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I don't buy this. Even the dopiest of BCU folks realize that cutting loose from UConn was a mistake. They get stronger to second UConn gets into the ACC. Cuse, too.A mix of Boston College being scared
The window closed.
Hard feelings from Blumie’s lawsuit plus the NCAA stuff around the hoop program killed us in 2011 and we’re just not on intersecting paths now.
That’s only because the ACC is avoiding us.The window closed.
Hard feelings from Blumie’s lawsuit plus the NCAA stuff around the hoop program killed us in 2011 and we’re just not on intersecting paths now.
Thankfully Louisville didn’t bring shame to them almost immediatelyThe window closed.
Hard feelings from Blumie’s lawsuit plus the NCAA stuff around the hoop program killed us in 2011 and we’re just not on intersecting paths now.
Duke and Tobacco Road was your strongest advocates last time round. The Miami and VPI additions flopped in football while Clemson and FSU stunk. So football decided the problem with the league was obviously basketball-related, and went all-in on Louisville.What did UConn do to piss off the ACC?
We beat Duke's unbeatable team in 1999.
We beat Duke again (and then ACC school Georgia Tech) in 2004.
We continued winning national championships after everyone thought we fell off the map (in 2010 they started writing the obituary), after we were relegated to the AAC and then we went out and did it again this past season.
Didn’t ESPN tell them to vote against adding UCONN?I don't buy this. Even the dopiest of BCU folks realize that cutting loose from UConn was a mistake. They get stronger to second UConn gets into the ACC. Cuse, too.
But Stanford and Cal do?UConn didn’t do anything to the ACC. UConn just doesn’t move the tv/media needle to make financial sense to add to the ACC. It‘s no one’s fault, it’s just business.
I think they were more worried about exerting power in the conference. They were tired of the Tobacco Road influence and flexed their muscles to bring in Louisville. There also is the perception that Connecticut's got no place to go and therefore will always be available, which, as it turns out, hasn't been inaccurate.I’
In 2011 Clemson and FSU woke up one day and realized UConn was about to be added.
They were worried about the ACC’s place in the universe as a waning football power. So they freaked out and forced the conference to add Louisville because they felt they had better football.
We also beat Louisville in football that year. The whole thing is really dumb.
I think they were more worried about exerting power in the conference. They were tired of the Tobacco Road influence and flexed their muscles to bring in Louisville. There also is the perception that Connecticut's got no place to go and therefore will always be available, which, as it turns out, hasn't been inaccurate.
It's been a lot of things that have combined to undercut us including having a stadium in East Hartford and it's always decision not to play in 2020. None of them are a true indication of our "value" as a program, as can be seen by the recent ranking of our school as the #12 ranked sports program in the country, but collectively each separate thing as cost us. I truly wonder if the stars will ever align for us to move back into a major conference.
But here's the thing, if ESPN says we're in a conference tomorrow, we are in a conference tomorrow. They are the ones writing the checks and they have a fairly absolute say about our future. Since they are the ones who wrote the checks for the evisceration of the old the Big East, they are the ones that started the chain of events that put us in our current situation.
Didn’t ESPN tell them to vote against adding UCONN?
Sometimes more is better.Isn’t that just exact what I said except with just more words?
They had that power because the primacy of football had established itself. And the hoop schools had to keep them appeased.
I posted on this many times in past.The lawsuit had nothing to do with it.
With Mora at the helm, I think we finally have a chance to be consistently better than BCU, and much their asses.BC does not want UConn in the ACC, period. Blumie could have sent $100 million and a lifetime supply of call girls, and BC would blackball us.
BC was the catalyst for the 2003 raid, and they did it then because they realized that once UConn went D1 in football in a major conference, BCU would be second fiddle in New England. Nothing has changed in the 20 years since. BCU had the foresight to see the conference Survivor that college athletics would become, and their sole goal when it comes to UConn is to make sure that BCU is the only major conference school in New England.
BC had pull since their AD was head of the expansion committee when ACC wanted UConn and Cuse. He worked with Miami and got them to take Pitt and Cuse instead.Does BC have any pull in the ACC? Where are they strong?
Times have changed. Gene D was a vindictive man, got pushed out at BC, and he has been gone for over 10 years. Father Leahy is not that involved in athletics outside of making sure they are profitable. And, Connecticut has the 3rd largest group of BC alumni after Massachusetts and NY. Plus, the tri-state area produces more BC students than Massachusetts.BC does not want UConn in the ACC, period. Blumie could have sent $100 million and a lifetime supply of call girls, and BC would blackball us.
BC was the catalyst for the 2003 raid, and they did it then because they realized that once UConn went D1 in football in a major conference, BCU would be second fiddle in New England. Nothing has changed in the 20 years since. BCU had the foresight to see the conference Survivor that college athletics would become, and their sole goal when it comes to UConn is to make sure that BCU is the only major conference school in New England.