What is this? Are you saying UConn would leave the Big East for the above and level down to play in this football conference?Movin up to FBS. Just spitballin. Call it the A-10 Football Conference. A-12. Big Association. Big Ass. Maybe just 6-8.
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No. All basketball/olympic conferences remain the same. A-10 adds a football conference for the A-10 and Big East programs which choose to play FBS.What is this? Are you saying UConn would leave the Big East for the above and level down to play in this football conference?
I think UConn would drop football before they'd ever join a football conference like this.No. All basketball/olympic conferences remain the same. A-10 adds a football conference for the A-10 and Big East programs which choose to play FBS.
Keep me away from whatever he's smoking....Movin up to FBS. Just spitballin. Call it the A-10 Football Conference. A-12. Big Association. Big Ass. Maybe just 6-8.
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I would actually like to participate in what he is smoking.Keep me away from whatever he's smoking....
Not good for an FBS conference. Some small privates that i would think have zero interest in FBS.Movin up to FBS. Just spitballin. Call it the A-10 Football Conference. A-12. Big Association. Big Ass. Maybe just 6-8.
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Memorial Stadium Hill>UAlbany berm. That's just facts.
Not good for an FBS conference. Some small privates that i would think have zero interest in FBS.
IF Nova and Delaware made the jump, you can maybe create a scheduling arrangement with UConn, UMass, Army, Navy.
Really UConn just needs to play more than 1 season as an independent before people label it untenable. Look at what the AAC just became. A wasteland conference. I want to see what a competent HC and staff could do. I liked Mora's responses to independent status.
Our keg was right on the 50 yard line, didn’t pay either.I kinda remember we could lug kegs and sat. Never paid
Pulling all State U regionals could form a nice FBS conference. All conferences want all in though, so that's tough to do in the Northeast where we have many more colleges, public and private, playing at all different levels. That's why I figured programs like Georgetown, SJU and Nova would fit. If the Wakes and BCU's can support a football program, so too can these guys.We have major State Universities near us. Public funding from states that hugely support education. In major SMSA's (NorthShore Long Island, Albany, southern NH, Baltimore, Wilmington) and they are not Bumpkin State in some northeast corner of Alabama or near a Texas prison. With corporations and no pro football within hours - in some cases.
So, I am not thinking Lehigh or Georgetown or whatever.
UCONN Football is hurt by the fact that we don't have too many regional rivals. I think that is part of the lessons of the AAC ... and why we cannot think about the band-aid realignments from the southern states.
Pulling all State U regionals could form a nice FBS conference. All conferences want all in though, so that's tough to do in the Northeast where we have many more colleges, public and private, playing at all different levels. That's why I figured programs like Georgetown, SJU and Nova would fit. If the Wakes and BCU's can support a football program, so too can these guys.
Something will have to give eventually for these FBS programs. UCONN, UMass, Buffalo, Temple, Delaware, they will all need something more stable and profitable. Temple Football is 1-5 in the AAC and finished 4-10 in hoops last year. Hello.HOWEVER ... what we have in the Northeastern US that doesn't exist elsewhere is a variety of conferences - mostly solid schools not playing football at all. CAA + America East + A10 ... and our Big East have solid Universities playing to a high quality level in many many sports. Most start as Basketball ... and then lots of others. Plus we have that separate solid Hockey East.
When you are like UC Davis (one of the best Public Universities in the world), you simply do not have 3-5 choices.
Why is this thread separate from the “frivolous realignment schemes” thread? I can’t tell the difference.
So Albany built a stadium that seats 8.5k (expandable to 24k) and Stony Brook built a stadium that seats 10.3k and they were built with the expectations of being big boys? Neither were in the top 30 of FCS attendance in 2019 with Albany averaging 3.8k fans and Stony Brook averaging 7.3k fans. The stadiums look like they were built for mid to lower tier FCS schools.