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UConn adds future Delaware H/H

CTFAN4LIFE said:
JMU's stadium, which was upgraded when they were in the CAA...

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I’ve seen JMU before. Their stadium is a little odd because one side is the original stands/bleachers while the other looks top notch. Overall, it’s a good upgrade. I hope they take down the bleachers and extend to make a bowl/horseshoe.
 
How does their stadium meet minimum FBS requirements? Thought it was around 30K?
 
Austin316 said:
I’ve seen JMU before. Their stadium is a little odd because one side is the original stands/bleachers while the other looks top notch. Overall, it’s a good upgrade. I hope they take down the bleachers and extend to make a bowl/horseshoe.
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Yes, their ultimate plan is build over the building that houses their swimming/gymnasium facilities in order to expand that side of the stadium. The fully built-out side houses some really nice club suites/luxury seats. Great game day experience/tailgating in a beautiful campus setting.
 
gioff2323 said:
For FBS, they can use SRO and the Bob. It’ll be over 20 for certain games.
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They did a nice job modernizing the stadium. The Bob has football viewing much like The Ryan Center at URI but endzone. Is there any talk about elevating hockey? Down there for a wedding last year and their new STEM campus was impressive.
 
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How Sway?! said:
Ok when you said last year I assumed last season.
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They were ranked most of 2023 too. I think they fell out after losing the AAC title game. But here’s the thing. They and JMU and Liberty all played heavily G5 schedules and we’re rewarded for winning. Playing 4 or 6 P4 teams is a formula for failure, or at best being seen as mediocre. Because dispite shizzle’s contention that we will win 1 out of 6, be cause we have won 2 out of 12, that is silly logic. That was over many seasons and we lost 10 in a row. We should play 2/ year, mostly against mid-lower P4s. Regional if possible but a western or southern team is good from time to time too. Fine to play a Michigan or Ohio State or Texas now and then. But not every year. Save those mostly for the post season!
 
RioDog said:
How does their stadium meet minimum FBS requirements? Thought it was around 30K?
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I don’t believe there are any attendance or minimum stadium size requirements in FBS anymore. Pretty sure they eliminated those in 2023.
 
freescooter said:
They were ranked most of 2023 too. I think they fell out after losing the AAC title game. But here’s the thing. They and JMU and Liberty all played heavily G5 schedules and we’re rewarded for winning. Playing 4 or 6 P4 teams is a formula for failure, or at best being seen as mediocre. Because dispite shizzle’s contention that we will win 1 out of 6, be cause we have won 2 out of 12, that is silly logic. That was over many seasons and we lost 10 in a row. We should play 2/ year, mostly against mid-lower P4s. Regional if possible but a western or southern team is good from time to time too. Fine to play a Michigan or Ohio State or Texas now and then. But not every year. Save those mostly for the post season!
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Tulane played essentially a CUSA schedule last year.
 
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A simple google search will tell you that their capacity has been at least 18,500 since 1979. And they have conducted renovations and have gradually increased since then.

They have always been an FCS outlier in terms of attendance.
 
huskymedic said:
I don’t believe there are any attendance or minimum stadium size requirements in FBS anymore. Pretty sure they eliminated those in 2023.
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Correct- this is not a requirement anymore as teams were just “buying” their own tickets or using an arbitrary distribution number to get over the 15k mark previously in place

I hope we see a few more northeast schools make the jump. Holy Cross and URI could both do it. Somewhat related- wonder what happened to New Haven trying to go FBS… them and Sacred Heart would both be intriguing longer term FBS adds
 
ZooCougar said:
A simple google search will tell you that their capacity has been at least 18,500 since 1979. And they have conducted renovations and have gradually increased since then.

They have always been an FCS outlier in terms of attendance.
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That’s actually not correct. When they renovated, they gave up seating on benches for boxes and chair backs. They are officially set at 18.5 seats, with plenty of room for SRO, if needed
 
gioff2323 said:
That’s actually not correct. When they renovated, they gave up seating on benches for boxes and chair backs. They are officially set at 18.5 seats, with plenty of room for SRO, if needed
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They were 18.5 in ‘79. Went up and then reduced back down to 18.5 later on officially. But they still get 22+ occasionally.

