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Topic: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

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Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 12:40:55 PM

Glass Bowl in 2015
Miami Gardens in 2016

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100726/SPORTS11/100729721

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The Miami game is the latest addition to a challenging and exciting Rocket non-conference home schedule in upcoming years. This fall the Rockets host Arizona and Wyoming; in future years Boise State (2011), Navy (2013), Missouri (2014) and Iowa State (2015) will visit the Glass Bowl.

It's everything that fires up the Love rolled into one... teams outscheduling us, AND Hocutt!

Last Edited: 7/26/2010 12:42:38 PM by ts1227

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 2:31:38 PM

That is impressive. That is something to shoot for. Miami, even at its worst, will no doubt sell out .

I do wonder what Toledo had to do to get that agreement. They may be giving up almost all of the money from both the home and away games, but I bet whatever they did to swing that deal will be more than worth it.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 3:10:24 PM

How many does FATMAN stadium hold? How many live within 35 miles of Toledo? How much can/will they charge per game ticket?

It's a great get for Rocket but I can't think that our situation is similar.

Maybe after this year.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 3:19:55 PM

Basically 25,000, but I believe it's expandable up into the mid 30s.

FWIW, FATMAN has now joined the Toledo broadcasting team...

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 3:47:13 PM

.... effectively ending Russ Eisenstein's claim that he can bench press every broadcast team in the MAC.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 4:11:21 PM

The official capacity is listed as 26,248, but the record crowd was 36,852 against Navy in 2001. I'm not exactly sure how they fit an extra 10,000+ but I'm sure Peden couldn't be stretched to that extreme, probably only a few thousand tops over the 24,000 capacity so that would put it 10,000 shy of what Toledo has smashed into the Glass Bowl. Definitely a big difference.

Of course it also helps like suggested before that Toledo is a 300,000 person city with a MSA of 672,000, all of them easily within 35 miles of Toledo. I'm pretty sure there are many thousands more at least that close not included in the MSA. I wouldn't doubt there are close to 1 million people within 35 miles of UT so that is a lot of exposure, certainly a lot more than OU could offer unfortunately.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 4:23:16 PM

ts1227 is right...this is a perfect storm to fan the flames of Love's wrath.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 4:34:22 PM

Any information about the Wyoming / Texas series that concludes this year? I believe that it is only a 2 game series with Texas going to Wyoming last year, so this seems like the contracts would be similar.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 6:42:57 PM

Jughead wrote:

The difference with Texas/Wyoming is that Texas got hung out to dry at the last second by Arkansas canceling their deal and Mack Brown wanting to play a road game no matter who it was against. This is much different in my eyes in that this is set years in advance with no real idea what either team will look like at the time.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 7:52:40 PM

Jeff McKinney wrote:

ts1227 is right...this is a perfect storm to fan the flames of Love's wrath.

Humorous how many of us thought of the Love when this crossed the wires this morning -- I know I did!

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 8:56:22 PM

I'm giving everyone the blueprint for building a program...and nobody is listening. I can't take it anymore.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 10:10:02 PM

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 10:15:35 PM

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I'm giving everyone the blueprint for building a program...and nobody is listening. I can't take it anymore.

Playing an inflated B-ball schedule has destroyed Miami basketball attendance. While they seem to compete yearly in the MAC…their fans no longer turn out to see a habitual sub 500 team. If Toledo continues to lose 3 of their fist 5 football games…I don’t see this working for them either. Getting our brains beat in the first 3 games each year…will not build a program. Winning more than one MAC title every 50 years is a good place to start.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 10:17:38 PM

Reminiscent of when Marshall signed the deal for a home game with Tennessee and VT signed to play in Athens. Unfortunately contracts mean little these days.

My first thought was smart move for Toledo to play the first game at home.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/26/2010 11:16:18 PM

Just for the record UT has beaten Kansas and Colorado at home in recent years. The latter (originally scheduled for Oxford, of all places) was a blowout, despite some late game TDs by UC to close the gap. The former was dubbed by our very own Certified Pigskin Analyst as the Fat Bowl (FATMAN v. FATTERMAN). A number of years ago (about a decade ago, I think) UT blew out Minnesota at home. Overall, they have a pretty good record in marquee games in the Glass Bowl. BTW, some say that having all that extra weight in one spot put the earth's rotation out of balance and is responsible for global warming summers and too much snow in the winter.

