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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 121152, member: 716"]
Obviously the loss in football revenue since the late 1990s has made the athletic department more dependent on the gate from home games, so we're less likely to give one of them away. Also, Boeheim [U]hates[/U] the idea of playing nonconference games after league play has started, so those St. John's-UCLA and Georgetown-Duke February series are out.

Finally, we've had a bit of bad luck. When we were scheduling two-year home-and-homes with Kentucky and Arizona in the '90s, those teams were good. In recent years we've scheduled two-year series with Memphis and North Carolina State, each of whom could be expected to be good, but isn't (don't mean to jinx Saturday - State's good enough to beat us, but far from a marquee matchup). It's a nice get for Dr. Gross when he signs Memphis and they're playing for the national championship; two years later when they're bad and playing in front of 20,000 at the Dome during Christmas break, not so much.

None of that changes the fact that we've gone from playing two name nonconference teams to one, but a lot of the problem is understandable.
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