Coach I on WKNR...RIGHT NOW

[scottditzen]

So far so good...Reghai is interviewing...talking about how the system will be built around existing talent.

Will follow up with more!

Scott

[Zipgrad01]

So far so good...Reghai is interviewing...talking about how the system will be built around existing talent.

Will follow up with more!

Scott

Looks like we are playing in old Rocky Top in 2012. Cant wait to see these 2 home and homes he is excited about for 2013 and 2014!

[scottditzen]

Unfortunately I ended up missing almost the entire interview...I am a lousy correspondent!

p.s. BRING ON THE VOLS

So far so good...Reghai is interviewing...talking about how the system will be built around existing talent.

Will follow up with more!

Scott

Looks like we are playing in old Rocky Top in 2012. Cant wait to see these 2 home and homes he is excited about for 2013 and 2014!

[ZachTheZip]

Tennessee is a tough place to play, but one of those kind of games a year is a good thing. Pays the bills, gives us an opportunity for a major upset, but playing those games as the season opener never works. I hope we play a FCS team or a low-level FBS team (Army, Sun Belt) before taking on a major opponent.

Two home-and-homes will be announced? He didn't mention if they were BCS or not. I recall something about us having an upcoming series with FIU. Maybe they're one of the teams. No matter, I'm happy to see the AD finally getting organized about future football scheduling. The one on gozips.com is from 2006.

[ZachTheZip]

Those two home and home games he mentioned are for 2013 and 2014. But what about 2011 and 2012? We have two road games (OSU and Cinci) in 2011 and nothing at all in 2012. I think it hurts recruiting when you can't even tell your recruits who you'll be playing by the time they're freshmen. It comes off as unorganized. Looks like the AD is trying to remedy that, but scheduling takes a lot of time to get anything concrete.

For 2011, here are the teams with an open date that doesn't overlap our two known games:

ACC: Clemson, Duke, GT, Maryland, NC State, Virginia, Wake Forest

Big 12: Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma, OK State, TAMU, Texas Tech

Big East: UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, Syracuse, USF WVU

Big Ten: Indiana

C-USA: Houston, Memphis, SMU, Southern Miss, Tulane, UTEP

Independents: Army, Navy, Notre Dame

MWC: BYU

PAC 10: Arizona, California, UCLA, Washington State

SEC: Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, South Carolina

Sun Belt: Arkansas State, FAU, FIU, UL Lafayette, UL Monroe, MTSU, North Texas, WKU

WAC: Fresno State, Hawai'i, Idaho, LA Tech, Nevada, NMSU, SJSU, Utah State

The coach said both he and the AD want 6 home games. Both our known OOC games are road games. That means either two of the listed teams or one and an FCS team will be at home next year. An interesting note is that the entire WAC will be scrambling to find a team to play thanks to the departure of Boise State leaving with 5 OOC slots, so they might be open to one-and-done road games against lesser teams.

Also, talk coming out of MAC media day is that Notre Dame is warming up to scheduling MAC teams (as long as they're only in South Bend), as indicated by them playing WMU this season. They are supposed to be in negotiations with one or two MAC teams for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. Akron and Miami are the obvious choices, with the coaching connections. They'll never play Ball State and risk losing to an in-state team not named Purdue.

[Spin]

You can hear or download the entire interview at http://www.espncleveland.com/audiovault/reghi_roda.php

[Zipgrad01]

Those two home and home games he mentioned are for 2013 and 2014. But what about 2011 and 2012? We have two road games (OSU and Cinci) in 2011 and nothing at all in 2012. I think it hurts recruiting when you can't even tell your recruits who you'll be playing by the time they're freshmen. It comes off as unorganized. Looks like the AD is trying to remedy that, but scheduling takes a lot of time to get anything concrete.

For 2011, here are the teams with an open date that doesn't overlap our two known games:

ACC: Clemson, Duke, GT, Maryland, NC State, Virginia, Wake Forest

Big 12: Kansas State, Missouri, Oklahoma, OK State, TAMU, Texas Tech

Big East: UConn, Louisville, Rutgers, Syracuse, USF WVU

Big Ten: Indiana

C-USA: Houston, Memphis, SMU, Southern Miss, Tulane, UTEP

Independents: Army, Navy, Notre Dame

MWC: BYU

PAC 10: Arizona, California, UCLA, Washington State

SEC: Alabama, Auburn, Kentucky, South Carolina

Sun Belt: Arkansas State, FAU, FIU, UL Lafayette, UL Monroe, MTSU, North Texas, WKU

WAC: Fresno State, Hawai'i, Idaho, LA Tech, Nevada, NMSU, SJSU, Utah State

The coach said both he and the AD want 6 home games. Both our known OOC games are road games. That means either two of the listed teams or one and an FCS team will be at home next year. An interesting note is that the entire WAC will be scrambling to find a team to play thanks to the departure of Boise State leaving with 5 OOC slots, so they might be open to one-and-done road games against lesser teams.

