brooklyn brownstone said:

Arkansas appears to need OOC games. We know Calipari is not afraid of giving UR a game.

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He may be afraid now based on the last outcome.

Verified UVA paying us $450,000 for this year's game

https://herosports.com/2024-fcs-vs-fbs-payouts-bzbz/

Arkansas appears to need OOC games. We know Calipari is not afraid of giving UR a game.

More from JOC. Wickersham seems likely to be the choice based on preseason, but Huesman is playing coy.

Huesman said Monday his intention is “probably not” to have a time-sharing arrangement at quarterback. “We’ll probably name one and go with him and work it that way,” said the coach. “I know Kyle’s a little bit bigger player, no question about that, but I think they both can execute whatever we’re asking them to do within the offense.

"I think you go with one and see how things are going. There's not going to be a plan to say, 'Second series, this guy comes in. Second quarter, this guy comes in.' It's probably not going to be along those lines.”

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8legs1dream said:

If you have big games scheduled, announce them and drum up interest and buzz. There is no benefit to only letting the NIL Spider elite know about things, if that is what's happening.

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Agreed - even if the big games are away, you can still use this to drum up buzz for season ticket holders. As you could sell it as a possibility to see a very good team returning to the Robins Center after some big wins on the road. But the fact we have heard nothing is not good. This is not one of those areas where no news is good news.

If you have big games scheduled, announce them and drum up interest and buzz. There is no benefit to only letting the NIL Spider elite know about things, if that is what's happening.

spiderman said:

we filled our portal spots in April and May. it's August. and we have 7 (?) games to fill?
or we're the only team keeping scheduling secrets and we ask teams we're playing to keep the secret too.

as for MTE's, it's not just the historically elite teams that have been invited. pretty much EVERYONE is in an MTE already. so no, they're not having a hard time evaluating Richmond while they have no problem evaluting everyone else.

I actually think we'll hear news this week. because it can't go on indefinitely. at some point you're the last available pretty girl to be asked to the dance.

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I am preparing to be underwhelmed. I guess we could be holding back some super secret awesome OOC but that would defy both common sense and recent past history with how we communicated big game announcements.

I hope I am completely wrong, but I don't how one could be optimistic right now that we are not about to handled a giant sh*t sandwich of an OOC schedule.

I don't know, I have been thinking "we HAVE to hear something this week" for a while now ha.

I got the email from the ticket office about the renewal deadline coming up and I said I'm sure I would still be a buyer since I always am it's just a part of me would like to see a little more of the schedule. I don't think that's too much to ask.

I don't disagree, 97. I wanted Gilly more aggressive at tiems too. but he was a true PG. and a pretty perfect PG.

we filled our portal spots in April and May. it's August. and we have 7 (?) games to fill?
or we're the only team keeping scheduling secrets and we ask teams we're playing to keep the secret too.

as for MTE's, it's not just the historically elite teams that have been invited. pretty much EVERYONE is in an MTE already. so no, they're not having a hard time evaluating Richmond while they have no problem evaluting everyone else.

I actually think we'll hear news this week. because it can't go on indefinitely. at some point you're the last available pretty girl to be asked to the dance.

If Gilly is your best player on the court (which I would say he was in 2020 and 2021) than he has to be the guy with the ball in his hands at crunch time. Gilly let Blake be the alpha on those teams and in my mind that is as much Gilly's issue as it was Blake's. It wasn't until the A-10 tournament his senior year that Gilly allowed himself to be the "man" out there.

Gilly is one of our all time greatest players, but the difference between him and Kevin Anderson, is that Kevin Anderson wanted the ball in his hands with the clock winding down ALWAYS, Gilly was more content with allowing another player to be that guy. This also frustrated me about Gilly. You are our alpha dog out there, act like it.

I have to imagine scheduling for mid-majors like ourselves and other A10 teams has become more difficult with the transfer portal. As mentioned earlier - in the past, you would ideally schedule harder when you knew you were going to have a strong team. But that is harder now than ever given the portal and we are no different - look at our team last year that won the A10 regular season, and now we have a lot of new faces. Hard to predict what you will have year to year.

This also makes it harder for MTE's to invite you as they can't predict either and must rely on your program history. They are likely more willing to trust teams like a Dayton and VCU - who have been consistently good the past several years, to a team like UR - who has the potential to be good, but can also produce back to back losing seasons. So that has likely hurt us.

This makes the not MTE scheduling that more important - because until we turn in a consistent 4-6 year run where we are winning 20+ games a year and have a notable win or two each year, these higher level MTE's probably won't call us.

According to this site UVA has 91.9% chance of beating Richmond
https://247sports.com/college/virgi...inias-2024-football-season-234789462/#2465238

Richmond has a 100% chance of being paid to play. In 2022 we received $450,000................could not find amount for this game.

GKiller said:

I think Tulsa is the other one here. Regardless it won’t be us. Missouri has released their schedule & they r playing those other 2 teams. We r not joining a Missouri MTE to not play Missouri.

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Thanks, I had missed that Mizzou's schedule was complete. Blogging the Bracket said it's a 3-game MTE so a 4th team would have gotten Mizzou, but clearly it's only 2.

But yeah, even so, didn't see it as a likely fit for us.

I see the pulsing spider for a split second as the site loads. Maybe you have some browser extension that is preventing the site from loading?

SFspidur said:

- Missouri MTE: Missouri (158), Pacific (359), and Arkansas Pine-Bluff (328) are in with 1 spot remaining.

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I think Tulsa is the other one here. Regardless it won’t be us. Missouri has released their schedule & they r playing those other 2 teams. We r not joining a Missouri MTE to not play Missouri.

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