(07-29-2019 10:09 AM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 10:01 AM)panite Wrote:  ... Oh wait UConn FB will be FCS if it survives at all by the time they start looking for those "BUY" games. ...

So ... wade through all of the smilies and verbiage, and what you are predicting is that UConn will FCS by 2020?

Yeah, no.

They may make it through the end of the stadium contract in 2023 if they can get 10k + to show up. The state needs its money from the UConn rental agreement for the funding it put up to build the stadium. They are losing a ton cash on UConn sports and I mean all of their sports including the prized BB programs in the meantime. FCS means 15 less FB scholarships plus 15 less women's' scholarships in an effort to balance the budget and the NCAA regulations down the road and none of the lost women's scholarships will come from the women's BB program. I'll skip the smilies and just give you a here.

I have no way of knowing what UConn will choose to do. But I see no reason why they can't remain an FBS independent indefinitely.

(07-29-2019 01:10 PM)ken d Wrote:  I have no way of knowing what UConn will choose to do. But I see no reason why they can't remain an FBS independent indefinitely.

Because football is expensive as all get-out, and it gets more expensive when you have to cut big checks to get people to come play at your empty stadium.

(P5 programs are also expensive as all get-out, but generate the revenues to support the programs, mostly,)

The only checks UConn Is going to have to write will be to FCS schools. They ought to be able to fill a schedule with 1-1 and 2-1 series as well as take rent-a-victim games with top level P5

I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. However, I think this is what will become a "typical" FB schedule for UCONN by year 3 or 4 of independence:

Expected Annual H/H games
Notre Dame
BYU
Army
Navy
Syracuse
Boston College
UMASS - as one of the annual creampuff warm-up games - probably 1st thru 3rd game annually

Annual SEC/ACC scheduling agreement with 2 teams from each conf - H/H in Perpetuity
Typical annual matchups will include:
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia

Annual Buy game for guaranteed home game
Any MAC/CUSA/MWC team will do here - no need to give it much more thought than that.

So here is a sample schedule I expect to see from UCONN in 2023 perhaps. I'm guessing 1 to 2 games a year could be neutral site games like Gillette Stadium or the Giant's home stadium.

UMASS
Alabama
Miami (FL)
Army
Georgia
Navy
North Carolina
BYU
Notre Dame
Marshall
Syracuse
Boston College

(07-28-2019 08:01 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 07:28 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 07:12 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(07-27-2019 11:51 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(07-27-2019 09:59 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  Why would UCF or any other AAC team be willing to schedule them in football next year?

Handshake agreement as part of the exit fee agreement. Plus UCF needs to play *somebody* OOC.

Well, UCF and FIU sign home and home, @UCF 2020 @FIU 2022, so much for that.

So that's one less path to getting UConn 4 FBS home games in 2020.

Actually that is just a 3rd game for each. FIU needs a home game still and UCF needs a road game to get to 12 in 2020. So neither is off the table, especially not UCF.

I think the 12th game for UCF is going to be an FCS home game. And I think FIU would rather have an FCS guaranteed win than UConn (an only mostly guaranteed win) for their 5th home game.

UCF usually has FCS on schedule to get the extra home game so seriously doubt UCF will be playing UCONN. I rather have 2@UCF - 1@UCONN than their basketball team visiting.

(07-28-2019 11:19 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 08:29 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  Also 2022 already has Temple and Cuse so they are more likely to look for a FCS team. 2024 only has VT which is on the road so probably they will look for a FCS at home and thats when they could fit in UConn at home that season. First road game Rutgers could play vs UConn would be 2025.

So, that's a long winded way of saying, with respect to the topic of this thread, Rutgers has no relevance whatsover?

Work on your troll game

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. However, I think this is what will become a "typical" FB schedule for UCONN by year 3 or 4 of independence:

[b][b]Expected Annual H/H games
Notre Dame[/b][/b]
BYU
Army
Navy
Syracuse
Boston College
UMASS - as one of the annual creampuff warm-up games - probably 1st thru 3rd game annually

Annual SEC/ACC scheduling agreement with 2 teams from each conf - H/H in Perpetuity
Typical annual matchups will include:
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia

Annual Buy game for guaranteed home game
Any MAC/CUSA/MWC team will do here - no need to give it much more thought than that.

