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Since UCONN was a conference game they will need to replace that opening with another conference game. The AAC is going to one division with the top two going to the playoff.
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Since UCONN was a conference game they will need to replace that opening with another conference game. The AAC is going to one division with the top two going to the playoff.
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Reposting from my July 10th post...
2020 Dates - decided to list the dates that are filled rather than open.
UConn (has 9/3, 9/12, 9/19 and 9/26 filled with UMass, at Illinois, Maine and Indiana respectively), so four games set.
School with an unfilled 2020 OOC slot:
#1 - Arkansas or TCU (ahem M. Anthony SEC rumors)
#2 - VTech (ahem M. Anthony and others ACC rumors)
#3 - Army (Army shifts a game to make room for us - rumored)
#4 - Air Force (no rumors here, but it would make some sense - I think)
#5 - UCF (they have two open dates, I know they are aiming for the moon, but would a two game series make sense? plus we need FL on the schedule)
#6 - Coastal Carolina (we are recruiting well in SC, a two game series make some sense)
#7 - Pick one of La Tech/Southern Miss, UAB or Louisiana Lafayette (for a two game series)
#8 - Pick one of SMU or FIU (Texas and FL are good places to be)
Back up plan #1, do both the TCU and Arkansas games - but that would be a brutal schedule
Back up plan #2, make a two game series with BYU or Liberty where they bump someone from their 2020 schedule.
Back up plan #3, make a two game series with anyone in the MAC that is willing to bump a 2020 game (preference towards an Ohio team or Buffalo).
Back up plan #4, convince Temple (with basketball games) to bump someone in 2020 for a two game series.
2020 Dates - decided to list the dates that are filled rather than open.
UConn (has 9/3, 9/12, 9/19 and 9/26 filled with UMass, at Illinois, Maine and Indiana respectively), so four games set.
School with an unfilled 2020 OOC slot:
- Miami (has 9/5, 9/19 and 9/26 filled) <--edit Miami now has a fourth OOC game.
- Vtech (has 9/5, 9/12 and 9/19 filled)
- SMU (has 9/5, 9/12 and 9/19 filled)
- UCF (has 9/5, 9/19 filled)
- FIU (has 9/26 and 10/24 filled)
- La Tech (has 9/5, 9/12 and 11/21 filled)
- Southern Miss (has 9/5, 9/26 and 10/24 filled)
- UAB (has 9/3, 9/19 and 9/26 filled, usually plays an OOC in Nov)
- Air Force (has 9/19, 10/3 filled and a tbd with Army)
- Arkansas (has 9/5 and 9/12 filled - usually plays an OOC in late Oct or Nov)
- Coastal Carolina (has 9/12 and 9/26 filled and a tbd with South Carolina, has Oct and Nov OOCs planned in future)
- Louisiana Lafayette (has 9/5, 10/24 and 11/21 filled)
- TCU (has 9/5 filled)
#1 - Arkansas or TCU (ahem M. Anthony SEC rumors)
#2 - VTech (ahem M. Anthony and others ACC rumors)
#3 - Army (Army shifts a game to make room for us - rumored)
#4 - Air Force (no rumors here, but it would make some sense - I think)
#5 - UCF (they have two open dates, I know they are aiming for the moon, but would a two game series make sense? plus we need FL on the schedule)
#6 - Coastal Carolina (we are recruiting well in SC, a two game series make some sense)
#7 - Pick one of La Tech/Southern Miss, UAB or Louisiana Lafayette (for a two game series)
#8 - Pick one of SMU or FIU (Texas and FL are good places to be)
Back up plan #1, do both the TCU and Arkansas games - but that would be a brutal schedule
Back up plan #2, make a two game series with BYU or Liberty where they bump someone from their 2020 schedule.
Back up plan #3, make a two game series with anyone in the MAC that is willing to bump a 2020 game (preference towards an Ohio team or Buffalo).
Back up plan #4, convince Temple (with basketball games) to bump someone in 2020 for a two game series.
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It would be great if we could get UMass and Liberty to move their game to Halloween, move our UMass game to Thanksgiving, and schedule a P5 for week 1. Maybe Liberty can move an FCS game to Thanksgiving or replace one of them with us. Replacing us for West Carolina in November would be great for everybody (except WCU I guess)
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Seriously, if USC wants to keep their no-FCS streak going, they should be on the phone to get UConn to come out instead of UCD. Makes plenty of sense on both sides.
