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UConn at Clemson September 11, 2021

Anyone who thinks this is anything but a big positive doesn't get it. Getting games like this on the schedule is important for revenue, recruiting, and fan interest. Doesn't matter that it is a road game with no return. You need to get them on the schedule at all before you can think about getting similar games at home.

This is UConn 2.0 in nearly all aspects.
 
One of my best friends graduated from the University of North Texas (C-USA). He says these are "body bag" games. North Texas has often played at Alabama, LSU, etc. where they: 1) collect $1 million, 2) lose 49-17, and 3) bring the bodies home. There is never a home and home agreement, or even a two-for-one.

I want to believe we haven't reached that point.
 
While we'd all love home and home series, they aren't happening with teams on Clemson's level. Not only are people missing how big a chance thus us for us, they are also missing the important part, we get paid over a million bucks for it. I think it's time for folks to accept our place in the college landscape. This is our football future should the CR train stop. We get money where we can get it. I give AD Dave credit for landing this one.

I might be a little less thrilled if this deal was made with BC, Cuse, or Rutgers. I don't think we've dropped that low, yet.

I'd love if we did an away game for money with PSU. Would be helpful for us both with a win and on the recruiting trail.
 
I doubt BC, Cuse or RU would come up with a million to pay us when they can pay 400k to a MAC school.

I see 2 for 1 games with BC being played at BC with our return games being played at Fenway and Gillette. That's not such a bad deal for us. RU has to be home and home as does SU.
 
NE Football said:
I see 2 for 1 games with BC being played at BC with our return games being played at Fenway and Gillette. That's not such a bad deal for us
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Why do a 2:1 w/ BC when we have already have a future H/H on the book??
 


>>Expect UConn to schedule more games similar to this, replacing home-and-home series with Power Five teams (such as deals currently in place with Missouri and Tennessee) with single road contests in exchange for a paycheck. Such games are crucial to UConn's operation, especially with Big East exit money set to dry up in about a year.<<
 
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It was inevitable (bcinterruption.com): Tears Of Unfathomable Sadness, Volume 22: UConn Is Basically Acknowledging Its FCS Status At This Point

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Redding Husky said:
One of my best friends graduated from the University of North Texas (C-USA). He says these are "body bag" games. North Texas has often played at Alabama, LSU, etc. where they: 1) collect $1 million, 2) lose 49-17, and 3) bring the bodies home. There is never a home and home agreement, or even a two-for-one.

I want to believe we haven't reached that point.
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It is what it is. No way your AD can thumb their noses at playing 1 game for 1.2 million dollars out of some misguided sense of pride. Uconn is in survival mode. The AD needs money and this is an easy way to make some. There may be one more round of conference realignment in a few years, Uconn needs to sustain itself until then.
 
Taking some historical notes:
When Miami & V.Tech left for the ACC, the Big East promptly asked UConn to join a year earlier than scheduled to help fill the void. Randy promised that UConn would be ready for conference play. Syracuse fans came to our former board & "informed" us that it would take about 10 years for the Huskies to be 1-A respectable & to expect to be conference doormats in the interim. Didn't work out the way they planned.
HCRE has 4 seasons to get this team up to speed. If history is any judge, he can do this.
 
coachcap said:
Taking some historical notes:
When Miami & V.Tech left for the ACC, the Big East promptly asked UConn to join a year earlier than scheduled to help fill the void. Randy promised that UConn would be ready for conference play. Syracuse fans came to our former board & "informed" us that it would take about 10 years for the Huskies to be 1-A respectable & to expect to be conference doormats in the interim. Didn't work out the way they planned.
HCRE has 4 seasons to get this team up to speed. If history is any judge, he can do this.
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We still hold winning records over Cuse and Pitt. Even if you give Cuse the 2 vacated wins back, we're still ahead 6-4.
Winsipedia - Pittsburgh Panthers vs. Connecticut Huskies football series history games list
Winsipedia - Syracuse Orange vs. Connecticut Huskies football series history games list

those fans.
 
The game is five seasons from now. UConn might be in a position to win this game by then.

I traveled to Clemson on business quite a lot a few years ago. Love that little place. But when I started going (10 or 12 years ago?), they were no better than UConn. I think both teams played Ball State or some other common opponent one year and as I recall UConn did better than they did. Things change, although I would agree that once you win a national championship the trip back down is a lot slower.
 
Wildgopher said:
I just told my wife I know what we are doing for our 40th anniversary. She said it better not be what we did for our 30th, (we were in DC, (on our way to the UConn @ Maryland game). At least I gave her 4 years to get over it.
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That's on you for getting married during football season ;)
 
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freescooter said:
I don't love these 1 offs and honestly we haven't done a lot. What I worry about is if you go it for Clemson how far down the food chain will you go? FSU? North Carolina? BC? Texas? Oklahoma? Ok state? I think we are better off doing 1-1 with the P5 programs who will do them, and there are many, than doing too many of these. As the old story goes, a famous author goes up to a woman at a party and asks if she will sleep with him for $1million. She says "of course I will." Then he asks if she'll do it for a buck and she gets indignant! "What do you think I am?" She asks. "I think we've established that. Now we're just dickering about price." We need to avoid that scenario.
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Agreed on scheduling P5s 1-1s, but doing for Clemson/ND is not exactly starting in the middle of the food chain.
 
We've got 3 more games with BC on the schedule. Let's see how they feel about us as an FCS program at the end of this 4 game series. If they're 4-0, hey, maybe they're right. Anything less than 3-1 reflects poorly on them. We come out 3-1 and they can suck it.
 
freescooter said:
I don't love these 1 offs and honestly we haven't done a lot. What I worry about is if you go it for Clemson how far down the food chain will you go? FSU? North Carolina? BC? Texas? Oklahoma? Ok state? I think we are better off doing 1-1 with the P5 programs who will do them, and there are many, than doing too many of these. As the old story goes, a famous author goes up to a woman at a party and asks if she will sleep with him for $1million. She says "of course I will." Then he asks if she'll do it for a buck and she gets indignant! "What do you think I am?" She asks. "I think we've established that. Now we're just dickering about price." We need to avoid that scenario.
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I'll worry about it if it happens. The slippery slope is almost always an intellectually lazy argument. You are not the exception.
 
I suppose it's nice to get paid money before getting beaten to a pulp.
 
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The writer is mostly wrong - we will end up ok. For a guy with all that TV experience Aresco cut a really bad deal.
 
TheDrifter75 said:
We made a deal with the National Champs. I wouldn't mind if we did that next year as well.
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In 2021 they could just as easily be 7-5. Clemson isn't an historic program like Michigan, Alabama, Texas or one of those. They are currently very good but mostly under achieve. And if Dabo goes they could step back bigly.
 
freescooter said:
In 2021 they could just as easily be 7-5. Clemson isn't an historic program like Michigan, Alabama, Texas or one of those. They are currently very good but mostly under achieve. And if Dabo goes they could step back bigly.
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Good! Then we have an even better shot at beating a team that won a National Championship within 5 years of playing the game. Kids recruited then will still remember Clemsons Natty and will know we beat them. Go Huskies!
 
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Say what you will this is nothing more than a payday game. The equivalent of the Holy Cross game only we are Holy Cross in this case. That's Clemson's perspective. I get why we are doing it. I don't much like it and I worry that it will set a bad precedent not for games with Notre Dame or Alabama or Texas but for games with teams that should/would normally give us 1-1s. Then we get stuck with a Home schedule of Rhode Island and choose one of Buffalo/UMass/Western Michigan.
 
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