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  1. crewbear742

    DePaul and the Big East

    In other news, UConn fans are still angry that UConn did not receive an invite to the Big 12 last summer due to the abysmal performance of the UConn football team on the field. It is commonly accepted among UConn fans that UConn has been unjustly denied its rightful place among the power...
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    Non-Key Tweets

    Greg Flugaur didn't make anything up. He was referring to the fact that the ACC implicitly offered to settle with Florida State in one of its motions.
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    BC Coach Jeff Hafley post game comments on UConn

    He is saying that he doesn't consider UConn a peer or near-peer competitor of Boston College. He's right, and that's why his comment grates. He looks at UConn the same way UConn looks at UMass. If Jim Mora made similar comments about UMass, this board wouldn't even blink. I fully expected BC to...
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    Obvious if you ask coaches

    Colorado was the key piece in a very complex game of Jenga. It was the school that could pry open the PAC 12. The other schools didn't want to be known as the school that took down the PAC 12. But Colorado leaving gave Arizona cover to follow. Arizona's departure satisfied the concerns of the...
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    Conf USA in Talks with UConn, Liberty, NMSU

    There is something of Norma Desmond on this board. The faded forgotten silent film star clutches at the hope of restoring her stardom through the abysmal script she is writing. She is possessed of a false hope for she refuses to see the structural realities that time and circumstance had...
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    UConn opens as 33-point underdog @ Army

    It isn't hard when you wore Air Force Blue.
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    Should UConn abandon big-time college football? The question is a complex one to answer (Hearst)

    Yes. That is why UCONN is on the outside of realignment looking in. That is why UCONN has buried itself in a marginal basketball conference pretending it is still the 1980s. I get it. "Basketball Strikes Back" and all that. Football is the sport that destroyed Paradise and you want your pound...
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    USMNT Falling

    Since the issue is framed in terms of equal pay, the actual equation should be "Equal pay for equal value created." Women's Soccer doesn't come close to creating equal value. Women's Soccer simply isn't that popular. There is sort of a quasi "Labor Theory of Value" in play here. The idea is that...
  9. crewbear742

    OT: Super Bowl halftime show

    It was awful. Fortunately, this is why God invented the mute button.
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    Will Norwich go the way of our ACC bid?

    MLB wants long term stability in franchising, certainty in quality of facilities, and geographic rationalization. I think mostly they want to stop paying for players who have no realistic chance of making the major leagues. These are all reasonable concerns. I'm not sure why an expenditure of...
  11. crewbear742

    2019-2020 Bowl Game Thread

    Why is Cy a Bird?
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    2019-2020 Bowl Game Thread

    Cyclones. Don't besmirch the Hawkeyes by confusing them with that lesser University in Ames.
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    Proposal “Circulating” Around CFB That Would Expand Playoff To 8 Teams

    The only practical difference between the two proposals is the identity of the eighth team. The five P5 champions are virtually always in the top 8. The two at large candidates will naturally come from the top 8. So the only difference is this. Do you take the last team from the top 8 as well or...
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    Proposal “Circulating” Around CFB That Would Expand Playoff To 8 Teams

    Memphis and Cincinnati are pretty evenly matched. I have two games to prove it. Do you remember the game between Ohio State and Cincinnati? What Ohio State did to Cincinnati could probably be prosecuted under international humanitarian law. If LSU is as good as OSU, do you think LSU would have...
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    Proposal “Circulating” Around CFB That Would Expand Playoff To 8 Teams

    Just take the top eight. Consider this year under such a scheme. The play-offs would consist of the five P5 champions, Georgia, Baylor, and Wisconsin. That's a reasonable selection of the best eight teams in college football. The scheme suggested in this thread would require Memphis to replace...
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    Bouknight charged with evading responsibility, interfering with police and more

    I'm basing it on the totally of factual events reported about the event that night. They all lead to one inexorable conclusion. Will it ever be proved in court? No. Because he ran away from the scene. He showed consciousness of guilt by running away from the scene. He manifestly commited a crime...
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    Bouknight charged with evading responsibility, interfering with police and more

    I'm not a child to be taken in by foolish deceptions. I'm not a defense lawyer bound to distort the truth in the interest of my client. I'm not a judge bound to apply the necessary presumptions of the court. I can use my eyes and my brain. People run from the cops when they think they are going...
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    Bouknight charged with evading responsibility, interfering with police and more

