If we can win a bunch of football games this fall, someone will probably move on us. We really need to flex some football muscle so we aren't easily dismissed any more. Yormark could sell us much more easily when he can point to our revived football program. Right now, he's pitching 6-7 and a bowl game as evidence of our revival. Frankly, I can see why that isn't exciting decision makers in the B12.Yormark is clearly very pro UConn. My belief is that if he could have found a way to make the money work, he would have gotten UConn into The Big 12. He still may, it just might be 5-10 years from now.
I actually wonder if the Nielsen data that came out showing us to be the number one college sports brand last year had come out a week or two earlier, whether that would've been enough for us to bump one of the Pac 12 programs.If we can win a bunch of football games this fall, someone will probably move on us. We really need to flex some football muscle so we aren't easily dismissed any more. Yormark could sell us much more easily when he can point to our revived football program. Right now, he's pitching 6-7 and a bowl game as evidence of our revival. Frankly, I can see why that isn't exciting decision makers in the B12.
Gonzaga is like Villanova without all of Nova's winning.Irritating that UConn is paired with Gonzaga in these discussions. Gonzaga is more like a Villanova or other BE school. UConn has so much more to offer as a college both athletically and academically as a flagship state school. UConn's fanbase in CT, the rest of New England, and New York City is so much more valuable from a TV revenue standpoint. I guess it is what it is until the football team can turn some heads.
We were the #14 school if the PAC 3 stayed. Once the B1G blew up PAC, we were out. Everything changed that Friday morning.There was different ideas at various points. Yormark had said that if a school offered football it would likely be included. The media glommed onto early reports of UConn/Gonzaga (and some Big East schools) as basketball members and never let go (likely in part with the prevailing narrative that UConn was no longer serious about football).
We're the only lunatics who follow this cr@p.I don’t like that it is getting national airplay that the B12 rejected us. I preferred when it wasn’t publicized.
If Yormark does what he’s shooting to do: uncouple bball from football, and as a consequence, boosts the value of bball to football up from 20/80 to a more favorable ratio- UConn becomes more valuable to the P5(4). If he continues to shift things, UConn could find itself to be a very attractive. Timing wise, this would ideally happen before the ACC GOR is up.I actually wonder if the Nielsen data that came out showing us to be the number one college sports brand last year had come out a week or two earlier, whether that would've been enough for us to bump one of the Pac 12 programs.
WrongPut down the crack pipe folks.
I wish that was true. It ain’t. I see long threads about this on tons of college hoop boards.We're the only lunatics who follow this cr@p.
Yeah. It’s in all the major channels’ ticker at the bottom of the screen. All the sports apps are singing my phone with it etc. It kind of seems unfair. If we aren’t even worth an invite, why is it such big news?I wish that was true. It ain’t. I see long threads about this on tons of college hoop boards.
Okay, those lunatics too. How big do you really think that audience of lunatics is?I wish that was true. It ain’t. I see long threads about this on tons of college hoop boards.
I'm pretty used to winning national championships and I'm confident that will continue.My good friend told me we were being played by Yormark. I was blinded. Didn’t want to believe it. Now for him to use the same word Edsall used when he left for Maryland has given me PTSD.
Get used to always being the ‘little engine that could ‘ folks. Conference situation just a metaphor for the state stuck between Boston and New York. Can’t fight geography
We can only control what we can control. We absolutely have to get our football program back on the map or no one will take us seriously. It is simple as that when it comes to realignment.We need to get our football program into any conference that will take us for football only. It’s extremely important that we beat NC State, which I expect will happen. They lost at home to BCU last year!!!