Why UConn will leave the NNBE at the first opportunity

[HuskyHawk]

Do you really think fans of college football care as long as the school is trying to better itself and is already being productive? Boise State has hardcore fans who actually wear team colors to games. Their fans are more hardcore than ours. And people here laugh at their school. Heck, I doubt the majority of college football or basketball fans graduated from the schools they cheer for. It's all really minor leagues or elite amateur circuits. Did any UConn fan or writer cry about Kemba Walker saying he only read one book? (lol) The bottom line is solid fanbases and schools trying to improve themselves. And FSU would rank, at highest, #6 amongst the new Big East schools. The rest of the schools DO have the potential to improve quite a bit, easily. It's not as if UCF has only people with low IQs attending (supposing low IQs can even be accepted).

I do think they care. College sports is unique to America, it doesn't exist like this anywhere else. You could put an NFL minor league team in Tuscaloosa and nobody would watch it. WNBA or Uconn more popular in CT? Does anyone watch the NBA development squads? No. Yet they are better than college teams.

Private schools need alumni for fans, or some other association. Big state universities represent the whole state and tap into state pride. The pride extends beyond the results on the field. Fans can be proud of their school even when the team stinks.

I suspect people who go to Rice feel more strongly about Rice than people who go to Houston. I was originally wrong about UCF. The ranking is low, but SAT and other measures are pretty decent. But Memphis and Houston are very weak as is Boise.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Hawk-your last statement is correct. UH has little support from most of their alums and students. For such a large University, they have a very small stadium. Rice gets more support from their alums, but it's too small a school to generate great attendances with their alumni alone. The city of Houston supports UH and Rice in the same way that New York City supports Rutgers.

If Houston goes to a BCS Bowl game or two, they can become a major player in the college football landscape. Adding them is a gamble, but one that could pay off in the long run. They have more potential to sustain than Boise does IMO.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Hawk-your last statement is correct. UH has little support from most of their alums and students. For such a large University, they have a very small stadium. Rice gets more support from their alums, but it's too small a school to generate great attendances with their alumni alone. The city of Houston supports UH and Rice in the same way that New York City supports Rutgers.

If Houston goes to a BCS Bowl game or two, they can become a major player in the college football landscape. Adding them is a gamble, but one that could pay off in the long run. They have more potential to sustain than Boise does IMO.

If this were eight years ago you could have substituted Cincinnati for Houston.

 

[Adios]

A look at UH's attendance figures from the past. Being in C-USA did push them down for a while.

 

[HuskyHawk]

If this were eight years ago you could have substituted Cincinnati for Houston.

Cincy is a much better school. But apart from that, so? Is Cincy some kind of benchmark now? Are you saying that Houston, if they do everything right, could possibly become a mediocre team that not a single BCS conference other than the BE would want to invite?

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Cincy is a much better school. But apart from that, so? Is Cincy some kind of benchmark now? Are you saying that Houston, if they do everything right, could possibly become a mediocre team that not a single BCS conference other than the BE would want to invite?

You are absolutely correct. We should invite Michigan, Cal, Virginia, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Coralling a handful of top ten publics is the perfect strategy.

 

[Adios]

You are absolutely correct. We should invite Michigan, Cal, Virginia, North Carolina and Wisconsin. Coralling a handful of top ten publics is the perfect strategy.

I think you forgot California.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Who do you think Cal is?

 

[Adios]

Who do you think Cal is?

Oops, missed that. I scanned too fast. lol