Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[Dooley]

McMurphyESPN 11:40am via Tweetbot for iΟS
RT @ByTimReynolds: President Donna Shalala is retiring from University of Miami at end of academic year

This could be good years for UCONN's ACC hopes.

 

[CL82]

It's definitely not bad news. Still it's not like we know that her successor will be CT yes vote.

 

[Dooley]

It's definitely not bad news. Still it's not like we know that her successor will be CT yes vote.

Time to start stuffing some ballots.

 

[pj]

Eh. Groveling doesn't do it for me and I doubt it sways them. Just be cordial to the new leader. If we can schedule home and homes, let's do it. Miami gets a lot of students from the northeast and they should be fine with playing here. At most, move our home game to NYC.

 

[Dooley]

Miami isn't coming up here to play at the Rent when 1) we can't sell out our stadium and 2) they already come up here to play Syracuse and BC (and they can't sell out their stadiums either). There is absolutely no incentive for Miami to play football in Connecticut until the day ever arrived that we became conference mates. Scheduling a one-off road game isn't groveling, it's reality (and it would really help us build a relationship with Miami AND help with recruiting/exposure).

Basketball, on the other hand, is something that they would more than likely be interested in. Increased exposure to the prized hoops recruits of the northeast would benefit them.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Miami isn't coming up here to play at the Rent when 1) we can't sell out our stadium and 2) they already come up here to play Syracuse and BC (and they can't sell out their stadiums either). There is absolutely no incentive for Miami to play football in Connecticut until the day ever arrived that we became conference mates. Scheduling a one-off road game isn't groveling, it's reality (and it would really help us build a relationship with Miami AND help with recruiting/exposure).

Basketball, on the other hand, is something that they would more than likely be interested in. Increased exposure to the prized hoops recruits of the northeast would benefit them.

And yet UConn has no reason to play Miami in basketball. They can't sell out their arena and aren't very good. We don't need access to Miami area recruits. I think the premise of these arrangements is that a trade can be made.

 

[Dooley]

And yet UConn has no reason to play Miami in basketball. They can't sell out their arena and aren't very good. We don't need access to Miami area recruits. I think the premise of these arrangements is that a trade can be made.

Miami is in a P5 conference. We are not. The reality is that UCONN needs Miami far more than Miami needs UCONN. We're trying to sway some anti-UCONN votes in the ACC. Call it groveling or bowing or whatever - if it helps UCONN get out of the AAC, I'll fly to friggin' Miami and wax Shalala's bikini line. Now is not the time for UCONN to play the "we're too good for _____" nonsense.

 

[CL82]

We need them more than they need us so that has to be factored in but yeah.

 

[Dooley]

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that UCONN basketball needs Miami basketball. We obviously don't. But our football program sure could use Miami on the schedule, even if it's one road game. If we have to schedule a H&H hoops series to get 1 road football game, then do it. This is more about mending fences with a school that clearly hates us. We need to build relationships with as many P5 schools as possible and it would be great if we could do something with Miami, now that Shalala is gone.

 

[ThetaZoo]

That UConn football can lose attendance to college soccer makes me want to poke my eyes out.

I'm now blind in both eyes after watching UC men's soccer for 10 years

 

[HuskyHawk]

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that UCONN basketball needs Miami basketball. We obviously don't. But our football program sure could use Miami on the schedule, even if it's one road game. If we have to schedule a H&H hoops series to get 1 road football game, then do it. This is more about mending fences with a school that clearly hates us. We need to build relationships with as many P5 schools as possible and it would be great if we could do something with Miami, now that Shalala is gone.

But why Miami? I know she's gone, but the football program is in tatters as well. And is there any school in the country that likes Miami? We need allies, I just don't know if that is the best one, even if you can't wait to break out that bikini wax.

 

[pj]

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that UCONN basketball needs Miami basketball. We obviously don't. But our football program sure could use Miami on the schedule, even if it's one road game. If we have to schedule a H&H hoops series to get 1 road football game, then do it. This is more about mending fences with a school that clearly hates us. We need to build relationships with as many P5 schools as possible and it would be great if we could do something with Miami, now that Shalala is gone.

There's nothing easier than getting a road football game in exchange for nothing. That's worth millions of dollars to the host school. We could get a road football game with no return from every single member of the P5.

