dolamite Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 With the Indiana game scratched, and likely UNC soon to follow what can we expect out of next years OOC (out of conference schedule)? What are some games you would like to see and what are some games we could expect as real possibilities? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolamite Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 Team's I've heard bounced around lately as possible opponents for next season..... Kansas Texas UCLA Ohio State Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Parker Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 I'm thinking UK will replace IU & UNC with a marquee neutral-site game & a home game against a BCS school. I think Texas will be one of those schools we'll play this year. Not sure on the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJAlltheWay24 Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Team's I've heard bounced around lately as possible opponents for next season..... Kansas Texas UCLA Ohio State I'd love to see UCLA with them getting Shabazz and a few other solid recruits. I think it would definitely be a fun game. Really, I'd like to see any of the four besides Texas. I sort of with they would start a series of some sort with OSU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formerkywrestler Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 I'd rather see IU 100000000000000000X more than any of these games... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoc Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 ^agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Slick Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 This season, but not 3-4 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
formerkywrestler Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 This season, but not 3-4 years ago.Every season. I"m of the opinon we had two games on our schedule that should ALWAYS remain there. UL and IU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcpapa Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 My understanding was that Coach Cal wants marquee neutral-site games instead of marquee home-and-home matchups. Two reasons - to better prepare for the dance (agreed), and because of wildly fluctuating rosters from year to year, trouble winning at places like the Dean Dome and Assembly Hall (disagree strongly with the message that UK won't be good enough to compete against quality opponents on the road). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolamite Posted May 8, 2012 Author Share Posted May 8, 2012 I'd rather see IU 100000000000000000X more than any of these games... ^agree. Obviously, but since were not going to get it all we can hope for is the next best options. At the end of the day Crean knew he had an advantage in Bloomington and he did not want to give up the advantage. Calipari even offered to play both games in the state of Indiana and Tommy Boy still refused. Very tragic for this to be the year the rivalry ends. Out of the entire decade of IU being irrelevant it had to be the year they are going to be a top 3 team nationally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Parker Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 My understanding was that Coach Cal wants marquee neutral-site games instead of marquee home-and-home matchups. Two reasons - to better prepare for the dance (agreed), and because of wildly fluctuating rosters from year to year, trouble winning at places like the Dean Dome and Assembly Hall (disagree strongly with the message that UK won't be good enough to compete against quality opponents on the road). Pitino was a lot like this at UK as well, although I don't know if the reasons were the same. Those are two of the reasons Cal gave for wanting neutral-site games. The third is that over a two-year span, revenue is greater at a neutral site as opposed to home-and-home. For PR purposes, I think he would have been better off to just stick with the reason that I too agree with--that you want to play in large, neutral venues to prepare your team for the NCAA Tournament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Slick Posted May 8, 2012 Share Posted May 8, 2012 Don't forget that we can see good games at a nice arena if they are neutral and the Rupp problems won't be so talked about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Parker Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 If I'm reading Cal's article right, UK will play Baylor @ Rupp this season (on CBS). In 2013-14, both the UK men & women will play Baylor @ Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. Cal also says that in 2013-14, the UNC series will be picked back up. Says he wanted to get the UNC & UL games to be opposite of each other in terms of location (when we're playing UL on the road, we've got UNC at home & vice versa). Also says he's working with Coach K to get an annual series with Duke which will take place in a big, neutral court venue. Scheduling: I want to create experiences, not just games - CoachCal.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSC Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 Replacing IU with Duke in a huge arena works for me. He didn't want to cancel the IU series. He wanted it at Lucas Oil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportsfan41 Posted May 23, 2012 Share Posted May 23, 2012 If I'm reading Cal's article right, UK will play Baylor @ Rupp this season (on CBS). In 2013-14, both the UK men & women will play Baylor @ Cowboys Stadium in Dallas. Cal also says that in 2013-14, the UNC series will be picked back up. Says he wanted to get the UNC & UL games to be opposite of each other in terms of location (when we're playing UL on the road, we've got UNC at home & vice versa). Also says he's working with Coach K to get an annual series with Duke which will take place in a big, neutral court venue. Scheduling: I want to create experiences, not just games - CoachCal.com I still want Indiana on the schedule but I like what Cal's doing over all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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