(03-14-2014 11:06 AM)UConnFB Wrote:  P5 teams local to UConn have little incentive to play us. And may even view it as a benefit to not play us in order to minimize us as much as possible. I really don't think that schools like ECU, UCF, Cincy and USF have the same problem because their P5 neighbors already believe them to either be effectively minimized or just aren't threatened in the same way.

Oh, our P5 neighbors do not want to play us, but there is political pressure to do so. NC State has said they do not want to play us. 12-16 record against them has them plenty scared. VT has been a long time on and off rival and our history was very similar until they got in the BE, VT is just different animal. We never really had any issues with them. South Carolina is on and off, if we start beating them like we did 1990's they stop playing us again.