Tom Jurich told the Louisville Courier Journal that he and Paul Dee are in talks to extend the series. Hope he can pull it off and hope the rumors from Hattiesburg are true about a renewal of the USM-UofL series as well.

Series to continue?
U of L has had trouble scheduling big-time opponents, but athletic director Tom Jurich said yesterday that Miami could remain on the schedule for a while.

"I appreciate Miami for scheduling home-and-home with us, and (Miami athletic director) Paul Dee has said they want to extend it," he said. "I talked to him, and he said they want to play and make it a long-term series."

This was U of L's first victory in 11 meetings with Miami. There has been one tie.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs...70532/1002

Would rather play the Canes then Notre Dame anyway. I know most of the other Big East fans have a problem with Miami but they are one of the few Big Time Programs that would give us a shot and in a way we are brothers with the Schnellenberger Ties.

Maize Wrote:Tom Jurich told the Louisville Courier Journal that he and Paul Dee are in talks to extend the series. Hope he can pull it off and hope the rumors from Hattiesburg are true about a renewal of the USM-UofL series as well.

Series to continue?
U of L has had trouble scheduling big-time opponents, but athletic director Tom Jurich said yesterday that Miami could remain on the schedule for a while.

"I appreciate Miami for scheduling home-and-home with us, and (Miami athletic director) Paul Dee has said they want to extend it," he said. "I talked to him, and he said they want to play and make it a long-term series."

This was U of L's first victory in 11 meetings with Miami. There has been one tie.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs...70532/1002

Would rather play the Canes then Notre Dame anyway. I know most of the other Big East fans have a problem with Miami but they are one of the few Big Time Programs that would give us a shot and in a way we are brothers with the Schnellenberger Ties.

I agree with you. On the Cincinnati side, I would rather play Ohio State regularly then Notre Dame. Ohio State is giving us home-and-home games so you don't have to go through the hassle. And we have a connection with them as well.

Maize Wrote:Tom Jurich told the Louisville Courier Journal that he and Paul Dee are in talks to extend the series. Hope he can pull it off and hope the rumors from Hattiesburg are true about a renewal of the USM-UofL series as well.

Series to continue?
U of L has had trouble scheduling big-time opponents, but athletic director Tom Jurich said yesterday that Miami could remain on the schedule for a while.

"I appreciate Miami for scheduling home-and-home with us, and (Miami athletic director) Paul Dee has said they want to extend it," he said. "I talked to him, and he said they want to play and make it a long-term series."

This was U of L's first victory in 11 meetings with Miami. There has been one tie.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs...70532/1002

Would rather play the Canes then Notre Dame anyway. I know most of the other Big East fans have a problem with Miami but they are one of the few Big Time Programs that would give us a shot and in a way we are brothers with the Schnellenberger Ties.

Given the beatdown yesterday, the berating a fan gave him as he left the field and the probability that we just put a big nail in his coaches coffin I wouldn't be surprised to see Dee's feelings change.

L-yes Wrote:Given the beatdown yesterday, the berating a fan gave him as he left the field and the probability that we just put a big nail in his coaches coffin I wouldn't be surprised to see Dee's feelings change.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. With a lot of your scheduled opponents backing out, what other options are you looking at?

BJUnklFkr Wrote:

L-yes Wrote:Given the beatdown yesterday, the berating a fan gave him as he left the field and the probability that we just put a big nail in his coaches coffin I wouldn't be surprised to see Dee's feelings change.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing. With a lot of your scheduled opponents backing out, what other options are you looking at?

Splitting the conference adding an all-sports member and going from there.

Maize Wrote:Tom Jurich told the Louisville Courier Journal that he and Paul Dee are in talks to extend the series. Hope he can pull it off and hope the rumors from Hattiesburg are true about a renewal of the USM-UofL series as well.

Series to continue?
U of L has had trouble scheduling big-time opponents, but athletic director Tom Jurich said yesterday that Miami could remain on the schedule for a while.

"I appreciate Miami for scheduling home-and-home with us, and (Miami athletic director) Paul Dee has said they want to extend it," he said. "I talked to him, and he said they want to play and make it a long-term series."

This was U of L's first victory in 11 meetings with Miami. There has been one tie.

