Had planned for months to attend whichever UConn home game ended up being scheduled for the first week of January as I will travel to New York City that week. As luck would have it, we got Depaul that week at Gampel. In terms of restaurants on or near campus, anyone know what should be open on...
The Big East needs to expand to 12 teams at the very least for a number of reasons. First and foremost, one of the largest source of revenue for a basketball centric league like the BE are NCAA Tournament units. The more teams you have in conference, the more teams you are likely to have make...
That’s not the point. Of course the 2016 team was great (as was the 2018 team). The point is that 2-3 players on those teams would not have attended Villanova if the 2012-2013 Big East remained in place.
The question I often ask is whether Nova would have won it all in 2016 and 2018 if they still shared a conference with UConn (and Syracuse, Pitt, Louisville, etc.) during those years. I think the answer is no. But credit to them; they took full advantage of the conference breakup to build...
With UConn gone, Temple really finds itself on an island in the AAC (Navy is only a football member). That is a recipe for disaster. If UConn can make independence work, I would not be surprised to see Temple try to do the same assuming they can go back to the A10 for non-football sports (or if...
Using this logic, UConn should play 10+ road buy games to make more money. It just doesn’t work that way. You need home games to be a successful program because at the end of the day they sill need to win at some point to survive and home games are much easier to win.
But I guess my biggest...
If we can get a home and home with a Big Ten team (Maryland) and there are rumors of similar series being worked out, why the heck do we need to play a road buy game vs an AAC team?
Plus, one buy road game per year is likely a necessity as an independent, but two such games almost ensures that...
We better not have to wait until 20-21 to make the tournament as many are implying here. If we do, that would be four straight years without making the tournament. Not an option.
If Jalen returns and Hurley is as good as we are hoping he is, we should be good enough to make the tournament next...
As some of you might remember, I was one of the strongest critics of the Edsall hire. Sure I wanted Diaco gone, but to me, Edsall was a very stubborn guy who, with a bunch of NFL players and playing in a BCS conference, could never win more than 9 games in a season. I wanted someone that could...
It's one thing for UConn not to be a kid's first choice, I can live with that. But it is an entirely different thing when a kid appears to be completely ambivalent or dismissing about the possibility of playing at UConn and appearing to only be considering coming here if nothing else...
I hate to agree with Palatine, but Noel did have a relatively high drop rate. His drop in the end zone against UCF likely cost us that game.
On the other hand, Noel often caught passes the average WR would not be able to catch.
I am amazed at how many people are already resigned to at best going 8-4 and simply being respectable again. I expect/hope for much better than that. If Temple, USF, UCF, Navy, Memphis, Cincy and Houston can do it, so can we.
According to the pro-Edsall crowd, hiring Randy is the correct choice mainly because that means we will average 8 wins a season, we will recruit NFL talent, we will have a competent offensive line and we will have a “grown up” in charge of the team. Pasqualoni was a grown up as well, still...
And yet, in 12 years he beat as many Top 25 teams (1) as Pasqualoni and Diaco did. That is much more important to me than how he left or how emotional he was after the ND game.
Just because Edsall made us respectable before does not mean he would be able to do so again. Heck, by that logic Pasqualoni should have been a home run hire because he had some great years at Syracuse.
My email to Benedict (I encourage you all to do something similar):
Dear Mr. Benedict:
Hope you are doing well. I am writing you today to express my concerns with the direction of UConn’s football program. I am sure I am not the first to do so, and will certainly not be the last.
One of the...
I don't get why anyone would have an issue with this. When it comes to college football, perception is everything. Anything to change the P5 narrative helps.
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