Seriously, if USC wants to keep their no-FCS streak going, they should be on the phone to get UConn to come out instead of UCD. Makes plenty of sense on both sides.
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UCLA could also add a game because they play at Hawaii. Maybe Kelly wants to play an extra? We could sweeten it with basketball, of course, which I'm sure Cronin would enjoy.
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Maybe the AD should survey alums/fans in different parts of the country to take their temp on ability/willingness to travel to see UConn play football. IE, west coast - would they get more people to go to a game in LA vs SF? Dallas or Atlanta? And schedule opponents, buy-game or not, accordingly?
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These types of surveys are notoriously unreliable. Fans' willingness to travel is heavily dictated by cost, and without those exact cost numbers in front of them, their response to such a survey is virtually meaningless.
What is something the AD can (and likely will) do is to take stock of the master list of UConn alumni and determine geographical areas outside the northeast where there are large clusters of alumni. Use this information, as well as any data the Alumni Association has on how active those alumni have been in local UConn events, past sporting events in the area, etc. to make their scheduling targets.
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The hard scheduling will be “if” or “when” UConn becomes respectable in football. UConn will have a hard time getting teams to come to the Rent. There is no benefit for a P5 team in taking a risk of losing to UConn at the Rent. Now P5 teams are willing to schedule UConn because it is a guaranteed win for them.
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You can say every program has scheduling "challenges."
No one will play a northern team, no one will play a loser, no one will play a winner, no one will play at an off campus stadium, no one will play in areas they dont recruit in, no one will play there in October or November, no one will play someone at X level in the SOS, no one will play an opponent with that style of offense/defense...no one will.....
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You can pretty much scratch TCU from your list. While they currently have 2 open dates going forward one of those will be filled by an FCS opponent (per Coach Patterson wishes) and the other I'm sure will be the continuation (sadly) of the series with SMU. The current contract runs out this season but I would be shocked if the series doesn't continue. SMU also has at least one open date on it's schedule going forward.
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| Week Of | UConn | UMass | New Mexico St | Liberty |
| 8/29 | at UCLA | |||
| 9/5 | FIU/Air Force/Coastal | Air Force/Coastal Carolina | at UAB | at VA Tech |
| 9/12 | at Illinois | Troy | Akron | NC A&T |
| 9/19 | at TCU/Arkansas | Albany | New Mexico | at WKU |
| 9/26 | Indiana | at App St | at UTEP | FIU |
| 10/3 | at New Mexico | Texas State | at Bowling Green | |
| 10/10 | Army? | Temple | at Hawaii | ULM |
| 10/17 | at Akron | at Fresno State | at Cuse | |
| 10/24 | FIU | Louisiana | Southern Miss | |
| 10/31 | UMass | at UConn | ||
| 11/7 | New Mexico St | at UConn | at UVA | |
| 11/14 | at Liberty | at Auburn | Texas Southern | UConn |
| 11/21 | Maine | Army | at Florida | at NC State |
| 11/28 | at UCLA | at Liberty | UMass |
- New Mexico St comes to PAWSARF instead of going to UMass on 11/7, presumably they guarantee a later date on their series (2024?)
- UConn and UMass move their game to Halloween
- UConn schedules a lower FBS team with a Week 1 opening, UMass schedules one of the others for Week 1 but not FIU as they play them 10/24
- Maine game is moved back because they're FCS and can make it work for the pay day, allows us for a week 3 game at TCU/Arkansas
- Liberty buys out of/reschedules their West Carolina game on 11/14 and we play in Virginia so they only have one FCS.
- Play at UCLA on 11/28 because they can add a game for playing at Hawaii
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I think Florida State could be a good measuring stick for us in 2020.
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Both Old Dominion and Liberty are associate members of the Big East and play UConn in Field Hockey. Wouldn't stun me if both are on the schedule.
South Carolina has had a pretty long relationship for us that is continuing with women's hoop so they could also be ones on our schedule soon/
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Along those lines, OD has one unfilled OOC slot for 2020. Currently they have games against Wake on 9/5, NC State on 9/26 and Virginia on 11/21. It does seem logical a two or four year series would be set up with Old Dominion given they are in Norfolk VA.
From my list, scrap the games against the Sun Belt or CUSA which are not on the eastern seaboard in favor of a series with OD.
And good observation about South Carolina. In lieu of playing Coastal Carolina, perhaps we can arrange a H & H with SC. Their long term OOC schedule is rather thin and for 2020, they have an open date after lining up ECU on 9/12, Clemson on 11/28 and a TBD date with Coastal Carolina.
