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Message: [QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4503606, member: 27"] I don’t think whether we play UConn or not is going to determine if they dissolve their football program or not. They are guaranteed to lose tens of millions of dollars every season they play. They have no fanbase, no real revenue and the situation gets worse each year as more and more money is poured into college football games not in the dire financial situation UConn is facing. If they play us at home, it might be the only game they make a profit on all season. Maybe they lose 34.5 million in those years instead of 34.8 million. It just isn’t a big deal. We are having a hard time getting 2 for 1s or buy games even with schools from the MAC. The bottom line is that we are going to continue to fill out our OOC schedule with 1 FCS team, one P5 team and two games against FBS teams. The FCS games will all be at home. Given we are likely going to schedule home and homes for our FBS games OOC, some years will we have 2 of 3 FBS games at home (7 home games all told) and other years we will have 1 of 3 FBS games at home (6 home games all told). I want FBS opponents who are a reasonable drive from Syracuse against whom we have a reasonable chance to win. Another benefit of playing close to home is that we will be playing more games in prime recruiting areas for Syracuse. To me, UConn is one of the shortest drives out there and one of the surest wins. It is easy to get good tickets and it is a good place to tailgate. Army is a good fit too. UB is better than most (more concerned over helping them build their program than UConn) and I think we should think about Temple and UMass as well. I would rather play programs like these than programs like Western Michigan, Bowling Green or Eastern Illinois that are really hard to drive to and not in areas that we recruit hard. Guessing our focus on recruiting in the Midwest will continue to decrease as our assistant coaches with ties to the Midwest continue to dwindle. [/QUOTE]

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