(10-30-2019 09:29 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(10-25-2019 07:57 PM)HawaiiMongoose Wrote:  Bad planning by the AD. He claims UH has been trying to line up a second 2021 out-of-conference home opponent for the past five years with no success. Fans here aren't buying it, as UH playing the same team twice hasn't happened in many years if ever.

Having said that, it is getting harder to convince teams to fly all the way to Honolulu for games, even with the Week Zero and 13th game exemptions. Coaches view the long trip as putting their team at a disadvantage the following week. UH used to have success luring big-time programs (Wisconsin, Alabama, Michigan State) to end their seasons with a warm weather game in paradise, but that ended with the advent of conference championship games.

This should help quash the myth that UH is a good candidate for independence. The scheduling challenges if we left or were pushed out of the MWC could seriously endanger our football program.

It doesn't help that Hawai'i's fans have a horrible reputation.

Cincinnati has visited Hawai'i twice since 2000. Both ended up with Hawai'i fans throwing things at UC players & band members. One of them ended up with UC being forced to bring a bus on the field to evacuate our people safely.

Yep screwed up the NOLA Bowl in 2002. Hope was to bring in Tulane to face North Texas and get a big crowd but the Bearcats had been to Hawaii in regular season and it got unpleasant enough (Hawaii won 20-19) that C-USA sent Tulane and the Greenies took care of bidness.

To make the NOLA Bowl situation worse, the Bearcats were hosting a ranked opponent in men's basketball the same day and if I remember right at least part of the men's game overlapped the bowl game.