So here is a sample schedule I expect to see from UCONN in 2023 perhaps. I'm guessing 1 to 2 games a year could be neutral site games like Gillette Stadium or the Giant's home stadium.

UMASS
Alabama
Miami (FL)
Army
Georgia
Navy
North Carolina
BYU
Notre Dame
Marshall
Syracuse
Boston College

I think it is very unlikely that ND will play annual games against UConn or have a home/home series with UConn.

ND may offer a buy game in South Bend, maybe even that game combined with one at Gillette Stadium (or Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium or MetLife Stadium) but that would likely be the extent of it.

(07-29-2019 08:09 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. However, I think this is what will become a "typical" FB schedule for UCONN by year 3 or 4 of independence:

[b][b]Expected Annual H/H games
Notre Dame[/b][/b]
BYU
Army
Navy
Syracuse
Boston College
UMASS - as one of the annual creampuff warm-up games - probably 1st thru 3rd game annually

Annual SEC/ACC scheduling agreement with 2 teams from each conf - H/H in Perpetuity
Typical annual matchups will include:
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia

Annual Buy game for guaranteed home game
Any MAC/CUSA/MWC team will do here - no need to give it much more thought than that.

So here is a sample schedule I expect to see from UCONN in 2023 perhaps. I'm guessing 1 to 2 games a year could be neutral site games like Gillette Stadium or the Giant's home stadium.

UMASS
Alabama
Miami (FL)
Army
Georgia
Navy
North Carolina
BYU
Notre Dame
Marshall
Syracuse
Boston College

I think it is very unlikely that ND will play annual games against UConn or have a home/home series with UConn.

ND may offer a buy game in South Bend, maybe even that game combined with one at Gillette Stadium (or Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium or MetLife Stadium) but that would likely be the extent of it.

I wouldn't be so sure that the ACC or the SEC schools will go for home-and-home with an independent UConn. 1 off payday games or 2-1 maybe, but it would be a the weaker of the old Big East teams now in the ACC primarily, but even then I don’t see BC or Cuse agreeing to play every year. There is no scenario where Bama, Florida, Georgia, Miami, FSU or Tennessee give UConn 1 for 1 home and homes or probably even 2-1 terms. What possible benefit would there be for SEC teams to travel to a recruiting dead zone to play in front of an empty stadium in a non-tourist destination city in a game that won’t be televised or streamed nationally against a completely mediocre opponent? I think your regular opponents for alternating annual home and home will be Army, UMass, Liberty, New Mexico State, 5-6 G5 teams (MAC heavy, looking at you UBuffalo), 1 payday game or 2-1 against BYU or a middling P5 program and then an FCS school or 2, until they wise up and drop down to the CAA in FCS.

(07-27-2019 01:18 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  

(07-27-2019 09:59 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  

(07-27-2019 07:52 AM)panite Wrote:  9-3 - UMASS
9-12 - at Illinois
9-19 - Maine
9-26 - Indiana

UCF has an open date if the AAC schedules a conference game in September so one game at UCF if the AAC works with them.

Why would UCF or any other AAC team be willing to schedule them in football next year?

For Basketball games. Clearly AAC schools want to play UConn in Basketball, including women's, otherwise they would not have negotiate those 4 games a year in the exit clause. But who exactly UConn MBB and WBB schedules is not stipulated. Certainly UConn is going to schedule schools that play them in Football. One Football game might get you 4 basketball games.

There is definitely demand, as Houston's coaches have stated that they want to play UConn in Basketball, and probably others. A football hoe and home series will get you at least four basketball games.

Besides UCF, SMU also has an open slot with the TCU series coming to an end (it's gotten way too lopsided in TCU's favor, too many large margin results). So it's quite possible UConn might play one of those schools in October. Only Cincy seems butt hurt jilted. Everyone else seems to have just shrugged, as UConn were always something of an outsider, that odd red head kid you inherited when you moved into the house, and who you always wondered 'why are they still here?'.

On panite's post: The Maine game will almost certainly be rescheduled to open up September 19th. That is simply too valuable a date for UConn in finding a G5 partner. An FCS opponent can be found latter in the year, and Maine can be played in a future year instead.

Correction: Cincy completely sympathizes what UConn is doing. We almost wish we could do the same thing for basketball, but we're not willing to sacrifice football like UConn is.

I'd be willing to play them home-and-home in football if they throw in a long-term basketball deal. I'd like to keep playing them in basketball. I hope the feeling is mutual.

