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How can she say "It's clear that we are a great fit to this new league"?

It's bad enough that there are others trashing us. She has to join them?

Just shut up!
Just maybe she makes these statements to keep the other universities still linked to UConn's hip voting on the C7 matter to not get p*ssed at UConn. There is a lot of money at stake. Look how emotional the raving lunatics who are Boneyard members become over these issues and statements and we are semi invested in the conferences outcome. The very interested members of these matters are made up of the same human traits as us and these statements are meant to placate them, not us.
 
C'mon man. She is no dummy. She has to play this out. We need to give her the space to do it. Other posts on other threads are right. We have at least til end of 2014 before we have to start making hard choices.
Don't get me wrong. The PR coming from the Athletic dept is pitiful. Tell me why we hired some PR guru from Iowa for 200k? Nevertheless, this just has to play out
 
Maybe I'm missing something, but a lot of this playing out has played out. To suggest that the fanbase has been impatient....

Syracuse and Pitt leave, we are told to be patient. UConn will be next to the ACC says Gov. Mumbles.
TCU and WVU leave, we are told to be patient.
Boise State, SDSU, Houston, UCF SMU, Temple are invited, we are told to be patient.
Notre Dame chairs the expansion committee.
Memphis State is invited, we are told to be patient.
The Big East is stripped of revenue and status by the other 9 conferences. It is represented at these meetings by the Louisville president. We are told to be patient. The tv deal will be worth eleventy billion dollars.
Notre Dame leaves, we are told to be patient. Notre Dame had been in talks with the ACC for months. It cites the "not the same conference we joined" line in bidding farewell.
Rutgers leaves. We are told to be patient.
Louisville leaves. Warde orders another pina colada. He's told it'll be ready in a minute. "Be patient, Warde." Pat pat.
Tulane ECU are invited.
Boise State, SDSU leave before ever coming. We are told to be patient.
Gtown, Nova, Marquette, PC, St. John's, Depaul, Seton Hall leave. We are told to be patient.
We are staring at sustaining an athletic department budget more than two times the size of any <insert name of conference here> team left. All the while our former peers and rivals will be receiving 10 to 15 times revenue from the conference.

We are in a conference with no name, with schools that have no athletic, cultural or geographic ties to UConn, and meanwhile our president is telling us what a great fit this conference is...well, when I hear that, excuse me for being impatient.
 
We need cash. Whatever happens, we need cash. Cash if motherf***ing king right now.
 
Tell them to give up all of their NCAA credits, exit fee money, and pay an increased exit free per school to get out by July and have the name. Take it or leave it. With the pressure Fox is putting on them, they will pay it.
Fixed it; if they want to move on badly enough ... puck 'em
 
First, these quotes are for the 90% who are not dying over this the way we are. And I get that. But they'll make the 10% who know better purely < suicidal (edit)>.
Win win, a few less Boneyarders, long term, schizophrenic lingering quitters and petulant whiny newbies alike.
 
We need cash. Whatever happens, we need cash. Cash if motherf***ing king right now.

Agree. Sue and Warde better be playing the hardest of hardball for every red cent out of this C7 and Conference name split.
 
Blauds has been right a lot more than he has been wrong. Can't such that often in the world of realignment.

I like the BE Presidents taking their time. Fox wants to announce the league on Tuesday. Hold out for as much as you can. The C7 are one the ones in a huge rush to get out. Tell them to give up all of their NCAA credits, exit fee money, and pay a reduced exit free per school to get out by July and have the name. Take it or leave it. With the pressure Fox is putting on them, they will pay it.

Some people were saying this before...besides getting invited to a new conference, this is the most important stage for UCONN. If they get enough money here, they can survive in this league for 3-5 years. If they aren't in the ACC or B!G by then, they are screwed. But lets be honest...odds greatly favor them being somewhere else in 3-5 years.

Let them have the name for free, if they pay for it all the better.

We need to lose the Big East stigma, it is weighing us down - should have given it up earlier, remarketed and maybe got some TV rights that cover more than cab fair to Philly.
 
Terrible. I thought you were joking until I read it in the Courant.

Suzy needs to realize that just because she says something and repeats it - doesn't make it true outside of her little World - which seems smaller every day. Her pronouncements/and e-mails are starting to border on delusional. Whoever that new media guy is for $250k - should be sent packing or quit due to Suzy doing what Suzy wants to do.
 
I have no idea how this will play out, of course, but it is nice to see it not go down so easy. You can get kicked in the shin only so many times before you fight back.
We have been getting kicked a bit higher than the shin.
 
Frankly, desperation makes strange partners........and that's what it will take to get us (with our current leadership) into a major conference. We need to be a footnote in a bigger chain of events. The Big 10 taking 2 or more ACC schools or a combination of the SEC and the Big 10 adding schools.
Ironically, if and when we join the ACC, it will be more like the former Big East - Cuse, Pitt, BC, Ville, VT, The U, ND and Cincy. The only likely legacy ACC schools to continue the ACC would be Wake, Clemson, Duke and NCST.
 
