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https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/41531125/big-ten-sec-talk-possible-scheduling-partnership If 12 of the 14 spots are spoken for, and only 2 are left, there's no guarantee that the B12 or the ACC gets a second team into the playoff. Consider a year like this one in which Notre...

Just because of Billybud's backhanded comments?

Yeah, for some reason I thought #1. He actually finished #6 in Rivals. I don't seem to remember this, but he enrolled at UConn and was there for a few months before he decided to jump to the NBA. Youngest player ever drafted and considered the 2nd best center in the league at a very young age...

Is Andrew Bynum the only #1 we ever landed (went to the NBA instead of college, obviously)?

Even with Tristen Newton we didn't have just one guy initiating the offense. We didn't look like Shabazz and Taliek UConn teams when everything was run by the PG. This is why I think all these players can co-exist playing 2 or 3 guards at the same time, and even Karaban and maybe McNeeley will...

I'm sure the obvious has already been said in this thread: Hurley has a house in Manasquan so... I'm sure there must be some long term knowledge and awareness about this kid.

Anyone who has a kid who's gone through the college application process can sympathize with someone trying to assess all the variables. Especially if you're of a certain age, like my friends and I, who just chose colleges for entirely superficial reasons. Nowadays, there's so much wavering...

The MAC has a nice little compact traveling schedule. They'd be fools to leave.

I was going off the midweek at Hartford and weekend at Gampel formula.

I would also add they are part of U. Texas, so that's not nothing.

UConn doesn't dictate the Big East schedule, so I suppose this is really just a complaint about one game, Baylor. That would be odd though because there were many voices (maybe even the majority) who preferred a BE schedule to a B12 schedule. If you were one of the people who wanted to stay in...

Also less people are going to college period. It's a triple whammy. 1. Fewer kids in this generation. 2. Covid took a bunch of kids out of the mix. 3. We're well below our historical Cold War GI Bill % of degree holders. We're at 25% now, used to be at 50%. Our cohort (Canada, European...

Are these the guys who were certain UConn couldn't handle Illinois and Purdue? I also think they said UConn couldn't handle a certain player on Northwestern.

The boosters and alumni group hashed it out at a chalet in France BECAUSE the BOT and Admin decided to join. Good luck finding links because AI has destroyed Google.

Why are you linking the after the fact? If the Board rejected it outright, the boosters and powerful alumni wouldn't have needed to travel to a Chalet in France to have it out with leadership. You're missing what actually happened. We all know Notre Dame ultimately rejected the invitation...

They already agreed to join it 20 years ago, the President, the AD, and the Board of Trustees, but Alumni and boosters organized against it and killed it.

You need these schools more than ever now that UConn and other state schools like UConn accept a ton of students from out of state.

The SUNY system isn't even merging with itself, never mind other schools.

If UConn somehow ends up there... Imagine it's 2018 and someone told you in the next several years... We'll have Cal, Stanford, SMU in the ACC... UCLA, USC, Oregon and Washington in the B1G... Arizona, Cincy, UCF, BYU, Houston, Arizona St in the B12... UConn football, Gonzaga and Utah St. in...

I can't see why or how the AAC is at play at all. In order to maximize the dollars, you need to keep membership at 9 teams, which means 3 more. If you add more, you water down the money even more. They can easily just add Air Force, New Mexico, UNLV or Nevada and be done with it. That's all...

They are not going to do a football only with UConn. That should already be obvious.

Life intervenes. Schedules are rearranged. Seems he is good at picking dates, and prioritizing.

Are we at the 2 arms lopped off or 2 arms and 2 legs stage?

That expansion by the ACC last year was a pure panic move by all parties. It shows how little I know about expansion because prior to that, I thought the ACC was in the driver's seat, with a GOR, major population centers, a higher annual payout, etc. But that panic move told me everything I...

If Clemson and FSU take off for the B12 and they leave the likes of Duke and UNC behind, Yormarks idea of a separate basketball contract is totally trashed. UConn would be added to the ACC and then the ACC becomes the best bball conference in the USA

3x the B12 has killed the idea of adding UConn. Truly amazing.

I just explained it to you how it really works and you somehow got the complete opposite viewpoint of what's happening. 1. State schools don't give scholarships. 95% of students are full payers. 2. If a student does receive such scholarships or tuition is defrayed by state programs, those...

Agreed. I never blamed Benedict here. All I said is that there are institutional pressures which can't continue into the future. Not when they are slashing things. If you had a surplus somewhere and a deficit elsewhere, you could paper things over. But when you have twin deficits, choices must...

?? Expenditures far far exceed tuition revenue. Which necessarily means that the expenditures per student are higher than the tuition per student.

Someone just posted showing UVM is still one of the top application schools in the nation. A lot of applications for it still. I'd call that through the roof. All colleges have huge issues now and most of them are at least 50% out of state

Total expenditures to educate each student. That's the bottom line. They know that number, whatever it is. Since the tuition is subsidized by 3 things (more than 3, but the main ones are taxpayer subsidy, research grants, & endowment), we know that tuition is below the total expenditures per...

My only point here is that despite the huge billion+ budget, the money that's discussed when they talk about deficits and cutting is always under $100m. That's the fungible part. You can't look at the research budget which is all spoken for, the buildings, debt service on construction, state and...

I didn't say they were victimized. I'm showing you why the tuition reimbursement is important because otherwise the departments are on the hook. It's not meandering at all. It is about the central point of the discussion, the one all this started with. Whether the tuition reimbursement is...

Most of the budget is spoken for. It's not fungible. It's not like you can turn the heat off in the dorms during the winter to save some money. At a university with a similar budget to UConn, the entire College of Arts and Sciences operates on $14m a year. This doesn't include salaries and...

Spell out what you're trying to say here. People have argued that the merchandise sales, as meager as they are, benefit academic departments. I said those are counted as athletic revenue, not academic departments. Let me give you an example of the kind of thinking that goes on inside...