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Michigan and ND were not on the level of what USC is this year.

Yeah, I think you should have done better against Michigan that year and you did beat a 6-6 Notre Dame team, but USC this year is a different beast. You know better than that come on.
 
JayRU09 said:
I hope it doesn't happen. that's just nonsense scheduling. Because doing that usually means you're going for an opponent you don't have a chance against (*cough* USC vs. Cuse *cough*) and then when you lose, it's not like people are going to be like "Well, at least they scheduled a top 5 team!".

Don't understand the attraction of losing a home game to play in another state for the one in a hundred chance it may help your program if you pull off the upset.
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Don't like us playing in your backyard? (Which I can understand.) It would have to be a marquee matchup, but it wouldn't be a one in a hundred chance to win.
 
One in a hundred is called 'hyperbole' folks.

And it's not you guys playing in our backyard, it's just that you should schedule regular 1:1s, even if it means scheduling a Kansas or a Kansas State or a what have you, and then if circumstances let it happen schedule a big time 1:1 (like us with Arkansas since we were both desperate).
 
JayRU09 said:
Michigan and ND were not on the level of what USC is this year.

Yeah, I think you should have done better against Michigan that year and you did beat a 6-6 Notre Dame team, but USC this year is a different beast. You know better than that come on.
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When you schedule a game against a traditional power five years ahead of time, you have no clue whether you're getting the expected 2012 USC or the actual 2009 Notre Dame. You schedule the game and have to wait and see how good your opponent is that year.

That's not obvious?
 
I don't know that there would be much benefit to playing a USC, but more because they are a PAC 10 team, not because we couldn't give them a game. We are never going to get more than the odd player from California, even with Boise and San Diego State in the league. Plus, I just think it is always a battle travelling across country and we'll be doing it in the conference from time to time. In general terms, eastern half of the country is where we want to stay mostly. If you offered Ohio State, Texas, someone like that, sure. But scheduling for success is really critical at this point in our development. makes no sense to play 4 top 10 teams each year. We need to be finishing 9-3, 10-2, rebuilding years 8-4 going forward. that gets us a top 25 ranking and getting reularly ranked is critical.
 
It's completely obvious. But it's not like you get credit for it if you win then when they're not good (Let's be brutally honest here, it's not like you got credit for beating USCe or ND that year, but that's the nature of the Big East). And if you schedule in advance to play at MetLife and then that team isn't good, what's the point?

Schedule a regular 1:1, make more money, and just try to win as many as possible.

freescooter has it right. The number of wins count more than who you win against. 8-5 with wins against USCe and ND doesn't mean as much as 11-2 with OOC wins against K State, UNC, and Illinois when all three were mediocre to bad.
 
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JayRU09 said:
I hope it doesn't happen. that's just nonsense scheduling. Because doing that usually means you're going for an opponent you don't have a chance against (*cough* USC vs. Cuse *cough*) and then when you lose, it's not like people are going to be like "Well, at least they scheduled a top 5 team!".

Don't understand the attraction of losing a home game to play in another state for the one in a hundred chance it may help your program if you pull off the upset.
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i agree with this. Cuse fans are going to have a very disappointing drive back from NJ, and nothings worse than that drive home after a road game loss, which is basically what this will be
 
1:1's are a different animal, with respect to a neutral site game. Very few would be happy here with a 1:1 with anyone that included our 1 as a NY/Foxboro game.

2:1:1 with one true home game, one NY/Foxboro, and 2 away? Now you're talking.
 
And that's another thing, why not Foxboro? I know after 2001 everyone back home magically became Pats fans, so why not go there, it's seems more 'home field' than MetLife (which doesn't even feel like 'home field' to us).

A 2:1:1 for you guys wouldn't be bad as long as its in Foxboro.
 
Foxboro is the home field for a I-A team now, unlike MetLife. That's one reason why.
 
mattp said:
i agree with this. Cuse fans are going to have a very disappointing drive back from NJ, and nothings worse than that drive home after a road game loss, which is basically what this will be
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There is no such thing as a disappointing drive out of New Jersey.

Just sayin
 
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businesslawyer said:
There is no such thing as a disappointing drive out of New Jersey.

Just sayin
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Depending on where you are in Jersey..........I agree.

Piscataway and the surrounding towns are just CT with more Indians though tbh.
 
To be fair, CT does have Bridgeport, #1 in broken windows and abandoned warehouses.
 
