Conference Realignment

david aka the TYZ · 01-03-2015, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by bearcat jeff

Agree but I miss the mythical Miami Valley Championship.

I agree. Times are changing. Sports today aren't anything like they were even five to ten years ago. Unfortunately playing teams close to you with natural and common rivalries is one of the things to go. Dayton and Xavier was a big-time rivalry and I doubt they'll play on a regular basis anymore.

And more to my point in the reply as I was in a hurry just checking the site before tip-off, the only way we play those two teams is to play a home and home. Miami for awhile did a US Bank every year after we quit wanting to go up there. Dayton did some sort of arrangement with us with games at US Bank, but its not in either of their best interests to not have us come to their arenas. So the bottom line is if we want to play them we have to go to their arenas every other year and possibly pick up bad losses and maybe even pass up the opportunities to pick up home and homes with the NC States and VCU's and Michigans that we have scheduled. You have to find a good balance of getting some neutral sites and true road games and having as many home games as possible to draw in revenue. Setting up permanent or long-term rivalries with lots of local teams will hinder that. Just the sad reality of things. Every team pretty much has one out of conference rivalry and ours is Xavier. I would like to see if we can get Louisville in the future, but they play UK every year and might not want another permanent opponent.

JasonS · 01-05-2015, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by bearcat jeff

Agree but I miss the mythical Miami Valley Championship.

I don't. Maybe it is my age (Graduated from UC in 2004) but I could care less about Dayton or Miami (in basketball).

bearcat8290 · 01-05-2015, 05:38 PM

david, I understand Miami and Dayton want home and homes. I think that is better than Kennisaw State any day of the week. Even with those two, I can go on the road and watch the Bearcats with ease at Miami and with some effort at Dayton. most likely no tickets at Dayton

Scheids21 · 01-05-2015, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by bearcat8290

david, I understand Miami and Dayton want home and homes. I think that is better than Kennisaw State any day of the week. Even with those two, I can go on the road and watch the Bearcats with ease at Miami and with some effort at Dayton. most likely no tickets at Dayton

You have to understand they don't care if you could make it to those games. They want more and more home games to make money.

bearcat8290 · 01-07-2015, 04:28 PM

Schields: I'm not attending away games for anyone else but myself. Not concerned with who cares. My guess is that you haven't paid to see Kennesaw State in action either.

http://www.kennesaw.edu/

Scheids21 · 01-07-2015, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by bearcat8290

Schields: I'm not attending away games for anyone else but myself. Not concerned with who cares. My guess is that you haven't paid to see Kennesaw State in action either.

http://www.kennesaw.edu/

I'm not sure I see your point. If I offended you, that was not my intent. I just wanted to point out that UC does not schedule local teams wanting home and homes because the program "loses" money playing on the road that they would have made playing at home.

JasonS · 01-09-2015, 11:09 AM

President Ono has recently met with the Presidents of Baylor, TCU, KSU and Oklahoma. While I think it would be naive of us to think this is strictly sports/conference related, I also think it would be naive to think that topic didn't come up during these meetings.

AZ BEARCAT · 01-09-2015, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by JasonS

President Ono has recently met with the Presidents of Baylor, TCU, KSU and Oklahoma. While I think it would be naive of us to think this is strictly sports/conference related, I also think it would be naive to think that topic didn't come up during these meetings.

I am not trying to be smart, but why else would he meet with those four schools. Could WV already be on board with Cincinnati and these are schools he needs to make a case to? Just a little wishful thinking.

BCM · 01-09-2015, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by AZ BEARCAT

I am not trying to be smart, but why else would he meet with those four schools. Could WV already be on board with Cincinnati and these are schools he needs to make a case to? Just a little wishful thinking.

Was just thinking the same thing.

Maybe he wanted to tell them how cold it was here lately.

Scheids21 · 01-09-2015, 01:50 PM

Ono usually says on Twitter why he is making certain trips, but has not said anything about these meetings. I think these can only be good news; not getting my hopes up too much, but promising enough.

01-05-2015, 05:38 PM	#123
bearcat8290 Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 150	david, I understand Miami and Dayton want home and homes. I think that is better than Kennisaw State any day of the week. Even with those two, I can go on the road and watch the Bearcats with ease at Miami and with some effort at Dayton. most likely no tickets at Dayton

01-07-2015, 04:28 PM	#125
bearcat8290 Senior Member Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 150	Schields: I'm not attending away games for anyone else but myself. Not concerned with who cares. My guess is that you haven't paid to see Kennesaw State in action either. http://www.kennesaw.edu/

01-09-2015, 11:09 AM	#127
JasonS Football Moderator Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 5,181	President Ono has recently met with the Presidents of Baylor, TCU, KSU and Oklahoma. While I think it would be naive of us to think this is strictly sports/conference related, I also think it would be naive to think that topic didn't come up during these meetings.

01-09-2015, 01:50 PM	#130
Scheids21 Epic Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,692	Ono usually says on Twitter why he is making certain trips, but has not said anything about these meetings. I think these can only be good news; not getting my hopes up too much, but promising enough.