Miami and Florida are finalizing a deal to play in Jacksonville

Trinton Breeze
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Jai Lucas versus Todd Golden appears to be happening!

Florida and Miami are finalizing an agreement to play this season in a neutral-site game in Jacksonville, according to Jon Rothstein.



There is currently no timeline for an official announcement.

The last time the Hurricanes faced the Gators was in 2019, when the Hurricanes lost to the Gators 78-58.
 

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Basically, a home game for Florida, but will at least get a fair share of tickets
 
that was apart of the shamrock series so tech it wasnt neutral.
The theme is to give up a home game to play at a neutral site.
See the sites they’ve played since inception in 2009.
Yankee Stadium, Alamo Dome , Allegiant Stadium, Fenway, AT&T Stadium, Fed Ex Field, etc.
The only other game at Soldier field was against Wisconsin…makes sense.

Our game was the most un-neutral of all the “neutral” sites.
I/we had to fly over the ND campus to get there.
 
“Neutral” lol

Why does our school always bend backwards for these clowns. If they don’t want to face us then f them.

Right. Who is really excited about this?

Yay! Play basketball against UF in Jacksonville! What an honor!!!
 
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Nope. Just nope. Jai should have told them to kick rocks. I’m sick and tired of UF pulling this crap. Whether it was always attempting to play in Coral Gables when students were gone over winter break, or this neutral site crap, UF has never been interested in a true home and home series. Jacksonville will not be a true neutral site game.
 
The “Gator Flop” just can’t die out…gets resurrected every time we play them anything. I’m sure there are other teams we can schedule rather than this lazy pick.
 
Obviously hate that the game is in Jacksonville and not a home/home or in a true neutral location... but love adding top tier non-conference matchups. We'll never be Duke but look at their non-conference next season: Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Michigan, Michigan St, Texas Tech, Florida. This is the kind of schedule that prepares you for ACC schedule and positions you well with the committee with several Quad 1 win opportunities (since those are harder to come by in the ACC nowadays).
 
Obviously hate that the game is in Jacksonville and not a home/home or in a true neutral location... but love adding top tier non-conference matchups. We'll never be Duke but look at their non-conference next season: Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Michigan, Michigan St, Texas Tech, Florida. This is the kind of schedule that prepares you for ACC schedule and positions you well with the committee with several Quad 1 win opportunities (since those are harder to come by in the ACC nowadays).
Oh look, a Miami "Fan" jocking Duke, we've never seen that nonsense before.

Do you realize that a good chunk of those games are TV games(Invitationals), games set up by ESPN and other entities, games in which Duke stands to lose NOTHING, even if they lose? Duke isn't doing what Tark or John Thompson did back in the day and travel **** near anywhere, these are mostly neutral site games, games that they didn't have to scrap and schedule. ESPN wants to get Duke on the network as much as possible, so they will find ways to build high end product.

Even if Duke looks like crap in what should be a very challenging schedule, it won't hurt them in the least. Remember UNC last season? The Heels went 1-12 in Quad 1 games. THEY STILL GOT INTO THE TOURNAMENT.

A perfect Miami OOC schedule would feature a legit tournament over Thanksgiving/Winter Break, a solid opponent for the ACC/SEC challenge(That's usually beyond our control, it's ESPN building matchups), and a couple of other good games, with a mix of glorified scrimmages and talented, tough midmajors filling out the slate.

In a sane world, Miami would play UF every year, giving the schedule a built in solid OOC game, but Miami has to go out and find blue bloods willing to play. It's an issue most non blue bloods(But not pushover programs) have to deal with. We've seen that the blue bloods are reluctant to play a team capable of competing against them, like Miami, when they can play each other in invitationals, and then beat up on midmajors/low end P5 teams. There are some exceptions(Gonzaga usually pulls a couple per year, but ESPN has been willing to help them)
 
Oh look, a Miami "Fan" jocking Duke, we've never seen that nonsense before.

Do you realize that a good chunk of those games are TV games(Invitationals), games set up by ESPN and other entities, games in which Duke stands to lose NOTHING, even if they lose? Duke isn't doing what Tark or John Thompson did back in the day and travel **** near anywhere, these are mostly neutral site games, games that they didn't have to scrap and schedule. ESPN wants to get Duke on the network as much as possible, so they will find ways to build high end product.

Even if Duke looks like crap in what should be a very challenging schedule, it won't hurt them in the least. Remember UNC last season? The Heels went 1-12 in Quad 1 games. THEY STILL GOT INTO THE TOURNAMENT.

A perfect Miami OOC schedule would feature a legit tournament over Thanksgiving/Winter Break, a solid opponent for the ACC/SEC challenge(That's usually beyond our control, it's ESPN building matchups), and a couple of other good games, with a mix of glorified scrimmages and talented, tough midmajors filling out the slate.

In a sane world, Miami would play UF every year, giving the schedule a built in solid OOC game, but Miami has to go out and find blue bloods willing to play. It's an issue most non blue bloods(But not pushover programs) have to deal with. We've seen that the blue bloods are reluctant to play a team capable of competing against them, like Miami, when they can play each other in invitationals, and then beat up on midmajors/low end P5 teams. There are some exceptions(Gonzaga usually pulls a couple per year, but ESPN has been willing to help them)
Lol when you started by saying I'm "jocking Duke" I thought you'd disagree with me but I agree with literally everything you said. People come in here looking to fight for some reason - we're on the same side. I was just showing an example about how top programs play way more top programs OOC than we historically have (Kentucky, UNC, several others do it just like Duke).

Fully agree with your point that it's hard to get a lot of high quality OOC games. People want to play blue bloods or cupcakes and unfortunately we're usually a tier below the blue bloods. And we don't draw viewers like the blue bloods so ESPN would rather have Duke/UNC/Kentucky/etc on their slate.
 
I like the moxie it shows to schedule a top team, but Jai...my guy...this year wasn't the year to do that. Major feeling this will be a game we lose by 15-20+.
 
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