Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[Adios]

Someone's got to take it on the chin to the big boys, I can think of no one better than BC

Some of our fans are willing to give schools of similar clout our women and two road games for one home game at a neutral site.

If freaking BC can get a home-and-home with Ohio State, we're fine. Already had one with Michigan.

 

[CTMike]

Some of our fans are willing to give schools of similar clout our women and two road games for one home game at a neutral site.

If freaking BC can get a home-and-home with Ohio State, we're fine. Already had one with Michigan.

Butch... There is absolutely nothing fine about where we stand.

 

[Adios]

Butch... There is absolutely nothing fine about where we stand.

A matter of time. They know this state's fanbase potential. If Oregon and Baylor can succeed, so can we.

 

[CTMike]

Time - especially in the AAC - is our worst enemy Butch. It breeds apathy. It's happening right now. It gives us a larger and larger ditch to dig out of. I get it, you believe in UConn's ability to overcome. But there is no proof - yet - that our future is fine.

 

[NickyNewark]

Ohio State at BC? Really? Home-and-home?

Thats the kind of scheduled future game's we need at UConn...maybe due to ND's arrogant ways OSU decided instead of them they'd take on Catholic lite instead? But i agree...home and home for BC? It'll be like an OSU home game in BOSTON!!

 

[NickyNewark]

Time - especially in the AAC - is our worst enemy Butch. It breeds apathy. It's happening right now. It gives us a larger and larger ditch to dig out of. I get it, you believe in UConn's ability to overcome. But there is no proof - yet - that our future is fine.

Hang in there CtMike...I have faith and your positioned too well...Delany's not stupid! I realize its easier said than done but look at the guys who come here to post..something will break here but each passing month does make a fan wary. It'll happen and then the celebration will be on!!

 

[billybud]

I think that you will see some good OOC games in the future....


VT, this year, will finish the H&H with Ohio State...and has Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan, and Wisconsin inked in future.

Wisconsin will be opening with Bama (2015) and again with LSU (2016).

FSU will be opening with Ole Miss (2015) and Bama (2017).

Penn State and WVU meet for an H&H...I want to see this one.

Texas has an H&H with Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State, and LSU on the books.

 

[Waquoit]

We're already in an unrecoverable death spiral. UConn football was sold on playing the big boys, not receiving yearly whoopings from Army. It's over.

 

[Adios]

We're already in an unrecoverable death spiral. UConn football was sold on playing the big boys, not receiving yearly whoopings from Army. It's over.

Louisville, Cincinnati and Memphis used to be conference mates with Army and survived.

 

[MemphisBlues]

Louisville, Cincinnati and Memphis used to be conference mates with Army and survived.

Memphis also used to be in a conference with Florida State, Georgia Tech and South Carolina. Our boosters and administration decided we were a "basketball school." Associations do matter but leadership and performance matter more.

 

[junglehusky]

Time - especially in the AAC - is our worst enemy Butch. It breeds apathy. It's happening right now. It gives us a larger and larger ditch to dig out of. I get it, you believe in UConn's ability to overcome. But there is no proof - yet - that our future is fine.

Time is our worst enemy, but time is also our only hope. In 5 years, if attendance is the same place where it is now, then Waquoit will be proven right and there will be no way out. If it's trending back up somehow, the door can still be open. I'm not as certain as Butch, I think both blind optimism (there's a secret B1G invite) and pessimism (if we don't get in the next P5 slot, like, tomorrow, we should shut down the football program) are unhealthy for the fanbase and could wind up further depressing attendance. So my hope is that Diaco gets the ship turned around first and foremost.

 

[Doggie Style]

Louisville, Cincinnati and Memphis used to be conference mates with Army and survived.

For now.......

 

[CTMike]

So my hope is that Diaco gets the ship turned around first and foremost.

This is the biggest thing at the moment. It's also why last year's approach was borderline criminally insane, though I get the reasons why he did it. But now more than ever we need to have a pulse, some progress, anything positive. Our future really does depend on it.

I think we all agree that in a rational landscape, we can add value to the B1G or ACC. But the actors are rarely rational.

 

[Waquoit]

Louisville, Cincinnati and Memphis used to be conference mates with Army and survived.

But did they get their asses kicked and having their head coach saying he needed 2 weeks "to recover"?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Time is our worst enemy, but time is also our only hope. In 5 years, if attendance is the same place where it is now, then Waquoit will be proven right and there will be no way out. If it's trending back up somehow, the door can still be open. I'm not as certain as Butch, I think both blind optimism (there's a secret B1G invite) and pessimism (if we don't get in the next P5 slot, like, tomorrow, we should shut down the football program) are unhealthy for the fanbase and could wind up further depressing attendance. So my hope is that Diaco gets the ship turned around first and foremost.

It is too late for anything dramatic like slashing the football program to save basketball. We have rolled the dice on an ACC or B1G or Big 12 miracle invitation. If we don't get one soon, the athletic program is going to look VERY different in a few years.

 

[kyleslamb]

I think that you will see some good OOC games in the future....


VT, this year, will finish the H&H with Ohio State...and has Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan, and Wisconsin inked in future.

Wisconsin will be opening with Bama (2015) and again with LSU (2016).

FSU will be opening with Ole Miss (2015) and Bama (2017).

Penn State and WVU meet for an H&H...I want to see this one.

Texas has an H&H with Notre Dame, USC, Ohio State, and LSU on the books.

