https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...t-programs

https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-hus...story.html

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-foo...bloehkxkq1

Punt it into the Sun? Don't care, got MSG back.

(06-24-2019 01:16 PM)Bogg Wrote:  Punt it into the Sun? Don't care, got MSG back.

Fox is probably going to help some with the scheduling?

Fox really can't help much. They can't force Big Ten teams to schedule UConn, especially with 3 OOC games, and teams needing 7 home games.

It remains to be seen what (if any) assistance Fox will be providing to UConn Football. Obviously, on the big end, they could assist getting a B1G and/or Big 12 game annually to help fill the schedule. On the low end, it could be giving them exposure on FS1/FS2 for a few games, depending on the opponent. Many of their games will most likely end up on SNY. Time will tell.

(07-09-2019 01:11 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Fox really can't help much. They can't force Big Ten teams to schedule UConn, especially with 3 OOC games, and teams needing 7 home games.

I would argue that simply being left on the list of approved OOC opponents for conference-wide scheduling guidelines would be a huge help, and that is the sort of thing Fox could help with in the form of some back-channel politics with the conference office(s). For the lower-level P5 programs the name of the game is getting 3 or 4 likely winnable OOC games so that they only need 2 or 3 wins in the conference slate to achieve bowl eligibility (and for a school like Rutgers or Indiana or Kansas 6-6 and a bowl game is a highly successful season). UConn's the kind of winnable game that would appeal to those schools, so just being a viable option goes a long way to getting those schools to schedule the Huskies all on their own.

(07-09-2019 08:23 PM)Bogg Wrote:  

(07-09-2019 01:11 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Fox really can't help much. They can't force Big Ten teams to schedule UConn, especially with 3 OOC games, and teams needing 7 home games.

I would argue that simply being left on the list of approved OOC opponents for conference-wide scheduling guidelines would be a huge help, and that is the sort of thing Fox could help with in the form of some back-channel politics with the conference office(s). For the lower-level P5 programs the name of the game is getting 3 or 4 likely winnable OOC games so that they only need 2 or 3 wins in the conference slate to achieve bowl eligibility (and for a school like Rutgers or Indiana or Kansas 6-6 and a bowl game is a highly successful season). UConn's the kind of winnable game that would appeal to those schools, so just being a viable option goes a long way to getting those schools to schedule the Huskies all on their own.

But all the Big Ten/Big 12 teams only have 3 OOC games. For those that have 4 home games, they pretty much all play 3 home OOC games.

UConn's biggest problem is going to be getting the home games. So for instance Big Ten/Big 12- only 12 of those 24 teams play 5 conference home games- and thus are willing to play a road OOC game generally.... And a lot of those 24 teams aren't going to waste a road game playing at UConn.

(07-09-2019 10:01 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(07-09-2019 08:23 PM)Bogg Wrote:  

(07-09-2019 01:11 PM)stever20 Wrote:  Fox really can't help much. They can't force Big Ten teams to schedule UConn, especially with 3 OOC games, and teams needing 7 home games.

I would argue that simply being left on the list of approved OOC opponents for conference-wide scheduling guidelines would be a huge help, and that is the sort of thing Fox could help with in the form of some back-channel politics with the conference office(s). For the lower-level P5 programs the name of the game is getting 3 or 4 likely winnable OOC games so that they only need 2 or 3 wins in the conference slate to achieve bowl eligibility (and for a school like Rutgers or Indiana or Kansas 6-6 and a bowl game is a highly successful season). UConn's the kind of winnable game that would appeal to those schools, so just being a viable option goes a long way to getting those schools to schedule the Huskies all on their own.

But all the Big Ten/Big 12 teams only have 3 OOC games. For those that have 4 home games, they pretty much all play 3 home OOC games.

UConn's biggest problem is going to be getting the home games. So for instance Big Ten/Big 12- only 12 of those 24 teams play 5 conference home games- and thus are willing to play a road OOC game generally.... And a lot of those 24 teams aren't going to waste a road game playing at UConn.

...and yet UConn currently has three sets of home-and-homes with B1G teams agreed to, before the increased need/flexibility of Independent scheduling even came up.