(07-29-2019 08:40 PM)CarlSmithCenter Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 08:09 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. However, I think this is what will become a "typical" FB schedule for UCONN by year 3 or 4 of independence:

[b][b]Expected Annual H/H games
Notre Dame[/b][/b]
BYU
Army
Navy
Syracuse
Boston College
UMASS - as one of the annual creampuff warm-up games - probably 1st thru 3rd game annually

Annual SEC/ACC scheduling agreement with 2 teams from each conf - H/H in Perpetuity
Typical annual matchups will include:
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia

Annual Buy game for guaranteed home game
Any MAC/CUSA/MWC team will do here - no need to give it much more thought than that.

So here is a sample schedule I expect to see from UCONN in 2023 perhaps. I'm guessing 1 to 2 games a year could be neutral site games like Gillette Stadium or the Giant's home stadium.

UMASS
Alabama
Miami (FL)
Army
Georgia
Navy
North Carolina
BYU
Notre Dame
Marshall
Syracuse
Boston College

I think it is very unlikely that ND will play annual games against UConn or have a home/home series with UConn.

ND may offer a buy game in South Bend, maybe even that game combined with one at Gillette Stadium (or Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium or MetLife Stadium) but that would likely be the extent of it.

I wouldn't be so sure that the ACC or the SEC schools will go for home-and-home with an independent UConn. 1 off payday games or 2-1 maybe, but it would be a the weaker of the old Big East teams now in the ACC primarily, but even then I don’t see BC or Cuse agreeing to play every year. There is no scenario where Bama, Florida, Georgia, Miami, FSU or Tennessee give UConn 1 for 1 home and homes or probably even 2-1 terms. What possible benefit would there be for SEC teams to travel to a recruiting dead zone to play in front of an empty stadium in a non-tourist destination city in a game that won’t be televised or streamed nationally against a completely mediocre opponent? I think your regular opponents for alternating annual home and home will be Army, UMass, Liberty, New Mexico State, 5-6 G5 teams (MAC heavy, looking at you UBuffalo), 1 payday game or 2-1 against BYU or a middling P5 program and then an FCS school or 2, until they wise up and drop down to the CAA in FCS.

I could see Wake, Duke, and even UNC scheduling UConn. Perhaps Virginia too. UNC has scheduled them before, I don’t really see why it would change.

(07-29-2019 09:11 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(07-27-2019 01:18 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  

(07-27-2019 09:59 AM)DoubleRSU Wrote:  

(07-27-2019 07:52 AM)panite Wrote:  9-3 - UMASS
9-12 - at Illinois
9-19 - Maine
9-26 - Indiana

UCF has an open date if the AAC schedules a conference game in September so one game at UCF if the AAC works with them.

Why would UCF or any other AAC team be willing to schedule them in football next year?

For Basketball games. Clearly AAC schools want to play UConn in Basketball, including women's, otherwise they would not have negotiate those 4 games a year in the exit clause. But who exactly UConn MBB and WBB schedules is not stipulated. Certainly UConn is going to schedule schools that play them in Football. One Football game might get you 4 basketball games.

There is definitely demand, as Houston's coaches have stated that they want to play UConn in Basketball, and probably others. A football hoe and home series will get you at least four basketball games.

Besides UCF, SMU also has an open slot with the TCU series coming to an end (it's gotten way too lopsided in TCU's favor, too many large margin results). So it's quite possible UConn might play one of those schools in October. Only Cincy seems butt hurt jilted. Everyone else seems to have just shrugged, as UConn were always something of an outsider, that odd red head kid you inherited when you moved into the house, and who you always wondered 'why are they still here?'.

On panite's post: The Maine game will almost certainly be rescheduled to open up September 19th. That is simply too valuable a date for UConn in finding a G5 partner. An FCS opponent can be found latter in the year, and Maine can be played in a future year instead.

Correction: Cincy completely sympathizes what UConn is doing. We almost wish we could do the same thing for basketball, but we're not willing to sacrifice football like UConn is.

I'd be willing to play them home-and-home in football if they throw in a long-term basketball deal. I'd like to keep playing them in basketball. I hope the feeling is mutual.

I expect Cincy to be one of the programs that UConn schedules a home-and-home with as part of the exit agreement.

