Syracuse Could Play Rutgers Twice In Football Next Season, Per Report
by Sean Keeley on Feb 8, 2012 10:53 PM EST
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PrintAaaaaand Big East Football has now gone to plaid.
According to the Star-Ledger, the Syracuse Orange and Rutgers Scarlet Knights could play each other twice during the 2012 football season as a contingency plan to fill the void left by West Virginia bolting to the Big 12.
This is according to two people "familiar with the contingency plans being discussed."
At first glance it sounds kinda nutty. I'm sure someone is researching whether or not two teams have played one another twice in the regular season during the "modern era" but it can't be often.
But when you think about it, it's just crazy enough to work. Think about it. Syracuse is already having a tough time filling the fifth and final non-con spot on the schedule. We've already scheduled a FCS team (Stony Brook) so avoiding scheduling two of them is critical. If WVU leaves, the chances we can find two FBS opponents, while competing with every other Big East school to do so, seems impossible.
Playing one team twice in a home-and-home solves the problem. Plus, it's Rutgers, whom we hate and would love the opportunity to beat twice.
It could be the quick fix for all Big East teams to pair up like this and solve the potential issue. Of course, we have to wait and find out if West Virginia is in fact leaving (They are). Once they do, let's see how the dominoes fall.
For the record, I checked and Syracuse has played a team more than once in a regular season before, but not since 1897 (Buffalo).
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by Nick Petrilli on Feb 8, 2012 10:55 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Please explain one thing
How is WVU able to avoid the 27 month exit notice and SU isn’t? Because SU won’t sue the conference to get out of it? This is the opposite of what I think of when I think of big time college football. A home and home? This isn’t the NFC East. Not even close. SU needs to bail out of this mess instead of being stuck in the conference for the season in which it will be at its absolute worst. However, I am fairly certain we are stuck.
Because WV will pay $20,000,000 *
And we won’t
- Paid by the Big 12
Because West Virginia is just whipping its d*** out
It’s a game of chicken. And it looks like WVU is going to win. We should go with them.
http://cusepulp.blogspot.com/
by Lots of Pulp on Feb 9, 2012 10:28 AM EST up reply actions
Colorado and California just played a non-conference conference game last year.
But they didn’t play a conference conference game.
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The idea would take both Syracuse and Rutgers off the table as Florida State opponents.
Hmm.
Abiaka Windclan
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by Abiaka Windclan on Feb 9, 2012 12:51 AM EST up reply actions
With USC already on the schedule?
No thank you
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Explain this to me please, Big East
There are 7 BE teams if WV leaves. So how do you pair up?
You can't. Someone failed at math.
Much like the brief rumors that the 11-team Big Ten was going to a nine-game schedule, it can’t actually happen. You can’t have 7 teams play 7 games each among each other; you’d need to play 8, which would mean doubling up on two teams, or stick one school with a shorter conference schedule than everyone else.
This is not a Big East-wide thing...
It’s a Syracuse/Rutgers thing. According to the original article, which clearly nobody read, only the game at Rutgers would count as a Big East game.
We can't play two games against Georgetown in basketball
but some how we play two against Rutgers in Football?!?!?
by Gregory Tuers on Feb 8, 2012 11:52 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
Complete load of BS
Talk about complete laziness. The BE is too lazy to fight WV and then too lazy to go out and arrange real games for the remaining 7. Those teams coming in better take note of how the BE takes care of its schools. Then you will know why everyone wants to leave.
Maybe this is just chatter.
Maybe you’re really going to join us in the ACC next year, and negotiations are taking place.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12039/1208979-100.stm#ixzz1lplfpFbO
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by Abiaka Windclan on Feb 9, 2012 12:49 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Not ready to leave in basketball
Already have my bags packed in football. What a mess, with or without WVU.
I wish we could play in the ACC for football this year and stay in the BE for hoops until 2014….
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From what I've seen
It may not be a home and home. One will 100% be @ Rutgers, and then the second is at Yankee Stadium unless they can’t get it for some reason.
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This would be the final kick in the teeth
First, we haven’t played the same team twice in a season since the Spanish-American War. Second, the team we get to play twice is Rutgers. Third, we don’t even get one of these games in the Dome. One game would be in Joy-See, and one game would be on a baseball field in New York City. This is the scheduling solution in the zany mind of J. Marianatto.
I’d much rather play FSU in Tallahassee, even if we get blown out 63-0.
Yankee stadium game could be cool tho
and who cares if we don’t have to see Rutgirls at home anyway…
F#&% the Big East
All the more reason for SU & Pitt to leave now
Then the remaining teams can all play each other twice.
Shut up brain or I'll stab you with a Q-tip
Last straw
I am writing my check to help fund the BE payoff. I’ll pay the vig.
Lets get out of here!!!
No, this is retarded, no no no!!!!
Since the early 1990's I have not been able to get Mike Hopkins' bloody face out of my brain. I don't remember what game it was but I'll never forget that as my first memory of SU basketball. Mike Hopkins, bloody face, bloody nose, all for the love of Syracuse.
Did I just Fart?
Something smells like shit around here.
"That's no moon..."
"Now you will wittness the fire-power of this fully armed and operational Death Orange..."
If it pisses off Rutgers fans, then I'm all for it.
Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy. I'm the magical man from. Happyland in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Laaane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
FTS!
Do we have any say in this crap? How have we not sued the BE yet!?!?
May Doug Marrone bless you and keep you.
We don't have a say
We have no voting rights in the Big East or in the ACC right now. We’re like Puerto Rico.
http://cusepulp.blogspot.com/
by Lots of Pulp on Feb 9, 2012 10:33 AM EST up reply actions
So what if we haven't played a home & home in 120 years
The real surprise in that article is Rutgers is thinking about scheduling Arkansas!
Not West Arkansas.
Not Arkansas Wesleyan.
R. Kansas Johnson High School
But the real Arkansas Razordbacks.
No wonder Schiano left.
http://atlanticcoastconfidential.com/
Rutgers is hiring Rob Spence as their WRs Coach
Bubble screens for all!
Can we play them 3 times in one season?
Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy. I'm the magical man from. Happyland in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Laaane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
I suppose that going from the WRs coach at Temple to the WRs coach at Rutgers is a step-up
but there is something very satisfying about Rutgers taking Syracuse’s sloppy seconds.
What’s next? GRob as their DBs coach?
Oh, look at me! I'm making people happy. I'm the magical man from. Happyland in a gumdrop house on Lollipop Laaane! Oh, by the way, I was being sarcastic.
We suck against the screens every year
That’s why those plays are used. If the DB plays close to the line of scrimmage… if he gets burned… long gain. If the DB plays too far away… short gain for sure.
Ugh.
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