Providence offer

[peeps]

yet kentucky has no problem with a neutral court and home. but for you... the finance doesn't work out. right.

 

[UCDaveD]

570 teams have been picked to participate in the NCAA tournament since PC's last appearance. They do what for us exactly?

 

[uconnbill]

yet kentucky has no problem with a neutral court and home. but for you... the finance doesn't work out. right.

Shouldn't you be looking for PC baseball season "oh that's right" there is no PC baseball just basketball which is over.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

this is exactly true for pc vs. uri and they still play every year home and home.

with this sort of thinking... uconn may not be getting the games you all expect in a home and home with the crap conference situation.

You are equating PC v URI with UConn v PC?


Over the past ten years (2003-2004 to 2012-2013) how much has PC accomplished than URI? Over that same time span how much more has UConn accomplished than PC?

We've played for (and won) BE regular season titles, BE tournament titles and NCAA tournament titles. Over the same span PC hangs their hat on winning a few stray games against a school that plays for BE regular season titles, BE tournament titles and NCAA tournament titles.

Additionally (and please be honest if you have the guts to answer), how has the PC faithful felt about URI getting even home and home games with PC?

 

[FfldCntyFan]

many of your new conference games will now be cupcakes. this whole thread is about how providence is an irrelevant cupcake. very few people even hint interest at neutral court games vs. providence. and we are contradictory?

Unfortunately there are cupcakes in every conference and home and homes are pat of normal conference play. So instead of Seton Hall, DePaul and PC we will have Tulane, SMU and ECU. Not much difference in my eyes.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

PC is the closest D1 team that is consistently in the RPI top 100. Comparing them to Hartford, CCSU or Fairfield is not remotely accurate or fair. They are solidly the second best program in New England, with UMass perhaps not too far behind.

This isn't far from saying (in terms of accomplishment gap) that the Whale is the second best professional hockey team in New England.

 

[seanmc94]

Unfortunately there are cupcakes in every conference and home and homes are pat of normal conference play. So instead of Seton Hall, DePaul and PC we will have Tulane, SMU and ECU. Not much difference in my eyes.

Which one of those teams do you expect to beat you half the time?
Which one of those teams do you think will occupy multiple Boneyard threads(started by your fans) during the freaking off season?
You guys are designing a new Husky, right?
May I suggest a uniform change as well.
Put a big fat yellow streak right down the back of the jersey.
Fitting.

 

[tzznandrew]

If we were in the ACC, this isn't a problem. But, as upstater noted, we're likely going to have two non-conference games on CBS. Since CBS only owns the rights to UConn home games, and is going to want to have us play games of national interest, that means we're likely going to need 4 home-and-homes (2 home one year for CBS, the other 2 home the next). While I would like to watch UConn-PC, I don't think that's big enough for one of those 4 home-and-homes (not a national game).

You get 27 games (?), tournaments counting as 1. We have 18 league games (stupid). We play a tournament, 4 home and homes, and a one-off game against a team like Maryland (or MSU, or Gonzaga, etc.). That's 24 games. You do need money from the gates. Everyone does.

So that's 3-6 games (depending on whether I was wrong and it was 29/30 games) for teams like Stony Brook. You need to fill a full slate to sell season tickets, and 9 league games, 2 hopefully very good OOC, is not enough.

It's math, not cowardice. And this is coming from someone who really wants to find a way to schedule PC.

 

[Huskybass]

Which team hasn't made the NCAA tournament since 2004?
Which team got beat by UConn twice this season?
Which team has a 13-23 conference record under its present head coach?
Which team is so pathetic that its fans post on the real teams message board on a daily basis?
May I suggest a nice rainbow sticker for the back of your car?

 

[Huskybass]

twice in overtime to a team that was picked last in the league that many of you claim to forget is in the league.

Moral victory U? A loss is still a loss.

You don't hear UConn fans saying "but we took Georgetown and Marquette to overtime". I guess when you haven't been to the NCAA tourney in a decade, moral victories count.

 

[upstater]

yet kentucky has no problem with a neutral court and home. but for you... the finance doesn't work out. right.

You don't have a home and home against Kentucky. That's a one off for ESPN! Just like UConn has with Maryland. Do you really not understand the difference here? Are you being dense on purpose?

 

[peeps]

You don't have a home and home against Kentucky. That's a one off for ESPN! Just like UConn has with Maryland. Do you really not understand the difference here? Are you being dense on purpose?

sherlock... i said in the post it is a neutral and home for kentucky. you said even that is beneath you based on all the money quinnipiac brings in every year.

