Future OOC scheduling

by SF Cuse on Feb 3, 2012 9:37 PM EST

Now that we know which ACC division we'll be in, and I have to say I'm happy getting Pitt, BC, and Maryland every year, I started thinking about future out of conference scheduling. Going from having to find five games now to just three is going to make things less of a scramble, but also limits options. Assuming one of those games is a FCS, we're down to two. Knowing that Dr Daryl Gross will likely continue to look for high profile games against USC/ND/Penn St either at home or the Meadowlands, that will leave just one.

My first reaction was to think about our poor step siblings/rivals left behind in the Big East - Rutgers and UConn. Would be good in terms of rivalry and excitement, but then I came to the conclusion to screw them. Let's leverage the ACC and our ownership of NYC. No need help them build interest in their games.

What does everyone else think?

Poll

Should we look to schedule Rutgers and/or UConn after we move?

Yes, rivalry games fans look forward to

13 votes

No, let them start new traditions with the likes of San Diego St

46 votes

Only once every few years to let them know what they're missing

23 votes

82 votes | Poll has closed

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No

Screw them.

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by ezcuse on Feb 3, 2012 10:40 PM EST reply actions 3 recs

This

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by theNYsportsguy on Feb 4, 2012 3:59 AM EST up reply actions

HA!!

by cuselaw on Feb 5, 2012 5:34 PM EST up reply actions

Maybe once every now and then

Other than that, who cares?

by cuse2012 on Feb 3, 2012 10:56 PM EST reply actions

Would take a while to setup

When the BE goes to 12 teams, that means probably 8 or 9 conf games vice the 7 now. The remaining teams will probably already have a full set of non-conf games making it difficult to arrange any games for a couple of years anyway.

by orangetundra on Feb 4, 2012 12:45 AM EST reply actions

Playing them isn't terrible, but...

Given where we are as a program, 2/3 of our out of conference schedule pretty much has to be an FCS school and a lower-echelon non-AQ — i.e. two games we know we’re going to win. Which leaves one game for a solid opponent out of conference. And Penn State and West Virginia are way ahead of UConn and Rutgers as far as maintaining northeastern rivalries goes. If we can’t get PSU or WVU on the schedule, and no interesting match-ups from outside our traditional rivals present themselves, then playing Rutgers or UConn is fine. I don’t think we should make any arbitrary, petty declarations we’ll never play them again, but we shouldn’t sign any long-term deals to play them every year or every other year for a long period, either.

I imagine scheduling WVU in the future will be tough because they have the same scheduling constraints and want to play Pitt every year, but I’d rather play the ’eers than UConn or Rutgers.

by drothgery on Feb 4, 2012 1:54 AM EST reply actions

As if Rutgers would play us OOC anyway

That fraud of a program picks the low-hanging fruit. Maybe if we changed our name to Middle Syracuse State….

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by ezcuse on Feb 4, 2012 9:43 AM EST reply actions 1 recs

No

This isn’t basketball where we have a strong tradition with Georgetown, Villanova, UConn, St. Johns. This is football where we’ve only been playing UConn for 8 years and we have almost no tradition with Rutgers, unless you count beating them by 60 in the mid 90’s as tradition.

Without Gerry McNamara we wouldn't have won 10 f-- games, not 10

by PoetryInMoten on Feb 4, 2012 12:04 PM EST reply actions

I didn't read the original post and just assumed this was about basketball

That said, I still voted “screw them”. Even in basketball I would rather just leave UConn behind. The only rivalry that I care about maintaining is Georgetown. I know that many would disagree for basketball.

by ElvirFor3 on Feb 4, 2012 4:03 PM EST up reply actions

If we're talking just football, no way.

But hoops? I’d like to see an occasional (if not regular) series with UConn… Jimmy sounded adamant that St. Johns and Georgetown would be regular OOC games, but I would not mind subbing UConn for St. Johns at all. And with two guaranteed huge rivalry games every year, you wouldn’t hear the complaining about Syracuse’s OOC schedule even if the rest of it sucked because there would be two guaranteed, high-profile national TV games.

I like the idea of setting a regular date for Georgetown, like every year on the first Monday of December or something.

It's the most bullshit thing I've seen in thirty years.

by Girardi Party on Feb 6, 2012 11:46 AM EST reply actions