BYU on the slate

[uconndennis]

Desmond Conner ‏@desmondconner
#UConnFootball set to announce today or tomorrow a home and home series with #BYU beginning in 2014 (East Hartford, CT); 2015 (Provo, Utah)

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[Dann]

worst tailgate ever at the rent....this must be wardes big get!!!! burgers and 7up! horay!

its a good game tho...just not a #1 like a mich or tenn...cant rip warde for real on it...

 

[uchusky]

Great news. Now the important question - what's the tailgating like in Provo?

 

[DSquiz]

Dez just posted dates: First game of the year, Aug 28th 2014. We play in Utah Halloween 2015.

 

[Brochacho]

Great, Warde did something that I could get behind besides extending Ollie. Warde gets an A for this one.

 

[pepband99]

A great get! Every reasonable OOC game is one less pool for another MAC game.

 

[Dooley]

This is a solid home and home. Much better than the usual home opener!

 

[Dann]

anyone else questioning the date of the trip to byu? a little late in the season for a ooc game no? or to atleast schedule one without a conf settled in yet....

can we start a trade sbrook for umass protest!?!?

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Wow. Awesome job WM.

I'm definitely thrilled and surprised by this.

Kudos to WM and the UConn AD.

 

[junglehusky]

worst tailgate ever at the rent....this must be wardes big get!!!! burgers and 7up! horay!

its a good game tho...just not a #1 like a mich or tenn...cant rip warde for real on it...

Oh, I'm sure the 'yard will find a way...

Anyway... in Provo in 2015, that'll be the furthest west UConn has ever traveled right?

 

[Dann]

Oh, I'm sure the 'yard will find a way...

Anyway... in Provo in 2015, that'll be the furthest west UConn has ever traveled right?

prob as a bcs team yes. fwiw i'm not questioning warde on that date, just it seems a bit wierd that we would be willing to schedule that weekend ooc.

 

[junglehusky]

anyone else questioning the date of the trip to byu? a little late in the season for a ooc game no? or to atleast schedule one without a conf settled in yet....

BYU is indy so they have to find someone "OOC" for every week. Could be the reason why it's Halloween.

 

[Huskies2010]

Oh, I'm sure the 'yard will find a way...

Anyway... in Provo in 2015, that'll be the furthest west UConn has ever traveled right?

Yes I believe the furthest west we've been is @Baylor.

 

[SubbaBub]

That's the best news we've had in a while. Which shows just how bad the news has been lately.

Exactly the kind of game we need in the post BCS era. Need three more per year.

Good one, Warde.

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[Dann]

BYU is indy so they have to find someone "OOC" for every week. Could be the reason why it's Halloween.

yes i understand that, but i'm talking from our end. how can week book a weekend like that if were trying to be a b10 or acc team. thats a prime wekend for big conf games no?

 

[huskymedic]

yes i understand that, but i'm talking from our end. how can week book a weekend like that if were trying to be a b10 or acc team. thats a prime wekend for big conf games no?

Bird in the hand doobie...

 

[Jarhead_1775]

Phoenix is further west.

 

[Pudge]

Yes I believe the furthest west we've been is @Baylor.

slightly west of SMU

 

[PRHusky]

The hardest thing for UConn this late in the process in relation to its OOC schedule for 2014 was finding a quality home game. We have now done so with BYU. Finding a quality road game will be much easier, even if the return game is a few years away a la Michigan (away in 2010, home in 2013). Expect the fourth OOC game (third being Stony Brook) to be against a MAC type team, unless we can get another quality team at home. I do not see us playing two OOC road games against quality opponents in a single season. Another option is a one time "neutral site" game against a quality opponent.

 

[UConnRock]

Furthest west is the Fiesta Bowl. Remember, we brought 15,000 fans but only got credit for 4,000 in the media world.

 

[junglehusky]

yes i understand that, but i'm talking from our end. how can week book a weekend like that if were trying to be a b10 or acc team. thats a prime wekend for big conf games no?

In the event we are playing in one of those leagues in 2015 I guess we could try to postpone the return game a year or more if we had to. Cross that bridge when we come to it, hopefully.

 

[UConnRock]

So in 2015 UConn has away OOC games in Tennessee and BYU. Makes for a pretty tough schedule.

 

[thatguyed]

The hardest thing for UConn this late in the process in relation to its OOC schedule for 2014 was finding a quality home game. We have now done so with BYU. Finding a quality road game will be much easier, even if the return game is a few years away a la Michigan (away in 2010, home in 2013). Expect the fourth OOC game (third being Stony Brook) to be against a MAC type team, unless we can get another quality team at home. I do not see us playing two OOC road games against quality opponents in a single season. Another option is a one time "neutral site" game against a quality opponent.

You say SB is the 3rd. All I've read, both today, are SB and BYU as OOC games for 2014. Am I missing one?

 

[Dann]

In the event we are playing in one of those leagues in 2015 I guess we could try to postpone the return game a year or more if we had to. Cross that bridge when we come to it, hopefully.

dont thinkw e have the $ to make that happen. byu def locks things in being a indy school so that doesn't happen to them.

So in 2015 UConn has away OOC games in Tennessee and BYU. Makes for a pretty tough schedule.

for sure...byu is a good add by warde no doubt, but several things are not adding up here...

 

[HobokenHusky]

Bird in the hand doobie...

I am about 99% sure that if we were an option for a big boy conference, our BYU OOC game in October 2015 would not be a deciding factor one way or the other.

At this point though, maybe it would be. Who the hell knows anymore.