box office perspective. Maybe the worst one i've ever seen. And what's even crazier is that you've got a few games in conference worth it this year: Memphis, Houston, Cincinnati, maybe Wichita. So if you're a Gampel ticket holder, you could get Houston, Wichita and then absolutely no one worth watching, whatsoever. No one. I'm not trying to be hysterical here - but but there's legitimately five home games really worth going to this year that I could confidently say will do 8,000+. They're going to take a total bath this year. On top of it, it doesn't really cover any of the issues Hurley addressed last year - not enough big road trips early, etc. And some of the teams on this list are so bad they're not worth even playing. Half the home slate is against teams in the 300's in RPI. Then we're going to have Tulane, East Carolina and company tacked onto the back end, too. That's four games against Tulane and East Carolina, then Sacred Heart, Iona, Maine, St Peter's, New Hampshire and NJIT. That's ten games total against nobody and then HALF your home slate against not just bad teams - but absolute dreggs. UCF is going to be bad this year. Total rebuild for them. SMU has been sanctioned into oblivion again so they'll suck. Temple's got a new coach so they'll be down and Tulsa's perpetual mediocrity. So if you're playing 17 home games, that stinks that 12 of them or so are against the worst teams you play. And not to be petulant, but stop talking about the Florida game being in Gampel and wanting energy when they're scheduling NJIT. It's gonna be like watching games in a hospital. [/QUOTE]

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