AP: University of Louisville facing accreditation issues

[whaler11]

You're just a bundle of fun, aren't you?

Oh I'm sorry. Louisville your academic standards are not up to par.

The 18k of us who show up Thursday for Maine will have a good laugh over your academic shortcomings while we hope Oklahoma can convince Texas to pick us over BYU or Cinci or Houston.

Suck it Louisville.

 

[whaler11]

I disagree - long term this will haunt them and the ACC. Academics does and will continue to matter - I would love to be a fly on the wall when the faculty lounge at Duke bustles on a Friday afternoon in the fall and the conversation turns to LV. When you lie down with dogs...

How will it haunt them? After their 20 year television contract runs out?

 

[JakeTheDog]

How will it haunt them? After their 20 year television contract runs out?

Dude can't we just enjoy the schadenfreude for a bit?

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Dude can't we just enjoy the schadenfreude for a bit?

No! Everyone must be miserable all the time!

 

[Alum86]

Regardless. Jurich so punked Warde it is ridiculous, and we are left hoping to be in the Little House on th Prairie League now. Nobody cares, they have it made. We may be effyoyseekayed.

 

[CTBballfan243]

You sound like a guy who had his hockey team taken from him. Just relax, it's just college athletics. In the grand scheme of thing, UConn's academic profile is much more important than any athletics conference. UConn will be fine, no matter what conference were in. UConn will always field athletic teams that the university and state can be proud of. It may be at a lower level, but so be it. Be happy for what we have and stop coveting thy neighbors conference.

 

[uconnfan68]

I disagree - long term this will haunt them and the ACC. Academics does and will continue to matter - I would love to be a fly on the wall when the faculty lounge at Duke bustles on a Friday afternoon in the fall and the conversation turns to LV. When you lie down with dogs...

Haven't heard a peep from anyone in the ACC about UNC. Why should UL cause anyone to say something?

 

[whaler11]

Dude can't we just enjoy the schadenfreude for a bit?

You sound like a guy who had his hockey team taken from him. Just relax, it's just college athletics. In the grand scheme of thing, UConn's academic profile is much more important than any athletics conference. UConn will be fine, no matter what conference were in. UConn will always field athletic teams that the university and state can be proud of. It may be at a lower level, but so be it. Be happy for what we have and stop coveting thy neighbors conference.

Is this earth? We just need to be proud of our teams at a lower level?

Things will be fine no matter what conference UConn is in?

What are we enjoying over Louisville? I must be missing it.

 

[CTBballfan243]

Is this earth? We just need to be proud of our teams at a lower level?

Things will be fine no matter what conference UConn is in?

What are we enjoying over Louisville? I must be missing it.

Just enjoy this football season and root for UConn. Don't worry about CR. Their is nothing we or anybody can do about it. The big12 will choose who they think will benefit the big12 the most. Just enjoy the season (the now). Everything else will take care of itself.

 

[Stray_Dog]

Is this earth? We just need to be proud of our teams at a lower level?

Things will be fine no matter what conference UConn is in?

What are we enjoying over Louisville? I must be missing it.

I enjoy my pie, I mean cake and I want to eat it too - this is what we would all love to have. However, would you want that piece of paper you worked hard for, to mean what it does if you graduated from Louisville or what it means because you graduated from UConn? i.e., the sports in the IVY league are not to our level, but their degree is superior, so in your every day life, which is more meaningful? Now, this being a sports blog, about UConn, I want my cake and I want to eat it too! ...and so no, I wont be excited about UConn athletics if UConn can not get into the BIG XII.

 

[whaler11]

I enjoy my pie, I mean cake and I want to eat it too - this is what we would all love to have. However, would you want that piece of paper you worked hard for, to mean what it does if you graduated from Louisville or what it means because you graduated from UConn? i.e., the sports in the IVY league are not to our level, but their degree is superior, so in your every day life, which is more meaningful? Now, this being a sports blog, about UConn, I want my cake and I want to eat it too! ...and so no, I wont be excited about UConn athletics if UConn can not get into the BIG XII.

If you've been out of college for more than 36 months nobody gives a damn where you went to college.

 

[CTBballfan243]

We can't always get what we want. We may try sometime, but we might just find, we get what we need.

 

[Ha Who]

You sound like a guy who had his hockey team taken from him. Just relax, it's just college athletics. In the grand scheme of thing, UConn's academic profile is much more important than any athletics conference. UConn will be fine, no matter what conference were in. UConn will always field athletic teams that the university and state can be proud of. It may be at a lower level, but so be it. Be happy for what we have and stop coveting thy neighbors conference.

It is hard to eat spam after you are used to steak

 

[Kolumbo]

The biggest joke in all of this is the ACC. Sure, it's all about the benjamins, but to take your prestige and academics and throw them to the birds, just sad. And to think it passed on UConn for that sham.

Edit - maybe this helps UConn and the Big 12. Any program can make a good run in any sport, but becoming a top university is no easy task. Go for academics and the sports will follow.