Offering such concessions isn't likely to get us into the P5.

We do need to build relationships but they need to be based on mutual respect, not desperate supplication and submission.

 

[HuskyHawk]

There's nothing easier than getting a road football game in exchange for nothing. That's worth millions of dollars to the host school. We could get a road football game with no return from every single member of the P5.

Offering such concessions isn't likely to get us into the P5.

We do need to build relationships but they need to be based on mutual respect, not desperate supplication and submission.

Which is why I suggested that rather than playing a road game against any P5 team, we offer up home-home basketball, women too, to get a home-home engagement. There are schools that could benefit from that arrangement, a school like UGA or Ole Miss, trying to be the third team from the SEC with UK and Florida, could point to UConn on the future schedule to recruits.

 

[businesslawyer]

We do need to build relationships but they need to be based on mutual respect, not desperate supplication and submission.

If you could have built a relationship based on desperate supplication and submission, I wouldn't have been so lonely in high school.

 

[ThetaZoo]

And yet UConn has no reason to play Miami in basketball. They can't sell out their arena and aren't very good. We don't need access to Miami area recruits. I think the premise of these arrangements is that a trade can be made.

They had our number back in 2002 and 2003. Johnnie Salmons

 

[whaler11]

Which is why I suggested that rather than playing a road game against any P5 team, we offer up home-home basketball, women too, to get a home-home engagement. There are schools that could benefit from that arrangement, a school like UGA or Ole Miss, trying to be the third team from the SEC with UK and Florida, could point to UConn on the future schedule to recruits.

I wish someone had thought of that. Those schools don't care about their men's basketball programs nevermind the women's.

 

[junglehusky]

@McMurphyESPN
SEC commissioner Mike Slive is retiring after this academic school year

@McMurphyESPN
SEC commish Mike Slive is retiring June 30, 2015, beginning treatment for recurrence of prostate cancer

 

[ZooCougar]

SEC still has an academic year?

 

[MilliniumPrince]

SEC still has an academic year?

Don't be silly, of course they do. February 30-February 31.

 

[WestHartHusk]

SEC still has an academic year?

It must line up with basketball season.

 

[pj]

SEC still has an academic year?

Start of June football to end of bowl season, and then spring semester (March-April). Popular majors include offensive line play, power running, team defense, and strength and conditioning.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

UConn is clearly trying to get on the B1G's radar indirectly but pushing hard for AAU status. On the opposite end of the spectrum, is this Florida St.'s way of showing that it is ready for SEC football?

http://www.si.com/college-football/2014/10/11/jameis-winston-florida-state-disciplinary-hearing

By the way, Winston has hired David Cornwell, who has represented Major League Baseball stars Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in high-profile cases. How on earth does a 'amateur' college football player afford that guy?

 

[Husky25]

UConn is clearly trying to get on the B1G's radar indirectly but pushing hard for AAU status. On the opposite end of the spectrum, is this Florida St.'s way of showing that it is ready for SEC football?

http://www.si.com/college-football/2014/10/11/jameis-winston-florida-state-disciplinary-hearing

By the way, Winston has hired David Cornwell, who has represented Major League Baseball stars Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in high-profile cases. How on earth does a 'amateur' college football player afford that guy?

Could be pro bono in return for a future relationship, NCAA violations be damned. If he's convicted, he won't play ball anyway. Word is that the Tallahassee PD's bungling leave all kinds of room for doubt. They pretty much negated any possibility of a guilty verdict.

 

[junglehusky]

I guess this goes here.

@McMurphyESPN · 21h 21 hours ago
At Big 12 function in NY: no one ever talked to Cincy, OU’s Joe C wasn't at UCF & SMU’s BOR report UM/Cincy getting invites wrong

@McMurphyESPN · 21h 21 hours ago
Every person I spoke to today that’s from Big 12 or Big 12 school: league is not expanding


@McMurphyESPN · 1h 1 hour ago
OU AD Joe Castiglione & Cincy AD Mike Bohn chatting at Waldorf in NY. I joined them & - sorry - no discussions about expansion

 

[pj]

OU AD Joe Castiglione & Cincy AD Mike Bohn chatting at Waldorf in NY.

So the B12 did meet with Cincy!