John A. with some interesting scheduling news

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John Altavilla ‏@jaltavilla 2h
Notre Dame and #UCOnnwomen to renew season series beginning next season

John Altavilla ‏@jaltavilla 2h
#UConnwomen also will deals to play DePaul home-and-away and South Carolina. Game with SC next Dec. 22
John Altavilla ‏@jaltavilla 2h
Talks underway at adminstrative level to continue Duke series #UConnwomen pending @CoachPDuke approval

John Altavilla ‏@jaltavilla 2h
Game with @ndwbb will be before the start of next year's conference season

 

[EricLA]

Wow that's some great news. ND, Depaul, Duke and SC. 3 of those are for sure top 25 teams and Depaul is hovering right around that at the moment...

 

[RockyMTblue2]

He put the three together on his blog. Very good news.

http://courantblogs.com/uconn-women/

 

[HGN]

Good news.....for UConn, the other teams, fans, and for WCBB.

 

[dtbtbtb]

This is good news but we need those games in January and February (not only in November and December)....I have to wonder if Coach P will be really interested to continue the games against UConn when she is ridiculed after each of those games by the media and even by the Duke fans...

 

[alexrgct]

Would be great for A'Ja if she got to play a marquee game like uconn-ND, not to mention coming to South Carolina to play at her home state.

 

[pap49cba]

Fuller is saying he thinks she is going to a school "with Carolina in it's name".

 

[Tonyc]

Would be great for A'Ja if she got to play a marquee game like uconn-ND, not to mention coming to South Carolina to play at her home state.

Perhaps that's the reason we're going to S Carolina because A'ja will be on our team.

 

[tomcat]

Excellent news. Actually, Tony, it may be the other way around....not that she's coming to UConn so they scheduled SC, but that UConn probably looks more attractive with SC on the schedule.

 

[UConnCat]

Fuller is saying he thinks she is going to a school "with Carolina in it's name".

Fuller isn't out there guessing (like the rest of us), but likely has a pretty good source with pretty good instincts on these things.

 

[Aluminny69]

Excellent news. Actually, Tony, it may be the other way around....not that she's coming to UConn so they scheduled SC, but that UConn probably looks more attractive with SC on the schedule.

Here's another, SC looks more attractive with UConn on their schedule. That could be Staley's thinking.

ETA: Personally, I think there's no way JPM renews series with UConn.

 

[tomcat]

Absolutely. Had not thought of it that way.

 

[UConnCat]

Rich Elliott tweets that the UConn/ND game will be in South Bend next season.

 

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John Altavilla ‏@jaltavilla 20m
As @hartfordcourant reported earlier today, the #UConnwomen and @ndwbb are back in business. @MuffetMcGraw confirmed 1st game in South Bend

 

[Geno-ista]

Playing So Carolina I think bodes well for our chances to get Aja. I still think she's not going to So Car because of the delayed decision. Not sure if she's comin here, but i don't think it's So Car- great tactic by Geno!!! IMO

 

[buddy]

ND is for ND. UConn is making a terrible mistake renewing a series with these people, unless they are paying UConn a lot of money to do so. This does not help UConn. They would be better to schedule the likes of Tennessee or other P5 teams. ND did not support UConn in conference realignment. Never did. Never will. Big, big mistake.

 

[cohenzone]

ND is for ND. UConn is making a terrible mistake renewing a series with these people, unless they are paying UConn a lot of money to do so. This does not help UConn. They would be better to schedule the likes of Tennessee or other P5 teams. ND did not support UConn in conference realignment. Never did. Never will. Big, big mistake.

Totally agree. ND is nobody's friend. ND teams can't lose often enough.

 

[msf22b]

ND is for ND. UConn is making a terrible mistake renewing a series with these people, unless they are paying UConn a lot of money to do so. This does not help UConn. They would be better to schedule the likes of Tennessee or other P5 teams. ND did not support UConn in conference realignment. Never did. Never will. Big, big mistake.