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs...70532/1002

Would rather play the Canes then Notre Dame anyway. I know most of the other Big East fans have a problem with Miami but they are one of the few Big Time Programs that would give us a shot and in a way we are brothers with the Schnellenberger Ties.

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It would be a pretty dumb move by UM... they need to schedule as lite as possible. when they were in the BE they had a pretty easy route in conf.. and usually played 1 or 2 toughs occ. but now they cant even survive there conf schedule... this isnt your dads UM.

Not really, you can do it like this.

Home and Home in Football with the next date in Miami and also a Home and Home in Basketball. It would give the Hurricanes a nice OOC High Profile Basketball Opponent and really you still need 1 tough OOC game. Remember Florida doesn't play them as of right now and FSU is now a conference game.

Louisville Home and Home
USF Home and Home

Two Non BCS Home games OOC

That would still give them 7 Home games a year if they do it right and one with a High Profile OOC opponent that has a common history.

Louisville and Miami are Brothers in this regard, we both have the same Father in Howard Schnellenberger.

USF v UMiami are currently, along with ESPN, in negoations to have an annual game on Thanksgiving weekend.

Hope that it happens

goodknightfl Wrote:It would be a pretty dumb move by UM... they need to schedule as lite as possible. when they were in the BE they had a pretty easy route in conf.. and usually played 1 or 2 toughs occ. but now they cant even survive there conf schedule... this isnt your dads UM.

Oh great scheduling guru and ACC azz kisser...Please explain how scheduling a team from the Big East can be a bad thing for a team like Miami. After all its Miami, it's The U baby. Surely a power team from such a powerful conference like the ACC lmfao lmfao lmfao wouldn't dodge a team from the little ol' Big East would they.
CJ

Here is what a poster on the USF board had to say. Joe usually knows what he is talking about.

Quote:ESPN has asked Miami and Louisville to sign an annual series to be played on Thanksgiving weekend starting in 2009.

Whether the deal gets done is not known. He did say that Paul Dee does still support the an annual USF game.

The person I have heard this from is a small beat writer in south Florida.

Looks like the USF/Miami series or UofL/Miami series will come at the expense of whoever is left out.

BullsFanatic Wrote:Here is what a poster on the USF board had to say. Joe usually knows what he is talking about.

Quote:ESPN has asked Miami and Louisville to sign an annual series to be played on Thanksgiving weekend starting in 2009.

Whether the deal gets done is not known. He did say that Paul Dee does still support the an annual USF game.

The person I have heard this from is a small beat writer in south Florida.

The BE Office is pushing for USF/UM as the Thanksgiving Weekend match-up.

The BE Office wants that weekend's match-up to be:

Pitt-WVU
UL-UC
UConn-Rutgers
SU-BC
USF-UM

Miami has an attendance problem. Their die-hard fans have not taken to the ACC teams and when they aren't in contention for an NC they move on. Which is why they need games that will attract casual fans and opposing fans to the Orange Bowl OOC.

The word is that both USF and Louisville fill that bill. So it wouldn't surprise me at all if Miami is attempting to schedule series with both clubs.

The only problem I see with this is that Miami also wants to schedule games against Pitt as well for recruiting purposes (although Temple might suffice). So having 3 teams from the BE on their OOC schedule does seem to be a bit much.

And why did they leave the Big East again???

Cheers,
Neil

omnicarrier Wrote:Miami has an attendance problem. Their die-hard fans have not taken to the ACC teams and when they aren't in contention for an NC they move on. Which is why they need games that will attract casual fans and opposing fans to the Orange Bowl OOC.

The word is that both USF and Louisville fill that bill. So it wouldn't surprise me at all if Miami is attempting to schedule series with both clubs.

Cheers,
Neil

It's a small sample right now, but so far the evidence supports that. In 2004 FSU was the top home game for Miami. UofL however, with 64,000 there, outdrew Virginia Tech by 2k, Clemson by 9k, Wake Forest by 23k, & La Tech by 10k. The ACC couldn't have been thrilled with that, especially b/c V Tech came to town for the division title late in the year.

As far as last year's home games for Miami, USF was the top draw at 58,000. The USF game outdrew Colorado by 7k, Duke by 18k, UNC by 28k (I think this may have been due to a real hurricane), Georgia Tech by 4k, & UVA by 20k.

Final result? Take out 1 FSU game and their top draw in 2004 & 2005 was a new Big East team.