Jimmy Serrano said:
I would take Bridgeport over Patterson, Elizabeth, and Newark.
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I'd take Newark over Bridgeport, but every state has their towns they'd rather forget. interestingly i saw an article within the last year that measured per capita GDP by city and Bridgeport was #5 in the world. they were also on a recent list as having one of the highest percentage of millionaires of any town in the US. obviously they're including areas i don't think of when i think of Bridgeport, but i was pretty surprised nonetheless.

i love the jersey bashing, but to be honest, the area of jersey i live in is not much different from Litchfield county where i lived, except there's a lot more people and stuff to do. when i lived in CT i had to drive 20 minutes to the grocery store. now i have a mall, 3 groceries, a kmart, walmart, target and home depot all within about a mile. also there's no such thing as a leisurely drive in NJ
 
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mattp said:
I'd take Newark over Bridgeport, but every state has their towns they'd rather forget. interestingly i saw an article within the last year that measured per capita GDP by city and Bridgeport was #5 in the world. they were also on a recent list as having one of the highest percentage of millionaires of any town in the US. obviously they're including areas i don't think of when i think of Bridgeport, but i was pretty surprised nonetheless.

i love the jersey bashing, but to be honest, the area of jersey i live in is not much different from Litchfield county where i lived, except there's a lot more people and stuff to do. when i lived in CT i had to drive 20 minutes to the grocery store. now i have a mall, 3 groceries, a kmart, walmart, target and home depot all within about a mile. also there's no such thing as a leisurely drive in NJ
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If I have to be honest, Jersey and Connecticut are very, very similar states. That having been said, it was way too good a line to pass up.
 
I grew up in Bristol up on the Chippens Hill area (aka where the white people live who spend all their money outside of Bristol).

I now live in East Brunswick and work in Princeton and it's basically CT suburbs but with Asians.
 
pepband99 said:
1:1's are a different animal, with respect to a neutral site game. Very few would be happy here with a 1:1 with anyone that included our 1 as a NY/Foxboro game.

2:1:1 with one true home game, one NY/Foxboro, and 2 away? Now you're talking.
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I think many would enjoy a bowl game atmosphere in NJ if it's against any perennial top 15-20 team out there. If the UConn AD refused a series (1 on the road and 1 in NJ) because Texas or whoever refused to play the Rent, they should be fired. Especially in this day and age where OOC games are going to be the be all end all when it comes to postseason.
 
businesslawyer said:
Given that we've beaten ND in South Bend, and most UConn fans feel like we should have/could have beaten Michigan in Ann Arbor, where do you get this crap that we'd have a one in one hundred chance of beating that level team in the Meadowlands?
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are you saying you felt we could have beatn Michigan in Ann Arbor going into the game, or coming out?
 
mattp said:
I'd take Newark over Bridgeport, but every state has their towns they'd rather forget. interestingly i saw an article within the last year that measured per capita GDP by city and Bridgeport was #5 in the world. they were also on a recent list as having one of the highest percentage of millionaires of any town in the US. obviously they're including areas i don't think of when i think of Bridgeport, but i was pretty surprised nonetheless.

i love the jersey bashing, but to be honest, the area of jersey i live in is not much different from Litchfield county where i lived, except there's a lot more people and stuff to do. when i lived in CT i had to drive 20 minutes to the grocery store. now i have a mall, 3 groceries, a kmart, walmart, target and home depot all within about a mile. also there's no such thing as a leisurely drive in NJ
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They must've considered Fairfield and Westport a part of Bridgeport. That's the only logical explanation that I have for that stat.
 
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I could see having the Big East football conference championship in the Meadowlands, but I'm not traveling down there to pacify Michigan or Notre Dame when in 10 years or less we're going to be sitting right next to them in the rankings. The Rent might not be the Big House......yet...... but give this Div 1 thing a chance to grow. We put together some amazing seasons and people will help get that wind tunnel turned into a destination.
 
Marty Jackson said:
are you saying you felt we could have beatn Michigan in Ann Arbor going into the game, or coming out?
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I felt going in that we should win the game. Not could but should.

Obviously, they kicked our butt that day, for a number of reasons (self-inflicted wounds, bad defensive gameplan, something "off" with the teams attitude (not just that week but for the 1st half of the year) and not being prepared for their QB (how could we have been), but I still believe that if we had played them later in the season we could have won. The loss proved they were the better team that day. The season didn't fully convince me that they were a better team.
 
businesslawyer said:
I felt going in that we should win the game. Not could but should.

Obviously, they kicked our butt that day, for a number of reasons (self-inflicted wounds, bad defensive gameplan, something "off" with the teams attitude (not just that week but for the 1st half of the year) and not being prepared for their QB (how could we have been), but I still believe that if we had played them later in the season we could have won. The loss proved they were the better team that day. The season didn't fully convince me that they were a better team.
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I wasn't as confident going in... Agree with you on everything else.
 
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