My revised eight games:
#1 - Arkansas pay day game (M. Anthony SEC rumors)
#2 - South Carolina series for H&H (M. Anthony SEC rumors) / Take Coastal Carolina as alt if necessary
#3 - VTech series for a H&H (M. Anthony and others ACC rumors)
#4 - Army (Army shifts a game to make room for us - rumored)
#5 - Air Force (no rumors here, but it would make some sense - I think)
#6 - UCF (they have two open dates, I know they are aiming for the moon, but would a two game series make sense? plus we need FL on the schedule)
#7 - Old Dominion (CUSA game for a perhaps a 2 or 4 game series)
#8 - FIU (they have a wide open schedule and a second FL game wouldn't hurt)
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Likewise, Temple is a NBEE gal’s field hockey associate member. Aside from that less important consideration, it won’t be shocking for Temple to schedule reasonably convenient UConn in football.
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Hypothetical calendar: I understand there is lots we could do with switching....more than I did. This schedule does not at all reflect the long term goals which is to play more regional teams...like all our northern ACC neighbors. That will happen in the years ahead, for now this is something I patched together for 2020.
six home games / six road games:
Unknowns, can/would we want BYU or Liberty to reschedule a game on our behalf? Both have full 2020 slates.
I think there is room to get a series going with Syracuse, Pitt and others up north, but dont think we can start any of them in 2020.
six home games / six road games:
- 09/03 - UMass
- 09/12 - at Illinois
- 09/19 - Maine
- 09/26 - Indiana
- 10/3 - at UCF - historically UCF hasnt played any OOC games outside of Sept. They have two open OOC slots in 2020 with UNC booked on 9/5 and GT on 9/19.
- 10/10 - FIU at home - possible two game series? Maybe we don't want to play them- they are good. In 2017 they played an October OOC game with Tulane.
- 10/17 - at Coastal Carolina - possible two game series? They have an open 2020 date, but like OD they haven't scheduled their cupcake game yet. Not ideal to play SC and CC in the same year.
- 10/24 - at Arkansas - pay day game (M. Anthony SEC rumors) - they have had OOCs in Oct in the past including Tulsa last year.
- 10/31 - Virginia Tech at home - could make this a home game and a two game series? VT has regularly scheduled OOC games in Oct and Nov in the past
- 11/7 - at Army - start of a new series. Army has one open slot in 2019 and just a couple open weekends. They have only five home games scheduled. I'd like to make this a home game, but...
- 11/14 - Old Dominion at home- start of a new series. This game in Nov is a stretch for two reasons, OD has historically played its OOC in Sept and because while they have an open date in 2020, their filled dates are: Wake visit on 9/5, at NC on 9/26 and Virginia visiting on 11/21. OD is a candidate to flip with Maine.
- 11/21 - at South Carolina SC routinely ends their season with two of three games as OOC.
Unknowns, can/would we want BYU or Liberty to reschedule a game on our behalf? Both have full 2020 slates.
I think there is room to get a series going with Syracuse, Pitt and others up north, but dont think we can start any of them in 2020.
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If the option is Old Dominion and Liberty I’ll take Tulane and Tulsa any day of the week. At least I’ve heard of them. Old Dominion and you want us to play There???
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Part of this exercise for the AD is to generate some excitement. While the Exit 4 schedules probably aren't too far off what we are looking at for 2020, we need to try harder to fill both the schedule and the home slate with more than Indiana and VT. It may seem like 2003, but it isn't. If you add one more attractive home game, I think that is a big win even if it's an AAC team like Memphis. That would give us 5 legit P5 games, 3 AAC level game (incl Army), and 4 G5/FCS schlock (of which 1 is UMass which for some 1995 level reason still excites some people.)
That is a legit BCS level schedule.
That is a legit BCS level schedule.
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This partially answers the bowl game question. If we can sell tickets, we can schedule marquee and neutral site games like this. 2021 "bowl" game at Clemson. BC in Dublin. Anyone good in FL, etc. Since bowls don't actually make money, just schedule travel games for the fanbase.
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Normally a buy game followed by traditional game with Clemson. SEC traditionally plays a cupcake buy game before their rivalry game.
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I see everyone has spontaneously obtained their FBS scheduling certification
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USC is going to break that streak. The Trojans scheduled UC Davis.
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Ummm... that’s the whole point Fischer was making? They can avoid breaking the streak by scheduling UConn instead.
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