Next year's marquee OOC home game(s)?

[Drew]

Such as ...Auburn?

I would play @ Auburn 4 times in a row in basketball if we could get a H/H with them in football

 

[Robertelamin]

College basketball needs more out of conference home and home series in general. There are just so many tournaments and made for TV neutral court games now. Some of UConn's most exciting games were the marquee home and homes.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

College basketball needs more out of conference home and home series in general. There are just so many tournaments and made for TV neutral court games now. Some of UConn's most exciting games were the marquee home and homes.

Yep the Zona, Indiana and UNC series of the early-mid 2000s were incredible. You're spot on about the tournaments taking away from home and homes.

 

[Waquoit]

Never got tired of kicking Zona ass.

 

[7774]

Look at it from the vantage point of a top p5 team. With a schedule that is already challenging plus high profile neutral tournaments why would they want to add us? Maybe a lower or mid level P5 but they would want a home and home too. What about an SEC team?

You're acting like we don't have home and homes scheduled with multiple top P5 teams every year, including this year, and years out into the future. There's just an imbalance with home vs. road right now.

 

[Chief00]

You're acting like we don't have home and homes scheduled with multiple top P5 teams every year, including this year, and years out into the future. There's just an imbalance with home vs. road right now.

Saying it's an imbalance is understating things - we have zero good home OOC games.

 

[BUHusky]

Auburn @ XL on 12/23. All the yawns.

 

[Brochacho]

That stinks.

 

[gwhuskyfan]

Not the most exciting game, but they did beat Kentucky last year.

 

[KemBuckets21]

Duke UK KU UCLA and Indiana. Obvi bro.

 

[BUHusky]

The RPI isn't the issue here because of the great neutral and road schedule.

The issue is ticket sales. In past years they have tied the big home game(s) to ticket packages. Unfortunately this game doesn't move the needle at all.

 

[jibsey]

Haven't seen when these quality opponents are on the schedule date wise but we are usually front loaded which has been a major problem for us. I know there is no solution to it because the P5 teams have their own loaded conference schedules. If we come out of the gate smokin' all is well.

 

[tcf15]

Overall the schedule is great, but I can understand season ticket holder's frustration with the home schedule.

 

[tcf15]

Tough to say that Auburn will be a top 70 RPI team. They were 175 at the end of last year and will need to replace 3 of their top 4 scorers. I'm not as upset with this game as others seem to be, but if we were to win this game, we'd be very fortunate if it Auburn ended up as a top 100 RPI opponent.

 

[Brochacho]

There are some good teams in Maui, but we could end up with Chaminade, Tennessee, and Oklahoma State just as easily as Oregon, UNC, Wisconsin. But back to Auburn. Auburn hasn't been top 125 in RPI for 6+ years (not sure how far back, only looked at the ESPN rankings quickly). They've gone 26-40 under Pearl. They should be significantly better next year, but yet a bubble team at best. This addition wasn't the result of seeking an easy team to balance out the schedule, it was a result of waiting until mid-June to sign a P5 team to a H/H contract. In a time with an unsure financial future for the athletic department, having a mediocre or average SEC team as your marquee home game is a bad look, in my opinion.

 

[champs99and04]

I would rather another buy game against a tournament-caliber low-major than one of these SEC schmucks that we're going to have to visit down the line.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Tough to say that Auburn will be a top 70 RPI team. They were 175 at the end of last year and will need to replace 3 of their top 4 scorers. I'm not as upset with this game as others seem to be, but if we were to win this game, we'd be very fortunate if it Auburn ended up as a top 100 RPI opponent.

And if we lose this game it's an RPI disaster, just like most of our conference slate.

Is this really much different than another game with Tulsa or Memphis?

 

[zls44]

And if we lose this game it's an RPI disaster, just like most of our conference slate.

Is this really much different than another game with Tulsa or Memphis?

Auburn loss is probably easier to absorb RPI-wise than most AAC teams.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Do they still have Charles Barkley?

 

[Yankees32123]

Ticket sales are already down, and with zero marquee OOC games, I expect it to fall even lower.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Our "marquee" home games vs OSU and GTown were really super marquee last year.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Mighty PC play us Plebs? Won't be too busy counting Fox dollars?

 

[Chief00]

There is no other way to say it - UConn dropped the ball - Benedict, KO and the guy who does the schedule need to take responsibility. These guys make a lot of money and they need to be on the ball. This isn't rocket science - perhaps Warde left us in a bad place on the schedule but really - this is the best home schedule they can come up with? - very disappointing.