FB travels well? How many away tickets are sold every year to Uconn? How many do they return to the other school? Potential? Maybe to driveable games, but on Thursday, I will guess less than 1,000 Uconn fans in Houston.We have a Big Ten/SEC level fanbase in basketball, no doubt. In football, we have the same potential, as well. I am sure people know we actually do have a football fanbase that travels well. We already are amongst the best in the Hockey East.
was at the Navy game. hard to guess but there were quite a few uconn fans. probably in the 500-1,000 range.FB travels well? How many away tickets are sold every year to Uconn? How many do they return to the other school? Potential? Maybe to driveable games, but on Thursday, I will guess less than 1,000 Uconn fans in Houston.
And never forget that the travel perception for Uconn is clouded by the Fiesta Bowl ticket sales and how few the school actually sold for that game and the other bowl games Uconn went to.
500-1,000 is not traveling well for FB. Typical allotment to visiting teams is 3-5k tickets depending on the size of the stadium. Schools that are consider to travel well don't return tickets allotted to them. And I consider Navy to be a driveable distance for an away game.was at the Navy game. hard to guess but there were quite a few uconn fans. probably in the 500-1,000 range.
that is a lot more manageable than a mid-week game in Houston.
Morgantown to Storrs - per Google Maps
12 h 3 min (795.0 mi) via I-84, I-80 W and I-71 S
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Or.......Boren is taking a stand vs Texas. Everyone just assumes Texas has the upper hand but OU shares equal power or more. OU probably has 4 landing spots, UT has two that are certain. This is Boren's way of taking a stand....... I get my way or we are out. No expansion is the death of the conference. That's a given. But Boren has always seen the worth of staying in the Big 12 if there was a long term vision. To Boren it has always been 4 teams, BYU and UConn included, or nothing. Adding just UH and Cincy is not viable. The noise generated this past week further proves its four or nothing. This is a positive for UConn.Lots of signs pointing to Big 12 standing pat.
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Wolken chatting with Chuck Carlton on this week's (non) development:
One of the tidbits: Carlton says a Big12 source told him that if UConn were 500 miles closer (or maybe it was 500 miles away? at work, not gonna replay) that UConn would be in.
So...
One of the tidbits: Carlton says a Big12 source told him that if UConn were 500 miles closer (or maybe it was 500 miles away? at work, not gonna replay) that UConn would be in.
So...
It's not BS, it's true. 500 miles closer would also lessen the perception that we're a bunch of New England Yankees. Don't discount that being a factor in a league heavily dominated by Texans. Whether that perception is right or wrong on either end, it's present in some capacity.This is BS. You can make all sorts of excuses/ reasons if you don't want someone in your conference.
Fits with what Benedict said at the tailgate to the yarders. For that particular p5 league, geography was our biggest obstacle. Too bad they can't come to agreement that they are going to need to conference network of some sort at some point to remain competitive. That would have given us a leg up in the competition.One of the tidbits: Carlton says a Big12 source told him that if UConn were 500 miles closer (or maybe it was 500 miles away? at work, not gonna replay) that UConn would be in.
So...
One of the tidbits: Carlton says a Big12 source told him that if UConn were 500 miles closer (or maybe it was 500 miles away? at work, not gonna replay) that UConn would be in.
So...
Damn Storrs brothers.It's not BS, it's true. 500 miles closer would also lessen the perception that we're a bunch of New England Yankees. Don't discount that being a factor in a league heavily dominated by Texans. Whether that perception is right or wrong on either end, it's present in some capacity.
Also don't forget that it was stated a couple years back, and is entirely true, that if UConn were located in Fairfield County and not Storrs we'd be in the B1G.
i've also heard that if we had square a holes, we could all crap bricks.It's not BS, it's true. 500 miles closer would also lessen the perception that we're a bunch of New England Yankees. Don't discount that being a factor in a league heavily dominated by Texans. Whether that perception is right or wrong on either end, it's present in some capacity.
Also don't forget that it was stated a couple years back, and is entirely true, that if UConn were located in Fairfield County and not Storrs we'd be in the B1G.
Also don't forget that it was stated a couple years back, and is entirely true, that if UConn were located in Fairfield County and not Storrs we'd be in the B1G.