 

[HuskyHawk]

If we were in the ACC, this isn't a problem. But, as upstater noted, we're likely going to have two non-conference games on CBS. Since CBS only owns the rights to UConn home games, and is going to want to have us play games of national interest, that means we're likely going to need 4 home-and-homes (2 home one year for CBS, the other 2 home the next). While I would like to watch UConn-PC, I don't think that's big enough for one of those 4 home-and-homes (not a national game).

You get 27 games (?), tournaments counting as 1. We have 18 league games (stupid). We play a tournament, 4 home and homes, and a one-off game against a team like Maryland (or MSU, or Gonzaga, etc.). That's 24 games. You do need money from the gates. Everyone does.

So that's 3-6 games (depending on whether I was wrong and it was 29/30 games) for teams like Stony Brook. You need to fill a full slate to sell season tickets, and 9 league games, 2 hopefully very good OOC, is not enough.

It's math, not cowardice. And this is coming from someone who really wants to find a way to schedule PC.

Think the math would work if it was Gampel, Dunk, Boston Garden? I'd like to find a way to keep it as an annual game. Aside from the fact that the Dunk is by far the closest arena to my house, I think we need to preserve as many local, traditional rivalries as possible. By rival, I am meaning a team you have played every year for a long period. By the way, I do think Villanova or Georgetown would easily qualify as a national game for CBS. PC could if they were having a good season, same with St. Johns, but you won't know ahead of time.

 

[Waquoit]

Now that is high comedy. PC fans have the massive chip, even after 20 years of basketball. I don't know how you do it. Probably comes from low expectations. PC's goal is to hold their own, and some years they actually do it.

 

[HuskyHawk]

sherlock... i said in the post it is a neutral and home for kentucky. you said even that is beneath you based on all the money quinnipiac brings in every year.

Quninnipiac brings in essentially the same money as PC would. The tickets are mostly sold as season tickets. Only a few are left for single game. So are you saying that PC would accept Gampel and then a split gate at the Boston Garden?

 

[uconnfan68]

If you argue against with crazy person (or one who speaks crazy) what does that make you? The guy is fishing with no bait, I'm sure you know when not to get hooked. Try and look, laugh and not bite. Hopefully he will go cast in another lake when the fish are not biting.

Spoilsport. Sometimes the cesspool just isn't enough.

 

[upstater]

sherlock... i said in the post it is a neutral and home for kentucky. you said even that is beneath you based on all the money quinnipiac brings in every year.

Really, you are playing Kentucky and not getting a home game? Shame on you! That's positively low-major-ish. Yea, Id be all for that. I doubt your guys are offering that. UConn would definitely play a home game and split the gate in Boston. PC would NEVER go for that. If they did, well... then yes.

 

[upstater]

Quninnipiac brings in essentially the same money as PC would. The tickets are mostly sold as season tickets. Only a few are left for single game. So are you saying that PC would accept Gampel and then a split gate at the Boston Garden?

That's exactly what I'm wondering. That would be a good deal for UConn. I never even imagined that's what he was referring to. I esteem PC much more highly than that. It didn't even enter into my mind.

 

[TRest]

UMass agreed to a 2 for 1 for ten years after all that begging, and then lost 9 of them. It demanded home and homes after that and we said goodbye. PC wants home and homes because we used to be in the same conference, so somehow we are equals.

 

[tzznandrew]

Think the math would work if it was Gampel, Dunk, Boston Garden? I'd like to find a way to keep it as an annual game. Aside from the fact that the Dunk is by far the closest arena to my house, I think we need to preserve as many local, traditional rivalries as possible. By rival, I am meaning a team you have played every year for a long period. By the way, I do think Villanova or Georgetown would easily qualify as a national game for CBS. PC could if they were having a good season, same with St. Johns, but you won't know ahead of time.

I think Georgetown or Villanova would be national games as well.

If PC starts having consistent success, it may also qualify for this. Hell, Memphis-Tennessee is on CBS, so there is some interest in regional games. PC just needs some sustained success.

 

[upstater]

Can you admit you're just a troll? Did you not write earlier, "I fully understand the dilemma now." Of course UConn doesn't want to lose revenue by playing at the Dunk! That's the whole point. Which you professed to understand. But in the interests of troll-dom, you must continue now to be yourself--you simply can't help it!!!!

 

[tzznandrew]

If he didn't, a number of others did. That's what gate means, and that's why everyone needs a certain number of home games. Unfortunately, home and homes necessarily shrink the number of home games, and so you have to play mid-to-low majors and hope they don't torpedo your RPI.

 

[upstater]

That's the whole point!!! How can you miss that? Go back to those posts where I write UConn needs to keep scheduling 3 or 4 cupcakes. Why in the world do you think UConn needs to keep scheduling cupcakes? It's implied!!! So they can get home games without giving them! My lord.