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SB Nation: How the Game Can Be Rescheduled

Waquoit said:
Cancelling the game would be the small time move.
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It's a national soccer league where they pay the players $$millions and have huge TV contracts as compared to AACfootball. Guess what's more important??
 
WingU-Conn said:
Who's gonna pay for their buyout? It's September and we still don't have a state budget.
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Offset it with the money the USF game would bring in. Even if the state takes a minor hit in the deal, they should put UConn football over some dopey team from NY from a dopey league playing a dopey sport. Nothing is big time about soccer in the US. Especially the MLS.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
Offset it with the money the USF game would bring in. Even if the state takes a minor hit in the deal, they should put UConn football over some dopey team from NY from a dopey league playing a dopey sport. Nothing is big time about soccer in the US. Especially the MLS.
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How do you offset the fact that The Rent would be blackballed from ever getting another decent event in there?
 
Waquoit said:
How do you offset the fact that The Rent would be blackballed from ever getting another decent event in there?
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LOL please. If the soccer community blackballed the Rent over this I'd support the move even more. But I think this is a tad overdramatic. You want your soccer more than UConn football. We get it.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
LOL please. If the soccer community blackballed the Rent over this I'd support the move even more. But I think this is a tad overdramatic. You want your soccer more than UConn football. We get it.
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AAC no clout compared to MLS. If it was Alabama or Ohio State maybe.
 
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For the record, I've been to every UConn FB game in The Rent. As far as I can tell, no one else on the Boneyard can say that. And I've stayed to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game). I know nobody else can claim that. I walk the walk others only talk.
 
Waquoit said:
For the record, I've been to every UConn FB game in The Rent. As far as I can tell, no one else on the Boneyard can say that. And I've stayed to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game). I know nobody else can claim that. I walk the walk others only talk.
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If true, does this mean your opinion matters more or something?
 
Waquoit said:
For the record, I've been to every UConn FB game in The Rent. As far as I can tell, no one else on the Boneyard can say that. And I've stayed to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game). I know nobody else can claim that. I walk the walk others only talk.
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I did until I moved last year. I remember the Memphis game in December when Weist coached. you and I were probably the only one's left.
 
You'd think you could move the game to a Friday night and retain the MLS game the next day. I wouldn't necessarily want to burn the MLS bridge at this point. CT actually has great TV ratings for soccer viewing and I know there is some potential long-term interest to bring a soccer team here.

I still don't know why Jimmy thinks anyone cares about his opinion on soccer.
 
Waquoit said:
What do you mean "if true"?
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That you are in the genius book of world records as the only member of the Boneyard to attend every UConn FB game at the Rent.

That you are in the genius book of world records as the only person to stay to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game) - as you state no one else can claim that.

Back to my question, which I asked first, does your opinion matter more than others because of your fandom, that no one esle can come close to?
 
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Jimmy Serrano said:
Offset it with the money the USF game would bring in. Even if the state takes a minor hit in the deal, they should put UConn football over some dopey team from NY from a dopey league playing a dopey sport. Nothing is big time about soccer in the US. Especially the MLS.
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You might not like soccer (I'm not sure if I do even though my kids play it), however this one MLS game could be a toe in the door for future professional sports in CT. If people represent for this MLS game (and I'm pretty sure they will) then MLS can't help but notice. Get a future MLS team in here, then we can start honestly talking about NHL, etc, etc, etc.

edit: not to mention that The Rent is being leveraged beyond just UConn Football. A second tenant, or regular alternative events, is a good thing.
 
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You have to love this level of anger over -- nothing more than bad luck.

Yes, someone in the state should have turned down money for the state because a hurricane in Florida might force the cancellation of the game in Connecticut and 4 teams may shift their schedule to allow the game to be rescheduled. Whoever turned down that money under those circumstances should have been fired. And none of us have a clue what the contract says about the state's right and ability to breach. For all you know the contract may be specifically enforceable, or there may be a monetary penalty for the state breaching it.

Crap happens. The inability of some of you to live with it without needing to find someone to blame is astounding.

If everyone can make it work, we play the game Friday night or Sunday at noon. If no one comes, no one comes. But the players get their 12th game and the conference doesn't have a less than legitimate champion who played a different number of games.
 
Bonehead said:
That you are in the genius book of world records as the only member of the Boneyard to attend every UConn FB game at the Rent.

That you are in the genius book of world records as the only person to stay to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game) - as you state no one else can claim that.

Back to my question, which I asked first, does your opinion matter more than others because of your fandom, that no one esle can come close to?
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Of course my fandom in and of itself does not make my opinion matter more than others.

You ducked my question. Words matter. What did you mean by "if true"?
 
Does anyone have a better rescheduling idea than this?:

UConn v ECU -> Week 4
USF v Houston -> Week 11
ECU v Houston -> Week 10
UCF v ECU -> Week 9
UCF v SMU -> Week 7
Memphis v Tulsa -> Week 11

It's sort of a lot of moves but if they want to get the game in I couldn't think of a better way. Sets up UConn v USF and Memphis v UCF on Week 10
 
Waquoit said:
Of course my fandom in and of itself does not make my opinion matter more than others.

