The Big East is more than adequately funding everything but football. Football is a problem that is only solved by accepting huge costs to the school going forward, not playing at the level we aspire to or finding a power conference. WE ALL KNOW THAT. That doesn't stop good news from being good news just because the good news doesn't solve an intractible problem.
I mean I don’t think you can say the Big East is “more than adequately funding everything but football” when Hurley makes more money alone than we do from our media deal. We thankfully have donor support covering a lot of costs related to staffing and whatnot but I don’t think you can say that with a straight face when one guy makes more money than we get from the league
You’re a lawyer so you should know that what you just said about “spending on basketball per average P5 school” doesn’t mean “adequately funding everything but football”
UConn vs other BE schools is an apples vs oranges comparison.
Exactly. People pick one small slice of AD spending they care about and pretend like everything across the entire AD is fine. And when you point out it’s not they just put their head in the sand and say they don’t care so it doesn’t matter
Because the money has to come from somewhere. A big 10 school spending $3 million for a basketball coach is just a tiny fraction of the money that they receive from their conference for broadcast rights. Connecticut spending the same amount of money exhausts that source of revenue leaving unavailable for funding the rest of the athletic department costs.
Fully disagree. For the vast majority of P-5 schools, the goal is to spend absolutely as much as they can use on football and fund the rest of the Athletic Dept on what is left. Comparing our total AD budget to Auburn’s doesn’t tell you anything about anything other than football. If you compare our total revenue less football expenses to their total revenue less football expenses, then you will learn about basketball and everything else.
Yeah, disagree. The basketball budget is essentially rounding error to schools in the P2. For the rest of us it's a material part of our budget. For many schools it is the most significant part. Let me guess you skipped Econ in college? For those with limited resources, the guns/butter choice material.
WTF are you talking about? Are you serious? The FB board is full of folks who support ALL UConn sports. We want the best for all sports!! It’s the BB only fans that want to sacrifice FB at the altar. You are such a schmuck! Gaslighting to the best of your ability!
Yeah, I mean zero football fans are calling for cutting basketball, but there sure are a lot of basketball fans saying we should cut or demote football. I think the basketball fans simply don't understand yet that football drives the bus to money and to a better conference and ultimately to the ability of basketball to stay elite.
They spent all their money bringing on powerhouses UCF and Cincinnati
Or alternatively, once they got started shopping in the bargain aisle, they decided they liked it.
Well, I disagree with Hurley. Kids want to play in the Big East. They play in the American in spite of it.
He also said that without the big east, neither Ajax or Sanogo come to UConn.
Yup. Zoo is trolling at this point. I don’t expect Hurley to say he’d be failing in the AAC. He’d be doing “pretty good”. However, he wouldn’t be putting on the kind of show he is now. We have entered the territory Calhoun had us in around 2004. It’s rare air and no one in the American will ever sniff it.
You’re absolutely trolling because despite my handle, I’m about as big of a UConn football fan as there is on here. Moving to the Big East has kept the brand relevant. I shudder to think where it would be in the AAC. Football would be just as bad but with even worse attendance. Basketball attendance would be in a death spiral with that schedule.
Well, if you’re talking national championships it’s a meaningless number because over 25 years no one in the best conferences can challenge us. But if you mean no one in the American could emerge where they’re usually in the Top Ten and compete for national championships year after year, you’re simply wrong. See, e.g., Houston, University of.
Problem was they went insanely cheap on FB in the AAC. The schools that got elevated went all in on coaching hires. The Diaco and Ollie buyouts seemed to have hamstrung them during a crucial time. For the longest time UConn relied on facilities as their reason for belonging as the results on the field got worse and worse.
I'm not sure that the motivation for bringing back HCRE was, entirely, done for cost savings reasons. I think the goal was to simply bring the program up to some reasonable level of competency after the disastrous 10 years of Pasqualoni and the lunatic Diaco. Unfortunately, it didn't work out.