 

[whaler11]

Yeah the ACC and their TV network and deal until the mid 2030's is a joke. Having two of the five best teams in the country is a joke.

They have a real problem with putting teams in the national championship game.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Oh I'm sorry. Louisville your academic standards are not up to par.

The 18k of us who show up Thursday for Maine will have a good laugh over your academic shortcomings while we hope Oklahoma can convince Texas to pick us over BYU or Cinci or Houston.

Suck it Louisville.

18k? Whaler, I know you post a lot, but I am not sure if you are a UConn fan.? Let's make a deal - in BY tracking history- if only 18k show up for Maine you will not post for 2 weeks. If more than 18k show up then uou can postt.

pw: From my perspective you are a tool 18K ha. So buzz off.

 

[Kolumbo]

Yeah the ACC and their TV network and deal until the mid 2030's is a joke. Having two of the five best teams in the country is a joke.

They have a real problem with putting teams in the national championship game.

If you want to believe louisville is equivalent to, say, the University of Michigan, no one will waste his time trying to convince you otherwise. By your logic, you'd prefer a degree from louisville over harvard because louisville makes a boatload more tv money. ludicrous.

 

[whaler11]

18k? Whaler, I know you post a lot, but I am not sure if you are a UConn fan.? Let's make a deal - in BY tracking history- if only 18k show up for Maine you will not post for 2 weeks. If more than 18k show up then uou can postt.

pw: From my perspective you are a tool 18K ha. So buzz off.

Clearly you've never been to a Thursday night opener. If you can get the gate scanned number I'd be glad to wager you. The announced number will include the thousands of tickets they have printed and given away.

pw: I've been to every home game but one since 1999 so g f y

 

[whaler11]

If you want to believe louisville is equivalent to, say, the University of Michigan, no one will waste his time trying to convince you otherwise. By your logic, you'd prefer a degree from louisville over harvard because louisville makes a boatload more tv money. ludicrous.

Good lord. This is a board about sports. Do you want to be Williams or Trinity?

 

[Kolumbo]

Good lord. This is a board about sports. Do you want to be Williams or Trinity?

Good Lord. This is a board about conference realignment. If you don't want to discuss universities, why are you here?

 

[whaler11]

Good Lord. This is a board about conference realignment. If you don't want to discuss universities, why are you here?

You do get that the reason we care about conference realignment is sports right?

You win: I give up.

You guys can have your attendance fantasies. You can wrap yourselves in your degrees years after you graduate if you can't show value.

Hopefully the Big 12 happens. Hopefully if it doesn't you enjoy the defense mechanisms.

 

[NEforceUConn]

You do get that the reason we care about conference realignment is sports right?

You win: I give up.

You guys can have your attendance fantasies. You can wrap yourselves in your degrees years after you graduate if you can't show value.

Hopefully the Big 12 happens. Hopefully if it doesn't you enjoy the defense mechanisms.

If only 18k show up then yes we should be playing the Cardinals and Bantams,. Wow you say that you being at almost every UConn fb game, if only 18k show up then that's the conference we belong in.

But you are soooooooooooooo wrong in stating 18k. It compromises all of your posts. So have a rethink.. You are on the record, right now, as saying only 18k show up for the Maine game.

Christ, I went to camp Trin Trin and we would have 5k+ versus the Cardinals almost every year.






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[Kolumbo]

You do get that the reason we care about conference realignment is sports right?

You win: I give up.

You guys can have your attendance fantasies. You can wrap yourselves in your degrees years after you graduate if you can't show value.

Hopefully the Big 12 happens. Hopefully if it doesn't you enjoy the defense mechanisms.

I know you are just as pissed off as everyone else. Yes, we talk about CR because of sports. But when we have been passed over for the likes of louisville and rutgers, then you know sports is only a part of it. e f f ing rutgers for crying out loud, and an e f f ing glorified community college. there is some freaking dignity in believing, knowing you are better than that.

 

[whaler11]

If only 18k show up then yes we should be playing the Cardinals and Bantams,. Wow you say that you being at almost every UConn fb game, if only 18k show up then that's the conference we belong in.

But you are soooooooooooooo wrong in stating 18k. It compromises all of your posts. So have a rethink.. You are on the record, right now, as saying only 18k show up for the Maine game.

Christ, I went to camp Trin Trin and we would have 5k+ versus the Cardinals almost every year.






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I can't believe I'm responding to this nonsense.... you are the kind of person who believes announced attendance so it isn't worth discussing.

 

[UConn990411]

Oh I'm sorry. Louisville your academic standards are not up to par.

The 18k of us who show up Thursday for Maine will have a good laugh over your academic shortcomings while we hope Oklahoma can convince Texas to pick us over BYU or Cinci or Houston.

Suck it Louisville.

You're just so unpleasant.

Nothing we say here will have an effect on conference realignment. So why can't people here make a few jokes without you constantly being a wet blanket?