Teams finalizing their 2014 schedules, UConn still has no OOC opponents

[freescooter]

BL is right on this. The big East gave Hathaway a title so he could chair the basketball selection committee. that's all. he didn't have a real job. It was closer to those situations where an aging star signs a 1 day contract so he can retire as a Bronco or something. If Payton Manning decides to retire "as a Colt" and signs a 1 day contract for $1, nobody is going to makethe assimption that he's going to compete for the starting job again. That is what the Big East did for Hathaway.

 

[tduconn]

I think Ward Manual suggested he was working on OOC for multiple years and did not want to "pre-empt" (my words) a contract by jumping the gun in making announcements. Apparently ongoing discussions may be delicate when it comes to UCFB. To plagarize a catch phrase by Lew Perkins when he was fighting a uphill battle to get stadium funding "I hope to be pleasently surprised".

Meanwhile, Rutgers, Temple, and even UMass are scheduling respectable OOC opponents that are not named "fill in any MAC or FCS school". I'm impressed.

If I had any athletic abilities, I know who I'd want to play for and against (OCC).

Why can't we schedule Penn State? Rutgers and Temple have had success in this endeavor?

Ward......"I hope to be pleasantly surprised"

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Why can't we schedule Penn State? Rutgers and Temple have had success in this endeavor?

If we would be willing to schedule three games at State College and two at the Linc (what Temple does) we could land a five game deal with PSU in a heartbeat.

I'm guessing that UMass' game with PSU is similar to their game a few years back with Michigan (and possibly like our season opener this year where it was scheduled before UMass upgraded). I'm sure we could get a one-off game if we really wanted.

 

[RMS25CT]

Today Rutgers inked a home and home with Maryland (MD at Rutgers 2014, Rutgers at Maryland for 2019). Needless to say everyone has been landing some games, especially against the ACC since it decided to go to 8 conference games.

I'm not saying Manuel is fiddling while Rome burns, but it would be swell if UConn started to pop up on some FBS schedules for 2014. UConn needs 4 OOC games to fill. USF is the only school, other than UConn, with fewer than three OOC games scheduled already.

So far the Big East OOC schedules for 2014 look like:

2014
UCONN
University of TBD. We should match up well with them considering our offense is FUBAR.

Cincy
Toledo
Miami (OH)
tO$U
Stony Brook

Louisville
Kentucky
FIU
Marshall

Rutgers
Penn State
Navy
Maryland
Tulane

Temple
at Penn State
Maryland
Navy
Notre Dame

USF
NC State

Houston
UTSA
La Tech
BYU

Memphis
at Miami
at Ole Miss
Middle Tenn

SMU
Baylor
North Texas
TCU
Texas A&M

UCF
FIU
at Missouri
Jacksonville St.
BYU

Boise State
Ole Miss
at Utah State
BYU

San Diego State
at Oregon State
at Navy
San Jose State

Wasn't 2014 the year Tennessee was coming to the Rent and 2015 UConn goes there?

 

[Dann]

Wasn't 2014 the year Tennessee was coming to the Rent and 2015 UConn goes there?

13:
mich
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@buff

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15:
tenn

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@tenn
uva

17:
@uva

 

[ZooCougar]

I bet UMass is available in '14.

 

[freescooter]

If not UMass, then Buffalo or somebody of that ilk. My guess is UMass would love to do a long term deal, maybe 3-2 and would re-work the other ones if they could get that. For 6-4 they would probably agree to play one of the home games at the Rent.

 

[uconNYC]

If not UMass, then Buffalo or somebody of that ilk. My guess is UMass would love to do a long term deal, maybe 3-2 and would re-work the other ones if they could get that. For 6-4 they would probably agree to play one of the home games at the Rent.

Please no Buffalo.

 

[freescooter]

Please no Buffalo.

I only said that to see what the reaction would be...I don't want Buffalo either...

 

[HartfordHank]

I bet UMass is available in '14.

A noted by DrG in post #18 above: Barring buyouts, UMass is booked for 2014. BC and Colorado at Gillette, @Penn St. and Vanderbilt.

