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ConnHuskBask said:
I'm pretty torn about it. The away games with BYU and Mizzou are likely losses. We'll also be traveling to Cinci and UCF.

It's by no means an exciting slate and while I know it wasn't designed this way, we may need those 2 wins.
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When I traveled to Louisville a couple years ago on their senior day, i expected we'd get blown out. Upsets happen.

We will be travelling to UCF or USF every year for the next few years. And Cinci every other year for the next few years. I'm making the Mizzou trip, looks like more fun than Utah.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
I'm pretty torn about it. The away games with BYU and Mizzou are likely losses. We'll also be traveling to Cinci and UCF.

It's by no means an exciting slate and while I know it wasn't designed this way, we may need those 2 wins.
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My thought too. Pile up on home wins, get to a bowl game, get back on the national football map. Sprinkle in some competitive games at any/all of the 4 road games next year you mentioned (with good traveling fan representation) and it'll be difficult to justify continuing to shut UCONN out of a P5.
 
J187Money said:
I have indemnity for UCONN games and Packers games. If I go out on a random Wednesday night I might have to sleep on the couch. But I can travel for games without an argument.
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Jimmy Serrano said:
Ladies and gentlemen. THIS is how it's done.
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Don't get me wrong, Jimmy, I can still make it work. It's not like my wife "won't let me go." She is a UConn (and Illinois) alum and also likes sports. In fact before we officially got together, our unofficial first date was spent in a hotel bar in Columbus Ohio watching the Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball. Unfortunately, it was in April so no visit to The Horseshoe (although tOSU Spring practice lead every news local program). She just needs to come on this trip given the date, and that means a 3 year old as well.

Basically I'm borrowing trouble from next year when I have zero idea how any of this will play out. Who did relatively fine at the last two UConn home games. Besides you guys don't want to hear any more about my home life. So as always...first world problems...
 
Awesomeness! Epic pickup by Warde with Mizzou. His strongest P5 addition to date. Well done!
 
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Husky25 said:
Don't get me wrong, Jimmy, I can still make it work. It's not like my wife "won't let me go." She is a UConn (and Illinois) alum and also likes sports. In fact before we officially got together, our unofficial first date was spent in a hotel bar in Columbus Ohio watching the Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball. Unfortunately, it was in April so no visit to The Horseshoe (although tOSU Spring practice lead every news local program). She just needs to come on this trip given the date, and that means a 3 year old as well.

Basically I'm borrowing trouble from next year when I have zero idea how any of this will play out. Who did relatively fine at the last two UConn home games. Besides you guys don't want to hear any more about my home life. So as always...first world problems...
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A related story on this topic...

So in 2004, I decided to go to the Final Four. My buddy from CA was going to join me, but it turned out that he couldn't make the Saturday game because he had to go to a party his wife's hedge fund was throwing in Vegas (also a first class problem). So I called one of my buddies who also had young kids (and plenty of $) and said "come down to SA for the semis"...I laid out the trip for him - he was only going to be gone for maybe 30 hours. And his wife threw a fit. So he didn't go. That was the Duke game for those that don't remember.

MY wife (my kids were 4 and 1 at the time) said: "I'm sure I will want to kill you multiple times during the weekend, but you will come home and I'll get over it."...and she told my friend to get his nuts back from the string around his wife's neck.

(when he called me to tell me he was getting divorced a few years later, she took the phone from my hand and said (and I quote) "How do you feel about skipping the Final 4 now?")
 
sanchez42885 said:
Little known travel fact- you can bring as many nips as you can fit in the clear plastic bag. No issues at all drinking them in the airport- just be discrete when you are on the plane.
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Yeah I guess you could...nips are nowhere near 4 oz. A better idea is to pour whiskey into clean travel shampoo bottles. You bring an entire handle with you.
 
J187Money said:
A related story on this topic...

So in 2004, I decided to go to the Final Four. My buddy from CA was going to join me, but it turned out that he couldn't make the Saturday game because he had to go to a party his wife's hedge fund was throwing in Vegas (also a first class problem). So I called one of my buddies who also had young kids (and plenty of $) and said "come down to SA for the semis"...I laid out the trip for him - he was only going to be gone for maybe 30 hours. And his wife threw a fit. So he didn't go. That was the Duke game for those that don't remember.

