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(06-17-2019 12:48 PM)cincy7718 Wrote:  

(06-17-2019 11:58 AM)Nittany_Bearcat Wrote:  

(06-16-2019 09:23 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  We should continue to offer a home-and-home basketball series as an inducement to do 1-for-1 football games.

P5 programs with crappy basketball teams like USC, Arizona State, Mississippi, South Carolina, Clemson, Minnesota, etc would be ecstatic to get Cincinnati to come play at their basketball arena.

I agree with this - I feel that UC basketball can be leveraged more for the football discussions.

If, say, Penn State offers a 2-for-1 in football ..... try to add in the caveat that they come to Cincinnati for a one-off basketball game.

If UC is wanting, say, Toledo football to agree to a 2-for-1 ..... Toledo may balk, so offer a home-and-home basketball series.

You would need the basketball coach to be on-board with this as well, of course. But they also have more OOC games to play around with. Besides, I'm a bit tired of many of the UC basketball OOC games being buy games against the MEAC, SWAC and Southland. Even a home-and-home with a MAC team would be better (IMO).

I believe leveraging basketball is what Bob Goin did to get us in the Humanitarian bowl in '97 to break our bowl drought

That's absolutely what Goin did, which is why the basketball team played a regular season game in Boise.