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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 4949375, member: 27"]
The original scheduling agreement was

2022 at UConn
2025 at Syracuse
2026 at Syracuse
2027 at UConn

So the price UConn charged to move up the 2026 game in Syracuse to 2024 was a game at UConn in 2026.

So they mortgaged the future to get an extra home game in 2024.

I have been a strong advocate of getting 7 home games every season humanly possible.  But what is the point of getting 7 home games in 2024 if you guarantee you will play 6 home games in 2026?  What have you accomplished?

No offense to UConn but it really doesn’t matter record wise if we played the 2024 game at UConn or at the dome.  We are going to win regardless.  Did JW think there was a good chance we would lose a game played at UConn in 2024 so he had it moved to make sure we got a win in that game?  This just doesn’t seem well thought out.

Maybe the thought is we play them as often as possible, regardless of location, to pile up a lot of OOC wins.  I don’t know.  I can’t think of a good reason to do this.  Maybe to give the fanbase more reason to buy season tickets in 2024 (with a 7 game home schedule vs a 6 game home schedule)?  I find it hard to believe any Syracuse fan sitting on the fence for buying season tickets will be convinced to get them once they find out we are playing UConn at home.

If we agreed to a one game away game with UNLV, it is the same situation.  We are willingly agreeing to play lower tier programs more times at their facilities than our facility.  That is something that should never happen.

Please stop doing it Syracuse.  Forget about 7 home game……we are going to struggle to schedule 6 home games in several of the next few years because of these decisions.
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