Re: Non conference schedule

[Zahid Siddiqi]

A 16 game schedule with just one home & home game makes perfect sense.  And I especially agree on the screw Notre Dame thing!  

"richard l. kandell" <address@hidden> wrote:  I know, at least for the next year or so, the conference schedule is greatly
impacted by the contract with ESPN. However, when that expires, and is
renegotiated, why not have a 16 game schedule with only 1 home/home series?
Then the once a year games might be huge for any network (e.g.,
UConn-Villanova), and the home and home games would make sense: there would
be the long term regional rivals home and home, e.g., Pitt/W.Va., UC/UofL,
Marquette/DePaul. Others could be called things like the home and home
battle for New England, UConn/Providence; the battle for New York,
Syracuse/St.John's, the war for New Jersey, Seton Hall/Rutgers, the battle
between where the Constitution was written, Villanova, and where it is being
rewritten, Georgetown, and finally, the we're going to screw Notre Dame for
not playing football in the conference by making their basketball team fly
all the way to South Florida every year series. :-)

Richard K.

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Al Uhrig" 
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:33 AM
> Subject: [UC Basketball] Non conference schedule
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> No Dayton next year and most likely no Dayton for a long time. With the
> Big East most probably going to an 18 game schedule, play everyone once,
> play 3 teams twice, for 2007-2008; it becomes more difficult to schedule
> home and home series, keeping the home schedule at 20 games. Memphis and
> UAB are 6 year series; NC State is away in 2007-2008.
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> If you get 28 games to play and you are going to play 18 at home with 2
> exhibitions for a total of 20 home games, that leaves 10 away games.
> With 9 Big East games on the road that leaves 1 away game per year
> non-conference.