Stewie ticked off at Syracuse?

[seeya27]

I don't care about any of these sub plots... Lets get to the game already Start the ballet

I could care less, as well. However if Stewie takes it as motivation, all to the good. In the end, I believe it was probably in Q's best interest to play UConn and get a feel for them in a game situation. That would have been great preparation for tonight's game. I suspect he regrets the situation now. Bummer.

 

[seeya27]

I don't care about any of these sub plots... Lets get to the game already Start the ballet

I could care less, as well. However if Stewie takes it as motivation, all to the good. In the end, I believe it was probably in Q's best interest to play UConn and get a feel for them in a game situation. That would have been great preparation for tonight's game. I suspect he regrets the situation now. Bummer.

 

[divots]

Again it may not be entirely in his control. I think a lot of people here have a very simplified idea of how a schedule is put together. I can totally buy that it just wasn't going to work on short notice. Plus not every coach wants to run his team through the meat grinder of playing UConn. Not every coach agrees with our philosophy that everyone should want to play us whenever Geno picks up the phone.

As a longtime men's basketball coach and a former AD and conference chairman I can guarantee you that if my women's program was drawing crowds in the three digits for home games I would have a very difficult time accepting my coach's wish to not schedule the #1 team in the country with the #1 player in the country who, per chance, just happens to live 5 minutes from our campus. I rarely trumped a coach's wishes but some decisions need to be made with respect to the school, the athletic department and the community. Above is the picture that I would probably want to hang in Q's office after the Coppin State game which drew a very generous count of 335 spectators.....

 

[CocoHusky]

But I think in the past 10 years, statics = ND.

ND
Stanford
St. Johns
Baylor

 

[bags27]

NDnStanford St. Johns Baylor

ouch! should have said the last 5 years.

 

[CocoHusky]

I think Geno has probably been scheduling games longer than Q has and knows that you can't work out anything last minute. He also knew for 4 years that Stewart was going to graduate in 2016. He probably hit up Q last spring or last summer. The question I have is when did he ask Colgate. If that was last minute (and it probably wasn't) then they were HUGE good sports. Well, they were huge good sports whenever it was worked out, imho.

It was last minute, after Syracuse said no. Colgate was very gracious.
Voepel: How Colgate made Stewart's homecoming possible.

By the way it is not only Stewie that was pissed about it:
"Alot of teams do that, not just Syracuse," UConn coach Geno Auriemma said of turning down a chance to play UConn. "I don't know what the reason was. But I'm not going to beg anybody to play us."
Geno