Last Edited: 7/26/2010 11:26:18 PM by OhioCatFan

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/27/2010 11:43:02 AM

Two losses for the Rockets. Early season games will for certain result in injuries to key players. I am sure Kirby Hocutt offerred this to Ohio and I am glad we passed!

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/27/2010 10:34:45 PM

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Two losses for the Rockets. Early season games will for certain result in injuries to key players. I am sure Kirby Hocutt offerred this to Ohio and I am glad we passed!

Two PROBABLE loses for UT, and I would like to know your source for Hodoyoucut offering OHIO this deal. I personally won't believe that unless someone has actual facts to back it up.

Last Edited: 7/27/2010 10:35:16 PM by OhioCatFan

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/28/2010 12:18:48 AM

Actually this is not the first series that UT and Miami of FL have played. Anyone remember Miami being on Ohio's schedule at one time only to be dropped?

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/28/2010 12:26:40 AM

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I would like to know your source for Hodoyoucut offering OHIO this deal. I personally won't believe that unless someone has actual facts to back it up.

And I would like to know your source for saying Hocutt was the only reason we moved the VT game. My sources say the person who pushed for that game to be moved from Peden is still walking the sidelines for the 'Cats...along with a few other higher profile games which were on the table and then removed.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/28/2010 1:03:47 AM

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OhioCatFan wrote:

I would like to know your source for Hodoyoucut offering OHIO this deal. I personally won't believe that unless someone has actual facts to back it up.

Well, my sources are primarily at VT, and I can tell you they were NOT happy about the move when it happened. The alumni office there was not happy either, because they had to reshuffle planned Ohio alumni events. To them it certainly appeared that Hocutt was the driving force. I suspect that they were right. In terms of the Northwestern game I'm going more on gut feeling in terms of Hocutt's culpability, but I do know that the present administration would have handled that situation entirely differently. If you want details on that, I can PM you.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/28/2010 12:33:23 PM

This is a good add for Toledo but we have yet to see the MAC sign a true 80,000 seat Gladiator type of a program to a home-home deal. Miami brings a team like Toledo in and its only going to draw 40,000 it doesn't make sense to do the payday thing. Randy Shannon should have Miami rolling by 2015-2016 if recruiting is any indicator. Miami is projected to win the ACC next year in year 4 of Shannon after improving from 5, 7, to 9 wins over his first 3 years.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/28/2010 4:21:31 PM

At little more detail on the 1-1 deal between the 'Canes and Rockettes. Reading this article reminded me that UT also beat Pitt at home -- a few years before Ohio did the same thing. I think, from memory, that Pitt is 0-2 against MAC teams on the road, and something like 12-1 at home. Norhing like home cooking!

Last Edited: 7/28/2010 4:22:09 PM by OhioCatFan

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/28/2010 9:42:17 PM

OhioCatFan wrote:

Ryan Carey wrote:

OhioCatFan wrote:

I would like to know your source for Hodoyoucut offering OHIO this deal. I personally won't believe that unless someone has actual facts to back it up.

OCF: The reason VT was not happy (that is a mild statement), is that they (VT) found out through the back door that we were "Selling" our home game to the group that owns and operates the event management of M&T Bank Stadium (since named) and were going to recoup the lionshare of the revenue in this deal. VT was not willing to go along with our plan. Ryan is also on to much more truth here then you want to admit OCF.

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/28/2010 11:58:19 PM

JCW, that's not the whole reason that VT was angry with us. We managed to tick off a whole lot of folks at VT for a variety of reasons.

Now, tell me, what football coach in his right mind would prefer to play a team like VT (or even Northwestern) on the road versus at home? He might be convinced that it was good for the program to go on the road for the money, but to impy that he preferred to play them on the road is simply ludicrous in the extreme. And, who, my dear man, was it that did the convincing?

Last Edited: 7/29/2010 12:01:42 AM by OhioCatFan

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RE: Toledo agrees to home-and-home with Miami (FL)

Posted: 7/29/2010 2:04:00 AM

Toledo historically has been the MAC's best football program. They have one of the MAC's largest football stadiums and are in a decent sized market with local tv and radio. Toledo have gotten big TV games and big named teams to play in the Glass bowl. Toledo has had a winning tradition in football much longer than Ohio. They have drawn better over a longer period of time with attendance than Ohio. They beat Michigan and they are the only MAC team that can say that. Toledo likely gets this game on TV on ESPN. This is also a matchup of two schools trying to cleanup their tarnished programs. This is the kind of game that top MAC programs should win, but often have come up short.

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