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Nice opponent, someone new. Didn't former President Hogan leave for Illinois, only to get canned? Glad to see that their A.D. doesn't hold grudges!
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
We played there in the 90's didn't we? Think we won the game too. The early 90's can be foggy at times.
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Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. I was a bit too young to remember it. Either way, I love the way the arena looks on TV, always wanted to get out there for a game.
 
Carl Spackler said:
Two days? How do you figure? If you're doing a same day trip there and back for a game, not going to work. If that's what you meant. Morgantown, yeah, I guess, 3-4 hours travel flight and drive from Pitt, so you could do it there and back in the same day, but I preferred to drive Morgantown and would stay over.

Flight time to Indy Isn't more than an hour over Pitt -figure 2 hours. Three - four hours from there ground with air transfer/ground is at very most an 7-8 hour trip if the lines are slow and you have to walk forever to get to your ground transpo and hit traffic, wait for luggage, etc. It's a 6 hour trip otherwise.

I wish we were talking about this because it was going to be regular conference trip, rather than a 2 year home and home. We only have to do it once.

It would be nice, if for one of these OOC games in coming years, we get a driveable opponent.
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Charlotttesville in a few years. I missed the game down there in 2007. Don't want to miss it again......
 
noeynox said:
I kNow Your Right, But Just Going By History Here. Hell Every Game Is Winnable Or Losable, So What? You Can't Ever Express An Opinion On A Topic? I See Illinois A Similar To UCONN In Terms Of Talent Over The Years. If The Game Was Against Ohio State I Wouldn't Necessarily Call It Winnable Even If It Was A Hundred Years Out.
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I was just making a silly comment, not trying to rustle any jimmies. You are a hell of a poster here noey.
 
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Good get for way out.....hope by the year 2019 that this NOT OOC! .....but part of the eastern div of the B1G.........
 
Very good series indeed. I will make the trip. It's important for Husky fans to make every P5 trip if they can. Perception change. Hopefully, Warde has Minnesota, Purdue, Iowa and Northwestern on the dial too. Play enough of these games and keep dialogue open with B1G AD's can only be a good thing for UCONN.
 
Baltic said:
We played Indiana twice not Illinois, and it was to open the Rent.
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Think he meant the basketball venue, we played a nationally televised game in that place. Illinois had a very nice post player at the time. Billy Packer kept complaining that Chris Smith was carrying the ball on his cross over.
 
Games like Illinois are very nice gets. Nobody gets huge names every year out of conference. Perfect world you get one every few years. In between you want to get schools people have heard of, ideally from a conference you've heard of, though obviously Notre Dame, and to a lesser extent BYU both pass that test as Independents.
 
All things staying constant, I plan on making the trip. My wife got here MBA from Illinois and she has family out there. My a guy in my tailgate crew also has family in the Chicago area. So one way or another, it's going to happen.
 
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It's hard to get excited about something 5+ years away that who knows may never happen. I live in Atlanta and was looking forward to the Tenn game for 3 years now and oh well that won't be happening now.
 
I was hoping for a Wisconsin MSU Penn St. type matchup but I'll take Illinois in a heartbeat. Who knows by then they could be one of the better teams in the B1G. We can hope for both teams to have much higher football profiles, it isn't out of the question for it to be a great match up. In Diaco we trust.
 
WingU-Conn said:
Decent opponent, home first, this is definitely good news
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How could this be good news? This means UConn will still be in the AAC in 2019 and financially busted. UConn will become the OOC fodder for these schools if that happens. Anyone who thinks UConn will beat them in 2019 as members of the AAC is out their minds. Recruiting, finances, and appeal will be drastically different for athletics by that time and UConn will just be a game that a P5 team will pay to get a win.
 
buddy said:
How could this be good news? This means UConn will still be in the AAC in 2019 and financially busted. UConn will become the OOC fodder for these schools if that happens. Anyone who thinks UConn will beat them in 2019 as members of the AAC is out their minds. Recruiting, finances, and appeal will be drastically different for athletics by that time and UConn will just be a game that a P5 team will pay to get a win.
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Hike you skirt down, your showing a little too much skin there.
 
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buddy said:
How could this be good news? This means UConn will still be in the AAC in 2019 and financially busted.
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So... WM shouldn't be working on schedules for out years??? Would you have felt better if it was a ACC or SunBelt Team?
 
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noeynox said:
Decen Opponent. Not Tennessee, But A Good Matchup And Winnable Game.
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Not counting their five national titles (as it can be argued that even the one in the 1950's is ancient history) or the hall of famers that came from that school, David Diehl's very recent retirement left them with only 25 current NFL players.

Granted, they need to improve quite a bit to be viewed as a middle of the road B1G football program but we really need to gain some perspective.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Not counting their five national titles (as it can be argued that even the one in the 1950's is ancient history) or the hall of famers that came from that school, David Diehl's very recent retirement left them with only 25 current NFL players.

Granted, they need to improve quite a bit to be viewed as a middle of the road B1G football program but we really need to gain some perspective.
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It wasn't a slight on the Illini. I view them like I would view Purdue, Minnesota, or Northwestern. A Nice coup on the schedule, but a tier down from Michigan or Ohio State, but a step up from Indiana. If I was an Illini fan I'd be more disappointed than any UConn has the right to be.
 
huskymedic said:
So... WM shouldn't be working on schedules for out years??? Would you have felt better if it was a ACC or SunBelt Team?
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I don't mean to be a downer. I'm disappointed, that's all.
 
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Completely fine with this! Would be nice to have a basketball home/home as well.
 
noeynox said:
It wasn't a slight on the Illini. I view them like I would view Purdue, Minnesota, or Northwestern. A Nice coup on the schedule, but a tier down from Michigan or Ohio State, but a step up from Indiana. If I was an Illini fan I'd be more disappointed than any UConn has the right to be.
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I like scheduling this game, and I agree with you about the Illini's relative place in the B1G, but they shouldn't be too disappointed in playing us... glass houses and all that.

http://deadspin.com/the-illinois-student-section-is-the-saddest-1465931514
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rw005 said:
Completely fine with this! Would be nice to have a basketball home/home as well.
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I'd be surprised if there isn't a basketball series (perhaps both men's and women's) included. I imagine that the best thing we can offer a P-5 school to sweeten the pot would be games against our men's & women's hoops teams.
 
ATLDYKA said:
It's hard to get excited about something 5+ years away that who knows may never happen. I live in Atlanta and was looking forward to the Tenn game for 3 years now and oh well that won't be happening now.
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I can agree, looked forward to that one. This one, not to be a downer, excites me about as much as warm beer which I would pour out. I do not want to take away from those who are excited as we need this but to me it is like getting a wedding invitation five years out. I am not running out to buy a present or have the tux cleaned. We will see if they are still holding hands four years from now...
 
buddy said:
How could this be good news? This means UConn will still be in the AAC in 2019 and financially busted. UConn will become the OOC fodder for these schools if that happens. Anyone who thinks UConn will beat them in 2019 as members of the AAC is out their minds. Recruiting, finances, and appeal will be drastically different for athletics by that time and UConn will just be a game that a P5 team will pay to get a win.
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Thank you for your interest in UConn Football.

http://www.ct.gov/DMHAS/cwp/view.asp?a=2902&q=378578
 
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