by vjay » Fri Apr 08, 2016 9:49 am
This is purely a hypothetical listing using the already known opponents and a somewhat reasonable wish list...
How would you feel about this schedule if it were to pan out?
Fri., Nov. 11 - vs. Longwood (known opponent, presumed buy game)
Mon., Nov. 14 - vs. Oral Roberts (4th game as part of Paradise Jam, presumed buy game)
Fri., Nov. 18 - vs. Montana (at Paradise Jam - U.S. Virgin Islands)
Sun., Nov. 20 - vs. North Carolina State/Loyola (IL) (at Paradise Jam)
Mon., Nov. 21 - vs. Mississippi/Washington State/St. Joseph's/Oral Roberts (at Paradise Jam)
**The likely opening opponent in the Paradise Jam is between Montana, Oral Roberts and Loyola (IL). Feel free to interchange the parts of the teams listed for the games on Nov. 14 and Nov. 18. If they really get creative, then the game on Nov. 14 could be against St. Joseph's as part of the H/H that was abandoned a few years ago. CU would then return the game to St. Joe's in 2017-18 season.
Sat., Nov. 26 - vs. Tennessee-Martin (known opponent, presumed buy game)
Tue., Nov. 29 - vs. Start of H/H (Big 12 school, Wichita State - return game in 17-18 season)
**You can eliminate Kansas and Texas for any potential H/H, but all other schools I would think are gettable. Ras mentioned in the one OWH article that Wichita CC is a possibility at some point. Including based on the "where's there's smoke, there's fire" adage.
Sun., Dec. 4 - at Nebraska (known opponent, H/H series)
Wed., Dec. 7 - at Arizona State (known opponent, end of H/H series)
Sat., Dec. 10 - vs. Buy Game (opponent TBD)
**I believe finals would occur Dec. 12-16, so no games during this week...
Sat., Dec. 17 - vs. Start of H/H (SEC school - return game in 18-19 season)
**You can eliminate Kentucky for any potential H/H, but all other schools should be gettable. Arkansas, Alabama, Vanderbilt and Texas A&M would all make sense. Missouri would make a lot of sense, but they stink right now...
Tue., Dec. 20 - at Start of H/H (Pac-12 school - return game in 17-18)
**You can eliminate Arizona and probably UCLA, but all others I think would at least listen. Once we entered the Big East, I thought that Colorado would be a natural to schedule for a H/H. Not sure if Mac and their coach have a relationship where they wouldn't play each other in the regular season (CU did scrimmage with them a couple years ago, IIRC).
Wed., Dec. 28 - vs. Buy Game (opponent TBD)
**A good "lets get the holidays out of your system" game before Big East play begins.
This would give CU 7 home games, 3 road games and 3 neutral site games. I've heard Ras mention before that 8 is the magic number for non-con home games, so maybe one of the H/H series wouldn't happen and be replaced with a buy game.
However, with the above schedule and return games involved and adding in that we'd have Nebraska and a likely Gavitt Game at home in 2017-18, that would make for a schedule breakdown the following year of 9 home, 2 road and 2 neutral site games (was mentioned somewhere that CU was a high possibility for the CBE in Kansas City in 17-18 season - which previously has provided for 2 home buy games and 2 neutral site games in KC).