Also, talk coming out of MAC media day is that Notre Dame is warming up to scheduling MAC teams (as long as they're only in South Bend), as indicated by them playing WMU this season. They are supposed to be in negotiations with one or two MAC teams for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. Akron and Miami are the obvious choices, with the coaching connections. They'll never play Ball State and risk losing to an in-state team not named Purdue.

No mention of other home and home. I pray FIU isnt one of them. He said "I think the people will be excited with who we scheduled. These teams are willing to come play in our new facility". I get the feeling that it is someone decent, not FIU. I see that Notre Dame is negotiating a home and home with Temple. Maybe Ianello has the contacts in south bend to pull off something of that magnitude. That would be amazing.

[johnnyzip84]

I haven't been able to get the interview to download completely, and I apologize if this has been brought up before (was on vacation), but isn't Marshall a good possibility for one of the home-and-homes? I believe the Turd is finishing one up at BG this year. I think renewing the rivalry, even briefly, would be a good thing. Plus, the Zips beat 'em 2 out of the last three games

[scottditzen]

Oh yeah...one thing I forgot to mention was that Reghai was absolutely gushing over the Info.

Now if the school would just have the insight to ACTUALLY GET ESPN CLEVELAND TO THE GAMES.

[Zipgrad01]

I haven't been able to get the interview to download completely, and I apologize if this has been brought up before (was on vacation), but isn't Marshall a good possibility for one of the home-and-homes? I believe the Turd is finishing one up at BG this year. I think renewing the rivalry, even briefly, would be a good thing. Plus, the Zips beat 'em 2 out of the last three games

Once again....nobody is excited to go watch Marshall. These home and homes need to be against fairly significant teams in order to gain the local interest. If we cant get it from Syracuse and Indiana, we surely wont get it from Marshall.

[GP1]

I haven't been able to get the interview to download completely, and I apologize if this has been brought up before (was on vacation), but isn't Marshall a good possibility for one of the home-and-homes? I believe the Turd is finishing one up at BG this year. I think renewing the rivalry, even briefly, would be a good thing. Plus, the Zips beat 'em 2 out of the last three games

Once again....nobody is excited to go watch Marshall. These home and homes need to be against fairly significant teams in order to gain the local interest. If we cant get it from Syracuse and Indiana, we surely wont get it from Marshall.

What if the Zips put such a good product on the field, that it doesn't matter who they play? It seems to me that the "savior complex" of people in NE Ohio shows itself when talking about future OOC home games. Instead of bringing in a team to save the match-up and produce a good crowd, how about if we make the Zips the team people want to go see? If the Zips suck, nobody is going to the games regardless of who they play.

I see it like this. Indiana and Syracuse are bottom feeder teams that never play in bowl games and have little interest in their own fan base. On the other hand, Marshall has become kind of good again and made a bowl game last year. People know Marshall as a good team really worth going to see if the Zips are good as well. They see them on TV playing in bowl games. People know Syracuse and Indiana suck and will find something else to do with their time and money other than going to watch them play.

[johnnyzip84]

I haven't been able to get the interview to download completely, and I apologize if this has been brought up before (was on vacation), but isn't Marshall a good possibility for one of the home-and-homes? I believe the Turd is finishing one up at BG this year. I think renewing the rivalry, even briefly, would be a good thing. Plus, the Zips beat 'em 2 out of the last three games

Once again....nobody is excited to go watch Marshall. These home and homes need to be against fairly significant teams in order to gain the local interest. If we cant get it from Syracuse and Indiana, we surely wont get it from Marshall.

