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So what does an all Independent schedule look like?

Honestly, UConn should just clear their schedule and be prepared to be a P5 conference “fill-in” team when one of the P5 teams inevitably has a C-19 outbreak and has to shut down for the year.
 
huskymedic said:
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Good point by AD Dave. We have not played a major league baseball game yet so college football is looking really doubtful. It has nothing to do with being independent vs being still in the AAC. The magical thinking this will all go away is very irresponsible and leading to the likelihood it will take longer to go away.
 
CCSU97 said:
If football is played this season, CCSU might have a few date available to make the short trip to East Hartford:

Sep. 5 - vs. Wagner*
Sep. 12 at Merrimack
Sep. 19 - Open (vs. Valparaiso cancelled)
Sep. 26 - at Toledo
Oct. 3 - vs. Duquesne*
Oct. 10 - Open (at Columbia cancelled)
Oct. 17 - at Saint Francis*
Oct. 24 - at Bryant*
Oct. 31 - Open (scheduled bye week)
Nov. 7 - vs. Sacred Heart*
Nov. 14 - Open (at Robert Morris cancelled)
Nov. 21 - vs. Long Island*

*NEC Games
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The 'Return to Play' policy just issued from the NEC means the Sep. 5 game vs. Wagner will have to be pushed back to later in the season.

If college football is played this season, I expect CCSU to play UConn. Ironically, the bus ride Central will take from New Britain is shorter than the one the Huskies will take from Storrs.
 
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BYU is supposed to play Michigan State on Sept. 12th and Minnesota on the 26th. A home and home with BYU is more exciting then Indiana and Illinois anyway. I think someone mentioned before Syracuse is supposed to be at Rutgers on Sept. 12th so maybe we grab them at home and fly to BYU on the 26th. Just saying there are a lot of potentially attractive options.
 
huskysupporter said:
Pro sports leagues are in bubbles and we are talking about having college kids flying to Utah for a game.

People coming to Connecticut from a host of states have been ordered to quarantine for 14 days but let’s find schools who can fly to Connecticut to play at the Rent.
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This is the same reason why I don't know how MLB thinks they're going to pull off their plan of teams playing in their home stadiums. How does flying to different parts of the country that have varying degrees of spread make any sense? If I were the Yankees, Mets, and Red Sox, I wouldn't want any teams from the South or West coming to my stadium. Actually I'm going to say the governors of those states won't want it.
 
A lot of these schools are getting rid of out of conference games to get rid of travel. The idea of UConn filling the schedule with long distance independents such as BYU and N. Mexico St. seems unlikely. Filling the schedule with teams of the ilk of CCSU is not likely either. Schools below the FBS level are more likely not to play at all, as there is no money or fans. This seems to deteriorate on a daily basis.

The next question is what kind of hit does the athletic department take if no games are played? Budgets already not so good looking ahead, may be further hampered. Any way you slice it, not a good look.
 
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EASTFLA said:
A lot of these schools are getting rid of out of conference games to get rid of travel. The idea of UConn filling the schedule with long distance independents such as BYU and N. Mexico St. seems unlikely. Filling the schedule with teams of the ilk of CCSU is not likely either. Schools below the FBS level are more likely not to play at all, as there is no money or fans. This seems to deteriorate on a daily basis.

The next question is what kind of hit does the athletic department take if no games are played? Budgets already not so good looking ahead, may be further hampered. Any way you slice it, not a good look.
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Football has been a money loser the last couple years due to poor attendance and that likely would not have changed much in 2020 (I am optimistic long term this will change). Assuming no football this season does not affect current marketing deals with Nike/Learfield and that UConn had no buy games this season, it probably won't affect AD financials much. The bigger deal is whether or not basketball happens given the significant uptick in ticket purchases, donations, merch, TV revenue from the Big East.

While no football season is a loss in ticket rev and the CBS Sports TV deal for this season, I think the numbers for the time being are relatively small compared to the cost of sending kids around the country to play football and paying rent to play at the Rent. You still have coach's salaries on the books and the "cost of scholarships" (quotations due to the weird accounting of it) but that should amount to less than the $10 million deficit of football last season. This again all assume other existing agreements at a top line AD level remain constant.
 
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Storrs South said:
Football has been a money loser the last couple years due to poor attendance and that likely would not have changed much in 2020 (I am optimistic long term this will change). Assuming no football this season does not affect current marketing deals with Nike/Learfield and that UConn had no buy games this season, it probably won't affect AD financials much. The bigger deal is whether or not basketball happens given the significant uptick in ticket purchases, donations, merch, TV revenue from the Big East.

While no football season is a loss in ticket rev and the CBS Sports TV deal for this season, I think the numbers for the time being are relatively small compared to the cost of sending kids around the country to play football and paying rent to play at the Rent. You still have coach's salaries on the books and the "cost of scholarships" (quotations due to the weird accounting of it) but that should amount to less than the $10 million deficit of football last season. This again all assume other existing agreements at a top line AD level remain constant.
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And the reduced recruiting costs will be a savings as well
 
BlueDogs said:
If they go out of conference they lose any basis for discriminating against other teams on a contract basis
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Agreed on that. Can't claim pandemic to skirt out of the buy game fees if ur playing conference games
 
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Indies need to start playing last week in August and gain the market advantage with a 3 week virtual conference tourney format coined the “Patriot Cup”and cut an interim TV deal. They would pick up serious media $$. just need to find 1 other school to run a 8 team round robin.
 
