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LOL - open mouth insert foot on 1995. Sorry all. Rebecca Lobo's team kicked butt.
The point is that for some reason, it seems that for the past 35 years, other than 1990s UCONN - which was in transition from 1-AA to 1A , if a university athletic department wants to win a national title in basktball - schools that don't play football at the top level don't seem to win. Is it coincidence? maybe. Is there a reasoning directly? Maybe. I don't know - just pointing out the observation.
As for UCONN football - to keep it as brief as possible for me. John Toner was involved in placing UCONN football into the 1-AA classification in 1978. As soon as Lew Perkins took over he started laying the ground work for upgrading. It wasn't until 1997 that the UCONN BOT approved the upgrade. In 2000 it finally happened. We played football in the Yankee Conference 1-AA for 20 years until 1998. We transitioned from 1-AA to 1-A from 1999-2000 playign in the A-10 conference briefly after the Yankee conference folded up. Then went 1-A independant in 2000 to 2003, then joined the Big East conference in 2004. We've been officially a 1-A football program and a 1A athletic department (there are specific requirements for each) (they use different letters these days for the classification systems) but we've been where we're at for 14 seasons and counting as an athletic department and football program.
The difference between 2000-2003 and 2012-2013, having to do with conferences is two fold: #1 is in the structure of television revenue sharing and bowl invitation systems of the college football post season, and #2 is the regular season television broadcasting revenue. When we were independnat, and now - we were on the wrong side of the revenue fence - when we were in teh Big East - we were part of what the P5 have now.
Everything you note about the degradation of the system - right up to the current 'unionization' of football players traces back to a landmark anti-trust lawsuit filed by the Oklahoma University and University of Georgia vs. the NCAA around the regulation of television revenue around intercollegiate football in the early 1980s. The U.S. supreme court ruling went against the NCAA, and revenue sharing in the NCAA was deregulated around football......Notre Dame signed their independant television contract, conferences starting forming and reforming around television contracts and the rest is history. The NCAA has essentially been hands off with television revenue sharing around football ever since - unlike every other sport.
The point is that for some reason, it seems that for the past 35 years, other than 1990s UCONN - which was in transition from 1-AA to 1A , if a university athletic department wants to win a national title in basktball - schools that don't play football at the top level don't seem to win. Is it coincidence? maybe. Is there a reasoning directly? Maybe. I don't know - just pointing out the observation.
As for UCONN football - to keep it as brief as possible for me. John Toner was involved in placing UCONN football into the 1-AA classification in 1978. As soon as Lew Perkins took over he started laying the ground work for upgrading. It wasn't until 1997 that the UCONN BOT approved the upgrade. In 2000 it finally happened. We played football in the Yankee Conference 1-AA for 20 years until 1998. We transitioned from 1-AA to 1-A from 1999-2000 playign in the A-10 conference briefly after the Yankee conference folded up. Then went 1-A independant in 2000 to 2003, then joined the Big East conference in 2004. We've been officially a 1-A football program and a 1A athletic department (there are specific requirements for each) (they use different letters these days for the classification systems) but we've been where we're at for 14 seasons and counting as an athletic department and football program.
The difference between 2000-2003 and 2012-2013, having to do with conferences is two fold: #1 is in the structure of television revenue sharing and bowl invitation systems of the college football post season, and #2 is the regular season television broadcasting revenue. When we were independnat, and now - we were on the wrong side of the revenue fence - when we were in teh Big East - we were part of what the P5 have now.
Everything you note about the degradation of the system - right up to the current 'unionization' of football players traces back to a landmark anti-trust lawsuit filed by the Oklahoma University and University of Georgia vs. the NCAA around the regulation of television revenue around intercollegiate football in the early 1980s. The U.S. supreme court ruling went against the NCAA, and revenue sharing in the NCAA was deregulated around football......Notre Dame signed their independant television contract, conferences starting forming and reforming around television contracts and the rest is history. The NCAA has essentially been hands off with television revenue sharing around football ever since - unlike every other sport.