Conference realignment had absolutely nothing to do with Woman's BB.
We can't go around making up excuses to not play the best teams (even if the reasons have merit).
For the sake of our team and Woman's BB, we have to play against ND and yea, UTenn and the rest.
And I hope Duke comes back as well; as cruel as I've been to coach P.

 

[hoopfan515]

So glad Notre Dame is back on the schedule. They would have given UCONN the most competitive game this season. The last few ND games on CBS were exciting to watch and reminded me of dare I say that other rivalry that is now long gone.
Glad the rivalry will continue. Does anyone know if the games will be broadcast on CBS?

 

[Buzzyboy]

Totally agree. ND is nobody's friend. ND teams can't lose often enough.

I do think Notre Dame's athletic department is garbage. They are parasites that have absolutely no one's interest but their own at heart. Their decisions have been all about greed and friendship and loyalty are virtues that they know nothing about. I can't wish them enough bad things to happen. I would love to see Muffet McGraw leave them and coach somewhere like Ohio State or wherever so as their women's program goes back into a black hole where it and all things Notre Dame belong.

 

[intlzncster]

Wait a minute, I read on the Boneyard that Muffett didn't want to play UCONN anymore in order to kill off the program Geno built. Or that she was scared. Or something.

 

[DaddyChoc]

those tweet (like most of them) are weird when you "@" the enemy. seems kind of mean. (@ means you're expecting a response, guess they are)

# "hashtags" would seem more appropriate

 

[Bigpetunia]

Conference realignment had absolutely nothing to do with Woman's BB.
We can't go around making up excuses to not play the best teams (even if the reasons have merit).
For the sake of our team and Woman's BB, we have to play against ND and yea, UTenn and the rest.
And I hope Duke comes back as well; as cruel as I've been to coach P.

You are absolutely right in your approach to this. When it comes to the Hate Notre Dame Club, I, for the reasons stated by others on this thread, as well as for a variety of other reasons, refuse to take a back seat to anyone. But for fans of WCBB, and especially for fans of the undisputed premier program of the sport, our first concern should be for what is best for the game. As passionate as we are, we cannot forget how tenuous is the "hold" that women's athletics still has on the national consciousness. We desperately need heated national rivalries, and should support any effort to schedule the very best competition we can throughout the season. The hate factor only serves to make the matchups better and piques the national interest more. Bring 'em all on!

 

[Icebear]

I do think Notre Dame's athletic department is garbage. They are parasites that have absolutely no one's interest but their own at heart. Their decisions have been all about greed and friendship and loyalty are virtues that they know nothing about. I can't wish them enough bad things to happen. I would love to see Muffet McGraw leave them and coach somewhere like Ohio State or wherever so as their women's program goes back into a black hole where it and all things Notre Dame belong.

Maybe Pope Francis called them and said they've been focused on the wrong things.

 

[cohenzone]

Football is the dog that wags the tail in conference realignment. ND kept its football and its other programs lived off the Big East. Not to rehash the whole history of ND in the conference, but if their sometimes not great fb program was in, it's quite possible the history of conference change would be radically different if existent at all. It all began with the ACC raid on the BE. Like ND or not, who thinks BC, Miami, VTech, Cuse, WV or Pitt would leave a fb conference with ND in it? ND doesn't care, didn't care and will do whatever it wants which is their prerogative. Is a hoops game with their women attractive? Yes. Does it do more for them than us? Well, any top team without us on the schedule has doubts around just how good they are. We'll survive and women's hoops has problems if it can't overcome not having a game between us and the Fighting Selfish.

Jim Calhoun refused to schedule BC after they left the conference. It's worse for UConn now overall, never mind just women's hoops, being stuck in this unattractive AAC and I think ND is as responsible for the whole chain of events as anyone because they kept their fb just the way they wanted while the BE burned. Muffet seems like a nice person. Why don't we just send her a Seasons Greetings card and leave it at that.