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The reason there is no B1G games scheduled...we will be in B1G by 2016.
 
I like the idea of getting Rutgers on the schedule for an annual game. BC will never schedule us. Their cowardice of anything UCONN is well documented. Penn State is an interesting idea. I think we'd run into the same problems getting them to the Rent as we did with Michigan though. But I'm not opposed to playing a big program on a 1 and 1 and our home game being relocated to MetLife or Gillette or Yankee or Citi.
 
Dooley said:
I like the idea of getting Rutgers on the schedule for an annual game. BC will never schedule us. Their cowardice of anything UCONN is well documented. Penn State is an interesting idea. I think we'd run into the same problems getting them to the Rent as we did with Michigan though. But I'm not opposed to playing a big program on a 1 and 1 and our home game being relocated to MetLife or Gillette or Yankee or Citi.
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We and BC need and should have The New England Cup played the Saturday of Thanksgiving home and home every year. The hatred is there and the distance would allow both teams to travel well. This is a Geno type of game, don't worry about who or where you are playing but promote the sport.

Rutgers again so obvious with hatred added....

The question, as Warde got The M to come in, can our our newly exalted Energy Vampire Stake we stole from ND get his former boss and team to visit our humble little Dog House? That would be a ground gainer in the big picture. Pun intended.........
 
My alma mater will officially be playing Connecticut on September 6th. I know Connecticut fans don't get too happy playing FCS teams. But me and my girlfriend which graduates from Connecticut on May 2014 will be returning to the Rent to see Stony Brook play Connecticut for the firs time ever. I'm excited. Should be fun to watch. I'll refuse to predict any scores
 
I'm for one neutral site game at either Giants Stadium or the Gillette per yer. Split gate. We'd make as much as we make during a home game per year anyway... but not against Rutgers or BC or somebody like that. People want to play in the northeast. Try for Texas or a PAC-12 team, a real marquee team. Sort of like a pre-season basketball match up... for all the talk about us being in a dead recruiting area... people do seem to want to play in the area.
 
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I think we should have long term series with BC and Rutgers. Play one at home, one away each year.

I also think we should approach schools with a bundle offer. I think a school such as Wisconsin would be open to a home a home spanning MBB/WBB//FB. Logistically you can't do this a whole lot but this may be beneficial across the board. I could see schools such as MSU, Kentucky, Baylor, etc going for this.

We need to do our best to maintain a 3 home 1 away split OOC. Will be hard, but I think Warde can do it.
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No to playing BC. Not until they realize that having a close by "conference rival" would be a good thing, do I want to have anything to do with them. Leave them isolated - nearest conference rival is 5 hours away in Syracuse.
 
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Jimdish255 said:
Would pefer 3 for 2's to two for one's with exceptions for teams that are perceived as ftball powers, or garner tremendous eposure be but are generally overrated or within reach of us on the field. Last thing we need is a blowout against.
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Brochacho said:
I think we should have long term series with BC and Rutgers. Play one at home, one away each year.

I also think we should approach schools with a bundle offer. I think a school such as Wisconsin would be open to a home a home spanning MBB/WBB//FB. Logistically you can't do this a whole lot but this may be beneficial across the board. I could see schools such as MSU, Kentucky, Baylor, etc going for this.

We need to do our best to maintain a 3 home 1 away split OOC. Will be hard, but I think Warde can do it.
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Would like to encompass both of the above ideas if possible. Like maintaining a regional rivalry with Rutgers and developing a Northeast "Lobstah" Cup with BC on Rivalry Weekend. There is enough hate between the schools and Alumni to make it great day for everybody.

Agree with Jimdish, several games with "perceived" p5 schools that are overrated but no blowouts.
Warde seems to be moving that way in the next several years (and Susan and Warde achieved a thaw with BC in all other sports...including Hockey East...anything is possible)..
 
UConnJim said:
I don't mind one Thursday or Friday night home game per year, but the Louisville game was at 8:30 and it should have been at 7:30 and it shouldn't have been on the same night as the Maryland game. If I was in charge, I would have as many games as possible on Saturdays anytime between noon and 6 to help build the fan base.
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I agree, I've written about this at length before. College football is meant to be played on Saturday afternoons. That is college football primetime, for TV, for game day experience, for weather, for everything about college football - Saturday afternoons. My point, was that television, and really, it's just a handful of people at ESPN, wield a TON Of power in when games scheduled, and when they're scheduling, they don't seem to have built a track record for caring too much about the game day experience for UCONN - and the Big East over the years.

