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DaveHuskiesFan said:
Lol come on. You're replacing one drivable school (Temple) with with (Nova, Providence, Seton hall, St. John's, and Georgetown) for the majority of our sports.
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Didn’t you get the memo? If one school is far away, the move makes no sense, even though in the current setup 9 schools are far away. It’s all or nothing.
 
Our scores are similar to Rutgers anyway, in some cases worst last year, at least they are playing top 10 programs.
 
If we are playing San Jose State on 9/5, then it stands to reason we are also adding Central Michigan to the schedule as well. Currently SJS is slated to open on the road against Central Michigan. Playing this out, CM is slated to host Bryant on 9/26. My guess is that for CM the Bryant game gets moved forward to 9/5 and then on the weekend of 9/26 CM comes to Hartford or on some other date later in the season.

My guess is that we have worked out something similar with two other programs, perhaps one such arrangement with Virginia or VT and another with an AAC school. That would be one way to get six games on the books.
 
There really aren't big travel cost savings moving to the Big East.

Go sport by sport and UConn may reduce about 10 longer trips per year for non-revenue sports (still will have trips, but not as far) and maybe 8 to 10 long trips combined for men's and women's basketball (still have to travel to Milwaukee, Chicago, Wichita, Ohio, Indiana). Based on rumored schedules, there doesn't appear to be reduced travel for football.

Many people don't understand that some of the non-revenue sports have 1 AAC event per year:
Golf (no change in travel as Big East conference tournament is in the south as well.)
Swimming and Diving
Track and Field
Women's Rowing

And, some sports were already not playing in the AAC:
Men's hockey
Women's hockey
Field Hockey

Bottom line is that the move to the Big East was to improve the basketball situation at UConn and to perhaps generate more media revenues than the crappy AAC media deal. If we can improve basketball season ticket sales and donations by moving to the Big East, that's a bonus.
 
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Of course this speculation on my part is worthless, but another such ideal possibility would be to break up the Virginia - Old Dominion game. OD's OOC schedule is tough in 2020 with Virginia, Wake and UNC (three P5 games). We could come in, take the Virginia visit to OD on 11/21 to soften their schedule and simultaneously fill Virginia schedule with hopefully a home game at the Rent. Virginia is one of the few P5 programs that might actually visit us...most wont.

I just wonder how we can get any P5 or respectively G5 programs to the Rent w/o a national streaming deal so that visiting schools can see the games in their home TV markets.
 
UConnJim said:
There really aren't big travel cost savings moving to the Big East.

Go sport by sport and UConn may reduce about 10 longer trips per year for non-revenue sports (still will have trips, but not as far) and maybe 8 to 10 long trips combined for men's and women's basketball (still have to travel to Milwaukee, Chicago, Wichita, Ohio, Indiana). Based on rumored schedules, there doesn't appear to be reduced travel for football.

Many people don't understand that some of the non-revenue sports have 1 AAC event per year:
Golf (no change in travel as Big East conference tournament is in the south as well.)
Swimming and Diving
Track and Field
Women's Rowing

And, some sports were already not playing in the AAC:
Men's hockey
Women's hockey
Field Hockey

Bottom line is that the move to the Big East was to improve the basketball situation at UConn and to perhaps generate more media revenues than the crappy AAC media deal. If we can improve basketball season ticket sales and donations by moving to the Big East, that's a bonus.
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The AD has already stated there will be a $1M savings annually in travel costs. I'm sure they did their research.
 
Exit 4 said:
Of course this speculation on my part is worthless, but another such ideal possibility would be to break up the Virginia - Old Dominion game. OD's OOC schedule is tough in 2020 with Virginia, Wake and UNC (three P5 games). We could come in, take the Virginia visit to OD on 11/21 to soften their schedule and simultaneously fill Virginia schedule with hopefully a home game at the Rent. Virginia is one of the few P5 programs that might actually visit us...most wont.

I just wonder how we can get any P5 or respectively G5 programs to the Rent w/o a national streaming deal so that visiting schools can see the games in their home TV markets.
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We had to tell Maryland something, right?
 
UConnJim said:
There really aren't big travel cost savings moving to the Big East.

Go sport by sport and UConn may reduce about 10 longer trips per year for non-revenue sports (still will have trips, but not as far) and maybe 8 to 10 long trips combined for men's and women's basketball (still have to travel to Milwaukee, Chicago, Wichita, Ohio, Indiana). Based on rumored schedules, there doesn't appear to be reduced travel for football.

Many people don't understand that some of the non-revenue sports have 1 AAC event per year:
Golf (no change in travel as Big East conference tournament is in the south as well.)
Swimming and Diving
Track and Field
Women's Rowing

And, some sports were already not playing in the AAC:
Men's hockey
Women's hockey
Field Hockey

Bottom line is that the move to the Big East was to improve the basketball situation at UConn and to perhaps generate more media revenues than the crappy AAC media deal. If we can improve basketball season ticket sales and donations by moving to the Big East, that's a bonus.
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Here is a Rivals article about the financial aspects of the move.

