Home Schedule

[gampelcrazies]

The schedule is not that bad. It's not the greatest but it's not as bad as you make it seem. As a season ticket holder I'm more worried about 9:00 game starts in the middle of the week because of our commute

 

[Chief00]

I am confident that no one else on this board knows what in the world you are talking about.

Could it be that you can't write?

You wrote that KO wants a certain schedule to preserve his job.

People love attacking KO on this board.

I'm trying to understand whether you are one of the knee-jerk attackers or not.

If you say he has an easy home schedule in order to preserve his job, then doesn't the very difficult non-home schedule contradict your point?

Bottomline, Kevin aporoves the schedule. He's been head coach now for close to 5 years, if he wanted a more challenging home schedule - he would have it. These OOC games are often planned a couple years in advance. You don't seem to have a clue how things actual work.
As for attacking KO - I defended him in the Miller controversies.

 

[kobe]

Bottomline, Kevin aporoves the schedule. He's been head coach now for close to 5 years, if he wanted a more challenging home schedule - he would have it. These OOC games are often planned a couple years in advance. You don't seem to have a clue how things actual work.
As for attacking KO - I defended him in the Miller controversies.

These days not many schools have challenging home OOC schedules. Mostly you get your challenging games from preseason tournaments (which UConn has done), one off neutral site events like Jimmy V (UConn has done that too) or made for TV conference challenges like the Big10/ACC and SEC/Big12 (and we're in the AAC so good luck there).

 

[Chief00]

These days not many schools have challenging home OOC schedules. Mostly you get your challenging games from preseason tournaments (which UConn has done), one off neutral site events like Jimmy V (UConn has done that too) or made for TV conference challenges like the Big10/ACC and SEC/Big12 (and we're in the AAC so good luck there).

When you are in the AAC it's needed.

 

[jibsey]

For where we sit our overall schedule is good and doesn't leave KO any place to hide. As iffy as our front court has the potential to be especially early do we really want more challenge OOC at home?

 

[kobe]

When you are in the AAC it's needed.

...but it's not very feasible. Now a days, best case scenario you get 2 good H&H's a year. Most of your marquee games will be away from home. It's just a reality of being in the AAC.

 

[Chief00]

...but it's not very feasible. Now a days, best case scenario you get 2 good H&H's a year. Most of your marquee games will be away from home. It's just a reality of being in the AAC.

My point is a coach makes it happen due to his coaching connections.

 

[upstater]

Bottomline, Kevin aporoves the schedule. He's been head coach now for close to 5 years, if he wanted a more challenging home schedule - he would have it. These OOC games are often planned a couple years in advance. You don't seem to have a clue how things actual work.
As for attacking KO - I defended him in the Miller controversies.

Kevin Ollie is trying to take the easy way out with an easy home schedule. According to you.

 

[Chief00]

Kevin Ollie is trying to take the easy way out with an easy home schedule. According to you.

It's a schedule more designed to pad the schedule with "easy" wins rather than be entertaining to fans and competitively challenge the team. It's very obvious, yet you seem to have trouble coming to terms with the facts on the ground.

 

[upstater]

It's a schedule more designed to pad the schedule with "easy" wins rather than be entertaining to fans and competitively challenge the team. It's very obvious, yet you seem to have trouble coming to terms with the facts on the ground.

Nope. What I'm writing has absolutely nothing to do with that. It's your implication that Ollie is taking the easy way out.

A person who schedules one of the top OOCs in the nation (Arizona, Syracuse, Villanova, Oregon, Auburn + Michigan St. and Arkansas potentially) is not taking the easy way out at all. It is a very hard OOC. In other words, the exact opposite of what you wrote.

 

[Chief00]

Nope. What I'm writing has absolutely nothing to do with that. It's your implication that Ollie is taking the easy way out.

A person who schedules one of the top OOCs in the nation (Arizona, Syracuse, Villanova, Oregon, Auburn + Michigan St. and Arkansas potentially) is not taking the easy way out at all. It is a very hard OOC. In other words, the exact opposite of what you wrote.

Dude, respectfully you are in over your head. Chief has better things to do than answer the same question over and over. Dave scheduled the H/H with Auburn. The Nike tournament is due to our institutional relationship with Nike. Cuse and Nova were TV deals, etc. I will need to check on Zona, I don't know how that one came about.

 

[upstater]

Dude, respectfully you are in over your head. Chief has better things to do than answer the same question over and over. Dave scheduled the H/H with Auburn. The Nike tournament is due to our institutional relationship with Nike. Cuse and Nova were TV deals, etc. I will need to check on Zona, I don't know how that one came about.

So, according to you, Ollie scheduled all the easy games, other people scheduled all the hard games.
I am only asking you because you seem to know all things UConn. This is good for us to know. When Ollie found out that Benedict and the other people who want him fired scheduled such tough games, he made the home OOC schedule, mostly easy games. Except for Villanova. Jay Wright is no threat to Ollie.

 

[Waquoit]

So, according to you, Ollie scheduled all the easy games, other people scheduled all the hard games.