Looking at the UConn schedule and likely games not to be played:

ALREADY CERTAIN:

@ ILL
IND

Seems pretty certain the rest of P5 will go the way of Pac-12, B-10:

@VA
@OLE MISS
@NC

Likely that all conferences go that way as well:

MTSU
SJ ST. (unlikely anyway with 3,000 mile travel)
ODU

FCS teams are highly questionable:

Maine

That leaves:

UMass
Liberty
Army

At that point piecing together a schedule of independents that would not include ND (ACC more likely and makes more sense).

BYU & N.Mexico St. (distance makes it quite unlikely)

Leaves us Army & Liberty, both already on the schedule. Let's be honest with ourselves. Whatever way a schedule could be brought together, the quality of games is going to be horrific, and not even worth the effort putting kids at risk for a nothing burger. I just don't see this happening for UConn and many others.
 
For any conference to look at a conference only schedule and make any argument that it is about player safety is a complete joke. They still want some money from the TV deals and they are making it sound like this is a solution related to player safety. I don’t see how Illinois playing penn state is different than playing us or anyone else for that matter. College football is and always will be a money grab so let’s not pretend that we don’t all understand that.

I feel like the games should go on but that is because I personally feel like the risk is minimized for these guys. Less risk in their environments as proposed than you and I have in everyday life. I was an athlete back in the day and I would absolutely play right now with all the guidelines they will follow. Especially if it was the end of my career. It’s a risk I would take and you could leave it up to each individual player to decide.

That said, it seems most people don’t want to do anything related to college sports until there is a vaccine. So in my heart I know there will not be football this fall.
 
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UCFBfan said:
This is the same reason why I don't know how MLB thinks they're going to pull off their plan of teams playing in their home stadiums. How does flying to different parts of the country that have varying degrees of spread make any sense? If I were the Yankees, Mets, and Red Sox, I wouldn't want any teams from the South or West coming to my stadium. Actually I'm going to say the governors of those states won't want it.
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Check out the Yankees, Mets, and Boston's schedule. Only playing teams from the AL East and NL East. Whole league is scheduled to just play regional teams.
 
EASTFLA said:
Looking at the UConn schedule and likely games not to be played:

ALREADY CERTAIN:

@ ILL
IND

Seems pretty certain the rest of P5 will go the way of Pac-12, B-10:

@VA
@OLE MISS
@NC

Likely that all conferences go that way as well:

MTSU
SJ ST. (unlikely anyway with 3,000 mile travel)
ODU

FCS teams are highly questionable:

Maine

That leaves:

UMass
Liberty
Army

At that point piecing together a schedule of independents that would not include ND (ACC more likely and makes more sense).

BYU & N.Mexico St. (distance makes it quite unlikely)

Leaves us Army & Liberty, both already on the schedule. Let's be honest with ourselves. Whatever way a schedule could be brought together, the quality of games is going to be horrific, and not even worth the effort putting kids at risk for a nothing burger. I just don't see this happening for UConn and many others.
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I wonder if the kids on the team share your view?
 
TMB4405 said:
For any conference to look at a conference only schedule and make any argument that it is about player safety is a complete joke. They still want some money from the TV deals and they are making it sound like this is a solution related to player safety. I don’t see how Illinois playing penn state is different than playing us or anyone else for that matter. College football is and always will be a money grab so let’s not pretend that we don’t all understand that.

I feel like the games should go on but that is because I personally feel like the risk is minimized for these guys. Less risk in their environments as proposed than you and I have in everyday life. I was an athlete back in the day and I would absolutely play right now with all the guidelines they will follow. Especially if it was the end of my career. It’s a risk I would take and you could leave it up to each individual player to decide.

That said, it seems most people don’t want to do anything related to college sports until there is a vaccine. So in my heart I know there will not be football this fall.
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Absolutely, I would bet almost every player wants to play the games. They probably have greater long term risk to game related injuries than to the virus based on the statistics to date.
 
EASTFLA said:
Looking at the UConn schedule and likely games not to be played:

ALREADY CERTAIN:

@ ILL
IND

Seems pretty certain the rest of P5 will go the way of Pac-12, B-10:

@VA
@OLE MISS
@NC

Likely that all conferences go that way as well:

MTSU
SJ ST. (unlikely anyway with 3,000 mile travel)
ODU

FCS teams are highly questionable:

Maine

That leaves:

UMass
Liberty
Army

At that point piecing together a schedule of independents that would not include ND (ACC more likely and makes more sense).

BYU & N.Mexico St. (distance makes it quite unlikely)

Leaves us Army & Liberty, both already on the schedule. Let's be honest with ourselves. Whatever way a schedule could be brought together, the quality of games is going to be horrific, and not even worth the effort putting kids at risk for a nothing burger. I just don't see this happening for UConn and many others.
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I don't agree with the MTSU, or ODU. They need teams to play and your outlook is just the worse case scenario and nothing more.

Playing BYU is more real than most know unless BYU doesn't play the season at all. Not sure about NMST but my guess that would be at least 50/50 to play unless they don't play at all.

I still want to see the numbers for those under 18-23 and how many are asymptomatic
 
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