Suzy needs to realize that just because she says something and repeats it - doesn't make it true outside of her little World - which seems smaller every day. Her pronouncements/and e-mails are starting to border on delusional. Whoever that new media guy is for $250k - should be sent packing or quit due to Suzy doing what Suzy wants to do.
I wonder if I'm the only one who recognizes the advice you are recommending to President Herbst is the very same offense you have been accused of engaging on the Boneyard chiefy. I just love the double standards some of us apply and the arrogance that goes with it.
 
My predictions and many of them were roundly criticized at the time before being proven true:
  • We would be punished severely by the NCAA, while understood now at the time this was a minority view
  • We would win all NCAA Tournament games in 2011
  • In August 2011 I predicted Drummond would announce enrolling at UConn for Sept Classes
  • KO would be a good coach
  • Big man coaching would be hindered by Clyde leaving
  • Criticized JD's game prep - the 9 Turnover USF game his senior season was a signature validation of that and of course zero post season wins
  • I know you will say I overrated Jamal Coombs-McDaniel - I still think the guy could have helped us this year - and his rebound against PITT and the heads-up timeout was a huge play in the 2011 run, which was overshadowed by Kemba greatness
 
Bulls***, chief.

You need to start living in the real world - you're a garden-variety crackpot and none of your s*** ever comes to pass.

Jamal Coombs-McDaniel was busted for drug possession on his way out the door and between knee issues and a suspension, he didn't do a thing for Hofstra. And his 'game prep' makes Jerome Dyson look like Jimmy Chitwood.

Just STFU already. You're duck*ing weird.
 
Bulls***, chief.

You need to start living in the real world - you're a garden-variety crackpot and none of your s*** ever comes to pass.

Jamal Coombs-McDaniel was busted for drug possession on his way out the door and between knee issues and a suspension, he didn't do a thing for Hofstra. And his 'game prep' makes Jerome Dyson look like Jimmy Chitwood.

Just STFU already. You're duck*ing weird.
And you pass as the Moderator? I noticed you did not address my other predictions.
Jamal Coombs-McDaniel's off court drug issues are a matter of public record.
 
OT. What's wrong with tap a talk? Anyone else having problems?
 
Tapatalk fixed now thanks to the esteemed Temery
 
You don't get to tout things like "I predicted they would in all NCAA tournament games." So did almost every Husky fan.
You don't get to tout things like "I predicted Kevin Ollie would be a good coach." Huh? That means you have inside information?
Nobody debated that Clyde Vaughan was a good big man coach. It borders on Ahab-like insanity to suggest we could and should have kept someone on the public's payroll who was arrested for soliciting a prostitute. As if that wouldn't have been easily used against us in recruiting on top of all the other issues.
They were not punished severely for Nate Miles, which is what you had suggested would happen. You were proven wrong, and then, after that suggested that the APR BS was somehow related, and that it validated you're point of view.
You overesteemed Jamal Coombs-McDaniel and borderline committed libel against Dyson.

Also, going around and calling the president of the university Suzy is offensive (no offense to suzyq, who obviously goes by that). It suggests you are somehow superior to her in ways that more than a little suggestive of sexism....coupled with you criticizing her of speaking up against men. Doesn't make you look good, chief, not at all.
 
You don't get to tout things like "I predicted they would in all NCAA tournament games." So did almost every Husky fan.
You don't get to tout things like "I predicted Kevin Ollie would be a good coach." Huh? That means you have inside information?
Nobody debated that Clyde Vaughan was a good big man coach. It borders on Ahab-like insanity to suggest we could and should have kept someone on the public's payroll who was arrested for soliciting a prostitute. As if that wouldn't have been easily used against us in recruiting on top of all the other issues.
They were not punished severely for Nate Miles, which is what you had suggested would happen. You were proven wrong, and then, after that suggested that the APR BS was somehow related, and that it validated you're point of view.
You overesteemed Jamal Coombs-McDaniel and borderline committed libel against Dyson.

Also, going around and calling the president of the university Suzy is offensive (no offense to suzyq, who obviously goes by that). It suggests you are somehow superior to her in ways that more than a little suggestive of sexism....coupled with you criticizing her of speaking up against men. Doesn't make you look good, chief, not at all.
But if he says it over and over again it must be so at least for him which is why I just loved his comment which I quote: "Suzy needs to realize that just because she says something and repeats it - doesn't make it true outside of her little World - which seems smaller every day." My goodness does that quote apply to him except in his case the circle is a small part of his brain which the rest of his brain are not privy to.
 
My predictions and many of them were roundly criticized at the time before being proven true

I don't think I've ever seen anyone else toot his or her horn so much on a message board.

It's embarrassing to read.
 
I hope it's from the onio.

Great fit for this new league? You're kidding me.

Associated with strong research universities? Huh? Memphis, ECU, Houston, USF UCF? Is she playing a joke on us?
Houston is actually big on research. UCF was created hoping to create staff for NASA.
 
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