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Stagnant said:
I am very surprised Kim has agreed to it.

I know nothing about the details here. But I hope it is in January or February in the middle of big east play.
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The middle of your Big East season is a bit different than her middle of SEC play. She could end up with a month facing UConn, SCar, Texas and another ranked SEC opponent consecutively . I doubt she would take that chance. Expect a Nov - Dec meeting.
 
What about a Thanksgiving showcase or maybe even a Pat Summit related event. Is there an anniversary of one of her accomplishments coming up?
 
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Bigboote said:
I wonder if nobody wanted/could to do a home-and-home, so they opted for a one-off at a neutral site?
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My. Question is whether this could be an NIL game?

Look at the Player’s era tournament. There, the tournament agreed to pay the players NIL of about million per team to be distributed to the players. I agree that this smells like direct pay from the schools but it’s not. It’s being treated as 3rd party pay to the players!

If somebody can run this for players on four teams, why not 2? I promoter in Nashville offers a million to UConn players and a million ti LSUs players. This doesn’t count against LSU’s direct pay limit of about million (6.% of 21.5 million). It allows them to basically double their direct pay.
 
visitingcock said:
My. Question is whether this could be an NIL game?

Look at the Player’s era tournament. There, the tournament agreed to pay the players NIL of about million per team to be distributed to the players. I agree that this smells like direct pay from the schools but it’s not. It’s being treated as 3rd party pay to the players!

If somebody can run this for players on four teams, why not 2? I promoter in Nashville offers a million to UConn players and a million ti LSUs players. This doesn’t count against LSU’s direct pay limit of about million (6.% of 21.5 million). It allows them to basically double their direct pay.
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How about winner take all?
 
LSU , SC, improved ND next year ! At least I think the latter series will still be going.
 
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HopJim said:
Perhaps my feelings about LSU and their milk toast schedule is stronger than some, but I will not believe Kim will schedule UConn until they are much weaker than today's lineup.
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Kim played UConn several times when she was at Baylor
 
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rugbymate said:
Great news! I hope we schedule more top 10 teams for OOC play.
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Well, what makes it challenging is predicting who is going to be a top 10 team sometimes 2 years in the future. Now with unrestricted free agency with the top talent possibly gong to the top $$$, it's not easy knowing and scheduling the top teams. Injuries and early exits don't help either.
 
HopJim said:
Perhaps my feelings about LSU and their milk toast schedule is stronger than some, but I will not believe Kim will schedule UConn until they are much weaker than today's lineup.
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SEC vs Big East?
 
Bigboote said:
I wonder if nobody wanted/could to do a home-and-home, so they opted for a one-off at a neutral site?
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Nice. That’s great news having this game added to the schedule. Hmm. I wonder if fans living in Tennessee are really going to be impartial?
 
While we will never fully know what Geno's and KIm's relationship is and what drove the scheduling of this game, curious why LSU is changing its tactics of scheduling cupcakes, an approach Geno strongly disagrees with. Of all the Top 10 teams he could play, I would not have thought LSU was not a team he would show any support for.
 
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HopJim said:
While we will never fully know what Geno's and KIm's relationship is and what drove the scheduling of this game, curious why LSU is changing its tactics of scheduling cupcakes, an approach Geno strongly disagrees with. Of all the Top 10 teams he could play, I would not have thought LSU was not a team he would show any support for.
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We don’t know if lsu changed their scheduling. This could be a holiday tournament.

Geno doesn’t duck any team. Has nothing to do with support
 
HopJim said:
While we will never fully know what Geno's and KIm's relationship is and what drove the scheduling of this game, curious why LSU is changing its tactics of scheduling cupcakes, an approach Geno strongly disagrees with. Of all the Top 10 teams he could play, I would not have thought LSU was not a team he would show any support for.
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HopJim, your last sentence confuses me. Could you repeat your thought but say it differently, please and thank you?

FWIW, I am keenly curious also. Not just why both programs agreed to the game, but why Nashville? Is this a counter move to the four team tournament in Vegas? Bring in USC and another headline team as well, maybe?
 
Geno generally schedules OOC for three reasons: (1) schedule ranked teams to improve the team's strength of schedule (given the rest of the Big East's usually lower rankings), (2) play games in geographic areas so recruits can see the UConn brand near them, and (3) play games close to home towns of existing players so that their friends and families can more easily see them play. If UConn is to play LSU in Nashville, I suspect that this would be part of some multi-team tournament hosted by Shea's Vanderbilt team and such a game would accomplish (1) and (2) above.
 
Jim said:
Geno generally schedules OOC for three reasons: (1) schedule ranked teams to improve the team's strength of schedule (given the rest of the Big East's usually lower rankings), (2) play games in geographic areas so recruits can see the UConn brand near them, and (3) play games close to home towns of existing players so that their friends and families can more easily see them play. If UConn is to play LSU in Nashville, I suspect that this would be part of some multi-team tournament hosted by Shea's Vanderbilt team and such a game would accomplish (1) and (2) above.
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One additional reason is $$$. UConn OOC games against ranked teams typically end up on national broadcast networks which pay considerably more than local or regional coverage.
 
oldude said:
One additional reason is $$$. UConn OOC games against ranked teams typically end up on national broadcast networks which pay considerably more than local or regional coverage.
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That's a good point. We don't know when this game is yet (AFAIK). Maybe as some have speculated it's Thanksgiving weekend instead of a destination tournament. Geno's said that for cost reasons, those may be a thing of the past, and so scheduling something with reduced costs and a large payout would be a way to compensate.
 
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