AAC basketball post UConn?

[CL82]

I didn't say there were no good teams in the BE. But the BE is not an elite conference and it won't be unless we make it one.

You listen to the BE groupies on this site and the way they view the conference is delusional. Hurry we're in the sixth best conference.

Yawn. It was a down year for the Big East during a national pandemic. Nova, Creighton, Seton Hall and us should all be pretty good next year. I suspect our "ranking" will bounce back up.

 

[Psolo12]

I didn't say there were no good teams in the BE. But the BE is not an elite conference and it won't be unless we make it one.

You listen to the BE groupies on this site and the way they view the conference is delusional. Hurry we're in the sixth best conference.

The BE groupies that provide actual facts to backup their argument instead of the non fact based opinions that you provide? I hope you're not one of the lawyers on this site.

 

[Guapo]

I didn't say there were no good teams in the BE. But the BE is not an elite conference and it won't be unless we make it one.

You listen to the BE groupies on this site and the way they view the conference is delusional. Hurry we're in the sixth best conference.

Just because you keep saying it’s the 6th best conference doesn’t make it true (or even close to being true)

 

[Tampahusky]

I would rather play the lower tier Big East teams than any AAC teams. On to better things !!

 

[Palatine]

...but the AAC, actually buoyed by a F4 team, is a far cry from this "non-elite" conf, in prestige, bid quality, essentially everything. How can you explain that without hacking your stupid "ZBE" nonsense to pieces?

You're the delusional one here, pining for re-entry to ye olde CUSA.

I simply mentioned that the AAC had a Final Four team and the BE didn't That is an undeniable fact. I know facts are rare on this board but they are stubborn things. BTW, you are pretending I said something than calling me delusion for saying the thing you made up and I never said. I am not pining for anything except the fjords.

IMHO, you can put all the non-P5 conferences in a basket and make an argument for any of them. Some folks probably believe the WCC should be consided an elite conference.

 

[Guapo]

I simply mentioned that the AAC had a Final Four team and the BE didn't That is an undeniable fact. I know facts are rare on this board but they are stubborn things. BTW, you are pretending I said something than calling me delusion for saying the thing you made up and I never said. I am not pining for anything except the fjords.

IMHO, you can put all the non-P5 conferences in a basket and make an argument for any of them. Some folks probably believe the WCC should be consided an elite conference.

Your commitment to untruths is truly staggering

 

[bendm]

Pac-12 hires MGM executive George Kliavkoff as commissioner

George Kliavkoff, the president of entertainment and sports for MGM Resorts International, has been hired as the next commissioner of the Pac-12, the conference announced.

www.espn.com

speaking of conferences headed in different directions, i think this is an inspired hire for the PAC. larry scott wasnt much better than aresco.

 

[Palatine]

Your commitment to untruths is truly staggering

Back at ya.

 

[Guapo]

Back at ya.

Why are you the way you are

 

[gampelcrazies]

Back at ya.

What do you want UConn to do? You really wanted them to stay in the AAC? What potential did they have staying the AAC?

 

[tcf15]

Pac-12 hires MGM executive George Kliavkoff as commissioner

George Kliavkoff, the president of entertainment and sports for MGM Resorts International, has been hired as the next commissioner of the Pac-12, the conference announced.

www.espn.com

speaking of conferences headed in different directions, i think this is an inspired hire for the PAC. larry scott wasnt much better than aresco.

Good hire in my book.

 

[Kitaman]

Don't need facts or stats to know that I enjoyed watching UConn basketball (especially conference games) more than anytime in years. And it wasn't just because of Bouknight.

As a fan I don't need a top conference, just entertaining/competitive basketball that leads to post season play. That's when our magic happens.

We just had an upgrade, the grass is green enough for me to enjoy for a long while.

