Time to shut this board down. We really got mutherfuggers who weren't around in 1907, bitching about games that happened or didn't happen in 1907.
Harvard won the championship in 1908 in New Haven, 4-0. Disputed champion. Sagarin ratings put them as #1 that year.Paging @Butch
UConn will likely leverage recent success and add more P5 schools to the schedule, and may have added Illinois even though not formally on the schedule as of yet. I'll be sure pass along your recommendations to WM, especially the part about "needs to work on adding some more." But, you're missing the main point. What the ACC has done, and what the P5 conferences are attempting to do, has the potential to substantially disadvantage UConn. Considering our numerous championships, budgets, and academic trajectory, it's natural for some fans to harbor a level of resentment. You should have picked up on this by now.
Didn't you just get some #1 position recruits? UVa football could become good at any moment. I think you will get some good press with ESPN pimping the ACC.
And where was Yost from?I'm talking about Fielding Yost. He was the coach at Michigan. He played ND in football in 1909 and lost. He then dropped Notre Dame from the Michigan schedule, and after that he organized the rest of the Western Conference to also drop Notre Dame. It was not until 1917 that ND could get anyone in the Western Conference to play ND until Indiana and Purdue relented and ended the boycott. Fielding Yost never scheduled Notre Dame again, and he was at Michigan until 1940. From 1910 to 1977 Michigan and Notre Dame played exactly 2 football games.
To me this is a boycott. It may not be seen that way to some, but it sure looks like it to me.
Best to start with Littlepage then move onto London. Littlepage may have saved his job with the Tony Bennett hire but he sure has gone down in flames with London! Wonderful guy, good recruiter just not an ACC HC.Yes UVA has talent on the team. They just need the coaching to enable them to win. Hopefully my concerns are unfounded.
And where was Yost from?
WV. He played for WVU. When WVU lost 3 in a row to Lafayette, Yost 'transferred' to Lafayette when it was facing Penn. Yost then went back to WVU.
He was always dirty and nasty. Michigan Man indeed.
Illinois is on the schedule for 2019 and 2020:UConn will likely leverage recent success and add more P5 schools to the schedule, and may have added Illinois even though not formally on the schedule as of yet. I'll be sure pass along your recommendations to WM, especially the part about "needs to work on adding some more." But, you're missing the main point. What the ACC has done, and what the P5 conferences are attempting to do, has the potential to substantially disadvantage UConn. Considering our numerous championships, budgets, and academic trajectory, it's natural for some fans to harbor a level of resentment. You should have picked up on this by now.
This makes sense too. As CSNY song says:... " if you can't be, with the one you love, love the one you're with " ( and these old men now certainly practiced this policy over and over again when they were touring as young muscians in their Band )
Illinois is on the schedule for 2019 and 2020:
http://www.fbschedules.com/ncaa/aac/connecticut-huskies.php
Best to start with Littlepage then move onto London. Littlepage may have saved his job with the Tony Bennett hire but he sure has gone down in flames with London! Wonderful guy, good recruiter just not an ACC HC.
Best to start with Littlepage then move onto London. Littlepage may have saved his job with the Tony Bennett hire but he sure has gone down in flames with London! Wonderful guy, good recruiter just not an ACC HC.
Mike London is in over his head at UVA, IMHO.
I know he won a national title at Richmond, but, that team was built by Dave Clawson, not him. Plus, he was only the HC at UR for two years. Two years! Theres no way on earth he was ready for ANY FBS head coaching gig after that short a stint. He had not shown that he could build and maintain a program.
He could get a quick hook if the 'Hoos struggle out of the gate this coming season. And, it would be justified.
I agree, and Jon Oliver did not help Mike London by loading up the schedule with trips to BYU, USC and visits by UCLA, Oregon, Stanford, etc. When your AD schedules you to fail, there is some sympathy for London. A trip to Tallahassee and a visit by Louisville this year are hard enough. But you are correct in the over the head part I think. Nice man, and the kids love him He recruits well, but the game management and play calling decisions are disastrous at times.
. We may see some schools currently in P5 want to drop down. I wouldn't be shocked to see that. .
Visits from Louisville are not really very hard.
If UVA had the team it had in 2007 I wouldn't be worried. Right now I'm worried. I can only hope that Mike London has something up his sleeve to shock the world. Several of his losses last year were close, so maybe there is hope.
If UVA had the team it had in 2007 I wouldn't be worried. Right now I'm worried. I can only hope that Mike London has something up his sleeve to shock the world. Several of his losses last year were close, so maybe there is hope.
They'd be perfectly happy to go 0-13 most years in football and collect the TV money, not alienate their Alums and their big money Donors, etc than go 9-4 in a non P5 league and lose that P5 money.......
Frankly, given BC's recent basketball hire, one has to wonder how committed that administration is to being competitive.
Most of the de-emphasis will never happen. If it does it will be mostly in FCS type schools that had only their own parochial following.
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The new BC Head Basketball Coach hired 2 excellent assistants with good reps for recruiting, and BC will be paying them them more than most of the ACC schools are paying their assistant Basketball Coaches. But make no mistake, BC will never be a basketball school. But it is college football that primarily derives the realignment bus across all these leagues.. When Miami started the dominos to fall in college football realignment, it wasn't their college basketball program the ACC was interested in luring away from the BE.
I've got news for you, BC is neither a basketball school nor football school. My point is, if they rewrite the rules such that the FSU's and Texas' of the world can have distinct advantages, then smaller private institutions could be at a distinct and permanent disadvantage, and at that point the game starts to change dramatically.
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