(05-13-2020 08:05 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  

(05-13-2020 03:15 PM)orangefan Wrote:  

(05-13-2020 02:37 PM)Fighting Muskie Wrote:  Liberty, Army, UMass, and UConn ought to enter into a formal scheduling agreement to guarantee that they all get 3 November games amongst each other.

That gives some stability to everyone’s schedules.

Army generally has no problem finding opponents, so they might not be interested. New Mexico State, on the other hand, would probably love in on such an arrangement.

Army having a relationship with both UConn and UMass makes perfect sense because they are both close by and playing one on the road, which is a very manageable bus trip, and the other at home would be ideal.

Army’s interest in Liberty is so so. Army really has no need to play NMSU nor do I think they want to.

NMSU would very much like to play any independent they can get on the schedule. I think UConn, UMass, and Liberty are all cool playing them too.

NMST and Liberty already play each other. Don't know if a scheduling agreement long term helps UConn and UMass because of the distance. UConn left the AAC to rejoin the BE and would rather play more of a regional FB schedule to cut travel in that sport now that they have been kicked out of the AAC for FB, once their scheduling works it's way out over time. The long distance travel will be reserved for money games. However if scheduling problems persist in late October and into November then they might have to schedule NMST late in the season to fill those slots. UConn and UMass scheduling Liberty is a no brainer though.

Edit: Just checked the future schedules for UMass. NMST is on their schedule as a regular for the 2020 through the 2023 seasons. Looks like UMass, NMST, and Liberty already have a scheduling agreement going for the late season when the other schools go into conference play.