Maturi: Gophers will play a major conference opponent that will be a box office draw

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BleedGopher said:
If they are making an effort for a "box office draw" they gotta go big
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Agree, Bleed. It's a select group among BCS schools that I'd consider "home runs" (to the general public) if they visit Williams Arena, some obviously moreso than others. ...

Arizona
Duke
Florida
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisville
Marquette
North Carolina
Notre Dame
Pitt
Syracuse
Texas
UCLA
UConn (not so much next season, however)
West Virginia

If any one of the above (other than UConn) is our marquee nonconference home game in 2012-13, there should not be any complaints. However, especially when they announce that a "major" opponent will be on the home schedule, they better deliver a truly major opponent or season-ticket holders will be even more PO'd.
 

SelectionSunday said:
Agree, Bleed. It's a select group among BCS schools that I'd consider "home runs" (to the general public) if they visit Williams Arena, some obviously moreso than others. ...

Arizona
Duke
Florida
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisville
Marquette
North Carolina
Notre Dame
Pitt
Syracuse
Texas
UCLA
UConn (not so much next season, however)
West Virginia

If any one of the above (other than UConn) is our marquee nonconference home game in 2012-13, there should not be any complaints. However, especially when they announce that a "major" opponent will be on the home schedule, they better deliver a truly major opponent or season-ticket holders will be even more PO'd.
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Remember the 'they' was Maturi, and you know how some of his quotes turn out.
 

I would think we could rule out it being a Pac 12 or ACC team since we will already be playing an opponent from eachi of those conferences.
 


Goldy Gopher said:
I would think we could rule out it being a Pac 12 or ACC team since we will already be playing an opponent from eachi of those conferences.
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Not necessarily. Many schools double up with BCS conference schools, most notably Michigan St (because they're MSU), but I don't think it matters.
 


I would guess it would be a Pac12 team due to the competition agreement between the two leagues.
 

I think Joel's got something big cooking. Can you say Rutgers and Auburn?
 


Here's who the Gophers should play on an annual basis:

-Marquette (Revolving home and home)
-Iowa St (Revolving home and home)
-UNI (2 home-for-1 away)
-Drake (2-for-1)
-ND State (Always home)
-SD State (Always home)

Fill in the rest of the schedule with cupcakes, but it's hard to go wrong on a yearly basis with those 6 + the Big 10/ACC challenge for a NC schedule.

You probably couldn't go wrong if you threw in the UW-Milwaukee/UW-Green Bays for 2-for-1s or a yearly series with DePaul to open up the Chicago area to Minnesota.

I always thought that we could be pioneers and sign a scheduling deal with the Pac 12, Big 12, and/or Big East conferences where we play a different school each year from those conferences, but I don't think that would ever happen since individual schools make their own schedules and the issue with TV broadcasts.
 



SJUgopher said:
Here's who the Gophers should play on an annual basis:

-Marquette (Revolving home and home)
-Iowa St (Revolving home and home)
-UNI (2 home-for-1 away)
-Drake (2-for-1)
-ND State (Always home)
-SD State (Always home)

Fill in the rest of the schedule with cupcakes, but it's hard to go wrong on a yearly basis with those 6 + the Big 10/ACC challenge for a NC schedule.

You probably couldn't go wrong if you threw in the UW-Milwaukee/UW-Green Bays for 2-for-1s or a yearly series with DePaul to open up the Chicago area to Minnesota.

I always thought that we could be pioneers and sign a scheduling deal with the Pac 12, Big 12, and/or Big East conferences where we play a different school each year from those conferences, but I don't think that would ever happen since individual schools make their own schedules and the issue with TV broadcasts.
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We have a deal with the PAC-12. I think it starts in 2013. The PAC-12 makes sense, since their TV partner is FOX. FOX just happens to be the majority owner of the BTN.
 

My money is on Marquette and I'm not a fan of it. An enemy of my enemy is my friend. I tend to root for Marquette.

I wouldn't want an annual series with Iowa St either. Don't want more ammo for Hoiberg to recruit Minnesota.

My ideal team would be Kansas for a finite home/home. Once here, once there.
 

Memphis would be interesting, starting the home and home here and returning there for Austin's senior season and Andre's junior year.
 

Well if we're dreaming, UCLA would be fun (especially with the being as down as they are). It clearly isn't an ACC team as we already play one. I can't imagine Big East teams wanting tougher non-conference schedules, so I'd guess it is someone from the Big 12 or the Pac 12 with the Pac 12 being more likely.
 



My money is on a Pac 12 team.

2% chance it will be someone else.
 

Am starting to think those of you thinking Pac 12 are on to something. I noticed that Wisconsin is hosting Cal this season, so maybe B1G/Pac 12 schools have been encouraged by the conference commissioners to start playing one another.

It would make even more sense if our USC road game is pushed back to the 2013-14 season. That would open up an extra home game for us and our "major conference opponent" (to appease folks with the new preferred seating) then could be a different Pac 12 school. I'd be surprised if we scheduled two teams from the same BCS conference in the same season. If it's a Pac 12 school, preference would be Arizona or UCLA.
 

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-footba...ac-12-big-10-partnership-basketball-2012-2013

Pac-12, Big 10 Basketball Partnership Takes Effect Next Season
Dec
28
3:50p
by Brian McIntyre

The Pac-12 and Big Ten jointly announced a comprehensive scheduling agreement that will link the two conferences in several sports beginning as early as next season, Pete Thamel of the New York Times reports.

Beginning in 2017, each team from the Pac-12 and Big Ten, who have been Rose Bowl partners since 1947, will play a team from the other league in football. Men's and women's basketball teams will begin playing one another at the start of next season.

The scheduling partnership will also help broaden and strengthen the programming on the Big Ten Network and the Pac-12 Network, which will be launched next August, without having to expand over their current 12-team configurations.

"To me this is a creative and inventive approach through collaboration to achieve some of the same objectives that expansion can help you with," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said. "It gives our conference more of a national platform, more play on the Big Ten Network and higher quality programming on our network without having to expand."
 

SelectionSunday said:
Am starting to think those of you thinking Pac 12 are on to something. I noticed that Wisconsin is hosting Cal this season, so maybe B1G/Pac 12 schools have been encouraged by the conference commissioners to start playing one another.
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Based on the articles written when the "collaboration" was first announced I'd say that "encouraged" sounds about right. From an article about the announced collaboration back in Dec:
The details remain fluid, but the probable first phase of the partnership would include increased Pac-12 vs. Big Ten games in men's and women's basketball, as well as in Olympic sports. Those changes will begin in the 2012-13 academic year.
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EDIT: I should have read a little farther, as I see station19 beat me to it.
 

I would guess that the MN-USC game will remain as scheduled this year and will be counted in the Big 10/Pac 12 series.
 

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