Why this could be the last trip to the Maui Invitational

[CTFAN4LIFE]

It's a sad reality of the state of our AD. The travel expenses plus the equal shared revenue across multiple schools means that we'd make more over a 2 year period with 3 home and 3 road games against good opponents. Or neutral site games at MSG where we get a larger share of the take and travel is on a bus.

Going to the hockey game last Friday it's really staggering parking at the South Garage and walking by Werth, Burton, Morrone, the Baseball stadium and then Toscano. UConn has put a lot of money hoping we'd eventually get that P4/5 revenue.

With the names on those facilities, it got me to wondering what percentage of the new facilty spends were donations vs university spending? Certainly operating expenses will be mostly/all out of the AD/University budget.

 

[BGesus4]

Borges actually had it "tooth-comb". I took out the hyphen.

Toothcomb - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Student gets first-hand job experience

 

[BigFanCT]

Get. Out. Of. The. Big. Least.

 

[August_West]

I would trade the Maui for an additional 3 strong OOC games every year. We get 1 or 2 home games per year, on a rotating basis of course

Way more fun for me. Never been to Maui

But I do like the Battle for Atlantis

Well then you’d love Maui.

 

[GampelGladiator]

Perhaps something like this...plus 5 lower conference home opponents...

2025
H: Penn State, Pittsburgh & Texas
N: Duke & Kentucky
R: Houston

2026
H: Arizona, Miami & Northwestern
N: Arkansas & UNC
R: Alabama

2027
H: Alabama, Rutgers & Syracuse
N: Duke & Kentucky
R: Iowa State

2028
H: Kansas, Maryland & Virginia Tech
N: Arkansas & UNC
R: Tennessee

2029
H: Boston College, Michigan & Tennessee
N: Duke & Kentucky
R: Baylor

I like the idea of the 5 lower conference home opponents rotating teams via these categories:

• Connecticut
• New England
• New York
• Ivy League
• HBCU
• Service Academies

 

[temery]

Student gets first-hand job experience

had to read that a few times.

 

[kibblesnbits]

had to read that a few times

“Hyphen dyslexia” can completely change the meaning.

 

[uconn_jack]

You would hope that UConn is trying to be at the front of creating an MSG MTE with a decent payout for participating schools. Other top schools want the NYC exposure. Broadcasters would be happy. It would seem like a nice marketing opportunity for the company that bought the naming rights.

Unfortunately, I'll bet Syracuse (you know, New York's team) has beat us to that punch.

 

[Tyler2Rings]

I would love more home and homes over MTEs. The only thing the team loses is the early experience in a tournament setting

 

[willie99]

Well then you’d love Maui.

It's about the three hour flight

 

[DRBackup]

Borges actually had it "tooth-comb". I took out the hyphen.

Toothcomb - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Yeah, I'd say the proper term is more fine-tooth comb

 

[August_West]

It's about the three hour flight

Can drink more free scotches on a 9 hour.

 

[JerseyAlum]

We used to do the "Battle for Atlantis" (or similar named in the Bahamas) if memory served. Much cheaper travel than HI.

Schools have budgets and each game can be it's own profit and loss statement : The Maui tourney does bring some revenue, but it's timings are not great for national television and a home game vs Duke if on a weekend and one of each team's first 4 games or so would bring more money in for both schools. This is why they do home and home so one team has no travel expenses and doesn't split advertising income with more than 1 other school.

I see our big OOC games this season vs Baylor, Texas, Gonzaga are televised:

Baylor: FS1
Texas: ESPN
Gonzaga: Fox

Plenty of Big East games are on NBC, CBS, Fox for larger audiences.

 

[JerseyAlum]

Can drink more free scotches on a 9 hour.

Reminds me of that episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia where the crew was flying to California and trying to beat Wade Bogg's record for beers drunk on the plane. Great video on Youtube with Charlie Day on Jimmy Fallon about that episode -probably funnier than the episode itself.