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Ha Who said:
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This could be an amazing opportunity for all involved with our program

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NJHoops said:
The important thing is that he is never overly dramatic

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I love this. This helps us do multiple things:

1. Minimize the awful Big East dragging us down
2. Fewer absolutely useless cupcake games that do nothing except provide opportunity for meaningless injuries (and also are incredibly boring to watch, and only serve as opportunities to potentially have a devastating loss)
3. More big time nationally broadcasted relevant matchups at home-environments or in major neutral site cities

Two buy games max please. No more.
 
Over Val’s dead body will she change the 20 game H&H conference schedule
 
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I seem to remember Izzo doing one of those all-big-names-no-cupcakes schedules a few years back, and it did not go all that well.

Nothing wrong with some games against the New Hampshires of the world
 
This year's schedule seems to be a sweet spot - high SOS but enough cupcakes sprinkled in to tune up with. I can't see the league dropping from 20 games.
 
rashadray11 said:
I love this. This helps us do multiple things:

1. Minimize the awful Big East dragging us down
2. Fewer absolutely useless cupcake games that do nothing except provide opportunity for meaningless injuries (and also are incredibly boring to watch, and only serve as opportunities to potentially have a devastating loss)
3. More big time nationally broadcasted relevant matchups at home-environments or in major neutral site cities

Two buy games max please. No more.
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I have never understood why we cant play teams we are favored by 18 by as compared to 32, like lets play some mid level A-10 schools, some ivies, some west coast schools. Play teams ranked 120 instead of 280
 
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NJHoops said:
The important thing is that he is never overly dramatic

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Schedule a b10, b12, acc, sec, maybe top aac team, thats 5 games. then local respectable teams like yale, ccsu, Vermont, Quinnipiac, four, and then throw a few bones to low majors like bc, Rutgers, etc and I think you have a solid schedule. I'd love that

CCSU
Vermont
Indiana or MSU
BC or Cuse
West Virginia or Pitt
Dayton or vcu or gmu
Iowa St or Texas Tech or Houston
Quinnipiac
Kentucky or Bama or Tennessee
Memphis
Yale
Duke or UNC/ville

That would be an awesome schedule, largely avoid crazy travel or boring cupcakes other than BC, regional flavor and reawaken some old rivalries all rolled into a 12 game engaging ooc.
 
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Travelman6 said:
Schedule a b10, b12, acc, sec, maybe top aac team, thats 5 games. then local respectable teams like yale, ccsu, Vermont, Quinnipiac, four, and then throw a few bones to low majors like bc, Rutgers, etc and I think you have a solid schedule. I'd love that

CCSU
Vermont
Indiana or MSU
BC or Cuse
West Virginia or Pitt
Dayton or vcu or gmu
Iowa St or Texas Tech or Houston
Quinnipiac
Kentucky or Bama or Tennessee
Memphis
Yale
Duke or UNC/ville

That would be an awesome schedule, largely avoid crazy travel or boring cupcakes other than BC, regional flavor and reawaken some old rivalries all rolled into a 12 game engaging ooc.
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any reason why we don't schedule Yale anymore? I remember reading somewhere the Yale coach said it wasn't worth for UConn to schedule them anymore or something like that.
 
I don't agree with going to 18 league games. Hurley is talking about playing eight high majors (out of twelve) out of conference. If the league goes to 18 games, that is going to be eight out of fourteen which is a total of 26 contests against high majors (the exact same number as we play now). Go to eight high majors and keep the 20-game schedule.
 
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shizzle787 said:
I don't agree with going to 18 league games. Hurley is talking about playing eight high majors (out of twelve) out of conference. If the league goes to 18 games, that is going to be eight out of fourteen which is a total of 26 contests against high majors (the exact same number as we play now). Go to eight high majors and keep the 20-game schedule.
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But our SOS would be better. The Big East is rapidly losing its “Power Conference” label. We’re becoming Gonzaga and Hurley sees that. Need to load up on real Power Conference teams outside the conference as much as possible. There are increasingly fewer opportunities for Q1 wins within the Big East.
 
Future Non Cons I'd like to see. Not sure how much money home and home series make compared to neutral sites. They are both fun.

Home and homes Id like to do:

1 - Duke - The white whale elephant in the room. Both games on campus would be huge
2 - Virginia - They are going to be good again soon. Great coach. I've got the hook ups in C-ville
3 - Michigan - Another big brand with a great coach and a dope college town.
4 - UCLA - I dont think Uconn has ever played at Pauley.
 
Drame said:
Future Non Cons I'd like to see. Not sure how much money home and home series make compared to neutral sites. They are both fun.

Home and homes Id like to do:

1 - Duke - The white whale elephant in the room. Both games on campus would be huge
2 - Virginia - They are going to be good again soon. Great coach. I've got the hook ups in C-ville
3 - Michigan - Another big brand with a great coach and a dope college town.
4 - UCLA - I dont think Uconn has ever played at Pauley.
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Quick question as it relates to the current state of the Big East: is it just a down year or is it a decline with a league that doesn’t have enough money to spend on players? We’ve got great coaches in the league in my opinion.
 
bendm said:
Why play any cupcakes? Get rid of the sub-300 NET teams. Plus We’d make more money playing a respectable mid major at home like Yale, UMass, BC etc
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Here's your reason:

"just how mad you get at your team when they underestimate a scrappy, loaded mid-major team. I hate those games."
 
scdono said:
Quick question as it relates to the current state of the Big East: is it just a down year or is it a decline with a league that doesn’t have enough money to spend on players? We’ve got great coaches in the league in my opinion.
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Schools in the league need to recruit better high school talent but I think it's just a case of the other top teams Marquette and Creighton being horrible this season. For some really strange reason Shaka won't use the transfer portal and it worked out fine when he hit on recruits who turned out much better than they were supposed to be and the kids he has now just aren't good. Creighton spent a lot of money in the portal but they didn't target the right guys.

St. John's spent a ton of money on their roster and they should be fine but they're not living up to the preseason hype because it's bad roster construction and it will take time for them to gel if it ever happens.

Kyle Neptune was horrible for Nova but Willard will make them good again IMO, they spend a lot of money on basketball.

Providence has a lot of talent, they're getting good high school recruits and portal players but Kim English is a terrible coach.

Xavier as a University reportedly has some financial problems but they're a very basketball centric school. It was a blow to them losing Sean Miller again, let's see how Pitino's son does with them.

I thought Cooley would be doing better with Georgetown by now. I still think they may turn the corner soon.
 
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Portal era roster construction 101 and 102

101: You don't want multiple of your team's best players to be transfers in their first year at the program. It's too high variance. Grow your stars.
102: You don't want your best players to be players who were on the team last year and had a potential role to be good and weren't. Recruit over them with a transfer and take the gamble.
 
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