When Tricia Cullop and her University of Toledo women’s basketball staff reach out to name-brand schools about coming to Savage Arena, a translator is usually helpful.
Here’s what the Rockets coaches ask: Would you like to play at our place?
And here’s what their colleagues hear: Would you like to play in outer space? At 3 a.m.? On Thanksgiving as part of ESPN3’s Galactic Turkey Challenge?
A sampling of the friendly responses UT has received in the past year include ...
“Hell no.”
“Never gonna happen.”
“Stop talking about it!”
Point is, scheduling is hard, and doubly so when you have a top mid-major program backed by one of the top fan bases in the nation.