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. However, I think this is what will become a "typical" FB schedule for UCONN by year 3 or 4 of independence:

Expected Annual H/H games
Notre Dame
BYU
Army
Navy
Syracuse
Boston College
UMASS - as one of the annual creampuff warm-up games - probably 1st thru 3rd game annually

Annual SEC/ACC scheduling agreement with 2 teams from each conf - H/H in Perpetuity
Typical annual matchups will include:
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia

Annual Buy game for guaranteed home game
Any MAC/CUSA/MWC team will do here - no need to give it much more thought than that.

So here is a sample schedule I expect to see from UCONN in 2023 perhaps. I'm guessing 1 to 2 games a year could be neutral site games like Gillette Stadium or the Giant's home stadium.

UMASS
Alabama
Miami (FL)
Army
Georgia
Navy
North Carolina
BYU
Notre Dame
Marshall
Syracuse
Boston College

This^. No question.
UCONN will get H&H’s with Notre Dame and Alabama.

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. ...

IOW, "I see no opportunity to troll on this actual topic, so let me change the topic to one that offers much more substantial trolling opportunities".

(07-29-2019 08:07 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 11:19 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 08:29 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  Also 2022 already has Temple and Cuse so they are more likely to look for a FCS team. 2024 only has VT which is on the road so probably they will look for a FCS at home and thats when they could fit in UConn at home that season. First road game Rutgers could play vs UConn would be 2025.

So, that's a long winded way of saying, with respect to the topic of this thread, Rutgers has no relevance whatsover?

Work on your troll game

I'll take that as an indirect way to answer, "yes".

But never mind ... now that the troll master has shown up, the thread could well be irretrievably diverted away from the intriguing speculation of how UConn will handle the challenge of scheduling in 2020.

But maybe not irretrievably lost, since there it did lead to this, which gets into the details of the exit deal which might not have been announced ... which is, this BBall agreement, is it based on which BBall games are agreed to between UConn and a particular school, and does it allow those BBall games to be part of joint BBall/FB deals? And if it does, does it allow them to be scheduled later in the season? Because regarding:

(07-29-2019 09:11 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  I'd be willing to play them home-and-home in football if they throw in a long-term basketball deal. I'd like to keep playing them in basketball. I hope the feeling is mutual.

... if UConn could buy into the Bearcats/Redhawks series and work out a deal with the MAC and the AAC to move the dates into the regular conference seasons, they'd be halfway home to solving their 2020 scheduling challenge.

(07-29-2019 09:39 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. ...

IOW, "I see no opportunity to troll on this actual topic, so let me change the topic to one that offers much more substantial trolling opportunities".

(07-29-2019 08:07 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 11:19 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(07-28-2019 08:29 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  Also 2022 already has Temple and Cuse so they are more likely to look for a FCS team. 2024 only has VT which is on the road so probably they will look for a FCS at home and thats when they could fit in UConn at home that season. First road game Rutgers could play vs UConn would be 2025.

So, that's a long winded way of saying, with respect to the topic of this thread, Rutgers has no relevance whatsover?

Work on your troll game

I'll take that as an indirect way to answer, "yes".

But never mind ... now that the troll master has shown up, the thread could well be irretrievably diverted away from the intriguing speculation of how UConn will handle the challenge of scheduling in 2020.

But maybe not irretrievably lost, since there it did lead to this, which gets into the details of the exit deal which might not have been announced ... which is, this BBall agreement, is it based on which BBall games are agreed to between UConn and a particular school, and does it allow those BBall games to be part of joint BBall/FB deals? And if it does, does it allow them to be scheduled later in the season? Because regarding:

(07-29-2019 09:11 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  I'd be willing to play them home-and-home in football if they throw in a long-term basketball deal. I'd like to keep playing them in basketball. I hope the feeling is mutual.

... if UConn could buy into the Bearcats/Redhawks series and work out a deal with the MAC and the AAC to move the dates into the regular conference seasons, they'd be halfway home to solving their 2020 scheduling challenge.

Says the guy who diverted away from an actual conversation between 3 people about if UConn could schedule a local P5 program. Go ahead divert away with weak attempts to talk smack.

(07-29-2019 09:27 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. However, I think this is what will become a "typical" FB schedule for UCONN by year 3 or 4 of independence:

Expected Annual H/H games
Notre Dame
BYU
Army
Navy
Syracuse
Boston College
UMASS - as one of the annual creampuff warm-up games - probably 1st thru 3rd game annually

Annual SEC/ACC scheduling agreement with 2 teams from each conf - H/H in Perpetuity
Typical annual matchups will include:
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia

Annual Buy game for guaranteed home game
Any MAC/CUSA/MWC team will do here - no need to give it much more thought than that.