$2 million is 2/3 of the gap bwtween the new AAC contract and UConn's supposed share of the Big East contract. The move was 100% made because of Aresco's media deal, but being the furthest outlier was definitely a factor. Herbst estimated that travel will save $2 Million and it makes sense when you use Men's basketball as an example. According to the article, MBB traveled nearly 21k miles. Providence traveled just under 13k.

There was no room for the individual schools to keep their Tier 3 rights (There goes a $million from SNY and the supplement of the 3 Million gap.) and Women's basketball was going behind the ESPN+ paywall (There goes exposure).

Considering the cost reduction and revenue channel maintenance, UConn is ahead or even with the AAC in terms of media. Further, given the fact that the above does not include football, there is a distinct possibility that UConn could approach 8 digits annually with another media arrangement when all is said and done.
 
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Y’all are taking this waaaay too seriously. The point @Bonehead was making is that it’s funny that one of our arguments for leaving the AAC was saving on travel, only to have our first game as an independent require cross-continental travel.

He’s obviously not arguing that one game at San Jose State outweighs the broader cost savings...
 
Purple Stein said:
Y’all are taking this waaaay too seriously. The point @Bonehead was making is that it’s funny that one of our arguments for leaving the AAC was saving on travel, only to have our first game as an independent require cross-continental travel.

He’s obviously not arguing that one game at San Jose State outweighs the broader cost savings...
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I don't expect us to play teams like San Jose State regularly. But for 2020 we are beggars and can't be choosy.
 
Exit 4 said:
If we are playing San Jose State on 9/5, then it stands to reason we are also adding Central Michigan to the schedule as well. Currently SJS is slated to open on the road against Central Michigan. Playing this out, CM is slated to host Bryant on 9/26. My guess is that for CM the Bryant game gets moved forward to 9/5 and then on the weekend of 9/26 CM comes to Hartford or on some other date later in the season.

My guess is that we have worked out something similar with two other programs, perhaps one such arrangement with Virginia or VT and another with an AAC school. That would be one way to get six games on the books.
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I thought the original date that I saw for San Jose State was 8/29. Can't wait to see the full schedule!
 
Wildgopher said:
I thought the original date that I saw for San Jose State was 8/29. Can't wait to see the full schedule!
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That was my guess, along with an Army series. Again, just guesses based off the San Jose scoop and looking at San Jose's 2020/2021 schedules.
 
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Drew said:
For the record that guy is not me and I’ve got no clue who it is
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That weirdo has no credibility. Just some guy flinging crap....inspired from the yard. Everyone knows a deal with Army is coming so that is not news and Nostical already made a claim about SJ State.... so what does this guy have that is news other than the statement that we will play two AAC schools in 2020?
 
Exit 4 said:
That weirdo has no credibility. Just some guy flinging crap........ so what does this guy have that is news other than the statement that we will play two AAC schools in 2020?
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Perhaps, 2 un-American, ACC games ???
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
Perhaps, 2 un-American, ACC games ???
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Whoops, so yeah that mighty twitter post had zero new and everything that could be interpolated from the Yard or recent new reports from the weekend.
 
Exit 4 said:
Whoops, so yeah that mighty twitter post had zero new and everything that could be interpolated from the Yard or ...
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Focusing on prospective 2020 ACC opponents the last several weeks, which potential 2010 ACC opponents have Boneyarders or others interpolated, speculated on, or specifically identified? Free Shoes was mentioned at some point, but didn’t they subsequently schedule some FCS school? Others requiring horse trading?
 
Drew said:
For the record that guy is not me and I’ve got no clue who it is
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What happened to your twitter handle? I saw that account and others enter my mentions over your acct being suspended.
 
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DaveHuskiesFan said:
No ACC games. Maine, Indiana, Umass, Illinois
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Oh I guess NC State/Duke/BC is further down the line. I thought one was next year. Very interesting. If we have 2 Big Ten and 2 ACC games that is very interesting.
 
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
Focusing on prospective 2020 ACC opponents the last several weeks, which potential 2010 ACC opponents have Boneyarders or others interpolated, speculated on, or specifically identified? Free Shoes was mentioned at some point, but didn’t they subsequently schedule some FCS school? Others requiring horse trading?
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I went through this exercise months ago. Basically in FBS football land all the programs have all their FBS OOC scheduling completed for 2020 and whats left are only open dates for their annual FCS cupcake games. Seems extremely unlikely any program will skip their annual right for a cupcake.

So, what really has to happen for 2020 is for UConn to approach schools with established OOC dates and pitch to both programs the offer to play both using whatever sweetener/pitch/angle you can possible inject to the situation.
 
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