    Yes, he has been appropriately charged. But the reason he has been appropriately charged is that in a very real sense he beat the system. He evaded arrest so he could sober up. He shouldn't get credit for that decision. However a lot of people on this board are giving him credit for that...
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    Bouknight charged with evading responsibility, interfering with police and more

    The reason the DUI case can't be proven is that he fled the scene to avoid being tested. Which last I saw was a crime. So people are using the consequence of his crime to give him the benefit of the doubt about DUI. Interesting moral logic. Just looks like consciousness of guilt to me. But...
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    Bouknight charged with evading responsibility, interfering with police and more

    There is what you know and there is what you can legally prove. He was out drinking late at night, smashed up a car, and then fled the scene when confronted by police. What unites all those facts into a coherent story? Alcohol. Oh, yes, the cop said he smelled alcohol. Can DUI be proven in...
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    Bouknight charged with evading responsibility, interfering with police and more

    That's a reasonable penalty for DUI? In what unuverse?
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    UConn violations under Kevin Ollie reflected in program’s record book (CT Post)

    Everyone on this board would be arguing that they were meaningless ... if only KO had been winning. Oh, and there would be much frothing and wailing and gnashing of teeth about UNC as well. Not to mention loud proclamations that the NCAA is a corrupt hypocritical organization. Funny how a...
  23. crewbear742

    If Edsall gets fired, who's on short list of potential HC?

    Schedule? What schedule? UConn has no schedule. You are completely missing the point. Randy Edsall was hired to be the problem. The Administration made a strategic decision to sacrifice football for the sake of the basketball brand. Having made that strategic decision, the Administration...
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    If Edsall gets fired, who's on short list of potential HC?

    The flaw in this "Fire Edsall" theory is that it seeks to fix the problem by reaching for something that can be controlled. A new coach can't solve the underlying structural problems: 1. No conference. 2. No bowl affiliation. 3. No media exposure.. 4. No money. 5. No support for football inside...
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    As the losses mount, some bizarre behavior from Edsall

    Meh. He may not be wound up tight. He may just find journalists increasingly irritating. After all, being irritating is what journalists do best.
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    It’s time to replace Randy.

    Replace Edsall with whom? Right now, UConn could get the guy who coaches the Fighting Schickeles from the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. UConn could perhaps find a disgraced former coach looking for a re-entry point. Otherwise UConn would have to essentially bribe someone to...
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    Edsall re Indiana, don't blame me.

    Yeh. You better hope they can do better because "a couple hundred boneyarders" is exactly the population from which the next football coach will be drawn if Edsall leaves.
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    Edsall re Indiana, don't blame me.

    He might just go home and retire. He's made a lot of money. He should be financially secure. He certainly didn't come to UConn for the salary. I don't understand why he would stay after he was so obviously deceived by his employers. I wouldn't assume it's because he doesn't have viable options...
  29. crewbear742

    Pitt Selling T-Shirts Commemorating Win Over UCF

    Why should anyone care whether someone associated with Pitt sells a t-shirt about this game? This seems to be about little more than "That game doesn't deserve a t-shirt". Some people think otherwise. They will buy it. You won't. Why does that difference matter?
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    Edsall re Indiana, don't blame me.

    You should be careful about wishing Edsall gone. You just might get your wish. Consider that UConn hasn't got a snowball's chance of replacing him with someone better. Not since the University hit the football program over the head with a large rock and is currently holding it face down in a...
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    USMNT Falling

    Lots of people have theories about how to fix US Soccer. Implement Pro/Rel. Provide transfer payments. Get rid of pay-to-play. But no one has any idea how to do it. 1. How do you implement Pro/Rel in this country when there is no cultural history of supporting Soccer at the community level...
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    H/A Series with Southern Schools Opportunities

    What is (almost) unique to Alabama, however, is the lack of a single, let alone multiple, Power Five non-conference opponent(s) who was booked to come to Tuscaloosa between 2014 and 2019. That’s because that would probably require Alabama to also play said Power Five opponent(s) on the road in...
  33. crewbear742

    Antonio Brown

    Yes, because everyone who goes over the middle in the NFL acts like this. It doesn't have any correlation at all with the fact that he feels he should be untouchable because he is a "superstar". It doesn't have anything to do with the fact that he hasn't been held accountable. And of course no...
  34. crewbear742

    LOL

    The financials for the move to the NBE look a whole lot better if there is no football. Contrary to popular BY belief, the UConn administration has always had a plan for football. The plan was to kill it as expeditiously as possible with as little trauma as possible. Independence is not a viable...
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