I don't see what your problem is. "Other people" scheduled that PK thing. No one would listen to a veto attempt there. Ollie isn't getting a veto of any money game in MSG either. And I don't think he's in any position to postpone any of the home and home games against good teams that have been agreed to. And I'm sure Ollie had plenty of input into the OOC home schedule. So it seems to me Ollie did, in fact, schedule all the easy games and other people scheduled all the hard games.

 

[Wordbomar]

You guys are reading into this too much.

 

[Chief00]

So, according to you, Ollie scheduled all the easy games, other people scheduled all the hard games.
I am only asking you because you seem to know all things UConn. This is good for us to know. When Ollie found out that Benedict and the other people who want him fired scheduled such tough games, he made the home OOC schedule, mostly easy games. Except for Villanova. Jay Wright is no threat to Ollie.

You have no sense of balance - there's a lot of nuances to a schedule - but yeah KO certainly could have gone out and gotten a better home schedule. He went in the other direction.

 

[4in16]

So would you have preferred we play Arizona at home this year to pair with Villanova rather than have a marquee home game next season??

 

[Chief00]

So would you have preferred we play Arizona at home this year to pair with Villanova rather than have a marquee home game next season??

Quite frankly, with the nuance that we play the home schedule in two locations - we need two very good OOC games. Fans at one location won't see a good OOC game. They deserve better, especially given the conference.

 

[Kitaman]

I really think the home schedule is fine. However I really wished the University would find a way to give empty (or unsold) seats to students.
Consider a ticket holder who can not make the game, he could tender the ticket back to the University before game time. The school then could re-sell the ticket dirt cheap to a student (e,g, $5). Many season ticket holders know when they can't make games.

The point is if you get the 'rowdy', cheering, loud students vocally and demonstrably supporting our Huskies it would rock the place. And I would add helping wins accrue.

The bottom line is colleges should never have empty seats at arenas, especially on campus. Kids are always looking for fun things to do on Campus and this would certainly entertain them.

I don't know how the plan would work to retrieve the no-show tixs (perhaps electonically) and also to spot empty seats that students waiting outside could take. But there are a lot of smart people at UConn who could figure this out.

Just saying if the opponent is not attractive get the students in there, they'll make the game and subsequently the score attractive. I think it could be a great solution to eliminate empty seats. I really believe UConn students would be on board and season ticket holders would cooperate knowing their seat would be filled with someone perhaps more interested in the game than them.

Pack Gampel and HCC, make it loud so when we see it on TV its awesome.

Is this a project @Chief00 , some Yarders, and the student Board could take on with the university?

 

[upstater]

I don't see what your problem is. "Other people" scheduled that PK thing. No one would listen to a veto attempt there. Ollie isn't getting a veto of any money game in MSG either. And I don't think he's in any position to postpone any of the home and home games against good teams that have been agreed to. And I'm sure Ollie had plenty of input into the OOC home schedule. So it seems to me Ollie did, in fact, schedule all the easy games and other people scheduled all the hard games.

Oh, this gets richer. Apparently now, Ollie wasn't even here when those Arizona and Villanova home and homes were agreed to. They happened decades ago. Not last year or the year before when he was coach. Nope. Nothing to do with it. Apparently, also, he was adamant that he needed an easy schedule because he already had one of the 5 toughest OOCs in the nation. Go ahead, come back with yet another delusional, hopeless, ridiculous, lost post about how Kevin Ollie watered down the schedule.

 

[Chief00]

I really think the home schedule is fine. However I really wished the University would find a way to give empty (or unsold) seats to students.
Consider a ticket holder who can not make the game, he could tender the ticket back to the University before game time. The school then could re-sell the ticket dirt cheap to a student (e,g, $5). Many season ticket holders know when they can't make games.

The point is if you get the 'rowdy', cheering, loud students vocally and demonstrably supporting our Huskies it would rock the place. And I would add helping wins accrue.

The bottom line is colleges should never have empty seats at arenas, especially on campus. Kids are always looking for fun things to do on Campus and this would certainly entertain them.

I don't know how the plan would work to retrieve the no-show tixs (perhaps electonically) and also to spot empty seats that students waiting outside could take. But there are a lot of smart people at UConn who could figure this out.

Just saying if the opponent is not attractive get the students in there, they'll make the game and subsequently the score attractive. I think it could be a great solution to eliminate empty seats. I really believe UConn students would be on board and season ticket holders would cooperate knowing their seat would be filled with someone perhaps more interested in the game than them.

Pack Gampel and HCC, make it loud so when we see it on TV its awesome.

Is this a project @Chief00 , some Yarders, and the student Board could take on with the university?

Respectfull my friend, if you think the home schedule is fine, there will be plenty of empty seats to leverage in the program you describe. The problem is, we need actual gate revenue to survive financially, since our conference TV contracts stinks.

Otherwise, I do like your post. We don't get a dime for empty seats and realistically KO isn't on the phone with Coach K signing up Duke.

 

[Kitaman]

Respectfull my friend, if you think the home schedule is fine, there will be plenty of empty seats to leverage in the program you describe. The problem is, we need actual gate revenue to survive financially, since our conference TV contracts stinks.

Otherwise, I do like your post. We don't get a dime for empty seats and realistically KO isn't on the phone with Coach K signing up Duke.