Just saying if I've been rescued from a sinking ship, I'm not going to get pulled on deck and immediately start scanning the water for my luggage. Just happy to be floating/alive and headed to a better destination on a better ship.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

The Big East arrogance is simply not supported by the facts. IMHO, the only thing that will save the BE is UConn reasserting it's place among the country's bluebloods. They need us more than we need them.

Hopefully, some day we will be in P5 and tell the Big East so long.

 

[bendm]

Hopefully, some day we will be in P5 and tell the Big East so long.

and in order for that prayer to one day be realized, are the trolls here duty bound by the conference realignment gods to ceaselessly criticize and complain about the BE?

 

[Slasher]

I mean the AAC is going to be the 7th ranked conference most years. They're better than the A10 and the WCC. Is there much else to say?

 

[Jbirdp5]

Exactly Pal. This league is the A-10 with Villanova. Or the WCC plus Gonzaga.

The original Big East was a power conference. Had multiple national champions. Twice in the last 10 years of existence it had multiple Final Four teams. 3 different teams won titles. 6 different teams went to the Final Four. Six. This league hasn’t gotten 6 teams past the 1st weekend. It has nothing to do with football. Nothing to do with computer rankings. It had to do with actual production when production counts. This New Big East is like Duke in 1999. They put up a banner for “winning” the KenPom or some other geekish national championship. We put up a banner for winning the game. Sad to say this, but the New Big East fans sound more like Dukies than UConn fans. “The computers say we’re #5 conference.” Sad. Just sad.

To compare the big East to the a10 is just silly. How can anyone take your argument seriously with a comment like that

 

[Hoophound]

Pal and frescooter are equally crazy.

 

[bendm]

This league is the A-10 with Villanova. Or the WCC plus Gonzaga.

the WCC plus Gonzaga is the WCC.

 

[Waquoit]

The part of the UConn fanbase that buys tickets and attends games never accepted the AAC. That was evident by all of the empty seats in the lower bowl at Gampel during every AAC game. The move back to the Big East was an unquestioned positive for the fans who put their money where their mouth is. The seats will still be sold for top dollar but in the Big East, people will be sitting in them.

 

[Guapo]

The part of the UConn fanbase that buys tickets and attends games never accepted the AAC. That was evident by all of the empty seats in the lower bowl at Gampel during every AAC game. The move back to the Big East was an unquestioned positive for the fans who put their money where their mouth is. The seats will still be sold for top dollar but in the Big East, people will be sitting in them.

Pretty sure the “part of the UConn fanbase” that wanted to stay in the AAC just consists of these two goobers

 

[Tiamat7]

Yawn. It was a down year for the Big East during a national pandemic. Nova, Creighton, Seton Hall and us should all be pretty good next year. I suspect our "ranking" will bounce back up.

Agreed about Nova and Seton Hall. But Creighton will be down after losing essentially their entire starting lineup and a 5 star decommit.

Xavier and Butler should be better. Perhaps PC.

 

[freescooter]

...but the AAC, actually buoyed by a F4 team, is a far cry from this "non-elite" conf, in prestige, bid quality, essentially everything. How can you explain that without hacking your stupid "ZBE" nonsense to pieces?

You're the delusional one here, pining for re-entry to ye olde CUSA.

Everything except quality of the teams...the New Big East gets bids because of the legacy of the original. And the performance of those teams demonstrate that it’s typically over seeded. Again excepting the only real program, Villanova, the league’s post season “success” is laughable. Teams regularly get bounced by higher seeds, usually in the first weekend. Creighton was the 2nd Big East team not named Villanova to get past the Round of 32. But man, so much prestige.

I get why the decision was made. It’s true the guys who pay for the expensive seats wanted it. And I also suspect it is true that UConn needed to change the discussion from a declining program so it took a page from GE and Aetna. It moved its “headquarters” so to speak. Of course GE isn’t close to a Fortune 500 company any more and Aetna is owned by a drug store. Neither finished their planned shiny new headquarters. But it took eyeballs off their declines. That was UConn’s model I suspect. Everybody will be so excited about the shiny new conference that they will not notice that the program, like the new league, is nothing like what either one was.

