Have any UConn sports actually benefited from UConn leaving the Big East? Has the AAC been good for any of our athletic programs?
Have any UConn sports actually benefited from UConn leaving the Big East? Has the AAC been good for any of our athletic programs?
Have any UConn sports actually benefited from UConn leaving the Big East? Has the AAC been good for any of our athletic programs?
Sometimes I wish you an everyone else that apparently doesn't remember how crappy it was not having a Division I Football team in our state would just give it a rest.Have any UConn sports actually benefited from UConn leaving the Big East? Has the AAC been good for any of our athletic programs?
It certainly hasn't helped men's sports. Football obviously. Soccer and Basketball both had some of their most disappointing teams in a while last season.
There isn't a single aspect of realignment that has not harmed UConn.
Of course, that was the intent of all involved.
Billybob, I like you, I really do, and I don't know how to say this, but...I'll just put it out there--Jim Delany has been proverbially banging the ACC's old lady yet again. I don't know when this will happen--next year, 5-years from now, 10-years from now, but the coastal division is going to lose a member to the B1G. And when this happens, I'll wear a black armband for your loss, because I know for FSU fans and alums football is king. Oh and BTW, have Swofford call Bob Bowlsby for that AAC G5 candidate short list, cause it'll help John back to the country club just a little bit sooner.As a recent article states...Nick Saban is the Doug Neidermeyer of college football.
Billybob, I don't know how to say this, but...
Billybob, I like you, I really do, and I don't know how to say this, but...I'll just put it out there--Jim Delany has been proverbially banging the ACC's old lady yet again. I don't know when this will happen--next year, 5-years from now, 10-years from now, but the coastal division is going to lose a member to the B1G. And when this happens, I'll wear a black armband for your loss, because I know for FSU fans and alums football is king. Oh and BTW, have Swofford call Bob Bowlsby for that AAC G5 candidate short list, cause it'll help John back to the country club just a little bit sooner.
Me? I would trade Virginia for USF or Houston in a heartbeat....But please, please,,would someone take Boston College. Please.
Things might have been very very different had Lew Perkins not left Storrs when he did, allowing Hathaway to run the Athletic Dept. If that doesn't occur then HCRE might never have jumped ship to Maryland. The football program hopefully would've continued to improve, Moorhead and others might have hung around too. Louisville joins the Big 12 when the ACC invites us over them. Maybe Calhoun also doesn't retire so early if these things happen, and men's basketball remains a Juggernaut.There isn't a single aspect of realignment that has not harmed UConn.
Of course, that was the intent of all involved.
Do you watch college baseball, soccer, tennis, or Lacrosse? UVA has very recently won National Championships in those sports, their men's basketball team was also nationally ranked very recently, and their football team is no push over. Their athletes are true student athletes, not paid mercinaries, and it's endowment could probably bail out both Connecticut and Illinois state governments.In a sports conference...I don't watch the debate teams in action...
There could be some media money for televised debate action, I guess....or maybe a form of Jeopardy type competition.
VT and UConn? That would be cool.
Do you watch college baseball, soccer, tennis, or Lacrosse? UVA has very recently won National Championships in those sports, their men's basketball team was also nationally ranked very recently, and their football team is no push over. Their athletes are true student athletes, not paid mercinaries, and it's endowment could probably bail out both Connecticut and Illinois state governments.
Stay down there in SEC country. If you're a genuine UCONN fan then I'm a Dan Malloy fan.No....I do not watch tennis nor Lacrosse.....we don't have Lacrosse down here in SEC country and Tennis is rarely televised. Basketball? I have just begun to watch but can't say that I am a real fan.
Virginia's football team has been bad of late.
They went 2-10 last year...and have had five losing years in a row and have had losing years in 8 of the last 10 seasons. They make Boston College look good (BC has had 3 losing seasons in the last 10). It's the game that BC can count on winning (they haven't lost to Virginia since FSU joined the conference).
Virginia has a bunch of non revenue sports....25 to FSU's 17.,,,,they are very good at some of these sports and I always enjoy watching their baseball team play FSU.
Fairfield County is not declining.Our biggest problem now is our state is in a free fall financially. Businesses are leaving, home values are declining and our population is declining. We have G5 written all over us for years, even decades to come.