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so you are counting 12 months of louisville as "AAC"?

They are here aren't they?? And really besides Duke (always overrated) and UNC who the hell else ever wears the banner any more? Highly overrated league and really, always was. Couldn't ever hold the Big Easts jock!!
 
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Of course it would, but nobody wants UConn's cancerous football team.

You know, starting from scratch, this program has come incredibly far. Why would you call the team cancerous?

Answer these questions:

1. What are UConn's chances of joining the P5 if they had no football at all?
2. Who is more to blame for the state of football, the people who hired Pasqualoni? Or the people who waited a decade before giving UConn a stadium and elevating it to D1?

Because these discussion started under Lew Perkins back in the early 90s. It took 10 years to do it.
 

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We're stuck in the AAC unless the football team starts winning. Since that's not the case we may be here for a while.
Of course, it is also possible that UConn will be asked to leave the AAC because the football team is not up to their standards.
 

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You know, starting from scratch, this program has come incredibly far. Why would you call the team cancerous?

Answer these questions:

1. What are UConn's chances of joining the P5 if they had no football at all?
2. Who is more to blame for the state of football, the people who hired Pasqualoni? Or the people who waited a decade before giving UConn a stadium and elevating it to D1?

Because these discussion started under Lew Perkins back in the early 90s. It took 10 years to do it.
1)Zero!
2)Both! But the hire was at a time when things were getting into focus!
 

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You know, starting from scratch, this program has come incredibly far. Why would you call the team cancerous?

Answer these questions:

1. What are UConn's chances of joining the P5 if they had no football at all?
2. Who is more to blame for the state of football, the people who hired Pasqualoni? Or the people who waited a decade before giving UConn a stadium and elevating it to D1?

Because these discussion started under Lew Perkins back in the early 90s. It took 10 years to do it.

Upstater I usually agree with you on many things, but we're not going anywhere unless the football team wins 9-10 games consistently.

1. Obviously zero. We're a basketball-oriented school. Basketball doesn't drive conference realignment, or P5 conferences for that matter.
2. In my opinion Pasqualoni is to blame. You can't look at the past and say, "how come we couldn't do this quicker." If Jim Calhoun came here in the late 70's, who knows we may have won another 2-3 titles. You can't look at it like that, though.

This is the hand we've been dealt, and now we must play with what we've got. Other basketball schools like Duke, Kansas, and Kentucky we're given a lot better draw because of their conference affiliation, even though their football sucks.
 
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Upstater I usually agree with you on many things, but we're not going anywhere unless the football team wins 9-10 games consistently.

1. Obviously zero. We're a basketball-oriented school. Basketball doesn't drive conference realignment, or P5 conferences for that matter.
2. In my opinion Pasqualoni is to blame. You can't look at the past and say, "how come we couldn't do this quicker." If Jim Calhoun came here in the late 70's, who knows we may have won another 2-3 titles. You can't look at it like that, though.

This is the hand we've been dealt, and now we must play with what we've got. Other basketball schools like Duke, Kansas, and Kentucky we're given a lot better draw because of their conference affiliation, even though their football sucks.

It will be next to impossible to win 9-10 games consistently. It just doesn't happen in any conference. UConn would be the first to do it. Are you talking about the next 3 years... or? I was only trying to say that the football program has come a long way in one decade. A long way.
 
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How many games did Edsall win at UMD when they were invited and how many conference championships did RU win in any sport? They were both in the red financially, so why did the BIG choose them? Recruiting and cable boxes! Every thing else is BS, I believe.
 
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