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Message: [QUOTE="UConnSportsGuy, post: 3308392, member: 323"] This is a great idea. You could set this up as an every other year event (with a different team each year) that has a men’s/women’s b-ball doubleheader on Saturday at msg followed by a noon football game at yankee stadium on Saturday. You would attract the elite athletic programs with quality teams across all sports with huge traveling fan bases that we’d normally never get a football game against in the NE. NYC the week before Thanksgiving would be very attractive for the other school in terms of both exposure and potential focus event for their donors and fans. It would almost be like a mid-season bowl game type event in terms of a travel package and fundraising event. This could also help our independent tv contract negotiations with a focus event like this. Could potentially even get a corporate sponsor for the event (similar to the chick-fil-a kickoff game). And it would help our current independent scheduling challenge of finding a quality P5 opponent willing to play us in November. And if we ever get good again, it would be our chance for a late season focus game against a high level opponent since we have no conference championship game to potentially play in each year. The programs you could attract are the top of the top for an event like this. Think programs like: Texas Norte Dame Florida LSU Ohio St Georgia Oklahoma USC Florida St Oregon Programs of that ilk. This could be an absolutely incredible idea and event if marketed and executed correctly! [/QUOTE]

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