We’re #6! We’re #6! Whoopee!

 

[freescooter]

The AAC never showed us the respect that the only school from that misfit conference to win a title deserved. We were mostly met with hostility as the only Yankees in Hickville. Why anyone is still pining for that is beyond me.

Yeah, that’s it. We deserved respect for:
A. Never winning the conference title
B. Making 1 additional trip to the NCAA tournament.
C. Treating teams that regularly kicked our butts like they didn’t deserve to be allowed to play us.
D. Not even making a modest effort to support the conference tournament when it was played in Hartford, even when UConn was playing.

And just a side note. Orlando, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Cincinatti, Memphis are all bigger, more sophisticated cities than Hartford. Not sure they are the hicks...

 

[UCSouth]

Yeah, that’s it. We deserved respect for:
A. Never winning the conference title
B. Making 1 additional trip to the NCAA tournament.
C. Treating teams that regularly kicked our butts like they didn’t deserve to be allowed to play us.
D. Not even making a modest effort to support the conference tournament when it was played in Hartford, even when UConn was playing.

And just a side note. Orlando, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Cincinatti, Memphis are all bigger, more sophisticated cities than Hartford. Not sure they are the hicks...

Please change your avatar to Jeff Dunham's character Walter...then it would explain your disposition.

 

[uconnfan68]

The AAC never showed us the respect that the only school from that misfit conference to win a title deserved. We were mostly met with hostility as the only Yankees in Hickville. Why anyone is still pining for that is beyond me.

Need to earn respect, and we didn’t.

 

[freescooter]

Please change your avatar to Jeff Dunham's character Walter...then it would explain your

I love the way the Big East cheer squad argues facts.
Me: The New Big East has failed to perform in the NCAA tournament.
Cheer Squad: you’re mean.OH And MSG
Me: Villanova has won or shared the league title virtually every year
Cheer Squad: MSG. And you’re mean.
And so it goes.

 

[buddy]

UConn went into the AAC thinking it was better than anyone else. UConn was a bust for that conference. Now, it is a big fish in the small pond which is the new big east. The good news is that if the PAC 12 expands, which it appears probable, they will likely poach from the Big 12, and the Big 12 will likely poach from the AAC, which will leave it in an even worse position. Then UConn would have been in that conference without a Cinci, Houston, or UCF possibly as they would be likely candidates for the Big 12 and then UConn would have had to leave the AAC for the big east anyways. So the joining of the big east would have been inevitable anyways once the AAC was poached.

 

[kobe]

shut up and delete this thread right now

 

[Waquoit]

Need to earn respect, and we didn’t.

Bringing 3 titles and winning a 4th doesn't earn respect? Bringing what little juice this pathetic league ever had doesn't earn respect? Look at those drooling over a semi-final loss. We won the damn thing. Putz.

 

[The Shot]

Everything except quality of the teams...the New Big East gets bids because of the legacy of the original. And the performance of those teams demonstrate that it’s typically over seeded. Again excepting the only real program, Villanova, the league’s post season “success” is laughable. Teams regularly get bounced by higher seeds, usually in the first weekend. Creighton was the 2nd Big East team not named Villanova to get past the Round of 32. But man, so much prestige.

I get why the decision was made. It’s true the guys who pay for the expensive seats wanted it. And I also suspect it is true that UConn needed to change the discussion from a declining program so it took a page from GE and Aetna. It moved its “headquarters” so to speak. Of course GE isn’t close to a Fortune 500 company any more and Aetna is owned by a drug store. Neither finished their planned shiny new headquarters. But it took eyeballs off their declines. That was UConn’s model I suspect. Everybody will be so excited about the shiny new conference that they will not notice that the program, like the new league, is nothing like what either one was.

We’re #6! We’re #6! Whoopee!