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Benedict Wants Meeting With Aresco On Remaining In AAC For Football

Exit 4 said:
Yeah, we can stay, but prohibited from post season play and we get no money. Also, if we ever start winning then they have the right to kick us out. Yeah, it would be a good deal.

That all said, might as well ask and see what comes of it.
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What’s the worst they can say ? No ! Might as well ask
 
So the "plan" is to beg the AAC to stay. And somehow Fox will help with this. Because ... networks. I guess it's a plan. Of sorts. I can imagine two responses:

1. Dear Dave. Go intercourse yourself. Regards, Mike.

2. Sure. We can talk about it. But all of your games will be away games. And your out-of-pocket cost to the AAC will be (say) $250K. Per game. Yes, you heard me. You pay us. Is that an acceptable basis for negotiation?

Good grief. This is not a plan. This is an admission of no plan whatsoever.
 
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whaler11 said:
the worst most pointless troll we’ve ever had
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Howza bout billybud? We need reminding 4 times a day across multiple boards that we aren't ever getting into the ACC.
 
You guys are taking Benedict way too seriously. Of course there is no path to staying in the AAC - he is flipping them the bird again.

Their options are horrendous.
 
TRest said:
Howza bout billybud? We need reminding 4 times a day across multiple boards that we aren't ever getting into the ACC.
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he at least is sincere in his weird obsessions. this is someone who has been pretending to be a uconn fan for a while who just posts nonsense.
 
crewbear742 said:
So the "plan" is to beg the AAC to stay. And somehow Fox will help with this. Because ... networks. I guess it's a plan. Of sorts. I can imagine two responses:

1. Dear Dave. Go intercourse yourself. Regards, Mike.

2. Sure. We can talk about it. But all of your games will be away games. And your out-of-pocket cost to the AAC will be (say) $250K. Per game. Yes, you heard me. You pay us. Is that an acceptable basis for negotiation?

Good grief. This is not a plan. This is an admission of no plan whatsoever.
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Not beg. The plan is to say to the AAC, after the NCAA has shot down their attempt to play with 11 and their attempts to add Army/BYU/Boise fail, "are you dumb enough to add Buffalo?"
 
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whaler11 said:
he at least is sincere in his weird obsessions. this is someone who has been pretending to be a uconn fan for a while who just posts nonsense.
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Talk about obsessions, when was the last time the Whalers played a game in Hartford?
 
AD Dave gotta be the dumbest AD in the history of ADs. There’s less than a 0% chance this happens.
 
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All part of the negotiation. AAC says that football is the driver and UConn's basketball departure is insignificant in the ESPN package. UConn comes back and says "OK, if that is the case we will stay in for football (for 2 years??) at reduced payment and will take no bowl payments".

UConn truly just needs a 2020 schedule and then could make being independent work.
 
The Big12 has 10 teams and plays a conference title game. You don't need divisions or a certain number of teams anymore (of course this would have been a whole hell of a lot more beneficial to us when the ACC had 9 teams).
 
Dream Jobbed 2.0 said:
But he’ll get to tick the “I tried” box off and move on.
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Ha - don't underestimate how valuable that can be in the years to come for his own CYA.

I just hope this notion of 1 or 2 years additional years of AAC football can get hammered out this July, ahead of Newport. If not, every minute that goes by reduces the chances of making any sort of 2020 schedule. Heck, 2021 is no slam dunk either. And not to belabor, but really do need Fox to help give whatever we do with football some juice (ie some decent scheduling).
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
The Big12 has 10 teams and plays a conference title game. You don't need divisions or a certain number of teams anymore (of course this would have been a whole hell of a lot more beneficial to us when the ACC had 9 teams).
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You need full round robin or divisions. Navy definitely isn't playing a 10 game conference schedule, and probably nobody else would either.
 
KSC94 said:
You need full round robin or divisions. Navy definitely isn't playing a 10 game conference schedule, and probably nobody else would either.
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I stand corrected.

Maybe this whole thing would be crazy enough to work then?
 
I guarantee for all the differences of opinion on the BY, more thought had gone into thinking about UConn football and the ramifications of the NBE decision than the dolts who crapped out this half-baked plan. Sad.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
I stand corrected.

Maybe this whole thing would be crazy enough to work then?
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It's going to be okay either way. In a vacuum I might even vote independent gives us a more clear pathway to a P5 which is the only way we have a football team in 10 years, but this obviously isn't a vacuum
 
Exit 4 said:
Ha - don't underestimate how valuable that can be in the years to come for his own CYA.

I just hope this notion of 1 or 2 years additional years of AAC football can get hammered out this July, ahead of Newport. If not, every minute that goes by reduces the chances of making any sort of 2020 schedule. Heck, 2021 is no slam dunk either. And not to belabor, but really do need Fox to help give whatever we do with football some juice (ie some decent scheduling).
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100% a CYA move. He might get laughed away from the table
 
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