My hope is that Aresco, and his years of television and sports experience, somehow managed to play NBC's disaster of a money offer to the AAC, and take Tranghese's built in prima nocta rights for ESPN in the old Big East contract, and as a tradeoff for accepting such a bend over and take it hard lowball amount of money for the TV contract, squeezed ESPN into having to put the AAC conference games on TV Saturday afternoons - it all depends on what actually was in the NBC original offer for the AAC. If that NBC offer stipulated conference games on Saturday afternoons, then my understanding of the whole process, would mean that ESPN would have to match that, as the terms that Tranghese had put into the contract that just ended, were such that ESPN had the right to match any offer made for Big East rights, but if they did so - they had to match ALL terms of the offer.

It's something I hold out hope for, and will find out if it actually happened when the actual schedules come out for the fall.
 
BTW: The alterantive to what I just wrote, is a little more disheartening. If during the negotiation process, the old Big East contract basically became void, and the whole situation of ESPN having the rights to match any first offer and close the deal was not part of the process, and an open market determined the AAC contract?

I simply can't believe that to be the case, UCONN women's basketball, by itself, is worth more than what we're getting from the entire conference in this next 6 year contract for all sports. Something else had to be in play in the works, and that contract statement that Tranghese had allowed into the Big East contract for ESPN had to be it.

But we'll all find out what the new contract is really about, when the schedules come out for fall 2014.
 
What I'm not sure about, is the scheduling now is the front loading of the home games. We open the next two seasons, with three consecutive weeks of home games.

If we have a strong team, that can go 3-0 at home to start seasons (2014 BYU, Stony Brook, Boise) - (2015 Villanova, Army, Tennessee), then that is a very good thing to schedule that way. If we have a team that craps the bed in those first three weeks, then it's a strong possibility that we have a repeat of 2013 and have very low numbers of people going to the stadium for those late November cold games for a struggling team.

This is not an indictment of the fan base, it's the culture we live in, UCONN fans come out for a winner, they have and always will. I would bet my house that we had more people at the Fiesta Bowl in 2010 in Arizona, than those that came to the Memphis game. But the diehard base of the fans for the football program has only had 10 years to grow, and it is what it is.
 
ruskin said:
Going to the OP's point, very simple. No FCS games and SELECTED one-off 1-aways and 2-for-1s with P5s until CR gets resolved.
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IT's a good idea to have at least one FCS game, but you got to win the damn game.
 
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FDNY99 said:
Tell that to the B1G...they passed a league rule...no more FCS games.
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RIght - step back for a second though. THe big 10 is playing football at a different level of post season goals than we are though (for now). They have to seriously consider things like "strength of schedule" when it comes to the future post season bowl system, and they are competing with the likes of the SEC for access to that championship bowl system.

We - on the other hand, in the next few years, need to compile as many winning records as we can, so that we can even be in consideration for that kind of level of post season success.

For UCONN, in the forseeable future, scheduling the one FCS game a year, is a good idea, and it's a good idea to make it a game that should be a mismatch in our favor.

When we are in the Big 10, we can stop scheduling FCS games.
 
I've commented on the Louisville game before. What that did was spread the word to the sports world that Basketball matters but football doesn't. In a world driven by football that is not the message I would want to send.
 
Was just browsing FBSchedules, and I looked at Missouri's. Looks like they have H/H with Arkansas State, Indiana, Toledo, and Memphis. 2 for 1s with Purdue and Wyoming. They also have 3 OOC road games in 2018. Where you at Warde, and who the hell put that schedule together? Get us Missouri at home in 2016 or 17, go there in 2018.
 
