Just rotate Gtown/Nova/SJU and P5 team we want to play for recruiting with the Big Ten team and then play 5 tomato cans with Cornell/Colgate as two of them.
We are going to play 31 regular season games each year.Just a hunch, but I think we would rather play in an early season tournament. If there's a chance to go back to Atlantis we are going to do that instead of play the old Big East schools.
We are going to play 31 regular season games each year.
20 conference games.
4 games in a tournament that count as 1 game.
Big Ten/ACC challenge
Colgate
Cornell
That leaves 4 openings.
My suggestion would be make one of those 4 games a Big East rival/P5 team that is a road game when we play a Big Ten at home and home game when we play the Big Ten team on the road.
Then play 3 more tomato cans. Season ticket holders should get one solid nonconference home game a year either Big Ten or P5/BE rival. Plus they give us more slack if we lose them then atleast we are playing somebody.
Those last 4 openings shouldn't be 4 tomato cans.
no reason it can't be one in even years, the other in odd years. no reason it has to be both every year.I get the sarcasm.
But:
They do have local fans and attendance is probably greater than it would be for a team of the same caliber.
We do play them in other sports, like Cornell in lacrosse.
It shows some Upstate loyalty.
And they are early season warm ups.
You gotta play somebody.
I couldn’t find last year’s numbers, but in 2017 they weren’t even top 100 in attendance. Siena came in 91st at 5,900 fans per game.
Obviously it’s a big enough area to support that program but will it happen? What’s the potential there as far as attendance goes? You can’t have much of a rivalry if one side has no fans.
Buffalo's home attendance so far this season...
vs. St. Francis - 1,852
vs. Dartmouth - 3,573
vs. Marist - 4,589
vs. LeMoyne - 4,412
I think we need to work at building or reenergizing a real rivalry game. I don’t feel like we have one today, the price of switching conference affiliation.
I love playing Duke, but I don’t think they really care about us I’m not sure that is the basis for a rivalry.
Pitt or BC given that we play them twice and have history. But it doesn’t really do anything for me.
Obviously Cornell and Colgate aren’t it, ideas?
We need a RIVALRY to get charged up about.
It's sad but I guess it's time to move on. I didn't get to experience the rivals during it's prime in the 80s, but I'm always glad I was at Cuse during the final years of the rivalry (08-12)
It's sad but I guess it's time to move on. I didn't get to experience the rivals during it's prime in the 80s, but I'm always glad I was at Cuse during the final years of the rivalry (08-12)
louisvilleI think we need to work at building or reenergizing a real rivalry game. I don’t feel like we have one today, the price of switching conference affiliation.
I love playing Duke, but I don’t think they really care about us I’m not sure that is the basis for a rivalry.
Pitt or BC given that we play them twice and have history. But it doesn’t really do anything for me.
Obviously Cornell and Colgate aren’t it, ideas?
We need a RIVALRY to get charged up about.
Good. Sick of hearing the old timers talk about the Georgetown rivalry like it was the Punic Wars and each game was like the Battle of Carthage.
Yawn. Time for a new rival that actually has contemporary relevance, not ancient history.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...move on...it's 2019...It's the ACC now...find a new rival...blah blah blah.
I know one thing.
I see the words SU v G-town and immediately my blood starts boiling.
I LOAAAAATHE G-town!
And that big goof coach, too!
I don't think about it.
It's an immediate emotional reaction.
And - as has been said a bunch of times...if anybody cares about a money-making showcase at MSG:
An annual Beast of the Northeast event Christmas week at MSG.
SU, G-town, U-Conn and Pitt.
The Orange and Pitt play a game each against G-town and U-Conn.
(You could sub Nova or SJU for Pitt and change the pairings).
It's a winner for the teams, MSG, TV, the $$ and the fans.
I LOOOOAAAAAATHE G-town!
GO ORANGE!
...the old timers are right on that though. I was too young and missed a lot of it, but the feel around those Douglas-Coleman-Owens vs. Smith-Mourning-Mutumbo era clashes was still something else.
It’s just that things change. The Georgetown rivalry had a nice revival when they got good again from like 07-13, but at this point there’s just no way it can ever really matter again.
I’m fine with playing them to get into DC and as a nod to history, but I’m not going to pretend like it’s still a huge game like it was. I couldn’t even name one of their current players.
We are going to play 31 regular season games each year.
20 conference games.
4 games in a tournament that count as 1 game.
Big Ten/ACC challenge
Colgate
Cornell
That leaves 4 openings.
My suggestion would be make one of those 4 games a Big East rival/P5 team that is a road game when we play a Big Ten at home and home game when we play the Big Ten team on the road.
Then play 3 more tomato cans. Season ticket holders should get one solid nonconference home game a year either Big Ten or P5/BE rival. Plus they give us more slack if we lose them then atleast we are playing somebody.
Those last 4 openings shouldn't be 4 tomato cans.
The tournament 4 games count as 1 regular season.I don't get the bolded statement. Does it count as 1 game or 4 games? If it's 4 games that count as 1 game then we have 7 more openings.
Or it's 4 games that count as 4 games and we have 4 openings left.
The tournament 4 games count as 1 regular season.
Teams can play 28 regular season college basketball games.
Holiday tournaments count as 1 game even though every team plays 4 games between campus and neutral site venues.
It’s not like Cornell needs the moneyYou have to keep the central ny teams. Its a must.