OT: UConn to Big 12 ?
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We wonder if you will ever have anything nice to say about Rutgers, Syracuse fan.
What I do know is, we would never schedule them to find out.
Instead we play Wagner again, Sagarin 259 out of 261 last year. Nice job Greg.
Would anyone be surprised if we play them in 2024 too ?
Instead we play Wagner again, Sagarin 259 out of 261 last year. Nice job Greg.
Would anyone be surprised if we play them in 2024 too ?
God damn right we play Wagner. And Should
Continue to play the worst 1AA we can. If UCONN joins the Big 12 we can play them instead of Cuse or BC.
It's true we play Wagner again when I thought it would be a one year thing. But you know what? If we play Wagner in 2024, 2025 and 2026 I have no problem.
True Wagner was #259 last year but we'll also play the #3, #5, #6, #31 and #37 this year. Having a no doubt about it, guaranteed, send the bus to pick them up and save about $500,000 win on our schedule every year is fine with me.
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Yes I would be surprised, because we were not originally scheduled to play them in 2023. They were a late addition when Ohio U. bailed.
UConn likely won't schedule us unless it's home and home. Would you schedule them on those terms?
No.
Even though I’m not a fan (would prefer a 2/3-1), do that with Temple.
The local bought game can be with UMass instead.
Greg hates playing Temple, so I don't expect them to be on the schedule again until after his tenure is over. However, from a fans perspective it is the equivalent of a home game every year as the Linc can pretty much be considered another home game for Rutgers. It is actually easier for us fans in South Jersey to get to the Linc than SHI Stadium.
Wagner has 2000 students. Not student-athletes, students. I get you want some relatively "easy wins" but c'mon. And to do it a second time ! Play Lehigh, Monmouth or someone like that.
I don’t care if they have 28 students. 1AA games are about easy wins, fine tuning things, and getting young guys reps. You want to play Lehigh. Fine. That’s no different in anyone’s eyes but maybe yours for some reason. Michigan is the winningest program in NCAA history. Yet every week 1 you get to watch them lose to 1AA App state. And New Hampshire says hi
It is interesting to see now 8 full seasons into Big 10 play how some of the fan base has switched from ‘We want to play the best! Bring on the Big 10!’ To ‘schedule the lowest cupcakes possible to get the win total up!’
Sad what terrible leadership causes
Bro, the problem is we aren’t ‘fine tuning’ anything against a team like that. We beat them 66-7 last year which you would think would indicate a ‘well oiled machine’ even against a 1-AA opponent, and proceeded to go 1-8 in conference and get blown the hell off the field not by the blue bloods, but by ‘perennial powers’ like Maryland and Minnesota.
There’s no fine tuning whatsoever vs Wagner. Vs temple? Sure! And realistically, for a Big 10 east program, temple should be a cupcake
Also, Michigan lost to App state in 2007. I get some of our fans (who still believe in Schiano) are stuck in that era, but it was one time, 16 years ago. It by no means happens every year.
Furthermore App State that year was coming off an appearance in the 1-AA NC game so they actually were half decent.
Wagner has won 1, yes count it, 1 game since BEFORE COVID. It’s apples to oranges
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I don’t see any posts excited about getting into big 10 play this year and seeing what this team can do no. In fact, most of the Big 10 conversation I’m seeing is can we beat 1 win Northwestern? It’s an entirely different conversation than what was occurring early on. Heck after we beat Michigan in 14’, we were all on cloud 9! We were about to arrive! Then it all went downhill due to poor leadership
I’d have no problem with as weak an OOC schedule as we can. 9 B1G games are enough. Sign me up for 7-5 (4-5) and a Bowl game.
You don’t watch a lot of football I guess. Happens every year. There is zero benefit to playing anything but a horrible 1AA to start the season.
How long has Iowa been in the Big? They won their 1AA game 7-3 last year. Seems like 2 million well spent
The 1AA schools you and I mentioned would beat Wagner by five TDs. There’s bad and then there’s really, really bad. Wagner falls into the latter category
I do not understand the 'play the most difficult 1-AA game possible' logic at all. It's like warming up for a marathon by running 10 miles with your hands taped together the day before the race; it's irrational and no one really cares about it unless you fall on your face and get hurt.