By fine I meant its not like we're winning 25+ games with strong NCAA appearances. Furthermore we can't even get to the top of the AAC consistently. We need to improve a whole lot, before we can get back to yesterday's strong home opponents. Don't want to sound non confident, but we don't want to risk losses at home. Having an increased rambunctious fan base (i.e. students) is good for team optics and spirits.

 

[Hurleyman216]

I really think the home schedule is fine. However I really wished the University would find a way to give empty (or unsold) seats to students.
Consider a ticket holder who can not make the game, he could tender the ticket back to the University before game time. The school then could re-sell the ticket dirt cheap to a student (e,g, $5). Many season ticket holders know when they can't make games.

The point is if you get the 'rowdy', cheering, loud students vocally and demonstrably supporting our Huskies it would rock the place. And I would add helping wins accrue.

The bottom line is colleges should never have empty seats at arenas, especially on campus. Kids are always looking for fun things to do on Campus and this would certainly entertain them.

I don't know how the plan would work to retrieve the no-show tixs (perhaps electonically) and also to spot empty seats that students waiting outside could take. But there are a lot of smart people at UConn who could figure this out.

Just saying if the opponent is not attractive get the students in there, they'll make the game and subsequently the score attractive. I think it could be a great solution to eliminate empty seats. I really believe UConn students would be on board and season ticket holders would cooperate knowing their seat would be filled with someone perhaps more interested in the game than them.

Pack Gampel and HCC, make it loud so when we see it on TV its awesome.

Is this a project @Chief00 , some Yarders, and the student Board could take on with the university?

I like your idea with the tickets. Unfortunately our students who buy student tickets don't even come to sit in the seats they paid for...so not sure how well that idea would work. The student sections the past few years have been sparse except for the few marquee games.

 

[champs99and04]

I don't see what your problem is. "Other people" scheduled that PK thing. No one would listen to a veto attempt there. Ollie isn't getting a veto of any money game in MSG either. And I don't think he's in any position to postpone any of the home and home games against good teams that have been agreed to. And I'm sure Ollie had plenty of input into the OOC home schedule. So it seems to me Ollie did, in fact, schedule all the easy games and other people scheduled all the hard games.

Christ. You have to be trolling.

The idea that the head coach - who has no direct input on how revenue is managed - selected the schedule is from lala land, even by the standards of this board. Perhaps he did consult with the AD on the schedule, in which case the question was "do you want to play Monmouth or New Hampshire?" And he chose the far harder game - one of which he will receive little credit for in victory but be crucified for in defeat.

 

[champs99and04]

Quite frankly, with the nuance that we play the home schedule in two locations - we need two very good OOC games. Fans at one location won't see a good OOC game. They deserve better, especially given the conference.

You act as if the two venues are on different continents, Chief. I understand that getting to Gampel is a huge pain in the ass, especially on a weekday, but there are always tickets available for individual games at reasonable prices. If you live in the area and care about UConn basketball, you're going to be at the game provided there is no scheduling conflict. I'm continually miffed by the people who act like they are being held hostage in one place.

If the Nova game is at the XL, that probably means there is a good chance two of the three premier conference games are at Gampel, in addition to the Arizona game next year. That's the obvious trade off that you make when you sign up for season tickets to one venue.

 

[jibsey]

A very successful season will go a long way toward better recruiting and home schedule next year. Let's give KO enough rope to get that done and let's also put the knives away toward each other and him for awhile. Just a suggestion. Kumbaya.

 

[Ant3411]

Thankfully we don't have to go up against powerhouse Wagner College again this year...

 

[uconngb]

Jim used to use his coaching friends to get top HOME/HOME games

With all respect to HCJC, Coach is the proper address - and I do know him - scheduling was easier when in the OBE - the stronger teams (No P5 nomenclature) loved a home and home with most any OBE team. I would think that our AD has many connections with the P5 ADs and has tried to get some match-ups.
I don't think its anywhere near as easy as you make it out to be
KO, at this point, doesn't have the pull of HCJC but HCJC had some real yawners of OOC schedule at home also

Not when you're as tight with the man as Chief is

 

[Chief00]

You act as if the two venues are on different continents, Chief. I understand that getting to Gampel is a huge pain in the ass, especially on a weekday, but there are always tickets available for individual games at reasonable prices. If you live in the area and care about UConn basketball, you're going to be at the game provided there is no scheduling conflict. I'm continually miffed by the people who act like they are being held hostage in one place.

If the Nova game is at the XL, that probably means there is a good chance two of the three premier conference games are at Gampel, in addition to the Arizona game next year. That's the obvious trade off that you make when you sign up for season tickets to one venue.

I have season tickets to both locations, but a lot of fans don't. Their live game experience will be what happens at one location.

 

[Chief00]

The Women have 3 good home OOC games while the men have one. As they say in the biz World - Proof of concept.

 

[Guapo]

I like your idea with the tickets. Unfortunately our students who buy student tickets don't even come to sit in the seats they paid for...so not sure how well that idea would work. The student sections the past few years have been sparse except for the few marquee games.

Put the student sections around the court