when our schedule looks something like
@ruty
memphis
@bosie
ucf
@usf
sdsu
@cincy
navy
@uh
smu
there isn't much to be excited about. i would rather just go collect pay checks @ big time schools and give them hell on the road.
I like your attitude kid. I like the way you follow the young players, the current players. But in all due respect, you have a ton to learn about college football.
Start with this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_NCAA_Division_I-A_football_season
Take the next 10 minutes to scan through year by year up to 2010, and look at the conference standings at the end of each season. Track the changes. Look at the number of conferences that played 6 or 7 game conference schedules over the years, while there were more than 25 independants to go around the country and fill out home schedules for everyone. Look what happened to the landscape in the 1990s. Correlate it to the BCS and this AQ status that exists, and you'll realize that UConn - is frigging lucky, to be at the table, and why the rest of the long term conferences that have been existence that compromise BCS-AQ - despise the Big East.
The only reason the big east has a seat at the table, is because in the 1990s, the independants with the most clout, joined the big east, because they're basketball programs were already there. Those programs are all now gone, and the only reason we (the big east) continue to be part of it, is because when they wrote the original plan, they forgot to write in any sort of clause for removing any of the original founding members.
I think it's time for everybody to stop crapping on the big east and get behind the University of Connecticut. We are part of this thing going forward.
It stinks that the world has come to the point where UConn football, is going to be regularly scheduling who we will be scheduling, rather than the traditional northeastern 1-A football programs historically. But you don't chagne the past, you only affect the future.
But if you're really excited about playing an away game, anywhere, over a home game? Time to re-evaluate priorities.
One of the few things, well many things, that I've found myself on the minority end of the stick over the years, being a UConn football guy, is our stance on scheduling Notre Dame, and refusing to play a neutral site.
Home games, are where it's at kid. Home games.
I completely agree, that the opponent, and quality of opponent is a big deal. For me personally, I go to see the Huskies, not the opponent, but I compeltely understand the attention for the public that scheduling a team like - Michigan - at our hosue brings.
The more important thing, is that we start putting a number between 1-25 in front of our name, on a regular basis when it comes to scheduling.
We start competiting as a regular program up in the top 25, and it will not matter who's on the schedule.
and yes - having only 3 home conference games a year, every other year for the past 20 years, has been a major contributor to the unhappiness of football members in this conference.
LOL.
