The Big 12 was a stretch with the geography and culture. We would represent a new direction for the conference, both regionally and athletically.
At the end of the day you need enough votes from the university presidents and you can’t depend on them solely looking at the numbers or the...
I don’t think UConn football fans have any delusions about the true state of the program or the national perception. But it seems it’s only when UConn enters the discussion that P5 viability becomes solely about football performance.
UConn has a large market, it’s a good school, it’s a great...
Plus now they have Prime, along with all the attention he brings. And however you feel about him, I believe he’s going to turn that program around quick.
I always said the Big12 was not a realistic landing spot, though I ultimately did hope I was wrong because we need p5 money.
It’s a shame. If you blew it all up and let the conferences reassemble from scratch we’d be in no question, but while you have all these garbage leech schools clogging up...
I just think it’s tacky. don’t like self proclaimed titles.
UConn’s blue blood status is well in hand, but I can’t see any of the other blue bloods putting this on their court
The premise of this article is pretty naive for a seasoned guy like Eamonn Brennan.
So it's Arizona that tips the scales? What?
I love Uconn basketball, but our athletic department is a lot bigger than uconn basketball, and fields a lot of sports that can't pay for themselves the way uconn...
I don't know. It doesn't really matter. Neither the AAC or independence is viable long term.
The AAC is a nothing conference. It's just a basket of P5 hopefuls waiting out purgatory.
I believe this is going to be our future. We’ll eventually end up in the ACC sans Clemson and FSU and probably some others.
Maybe we even add some basketball only members from the big east and hey, that starts to look a lot like the old big east.
By that measure though, what's the market saying UConn's worth? We've been the most obvious non-P5-but-should-be-P5 school for a decade plus but somehow we're always without a chair when the music stops
If we do end up getting invited, someone better find that damn ConFLiCT trophy or get a new one made at Things Remembered. I'll be bringing my red pants down from the attic
Yeah no argument from me, if we get an invitation there's not even a decision to be made. We have to go. Personally I'm just not going to be as excited to watch us play Texas Tech or Iowa State on a Thursday night as I would be for, say, Providence.
If Mora sticks around and continues the...
I recognize the absolute necessity for our athletic program to get the financial support of a power conference, but I still see this as a 'be careful what you wish for' union. It was a lot easier to buy into whoever would have us when we were in the American.
We've seen what a return to the Big...
Charlie Brown starting to run towards that football again. Surely this will be the time :rolleyes:
At least when they take all pac teams, we’ll still have big east basketball
I think there’s like a 1 in 50 shot we get an invite. I don’t think it’s in the cards.
UConn’s gonna be a late add in the ACC once their foundation starts to crumble
If the trophies were our ticket to the P5 we would've gotten there a long time ago. Probably would be in the Big 10 or something too, instead of being a borderline Big 12 invite.
Anyway maybe I'm being overly pessimistic but we've all been a part of this song and dance a few times before.
I just don't see why the Big 12 would add us when they can raid the Pac 12 for schools like Colorado and Arizona. It's frustrating but it is what it is. I'd be glad to be wrong.
Like I said, the ACC put us on a desert island and they'll forever be my most hated conference even if we end up...
Agree, Big 12 seems pretty stable now, for better or worse. And that's kind of the thing, stability has only been achieved because their best programs just left. It's a B-tier conference with no obvious poaching targets left. Meanwhile in the ACC, Florida State and Clemson would die for an SEC...
Obviously a big plus to lock up Hurley long term but was our ability to retain him really ever in question? He chose us when we were in a much worse place because of the tradition. He has a great team next year, it's a ton of money, and from a basketball perspective there's really not a bad...
We needed the ACC invitation 10 years ago and didn't get it for a variety of reasons. That's the P5 conference where we objectively would've fit the best, even though it's not the strongest place to be nowadays. When that didn't happen we were in big trouble and everyone knew it.
We'd be a...
I see two directions CR could go in the future.
1) The SEC and Big 10 keep expanding and the P5 eventually becomes the P2. In this scenario, other current power conferences will be raided anyway and it won't really matter what league we're in if/when the Big 10 came calling. So we may as well...
I love being back in the Big East. More than I thought I would.
But financially, there is no decision to be made here. If the Big 12 invites UConn, UConn will join.
it's tough because this was a much stronger team than we've seen in recent memory
Napier in 14 and Kemba in 2011 were obvious.
I think for now Sanogo is a safe bet, with Jackson possibly added down the line for his total contributions
I'd love to see him back, but I think he should probably go.
His stock is as high as it's going to get (and I certainly don't mean that derisively, he's the damn MOP).
No one was expecting this game to break viewership records.
It's a 4 vs a 5 seed, no national bandwagon programs playing, and uconn was heavily favored to win by a lot
and, oh yeah, the tip was at 920 on a Monday night. can't make it much harder for casual people to want to watch.
the nature of haters is to not give credit and find excuses. but you can literally only play the teams in front of you.
was this run maybe a little easier than it could've been? sure. that's the nature of the tournament. maybe people should direct their complaints to the 1, 2, and 3 seeds that...
idk that it matters to the program. it's ultimately on the players to succeed in the pros.
all uconn can do is provide coaching and a good platform to showcase their skills to a wide audience
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