By "fairly significant" I have to assume you mean BCS or BCS-buster (Boise, TCU, etc). I realize Toledo somehow got the Canes to play in the Glass Bowl (assuming this is a home and home and not a 2 for 1), but I just don't see the current Zips pulling off a home and home against anyone who fits that bill. We'd have to offer a considerably higher guarantee than our opponent and that's just not going to happen in today's budget. Getting ANY of the Conf-USA or MWC teams to agree to a home and home would be an accomplishment IMHO. BTW, I'd LOVE to be wrong about this

[ZachTheZip]

Would Notre Dame be enough to sell out the stadium?

[johnnyzip84]

Would Notre Dame be enough to sell out the stadium?

Of course, but you'd better expect at least 10,000 Domers amongst the 30,000. A 1 for 1 with ND would be the scheduling coup of a lifetime for UA.

[GP1]

Would Notre Dame be enough to sell out the stadium?

ND would sell out. The cost would be too high.

There are plenty of non-BCS level teams that would produce a great crowd if the Zips were good enough for people to spend their money on.

[ZachTheZip]

There are plenty of non-BCS level teams that would produce a great crowd if the Zips were good enough for people to spend their money on.

There's a problem with that, and that's the fact that the Zips aren't good enough to sell out the stadium on their own. So until that happens, we have to find interesting opponents.

Maybe an ND home game ends up in Browns Stadium. Like when Toledo played OSU there last season and kept 100% of the gate, which was more than double what they could have made at the glass bowl.

[ditchrider1]

There are plenty of non-BCS level teams that would produce a great crowd if the Zips were good enough for people to spend their money on.

There's a problem with that, and that's the fact that the Zips aren't good enough to sell out the stadium on their own. So until that happens, we have to find interesting opponents.

Maybe an ND home game ends up in Browns Stadium. Like when Toledo played OSU there last season and kept 100% of the gate, which was more than double what they could have made at the glass bowl.

I would love to add schools like this to the OOC schedule regularly:

Pitt

Illinois

Northwestern

Minnesota

Boston College

Louisville

Southern Miss

East Carolina

Iowa State

Baylor

Rutgers

Wake Forest...have a whole sports weekend...Football/Soccer classic.

[xu9697]

ND to Browns Stadium is conceivable, but based on Ianallo's comments that won't be happening either (with geting 6 home games at the Info).

I think we can figure on 1-2 brutal $$$ games per season (OSU, PSU, ND, etc.), one "gimme" (GW, Morgan State, etc.) and then 1-2 that are conceivably winnable...Army, UConn, Marshall, Syracuse, etc.

[Zipgrad01]

I haven't been able to get the interview to download completely, and I apologize if this has been brought up before (was on vacation), but isn't Marshall a good possibility for one of the home-and-homes? I believe the Turd is finishing one up at BG this year. I think renewing the rivalry, even briefly, would be a good thing. Plus, the Zips beat 'em 2 out of the last three games

Once again....nobody is excited to go watch Marshall. These home and homes need to be against fairly significant teams in order to gain the local interest. If we cant get it from Syracuse and Indiana, we surely wont get it from Marshall.

What if the Zips put such a good product on the field, that it doesn't matter who they play? It seems to me that the "savior complex" of people in NE Ohio shows itself when talking about future OOC home games. Instead of bringing in a team to save the match-up and produce a good crowd, how about if we make the Zips the team people want to go see? If the Zips suck, nobody is going to the games regardless of who they play.

I see it like this. Indiana and Syracuse are bottom feeder teams that never play in bowl games and have little interest in their own fan base. On the other hand, Marshall has become kind of good again and made a bowl game last year. People know Marshall as a good team really worth going to see if the Zips are good as well. They see them on TV playing in bowl games. People know Syracuse and Indiana suck and will find something else to do with their time and money other than going to watch them play.

Really? You did see the stands during the Yankees-Indians series, didnt you? It doesnt get much worse than the Indians, but that place was jammed every night.

I never said that I wanted Syracuse and Indiana, but it is better than Marshall. Marshall is a nobody. People in this area will not care if we go 10-2 every year unless we start beating a few name teams like a Michigan State, Pittsburgh, UNC, Virginia, etc.... Going 10-2 against EMU, Ball State, FIU and Marshall gets no interest. It will always be looked at as small time. We need name schools at home or people wont care. I get sick of family and friends rolling their eyes at me when I tell them our OOC home games are Morgan State, Gardner Webb, North Texas, Middle Tennessee, Cal Poly and Howard!! Nobody gave a crap about Marshall when they had Chad Pennington and Leftwich.....even less care now.