Playing in Boston doens't do anything for the UConn brand. It's a BC town, and they don't even care about them too much, except for hockey. NYC is much more convenient for our fans, especially New Haven and Fairfield Counties. Boston press and media Have never given us much attention.
Or the Meadowlands; their home in the Northeast. I'd be ok with that but prefer the Garden. But what is the off-campus arena site for Duke in their area?
A number of the Big Ten schools seem to have large alumni bases in many metropolitan areas. For example Michigan, Ohio State etc. Many graduates of those schools are/were also attracted to the prestigious grad schools of MIT, Harvard etc. Boston area is increasingly becoming a larger tech hub.
Nah. The name is still big. We are not NC State or USC. You always go to the extremes with this stuff. That’s just how you feel. I absolutely get it, but when we are referred to in terms of tournaments and out of conference away games, it is always as a national power, headliner or elite program. However, we do need to make some noise in the tournament in the next couple of years.
All we are asking for is a H/H series or two with a P5 program that generates buzz from the fan base. Call up Texas, Syracuse, Pitt, UofL, WVU, Rutgers, Florida again (I know we are away this year) and schedule it.
You mean like how we have one of the worst OOC schedules in the league. You are telling me Creighton and Seton Hall have more sway than us when it comes to getting big time games?
As a Boston resident I too selfishly would love to have a game scheduled at TD Garden (I have Gampel season tix so I'm not 100% deprived but it's 90 min each way).
Sorry but we are not considered the same way we were 10 years ago. Heck we haven’t won a tournament game in over 5 years, haven’t been ranked in the top 10 since 2014. we are not viewed in the same light as we used to be.
Sure, we aren’t at Duke / UNC / Nova / Kansas / Kentucky status in the CBB world currently. But we sure aren’t NC State or USC.
Don't think we're going to be able to convince Seton Hall to drop their home game against us.
Baylor - Gonzaga in Sioux Falls SD? Talk about a game that is a large inconvenience for the fans of both teams.
The Pentagon in Sioux Falls has been a popular neutral site for non-con games for a few years now, but it particularly increased in popularity over the last two Covid-affected seasons.
yup. more Boston, less NYC. every thing is more funner there.
We don't have one of the worst OOC schedules in the league, stop it with this nonsense
Read my earlier post. Six BE schools have at least six good OOC games. Three others have five like us. Only Providence has 4 (and they still have a couple games to schedule).
Shizzle says we lack sizzle.
You mean the one where you listed St Peter's as a positive for Seton Hall? Yeah I read that one, doesn't register like you think it does
That is not one of their six.
I was talking the multiple neutral site games we've had in Newark...FSU, Bonnies, etc...
Of course we aren’t, but that doesn’t mean the brand is gone. People know we fell off and we are coming back. I’ll agree with you if we don’t get more done in the next 2 years or so, but even then the name will still have plenty of cache. People in their teens and twenties and older have all seen UConn win 3-4 national championships. That has an effect on people.
Those games in Newark were the Never Foget Tribute Classic which raises money for children of the victims of 9/11.
You’re correct. I think the big problem is that if we schedule a game in Boston, the season ticket fan base will see it as losing a marquee home game (assuming it would be a brand name school we play).
I know, it's just showing you went in with a close minded view and then tried to find evidence to "prove" it. Our schedule is fine, not great but not horrible. It's just clear you've had an agenda about the schedule for years and nothing short of 11 games against top 10 opponents will make you happy
I already stated we have 5 good OOC; more than half the rest of the league has 6-7. It would be great if we got rid of cupcakes altogether but that’s not feasible. An ideal schedule to me would be 7 P5 (including MTE) plus 4 Ivies (Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and Penn).
100% this. Similar to what Indiana (the state) used to do with Purdue/IU/Butler/ND. Have a double header at TD Garden between UConn/PC playing a different New England school (take your pick from Harvard/UVM/BC/URI/UMass) in a single admission double header.
