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Where did I say or suggest that?So, let me be clear here: You are starting to long for the AAC? ... ...
Where did I say or suggest that?So, let me be clear here: You are starting to long for the AAC? ... ...
The new kid on the block is going to start making waves already in a conference it has not stepped in yet? I suppose it don't hurt to ask.
The new kid on the block is going to start making waves already in a conference it has not stepped in yet? I suppose it don't hurt to ask.
Unfortunately, we have no leverage to demand anything. They will want UConn to play all the BE schools for maximum exposure and you cant blame them.
I have not a bone to pick here. I would only humbly submit that you've misread me a tad...Go take your daily sense of humor pill ... maybe two. Your liking Mr Doom's rather careworn recitation of the crushing power of the P5, to what purpose for him or you or us, suggests two may be in order. If some sports fasns needs to be a syncophants to those killing amateur college athletics, well, that's their itch and they should scratch it. On the other hand, if it is just an urge to rain on someone's parade, well that is just a time honored BY tradition.
I have not a bone to pick here. I would only humbly submit that you've misread me a tad...
The primary consideration of the Southeastern Conference, by a an immense margin, is football, and women's basketball is never ever a consideration when evaluating the possibility of expansion.
No school from the northeast will ever become a member of the SEC.
They've had some ridiculous road trips lately.With the difference in the SOS between the AAC and the BE, UConn does not need to change anything. They will most likely have fewer long road trips while playing against higher competition both in and out of league play.
Personally, as long as we're going retro conference-wise, I wish we could bring back the old Jonathan logo. I think the new one looks more like a wolf than a Husky. View attachment 44257
This was a serious question.Did Geno coach BE Commissioner, Val Ackerman, at Virginia?
She graduated in 1981 and he was there about that time.
Geno started at UVa in 1981, so she likely had just graduated.This was a serious question.
Anyone know?
They got beat by a good Oklahoma team. It was a terrible choice for us to play in that bowl, as opposed to the Orange bowl. We had nothing to do with that. We did the best we could, and quite frankly, as an FBS school for all of 7-8 years, I think we did ok.That just the way it works. If UConn had won that game you can bet it would have defined their entire program.
I think the point is there was zero chance of that happening. UConn won a conference championship in a depleted BE which was still recognized as a BCS conference. So they got to play in a 'real' bowl game and got exposed by a 'real' football program.
Full disclosure: I am an Oklahoma alum and huge OU football fan. From that perspective it appears to me that all the scheming and blaming and wishing and hoping on the football board and conference realignment board is just that - a bunch of scheming and blaming and wishing and hoping. Actually as a (past) 20-year CT resident and big UConn BB fan I would like to see it happen too. But it requires big $$ from big boosters. So all the T. Boone Pickens and Red McCombs types please step forward.
Basketball-only schools can make money but P5 schools, even the worst among them sports-wise, make $$MONEY$$$. TV contracts, licensing, bowl appearances all generate huge dollars. If we want to attract an elite coach to UConn after Geno retires, it could take a million dollar salary. It would be nice to Be sure there’s enough money to pay the wbb, mbb, soccer, multiple championship- winning field hockey, and other coaches enough money to keep them and maintain the facilities.Could we just have maybe a day or two before we do our obligatory hand wringing about the death of amateur athletics on campus? Or take it to a new thread called "We Are Really, Really Doomed?" I think it is really great that the fans in the P5 conferences can get Faced every weekend and pretend to watch semi-pro football, because we are America and about endless choices. Lucky Connecticut fans get to root for professional football teams , wear all the gear, and get just as faced if not more. Most P5 games are stomp contests - like UConn Husky women playing everyone in the AAC.
Why some insist on hitting their face into a brick wall called the P-5 is beyond me and I would suggest you should go get an Alabama jersey and roll with the Tide. Or, better yet, go get a 5 for deal on jerseys and be a guaranteed snackered winner every week end at least 3 times?
that stinks
UConn needs to press hard to change that
Hey barkeep, I'll have whatever it is they're having.
CARN: ye gads, my man. Say it isn't so. Am crushed to learn that Carnac does not know all as advertised.
Going to the Big East postpones that day for UConn- Advent of power (football) conferences leading to the downfall of ODU, La Tech, etc. in WBB, but not for UConn's (yet?)