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

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7774 said:
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.
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Saying it's an imbalance is understating things - we have zero good home OOC games.
 
Auburn @ XL on 12/23. All the yawns.
 
Jesus some of you people are insufferable.

Theyre playing:

Cuse @MSG

@ Ohio State

@ Georgetown

In the Maui invitational with Georgetown, North Carolina, Ok St, Oregon, Tennesee, and Wisconsin.

You have to have a winnable game at home to balance it out. Auburn should be a top 70ish RPI team, and a winnable game at home. Who else did you want them to schedule?
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
Jesus some of you people are insufferable.

Theyre playing:

Cuse @MSG

@ Ohio State

@ Georgetown

In the Maui invitational with Georgetown, North Carolina, Ok St, Oregon, Tennesee, and Wisconsin.

You have to have a winnable game at home to balance it out. Auburn should be a top 70ish RPI team, and a winnable game at home. Who else did you want them to schedule?
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Duke UK KU UCLA and Indiana. Obvi bro.
 
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DaveHuskiesFan said:
Jesus some of you people are insufferable.

Theyre playing:

Cuse @MSG

@ Ohio State

@ Georgetown

In the Maui invitational with Georgetown, North Carolina, Ok St, Oregon, Tennesee, and Wisconsin.

You have to have a winnable game at home to balance it out. Auburn should be a top 70ish RPI team, and a winnable game at home. Who else did you want them to schedule?
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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.
 
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.
 
Overall the schedule is great, but I can understand season ticket holder's frustration with the home schedule.
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
You have to have a winnable game at home to balance it out. Auburn should be a top 70ish RPI team, and a winnable game at home. Who else did you want them to schedule?
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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.
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
Jesus some of you people are insufferable.

Theyre playing:

Cuse @MSG

@ Ohio State

@ Georgetown

In the Maui invitational with Georgetown, North Carolina, Ok St, Oregon, Tennesee, and Wisconsin.

You have to have a winnable game at home to balance it out. Auburn should be a top 70ish RPI team, and a winnable game at home. Who else did you want them to schedule?
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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.
 
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.
 
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tcf15 said:
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.
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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?
 
Tenspro2002 said:
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?
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Auburn loss is probably easier to absorb RPI-wise than most AAC teams.
 
Ticket sales are already down, and with zero marquee OOC games, I expect it to fall even lower.
 
Our "marquee" home games vs OSU and GTown were really super marquee last year.
 
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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.
 
DiacosArmy said:
Mighty PC play us Plebs? Won't be too busy counting Fox dollars?
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It's all about a home and home and for the time being UConn simply wont agree to that.. This means nothing and some are RPI killers but PC plays UMass, URI, BC, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine this year. Only one is missing. With both schools looking to enhance the season ticket holder experience, it's just silly they can't get this done.
 
FriarJ said:
It's all about a home and home and for the time being UConn simply wont agree to that.. This means nothing and some are RPI killers but PC plays UMass, URI, BC, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine this year. Only one is missing. With both schools looking to enhance the season ticket holder experience, it's just silly they can't get this done.
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I agree.
 
Mind over matter.

I don't mind not playing Providence, because they don't matter.
 
Honestly I'm more concerned that we bolster the cupcake games from perennial RPI 300+ teams to 150-200 teams. Those games absolutely destroy our RPI/SOS and kill our seeding. Bigger home games would be great of course, but a solid pack of early season games against some A10 schools, and higher-level low conference teams would really help us out. Not to mention them being much better team-building games.
 
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Chief00 said:
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.
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Hate to say it, but I agree with Chief. A lot of people in the athletic department dropped the ball. And as a result ticket sales are going to suffer quite a bit. Is Cincy the best home game next year...? Yikes.
 
DiacosArmy said:
Our "marquee" home games vs OSU and GTown were really super marquee last year.
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Despite the fact that both of those teams struggled, both games were still sold out with a lively atmosphere. Even though both teams had a down year, UConn fully intended to schedule a top 25 opponent. This Auburn game will not sell out and UConn surely did not try to schedule a top 25 opponent. It can be debated whether they wanted a top team or not for this game, but to state interest in scheduling a "high-major" as they had, ending up with Auburn is nothing but a disappointment.
 
Quite frankly I also agree with Chief. Honestly it seems like Benedict did his old school a favor because this does nothing for UConn.
 
Who said this is going to be it for UConn? How do we know they don't have another team lined up?
 
Robertelamin said:
Quite frankly I also agree with Chief. Honestly it seems like Benedict did his old school a favor because this does nothing for UConn.
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I am fine with Auburn - just also need an elite team or two.
 
Brochacho said:
UConn surely did not try to schedule a top 25 opponent.
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