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[McPeachy]

Is this the absolute worst and least enticing Wyoming schedule of all time? I can’t recall a worse one and I’ve had season tickets for a long long time.

The Northern Colorado home game might be the best attended. The only upside to any of this is that there’s a good chance someone will ask if I want their wildcatter/loge tickets for free.

I cannot recall a worse schedule in my 50+ years of fandom and love for Wyoming athletics. This schedule makes me want to puke. I just hope our attendance stays solid - a full stadium is an absolute blast. Of course, if Burman had his way, every seat would be a suite seat at $2,000 per. Even if that means dumbing down the stadium even further to a capacity of 10,000 or so.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

Return game of the home and home is Sept 15, 2029. Wow, somehow we were able to avoid a late November trip to Storrs.

Even worse for Burman, we lost a nationally televised game at Clemson to travel to UCONN in 2021. We then struck a deal for an additional one game in Laramie and one game in Hartford. So we basically ended up with 1 home game for 2 road games in Hartford.

Why? No one cares about football at UCONN, they aren't a P4 and the Hartford area is hardly a place where a single UW recruit will ever come from.

Yet...Wyoming is promoting this late November abomination as the 'marquee' game in its ticket selling efforts.

 

[cowpoke pride]

Even worse for Burman, we lost a nationally televised game at Clemson to travel to UCONN in 2021. We then struck a deal for an additional one game in Laramie and one game in Hartford. So we basically ended up with 1 home game for 2 road games in Hartford.

Why? No one cares about football at UCONN, they aren't a P4 and the Hartford area is hardly a place where a single UW recruit will ever come from.

Yet...Wyoming is promoting this late November abomination as the 'marquee' game in its ticket selling efforts.

Aww yes, the game that we trailed until the final minutes to a team that was on like a 20 game losing streak and we were a failed 2 pt conversion with 4 seconds left away from OT.

 

[307bball]

Even worse for Burman, we lost a nationally televised game at Clemson to travel to UCONN in 2021. We then struck a deal for an additional one game in Laramie and one game in Hartford. So we basically ended up with 1 home game for 2 road games in Hartford.

Why? No one cares about football at UCONN, they aren't a P4 and the Hartford area is hardly a place where a single UW recruit will ever come from.

Yet...Wyoming is promoting this late November abomination as the 'marquee' game in its ticket selling efforts.

Isn't it good that we won't get ourselves de-pantsed at Clemson? Everybody says we "saved" CSU from a beating against Indiana...isn't that part of it kind of the same?

 

[TheRealUW]

Even worse for Burman, we lost a nationally televised game at Clemson to travel to UCONN in 2021. We then struck a deal for an additional one game in Laramie and one game in Hartford. So we basically ended up with 1 home game for 2 road games in Hartford.

Why? No one cares about football at UCONN, they aren't a P4 and the Hartford area is hardly a place where a single UW recruit will ever come from.

Yet...Wyoming is promoting this late November abomination as the 'marquee' game in its ticket selling efforts.

Clemson paid us $1.1 million to cancel that game so they could play Georgia instead.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

Isn't it good that we won't get ourselves de-pantsed at Clemson? Everybody says we "saved" CSU from a beating against Indiana...isn't that part of it kind of the same?

Maybe. Considering Clemson was 4th in the ACC and got off to a slow start that year, I would have liked to think that we would have at least been competitive keeping it within a few TDs with Bohl ball.

Indiana is between 3-6 in very early pre-season rankings. My guess is they would beat CSU by 60.

But, you are missing a BIG DIFFERENCE. Wyoming got out of the Clemson away game and TRAVELED to UCONN. CSU got out of the Indiana away game and gets a HOME GAME at the expense of Wyoming.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

Clemson paid us $1.1 million to cancel that game so they could play Georgia instead.

Did you know the rest of the story with that?

The $1 million buyout was contractually obligated (i.e. Clemson had to pay it to break the contract with Wyoming). Burman agreed that for that $1 million (that was already contractually obligated), UCONN would not have to pay Wyoming any additional money to travel to Hartford for that game.

So UCONN basically got a free home game from Wyoming. Once again, why??? (i.e. we really agreed to a 2 for 1 with UCONN)

 

[TheRealUW]

Did you know the rest of the story with that?

The $1 million buyout was contractually obligated (i.e. Clemson had to pay it to break the contract with Wyoming). Burman agreed that for that $1 million (that was already contractually obligated), UCONN would not have to pay Wyoming any additional money to travel to Hartford for that game.

So UCONN basically got a free home game from Wyoming. Once again, why??? (i.e. we really agreed to a 2 for 1 with UCONN)

Maybe I am naive to how football scheduling works, but why exactly would UConn pay us to play them in Hartford?

If I remember correctly, Clemson canceled the game about 1.5 years before it was supposed to be played. In terms of college football scheduling, that is a relatively short period of time to find a replacement game. There had to be only a handful of teams who were potential replacements. It would seem to me like we were in a tough spot and UConn kind of helped bail us out by scheduling a game on very short notice. Why would they pay us to do that?

 

[McPeachy]

Isn't it good that we won't get ourselves de-pantsed at Clemson? Everybody says we "saved" CSU from a beating against Indiana...isn't that part of it kind of the same?

We did save CSewe from an ass kicking. Scratch that, Tom Burman saved CSewe from an ass kicking.

And no, it isn't good - Wyoming needs to ala Pat Hill - we will play anyone anywhere anytime. Hoops needs to send that message as well.

 

[OrediggerPoke]

Maybe I am naive to how football scheduling works, but why exactly would UConn pay us to play them in Hartford?

If I remember correctly, Clemson canceled the game about 1.5 years before it was supposed to be played. In terms of college football scheduling, that is a relatively short period of time to find a replacement game. There had to be only a handful of teams who were potential replacements. It would seem to me like we were in a tough spot and UConn kind of helped bail us out by scheduling a game on very short notice. Why would they pay us to do that?

UCONN needed another game too. Unless it is a 1 for 1 home and home deal, custom is for payment to the visiting team. We gave UCONN a free home game when they needed the additional game just as much as us.

If another FBS game could not be found, Wyoming could have easily banked the $1 million and brought in a 2nd FCS team and had an additional home game to make money from (only impacting bowl qualification - - would need 7 wins for a bowl assuming the wins includes the FCS teams).

 

[307bball]

Maybe. Considering Clemson was 4th in the ACC and got off to a slow start that year, I would have liked to think that we would have at least been competitive keeping it within a few TDs with Bohl ball.

Indiana is between 3-6 in very early pre-season rankings. My guess is they would beat CSU by 60.

But, you are missing a BIG DIFFERENCE. Wyoming got out of the Clemson away game and TRAVELED to UCONN. CSU got out of the Indiana away game and gets a HOME GAME at the expense of Wyoming.

Just pointing out that if it's good or bad for CSU to hypothetically play a power program...it would follow that would also be good or bad for Wyoming. You are correct that Indiana is probably better than Clemson....but I think both would favored at home by 20+ against either Wyoming or CSU in most any year.