MY wife (my kids were 4 and 1 at the time) said: "I'm sure I will want to kill you multiple times during the weekend, but you will come home and I'll get over it."...and she told my friend to get his nuts back from the string around his wife's neck.

(when he called me to tell me he was getting divorced a few years later, she took the phone from my hand and said (and I quote) "How do you feel about skipping the Final 4 now?")
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Basically word-for word what my wife said at 2am when I woke her up after the Villanova game just before I hit the StubHub purchase button to buy my tix to MSG for the Sweet Sixteen in March. very cool woman.
 
Hmmm... how cool would it be if the crowd at the stadium in Mizzou has to exit after the game to a serenade of UCOOOOOON! HUSKIEEEEEES!" and "AAC! AAC!" chants?
 
J187Money said:
I have indemnity for UCONN games and Packers games. If I go out on a random Wednesday night I might have to sleep on the couch. But I can travel for games without an argument.
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Have your wife call my wife...please and thank you!
 
My wife knew what the deal was when we got married. Married men: If your wife doesn't have a hobby/interest encourage her to get one and then support it. "You want to go wine tasting with your friends for the day?, Sure honey." "You want to go paint and drink with your friends on a Tuesday night? Sure honey." "You want to go see 50 Shades of Grey with your friends? Sure honey" "You want a weekend in Boston? Sure honey."

"I'm going to Missouri for the UConn game."

"Sure honey".
 
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Husky25 said:
From John Silver on SNY

The Huskies also have a future series with Tennessee scheduled.
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Don't know for sure, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet that the Tennessee series disappears. they and the AAC and SEC and us and Missouri all worked this one out instead. Just a gut feeling but given that Missouri had a game with Memphis scheduled for one of the dates, it would seem that there is more to this than meets the eye.
 
freescooter said:
Don't know for sure, but if I were a betting man, I'd bet that the Tennessee series disappears. they and the AAC and SEC and us and Missouri all worked this one out instead. Just a gut feeling but given that Missouri had a game with Memphis scheduled for one of the dates, it would seem that there is more to this than meets the eye.
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Not saying that I think you are wrong in the least. I didn't think the TN series was "postponed" as much as put off in order to come to an agreed upon settlement figure either, but seeing this however many months later gives just a slight amount of pause.
 
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I hope the Tenn game won't be bought out/cancelled. Tenn has one of the few 100,000 plus stadiums in the country. I'd like to see our Huskies play in that environment.
 
J187Money said:
A related story on this topic..
(when he called me to tell me he was getting divorced a few years later, she took the phone from my hand and said (and I quote) "How do you feel about skipping the Final 4 now?")
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I went with my buddy to that Final 4 as well. He pretty much had to lay down the law to go, and listen to a load of crap every phone call home during the trip. Now divorced as well...and has never been happier.
 
weyuo said:
Missouri home and home...not bad

The other non conference games, not counting the Villanova, Maine and Holy Cross ones, aren't all that bad either. Good to see UMass on the schedule as it's the closest D-1 rival and a natural rival for the Huskies. B1G games are gonna always gonna attract a crowd.
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Someone else posted this elsewhere but this game ought to be called the battle for New England.
 
http://www.stltoday.com/sports/coll...cle_f1234000-9300-5e75-a075-00224fe0fb56.html

>>“We’re really pleased to be able to reach an agreement to schedule UConn,” said Bryan Maggard, Missouri's executive associate athletic director, who oversees football scheduling. “It’s fun to bring new opponents into Columbia for our fans, and this is a program that’s had a high level of success in the past decade. One of the most challenging aspects of conference realignment has involved football scheduling, and reconstructing things after we moved to the SEC. We’re getting really close to having 2015 taken care of and being able to move on to future schedules, so that’s very exciting." <<
 
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Can't wait to see Jeff Jacobs take on this, he being a Mizzo alum. Of course he would prefer we were playing them in hockey...:)
But....they don't have a team...
 
Congrats to Warde. That's a nice get.

Odd too because wasn't Missouri just publicly talking about not going on the road to G5 schools like two weeks ago?
 
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