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MattMang23 said:
Looks like a lot of you guys want to play a lot of road games then.
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Not sure if u were responding to my comment but Iowa Indiana or Illinois should have no problem getting home n hone
 
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Jack Swarbrick on playing Nevada (Polian) and UMass (Molnar) “We like to play our family.” Hunch is you’ll see Miami of Ohio and UConn later


From the transcript of today's Jack Swarbrick ND schedule Presser:

>>We like to play our family. Coach Molnar at UMass, Coach Polian at Nevada. As our coaches move around, you can anticipate future games that might be down the line here. We want to use that not just to fill a slot but to fill one of the others criteria we have in what we're trying to achieve here.<<

>>Q. You mentioned the opportunity for Miami or Connecticut to be on the future schedule.

JACK SWARBRICK: Everybody, frankly. We have somebody go be an AD somewhere, coaching, it will continue to be a factor. Sometimes the balance will shift. We can pick up a Rice and play peer institutions, sometimes we have a friend in a position with an open schedule.
I always want to have some basis for articulating why that decision was made. I don't want to get it because the cost of buying game A was cheaper than the cost of buying game B. I want to have a reason for playing that opponent. <<
 
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Talking about one offs it seems. If we were to do that I'd rather do it with another team.
 
Brochacho said:
Talking about one offs it seems. If we were to do that I'd rather do it with another team.
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Not specifically directing this specifically at you Broch, but, simply, beggars -- and as much as everyonel hates it, that's what UConn is for the time being in football scheduling -- can't be choosers. Can't turn down an opportunity hoping something "better" might come along.
 
Brochacho said:
Talking about one offs it seems. If we were to do that I'd rather do it with another team.
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Kick their a$$es again, and they'll come to their senses. Say what you will, playing Notre Dame was a huge deal for us in terms of perception. Bigger than Michigan,bigger than South Carolina. Bigger than Oklahoma. More casual fans/non-fans paid attention to that game than any other one we've played. Just in case you've forgotten

 
ecasadoSBU said:
My alma mater will officially be playing Connecticut on September 6th. I know Connecticut fans don't get too happy playing FCS teams. But me and my girlfriend which graduates from Connecticut on May 2014 will be returning to the Rent to see Stony Brook play Connecticut for the firs time ever. I'm excited. Should be fun to watch. I'll refuse to predict any scores
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I believe Cal Daniels headed to Stony Brook - one of the CT HS players speculated on some months ago.
 
"Say what you will, playing Notre Dame was a huge deal for us in terms of perception. Bigger than Michigan,bigger than South Carolina. Bigger than Oklahoma. More casual fans/non-fans paid attention to that game than any other one we've played. Just in case you've forgotten.
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True. Also true, it had no impact on anything.
 
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Jerry27 said:
Agree on the schedule to a point, I think the schedule is better than it has been for sure but can continue to ramp up if nothing else for the exposure but mainly for me to tell the potential recruits we will be playing the big boys too. (and hopefully knocking a few off)
Why the hatred for WV? What did they do that we wouldn't have if we were offered? I for one would gladly accept a series with them. The outpouring they showed our fans and team still holds weight with me, and will for a very long time.
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For sure. WVU games were always fun even when we weren't competitive. I would be fully on board with a series with them.
 
If ND is willing to consider us due to Diaco my preference would be two neutral site games (they can have control of 2/3 of the tickets and call it a home game for NBC), one in Foxboro and one in the Meadowlands.
 
A suggestion: In regard to football scheduling the AAC is considered weak conference. With that perception I believe it would be in our best interest to STOP scheduling 1AA teams. It will hurt our body of work if/when we win the AAC. I personally would like to open the season with ARMY. A game that you can travel too, A game we can win, and West point is beautiful. Army would be an upgrade from a 1AA team.

I also agree with the comments of playing BC (the new England Trophy)and Rutgers annually (tri-state Trophy)
 
Get Navy.

Also, can someone post the committed scheduled opponents and the season which they are booked?
 
Dove said:
Get Navy.

Also, can someone post the committed scheduled opponents and the season which they are booked?
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Navy will be a conference opponent in a couple of years.

I believe that Stony Brook (2014) and Villanova (2015) are the only future FCS (1-AA) opponents we have scheduled. Hopefully that will be the end of it.

Next season BYU & Boise St home Army away (Yankee Stadium).
2015 Tennessee & Army home, BYU away.
2016 Virginia home, Tennessee away
2017 Virginia away
2018 Boise St away
 
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