Which is why I get so irritated at the people that said the previous BCS Championship provided for a perfect regular season. No it really didn't... September was pretty much non-existent. Everyone was afraid to play each other outside the league. This playoff has already created some great future match-ups in the non-conference. Games we almost never see are back on the slate. It's awesome to finally see schools schedule one another again.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Which is why I get so irritated at the people that said the previous BCS Championship provided for a perfect regular season. No it really didn't... September was pretty much non-existent. Everyone was afraid to play each other outside the league. This playoff has already created some great future match-ups in the non-conference. Games we almost never see are back on the slate. It's awesome to finally see schools schedule one another again.

x1000

The old system made the regular season meaningless. Now teams, and conferences, need to man up on scheduling, and you will see some big games in the preseason. Look at the first few weeks of the season. There are some great matchups, and they ALL matter because even the Iowa/Pitt game could be a factor if it is down to Ohio State vs. Florida State for the last bid to the playoffs.

 

[Husky92]

It is too late for anything dramatic like slashing the football program to save basketball.

Who are you? and what have you done my nelsonmuntz?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Who are you? and what have you done my nelsonmuntz?

UConn has spent the last 10 years making bad decisions in CR. There aren't any decisions left to make, it is out of our hands.

 

[OkaForPrez]

Can someone tag me when people stop hanging out in the tweets thread and it gets back to actual tweets please?

 

[J187Money]

It's over when we no longer spend enough money to get quality coaching. As long as we are committed and will pay market for a real coach, we are not dead.

 

[king conn]

It's over when we no longer spend enough money to get quality coaching. As long as we are committed and will pay market for a real coach, we are not dead.

Well we are paying for it anyway

 

[CoastAtlantic]

Stewart MandelVerified account‏@slmandel 4h4 hours ago
Pat Fitzgerald said Big Ten coaches voted 14-0 AGAINST going to nine league games. "But hey, we do what we're told."


ME: Wow! Including Edsel and Flood? I thought they loved playing B1G opponents.

 

[J187Money]

Well we are paying for it anyway

In English, please?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Stewart MandelVerified account‏@slmandel 4h4 hours ago
Pat Fitzgerald said Big Ten coaches voted 14-0 AGAINST going to nine league games. "But hey, we do what we're told."


ME: Wow! Including Edsel and Flood? I thought they loved playing B1G opponents.

Looks like the coaches agree with me.

 

[TRest]

Stewart MandelVerified account‏@slmandel 4h4 hours ago
Pat Fitzgerald said Big Ten coaches voted 14-0 AGAINST going to nine league games. "But hey, we do what we're told."


ME: Wow! Including Edsel and Flood? I thought they loved playing B1G opponents.

If it's true that the B1G won't allow games against FCS teams going forward, the entire Rutgers scheduling model will be in disarray.

 

[sdhusky]

We have eternity to wonder why we have New Hampshire's athletic program. No point in burning too much energy on it now.

Says the man with 13,000 posts on this site. Addicted?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Says the man with 13,000 posts on this site. Addicted?

How often have I posted on the football or CR board in the last 6-9 months?

 

[sdhusky]

How often have I posted on the football or CR board in the last 6-9 months?

De Nile isn't just a river in Egypt.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Warde sucks. He loafs around the Bahamas while Jurich is tearing it up on Tobacco Road. He starts a pissing match with Calhoun and has Ollie sweating out a contract while UConn is in a critical stage of expansion. And then he hires a train wreck of a football coach. I would say Manuel is 0-3.

Everyone in the Big East ended up MUCH better off than before except for UConn, Cincinnati and USF. But it is nobody's fault. Whatever. We have eternity to wonder why we have New Hampshire's athletic program. No point in burning too much energy on it now.

I Met Warde once, and yes, it was next to a snack table; but, hey, I can often be found next to the bar, not judging. I found it to be intelligent and very aware of UConns' place in the college sports world.

He was hired in February of 2012, Maryland bolted for the B1G in November of 2012 and the ACC invites Louisville a few weeks later. University relationships takes years to develop and Warde was on the job less than 10 months. Yes, he does share some of the blame in that folks in Storrs assumed that UConn would be next to the ACC. Heck, even ESPN and CBS were saying such. UConn underestimated the small minds on Chestnut Hill and the ACC's own internal division between the football first and basketball first schools. Plus, the NCAA's vendetta against Calhoun culminated in the summer of 2012 weakened UConn's biggest asset (Syracuse pointing out how UConn cheats as a reason not to vote for UConn is just a tad irksome). That's on Hathaway and Calhoun (great coach, just rubs people the wrong way). Very little Warde could do there. Jurich market Louisville better; but, how much did that really change anything?

Diaco is TBD. This is a big season for him and UConn football.

Cavanaugh appears to have been a home run.


As for basketball, everyone gets into a pissing match with Calhoun. A great coach; but, one of the reasons that the NCAA hammered UConn (and not UNC, Syracuse, etc.) is because he basically flipped Emmert & company off (they deserved it; but have to be smarter than that).After everything that happened, Warde had to make it look like he and UConn was in charge, not Calhoun. Calhoun basically forced Ollie on UConn as its new head coach. Warrde and/or Herbst did the best thing possible, respected Calhoun by allowing Ollie to be coach; but, made Ollie prove himself. And prove himself he did on and off the court.