You ducked my question. Words matter. What did you mean by "if true"?
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I just explained it. Wow!

I'll take baby steps with you - you made a claim that can't be proved.
 
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businesslawyer said:
If you want to tell him "You can't prove you are not lying so I am going to hold open the possibility that you are a liar", at least have the guts to say it to him instead of this pussyfooting around.
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Waquoit said:
Of course my fandom in and of itself does not make my opinion matter more than others.

You ducked my question. Words matter. What did you mean by "if true"?
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You can't prove you are not lying so I am going to hold open the possibility that you are a liar.
 
KSC94 said:
Does anyone have a better rescheduling idea than this?:

UConn v ECU -> Week 4
USF v Houston -> Week 11
ECU v Houston -> Week 10
UCF v ECU -> Week 9
UCF v SMU -> Week 7
Memphis v Tulsa -> Week 11

It's sort of a lot of moves but if they want to get the game in I couldn't think of a better way. Sets up UConn v USF and Memphis v UCF on Week 10
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UCF and Memphis could ditch their FBS OOC games with Maine and Georgia St. and play their game on 9/30. I am sure they could come to some scheduling/financial agreement with Maine and Ga. St. It is better than losing a conference game. Then you would be back to the UConn/USF/ECU/Houston swap to make up the UConn/USF game. The soccer game is irrelevant as you can play the football game on Friday night.
 
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businesslawyer said:
If you want to tell him "You can't prove you are not lying so I am going to hold open the possibility that you are a liar", at least have the guts to say it to him instead of this pussyfooting around.
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Thank you, I was in the middle of trying to make the same point and I found myself going into the weeds. His adding the "if true" didn't add to the point he was making, it was a personal shot he didn't have the balls to admit until he was called on it thrice.

My way of trying to handle the way this board is going is by efforting to make every serious post in good faith. For example, it would have been so easy to just say I was at every minute of every game even though I know I left early once. Posting in good faith isn't easy, it's almost like unilateral disarmament especially when dealing with the Boneheads and Serranos et al.
 
Can't believe the endless pissing contests some of you people get into on these boards - you can turn anything into an argument. Like your need to be right on just about everything is more important than the topic itself. Are you like this in real life too? Good lord.
 
Waquoit said:
For the record, I've been to every UConn FB game in The Rent. As far as I can tell, no one else on the Boneyard can say that. And I've stayed to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game). I know nobody else can claim that. I walk the walk others only talk.
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You want a cookie?
 
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Waquoit said:
Thank you, I was in the middle of trying to make the same point and I found myself going into the weeds. His adding the "if true" didn't add to the point he was making, it was a personal shot he didn't have the balls to admit until he was called on it thrice.

My way of trying to handle the way this board is going is by efforting to make every serious post in good faith. For example, it would have been so easy to just say I was at every minute of every game even though I know I left early once. Posting in good faith isn't easy, it's almost like unilateral disarmament especially when dealing with the Boneheads and Serranos et al.
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I was trying to be nice.

You want a balls competition I am up for it -

What exactly was the purpose of your post not responding to anyones direct post:

For the record, I've been to every UConn FB game in The Rent. As far as I can tell, no one else on the Boneyard can say that. And I've stayed to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game). I know nobody else can claim that. I walk the walk others only talk.

Look at me?
 
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Bonehead said:
I was trying to be nice.

You want a balls competition I am up for it -

What exactly was the purpose of your post not responding to anyones direct post:

For the record, I've been to every UConn FB game in The Rent. As far as I can tell, no one else on the Boneyard can say that. And I've stayed to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game). I know nobody else can claim that. I walk the walk others only talk.

Look at me?
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See what I mean about good faith?
I was trying to be nice? Right.
A balls competition? You just lost one.
What exactly was the purpose of your post not responding to anyone's direct post? Here's where I could go full Spartacus and say something like "don't these morons even read"? Instead I'll go with "do your own homework".
 
For the record, I've been to every UConn FB game in The Rent. As far as I can tell, no one else on the Boneyard can say that. And I've stayed to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game). I know nobody else can claim that. I walk the walk others only talk.
 
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Bonehead said:
For the record, I've been to every UConn FB game in The Rent. As far as I can tell, no one else on the Boneyard can say that. And I've stayed to the end of every game over the last 6 wonderful seasons but one (left 5 minutes early from the last USF game). I know nobody else can claim that. I walk the walk others only talk.
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See what I mean about good faith? I posted those words in good faith. Bonehead here doesn't believe in good faith, hence this clearly inaccurate post. He knows he didn't attend every game over that last 6 years.
 
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Waquoit said:
See what I mean about good faith? I posted those words in good faith. Boneyard here doesn't believe in good faith, hence this clearly inaccurate post. He knows he didn't attend every game over that last 6 years.
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And you stayed until the end and no one else can claim that.
 
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