So here is a sample schedule I expect to see from UCONN in 2023 perhaps. I'm guessing 1 to 2 games a year could be neutral site games like Gillette Stadium or the Giant's home stadium.

UMASS
Alabama
Miami (FL)
Army
Georgia
Navy
North Carolina
BYU
Notre Dame
Marshall
Syracuse
Boston College

This^. No question.
UCONN will get H&H’s with Notre Dame and Alabama.

I sense sarcasm. No worries though. All UCONN has to do is dangle out MBB and WBB scheduling agreements with the various ACC/SEC teams to make it happen. They could probably get away with 2 for 1 BB agreements in order to secure H/H agreements for FB games with all ACC and SEC schools.

(07-29-2019 10:27 PM)miko33 Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 09:27 PM)billybobby777 Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. However, I think this is what will become a "typical" FB schedule for UCONN by year 3 or 4 of independence:

Expected Annual H/H games
Notre Dame
BYU
Army
Navy
Syracuse
Boston College
UMASS - as one of the annual creampuff warm-up games - probably 1st thru 3rd game annually

Annual SEC/ACC scheduling agreement with 2 teams from each conf - H/H in Perpetuity
Typical annual matchups will include:
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia

Annual Buy game for guaranteed home game
Any MAC/CUSA/MWC team will do here - no need to give it much more thought than that.

So here is a sample schedule I expect to see from UCONN in 2023 perhaps. I'm guessing 1 to 2 games a year could be neutral site games like Gillette Stadium or the Giant's home stadium.

UMASS
Alabama
Miami (FL)
Army
Georgia
Navy
North Carolina
BYU
Notre Dame
Marshall
Syracuse
Boston College

This^. No question.
UCONN will get H&H’s with Notre Dame and Alabama.

I sense sarcasm. No worries though. All UCONN has to do is dangle out MBB and WBB scheduling agreements with the various ACC/SEC teams to make it happen. They could probably get away with 2 for 1 BB agreements in order to secure H/H agreements for FB games with all ACC and SEC schools.

I sensed sarcasm in your post.
No question.

(07-29-2019 08:40 PM)CarlSmithCenter Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 08:09 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. However, I think this is what will become a "typical" FB schedule for UCONN by year 3 or 4 of independence:

[b][b]Expected Annual H/H games
Notre Dame[/b][/b]
BYU
Army
Navy
Syracuse
Boston College
UMASS - as one of the annual creampuff warm-up games - probably 1st thru 3rd game annually

Annual SEC/ACC scheduling agreement with 2 teams from each conf - H/H in Perpetuity
Typical annual matchups will include:
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia

Annual Buy game for guaranteed home game
Any MAC/CUSA/MWC team will do here - no need to give it much more thought than that.

So here is a sample schedule I expect to see from UCONN in 2023 perhaps. I'm guessing 1 to 2 games a year could be neutral site games like Gillette Stadium or the Giant's home stadium.

UMASS
Alabama
Miami (FL)
Army
Georgia
Navy
North Carolina
BYU
Notre Dame
Marshall
Syracuse
Boston College

I think it is very unlikely that ND will play annual games against UConn or have a home/home series with UConn.

ND may offer a buy game in South Bend, maybe even that game combined with one at Gillette Stadium (or Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium or MetLife Stadium) but that would likely be the extent of it.

I wouldn't be so sure that the ACC or the SEC schools will go for home-and-home with an independent UConn. 1 off payday games or 2-1 maybe, but it would be a the weaker of the old Big East teams now in the ACC primarily, but even then I don’t see BC or Cuse agreeing to play every year. There is no scenario where Bama, Florida, Georgia, Miami, FSU or Tennessee give UConn 1 for 1 home and homes or probably even 2-1 terms. What possible benefit would there be for SEC teams to travel to a recruiting dead zone to play in front of an empty stadium in a non-tourist destination city in a game that won’t be televised or streamed nationally against a completely mediocre opponent? I think your regular opponents for alternating annual home and home will be Army, UMass, Liberty, New Mexico State, 5-6 G5 teams (MAC heavy, looking at you UBuffalo), 1 payday game or 2-1 against BYU or a middling P5 program and then an FCS school or 2, until they wise up and drop down to the CAA in FCS.

travel to a recruiting dead zone to
play in front of an empty stadium
in a non-tourist destination city
in a game that won’t be televised or streamed nationally
against a completely mediocre opponent

This is a painfully depressing description.... and sadly true.

