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Message: [QUOTE="USNA90, post: 2539477, member: 6230"] You can’t compare life in the AAC to the good ‘ole days in the Big East. Back then, UConn had the luxury of taking time to gel, settle on a rotation, etc. Syracuse used to play their first dozen games or so without ever leaving New York. But that was when the strength of schedule took care of itself due to the conference. In the AAC, the thought is that top teams (which we all initially thought would include UConn more often than not) had more chances for bad losses than they did for good wins, so the only option, while not ideal, was to schedule strong OOC games. The nature of the beast is that the OOC games are in November and December. Unfortunately, even experienced teams under Ollie haven’t gelled early, so it hasn’t been an ideal situation for UConn. I don’t know if there’s a good solution. Are they able to go overseas and get some game experience before the season begins like the women do? At any rate, with this year’s team, I’m not sure losing to MSU was any more damaging than losing to a team like Fordham at home in front of 1500 people would have been. [/QUOTE]