On a related note: On last Monday's edition of WTIC Sportstalk, Joe D. had the Yankees Director of non-baseball events on as his guest. The purpose, obviously, was to drum up a last minute effort to hype Saturday's game & sell more tickets. The key point of the segment, in my opinion, was the guest's observation that the Yankees have wanted to host UConn for some time as their mission is to highlight local teams (read that as UConn, Rutgers, Syracuse, Army). The impediment to negotiations was the Ct State Legislature's mandate that UConn can't move home games to off site venues. They must be played at the RENT. The guest stated that inviting UConn as a visiting team in the Army series was the way to circumvent this mandate. He also stated that the Yankees thought that UConn would have been the Big East's team in the Pinstripe Bowl until they qualified for the Fiesta Bowl. My point is UConn is negotiating with one hand tied behind its back in regard to marquee games at Yankee Stadium, Citifield, the Meadowlands, or the Razor. In such games the Huskies will always be invited as the visitors & lack control of percentages of tickets allotted to each team. It's a tradeoff: a true home field crowd advantage (except in Army's case: they didn't represent nearly as well as UConn) vs. large metropolitan exposure. So, expect the Huskies to only to play Army, or the odd N.D., Penn St., BCU, or a traditional FBS powerhouse offsite, & always as the guest team.