...if you're going to play a difficult 1AA team you might as well play a FBS team.
Joe P.
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VK is correct. You and shelby- not so much(surprise)
We are set in with 9 B1G games and usually a 10th against another P5 and then a fairly competitive G5 like Temple.
Give us tge one damn cupcake and stop crying.
You ever see some of the teams Alabama and similar teams schedule. It may not be Wagner but the difference between Bama and their cupcake is usually even larger…
We really have some idiots on here. I know one guy is a Cuse fan but the other few, not so sure.
Agree, except I never want to see New Hampshire or any team affiliated with Ricky Santos on the schedule ever again.
Amazing how a thread about UConn to Big 12 turned into a bitchfest by 2 non-fans about RU's schedule.
Yea it’s been talked about but still not sure it’ll happen yet. The B12 is probably still waiting on the PAC tv deal.
Yormark wants to play up the basketball side of the conference and make it really top notch. There is talk he may unbundle the basketball package from the football side in the future when selling to the networks.
As far as the future, I think the ACC should try to look to add UConn down the line before they lose teams in 10-15 years. It could be a tug of war for teams like UCF, WVU, Cincy possibly in the future and which ever side seems more amenable geographically might have the sway for those 3 or even some current lower tier ACC schools.
You should look at the OOC's played by SEC schools.
Last year's schedule that INCLUDED Wagner btw was ranked 35th out of those 261 D1/1AA teams by Sagarin. Why didn't you mention that?
Such nonsense.
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Which is ironic if true because Syracuse also played Wagner
And they play #223 Colgate this coming season
Lehigh has got a new coach this year. They finally stepped up and are bringing in someone who has credentials as the previous offensive coordinator at Yale. Yale was the top offense in the Ivy League and top 25 in FCS last year. Couple years he will likely have that program turned around, plus that would be a super bowl game for Lehigh and Greg doesn't like those local rivalry games. Don't see them scheduling Lehigh any time soon.
I watch plenty of football, app state certainly isn’t beating Michigan every year. That happened 1 time 15 years ago. Now does every year a random P5 get upset by what’s supposed to be an early season tune up? Sure! Heck Eastern Michigan vs us comes to mind.
I see no value in playing specifically Wagner as they are the lowest of the low in terms of football, they are the team the 1-AA squads beat up on. We slaughtered them by 59 last year and it did NOTHING to prepare us for the Big 10 gautlet as evidenced by our 1-8 conference record while also not even staying competitive until halftime vs 6 of them! I’m all for playing a lowly 1-AA team early season, but play a team that will actually make your team have to try a little bit. We could honestly show up, run nothing but draw plays and a standard 4 man rush zone defense on every single play, and still beat them by 30…. Playing a team like that does nothing to improve a squad, again as evidenced by our results last year
Going 1-8 and is playing Wagner are mutually exclusive occurrences.
The BIG hasn’t done us any favors with our schedule, ( I don’t expect them to).
I wouldn’t care if we played an inter squad scrimmage for our third OOC.
We have a brutal schedule and it dosen’t get any better until 2025. If scheduling Wagner helps us get that 6th win and get to that elusive bowl game, I’m in.
The BIG hasn’t done us any favors with our schedule, ( I don’t expect them to).
I wouldn’t care if we played an inter squad scrimmage for our third OOC.
We have a brutal schedule and it dosen’t get any better until 2025. If scheduling Wagner helps us get that 6th win and get to that elusive bowl game, I’m in.
If I were the commish of the ACC, B12,and PAC. I would build some kind of alliance with the other 2 to try and close the gap with the Big 10 and SEC.
If not, if I were the ACC I’d have all the eastern B12 schools vetted and ready to come home.
Lehigh doesn’t seem to to desire the “paycheck” games. Last Div 1a team they played was Navy back in 2019 I think