People here are acting like they expanded last week or something.

They have always been an attendance outlier.
 
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Out scheduling debate of G5 only versus 1/2 or more P5 is like the old saying
“Keep you mouth shut and people wonder if you are an idiot, open it and leave no doubt”

Schedule no P5 and people aren’t sure if you are any good, play a bunch of P5 and people know that you aren’t
 
AllHusky said:
Out scheduling debate of G5 only versus 1/2 or more P5 is like the old saying
“Keep you mouth shut and people wonder if you are an idiot, open it and leave no doubt”

Schedule no P5 and people aren’t sure if you are any good, play a bunch of P5 and people know that you aren’t
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The right number is probably not less than 2 and rarely 3 or more.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
Tulane played essentially a CUSA schedule last year.
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Yeah and ended the season 11-3 (2 losses to P5s). We’re ranked all year and we’re favorites to be the G5 entry into the NY6 bowls until they lost in the AAC championship to SMU. Ended the year as a top 30 program. If we end up 8-4 it is unlikely we get ranked. At 11-1 we probably do and have a real shot at the. CFP. Probably won’t be selected, but you never know. Better bowl, uptick in recruiting. Better crowds, more interest. More interest from a P4. And it barely matters who the 11 wins are against. We need to succeed.
 
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Stinger92860 said:
We need to be a top G5 to get a sniff during the next expansion. That should be the current goal.
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I don't even know if that's true, if they can stack wins. I think they could go the Liberty route and schedule no one decent, but if they managed to consistently win 9-10 games a year, even as a paper tiger, that would give a conference enough cover to add a "basketball school." Football doesn't have to be dominant or even a top G5, they just have to be credible, in almost every other metric UConn is above (in some cases well above) most of the G5 (and some P5 schools, including some of the recently promoted schools). The problem is the narrative around the football program and the lack of success during Diaco and Edsall's tenure (even if they had stayed in the 5-7/6-6 range of the Pasqualoni era, they'd probably have been good enough to get an invite, before the disaster of the Diaco and Edsall eras).
 
Austin316 said:
Their stadium is a little more than I expected coming from the CAA

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It's basically our old on campus Memorial Stadium. I think Delaware's stadium is about 2000 people larger.
 
freescooter said:
Yeah and ended the season 11-3 (2 losses to P5s). We’re ranked all year and we’re favorites to be the G5 entry into the NY6 bowls until they lost in the AAC championship to SMU. Ended the year as a top 30 program. If we end up 8-4 it is unlikely we get ranked. At 11-1 we probably do and have a real shot at the. CFP. Probably won’t be selected, but you never know. Better bowl, uptick in recruiting. Better crowds, more interest. More interest from a P4. And it barely matters who the 11 wins are against. We need to succeed.
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I'm not advocating playing 6 P4 schools. How did UC UCF and Houston get invites? They played in the best G5 conference successfully and were historically competitive against their P4 opponents. Being successful against a schedule of 110-133 FBS schools and the very bottom of FCS is a canard. Getting humped by Michigan, Tennessee, Clemson and the like is a purely financial play. We should not be getting humped by the GA States of football world. I see your path as a way of pulling the flight stick back on the program but i dont want to see a parade of bad football teams to it.
 
Duncan Idaho said:
I'm not advocating playing 6 P4 schools. How did UC UCF and Houston get invites? They played in the best G5 conference successfully and were historically competitive against their P4 opponents. Being successful against a schedule of 110-133 FBS schools and the very bottom of FCS is a canard. Getting humped by Michigan, Tennessee, Clemson and the like is a purely financial play. We should not be getting humped by the GA States of football world. I see your path as a way of pulling the flight stick back on the program but i dont want to see a parade of bad football teams to it.
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Your way is scheduling four to five virtually automatic losses a season. That helps nothing.

Quit crying about Georgia State. Maybe you know incredibly little. But If we ever get good enough again that the Sun Belt wanted us then that would be a good sign.
 
And forgive me if I'm wrong but we were getting really good fan interest and attendance when we were 8 wins in the Big East.
 
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