Here are today's stories.
UConn going green?
Some thoughts. Jeff Hathaway was grilled pretty good by the press corps at the Speaker's Office. They are ferocious. I don't think some of the journalists there understood the dynamic well enough. They started getting on him about ticket prices and playing Notre Dame and other details of the contract that UConn hasn't even thought about. Questions were sharp and aggressive though not entirely relevant. Maybe they were beating up on him for fun.
It's simple. If you buy season tickets and you don't want to buy the Note Dame game you can get the six game Rent package. If you want the Notre Dame game, then you can buy a 7 game package. Now, the ND game won't be some super premium price that makes it unaffordable to regular people. UConn learned from the U-Game disaster, which poisoned the UConn-UMass series basketball games.
The games won't begin until 2011, why are we interested in ticket prices 3-4 years out? And the poor students? They are in middle and high school right now. No one has thought about this. It's premature outrage.
Hathaway made it pretty clear that he wasn't going to do a deal like this with any other school. UConn has said no to Texas and also won't do a 2-for-1 with other major BCS powers.
On Rent expansion:
Randy Edsall brought it up, but Hathaway is far too seasoned. He said their were no discussions. This is not going to happen in the current economic climate. Heck, that the stadium was built was a product of the timing.
Edsall wants the stadium to bring in major teams. He was adamant however that Notre Dame wasn't going to come here even if UConn expanded. Notre Dame plays a regional schedule.
How is this for a UConn schedule:
I-A (Rhode Island, UMass, Maine, Hofstra, New Hampshire)
7 Big East games
MAC --Buffalo or Temple (NOT BOTH!)
BCS team or service academy (preferably Army and/or Penn State)
Boston College
Notre Dame
That would be a pretty good schedule.
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