(07-29-2019 10:27 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I sense sarcasm. No worries though. All UCONN has to do is dangle out MBB and WBB scheduling agreements with the various ACC/SEC teams to make it happen. They could probably get away with 2 for 1 BB agreements in order to secure H/H agreements for FB games with all ACC and SEC schools.

And after UConn meets their Big East Conference commitments and inter-conference OOC exhibition commitments, I am sure they UConn have an unlimited number of MBB games to "dangle", and will certainly find a surplus of SEC and ACC schools that have an unrequited hunger for the chance to play UConn in MBB and really mind downgrading their FB schedule to get that game. After all, in modern college sports, Basketball Is King, and nowhere near as much as in the SEC SEC SEC.

But as a prediction of what the UConn 2020 schedule will look like, "games from multiple SEC/ACC home and home agreements" for sure is a prediction. I am sure someone will come back to this thread when UConn's 2020 schedule starts to be released, and check out how miko33 did as a forecaster.

(07-29-2019 11:17 PM)33laszlo99 Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 08:40 PM)CarlSmithCenter Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 08:09 PM)TerryD Wrote:  

(07-29-2019 02:47 PM)miko33 Wrote:  I think the future is exceedingly bright for UCONN football now that it's no longer shackled to the AAC. I don't have a good feel for what 2020 will look like due to scheduling tie ups for the next few years. However, I think this is what will become a "typical" FB schedule for UCONN by year 3 or 4 of independence:

[b][b]Expected Annual H/H games
Notre Dame[/b][/b]
BYU
Army
Navy
Syracuse
Boston College
UMASS - as one of the annual creampuff warm-up games - probably 1st thru 3rd game annually

Annual SEC/ACC scheduling agreement with 2 teams from each conf - H/H in Perpetuity
Typical annual matchups will include:
Florida State
Miami
North Carolina
Virginia
Alabama
Florida
Tennessee
Georgia

Annual Buy game for guaranteed home game
Any MAC/CUSA/MWC team will do here - no need to give it much more thought than that.

So here is a sample schedule I expect to see from UCONN in 2023 perhaps. I'm guessing 1 to 2 games a year could be neutral site games like Gillette Stadium or the Giant's home stadium.

UMASS
Alabama
Miami (FL)
Army
Georgia
Navy
North Carolina
BYU
Notre Dame
Marshall
Syracuse
Boston College

I think it is very unlikely that ND will play annual games against UConn or have a home/home series with UConn.

ND may offer a buy game in South Bend, maybe even that game combined with one at Gillette Stadium (or Fenway Park or Yankee Stadium or MetLife Stadium) but that would likely be the extent of it.

I wouldn't be so sure that the ACC or the SEC schools will go for home-and-home with an independent UConn. 1 off payday games or 2-1 maybe, but it would be a the weaker of the old Big East teams now in the ACC primarily, but even then I don’t see BC or Cuse agreeing to play every year. There is no scenario where Bama, Florida, Georgia, Miami, FSU or Tennessee give UConn 1 for 1 home and homes or probably even 2-1 terms. What possible benefit would there be for SEC teams to travel to a recruiting dead zone to play in front of an empty stadium in a non-tourist destination city in a game that won’t be televised or streamed nationally against a completely mediocre opponent? I think your regular opponents for alternating annual home and home will be Army, UMass, Liberty, New Mexico State, 5-6 G5 teams (MAC heavy, looking at you UBuffalo), 1 payday game or 2-1 against BYU or a middling P5 program and then an FCS school or 2, until they wise up and drop down to the CAA in FCS.

travel to a recruiting dead zone to
play in front of an empty stadium
in a non-tourist destination city
in a game that won’t be televised or streamed nationally
against a completely mediocre opponent

This is a painfully depressing description.... and sadly true.

As I mentioned above, I could see UConn get 1-1’s with P5’s like Wake, Duke, Indiana, Vandy, etc. they could secure larger opponents much like UMass does by playing their home game in a pro venue. In UConn’s case, Yankee Stadium; a destination venue.