 

[DrG]

I know because I'm a UMass fan. I believe the BC, Colorado and Vandy games are part of 2-for-1's, so those are least likely to change. Penn State could always pull out, though I'd think they'd want somebody on their OOC schedule that they can beat given their sanctions. If something opens up, I'd be happy to schedule UConn.

 

[Rumrunner]

UNC rearranged things a bit for 2014 by agreeing to travel to ECU. They're still looking for three games to schedule. Currently UConn is the only team in FBS not to have an OOC game scheduled in 2014.

 

[huskymedic]

Currently UConn is the only team in FBS not to have an OOC game scheduled in 2014.

Take the hint... it's over. We're doomed.

 

[Adios]

Take the hint... it's over. We're doomed.

We're a lower level MAC program than UMass??

 

[huskymedic]

We're a lower level MAC program than UMass??

FBS...

 

[huskymedic]

Warde - dial up the boys @ Northwestern - they have openings in 2013 + 2014:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sport...of-nu-football-series-20121018,0,352607.story

..."Vanderbilt has sent a letter to Northwestern canceling its 2013 and 2014 football games, a Big Ten source told the Tribune on Thursday.

Vanderbilt officials made the decision without so much as a phone call to NU officials, according to the source. The timing of the move is apparently related to the Thursday afternoon release of the 2013 SEC schedule, which will feature changes to cross-division rivalries.

But with the SEC set to keep an eight-game conference slate, Vanderbilt officials will have some explaining to do regarding their decision to cancel the NU series. The buyout was “not prohibitive,” according to the source.

The Wildcats beat the Commodores on the road in 2010 and in September, and NU’s best talent is in its freshmen and sophomore classes.

The 2013 game was scheduled for Sept. 14 in Nashville. The 2014 game would have been in Evanston on Sept. 13. Northwestern now has to scramble to find new opponents."...

 

[pepband99]

To hell with that - Buy out @Buffalo and Towson and replace it with @Ohio St, and a crappy I-AA!

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/68780/vanderbilt-drops-games-with-wildcats-osu

 

[huskymedic]

To hell with that - Buy out @Buffalo and Towson and replace it with @Ohio St, and a crappy I-AA!

http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/68780/vanderbilt-drops-games-with-wildcats-osu

@PDBuckeyes OSU working on couple scenarios for replacement. No neutral site game, will be at home. And opp not as good as Vandy

 

[freescooter]

Or maybe we'll just play 8 games that year...we can wear retro uniforms and play a retro 8-game schedule which wasn't uncommon in the 1950s...

 

[Rumrunner]

Or maybe we can have a scrimmage versus the scout team. I hear there is a lot of talent there, especially when they run the T formation.

 

[UCFBfan]

It's amazing how these teams schedule so far ahead and then buy the games out. How many teams were mentioned in this thread as teams that now have opening because of another school opting out? 4,5,6? It sounds too me that there will be teams available to schedule in 2014 at the going rate. It'd be nice to have some scheduled but I'm not worrying.

 

[Carl Spackler]

I'm worried.

My hope is the only thing that's holding up announcements of the future scheduling, is the timing of the media deal negotiations, of which the exclusive window with Bristol ends in 12 days.

 

[ZooCougar]

I'm worried.

My hope is the only thing that's holding up announcements of the future scheduling, is the timing of the media deal negotiations, of which the exclusive window with Bristol ends in 12 days.

You would think it would all come out at once. But you would probably see other schools announcing it before us.

Odds are our schedule will be pretty unsexy. Worst case: Two I-AAs, and a couple of MAC/Sun Belt type games.

Which WAC schools are looking at dropping down a level because WAC football is collapsing and they can't fill a schedule. Maybe we should call one of them.

 

[Rumrunner]

I don't see the connection to the tv deal. Even if tv mandates a 9 game schedule (which would be idiotic from a SOS perspective and extremely unlikely to occur), OOC games still have to be scheduled.

I'm worried.

My hope is the only thing that's holding up announcements of the future scheduling, is the timing of the media deal negotiations, of which the exclusive window with Bristol ends in 12 days.

 

[hexlub]

Yankee Conference Reunion -
Maine, UNH, URI, and have BU field an intramural team.