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Benedict Wants Meeting With Aresco On Remaining In AAC For Football

So between now and Newport we need AD David Benedict to either announce we have landed a home and home with a P5 school (don’t worry the contract could have easy exit clauses for both sides- just want this for leverage) or get it going in the media that was are close to signing up a couple new deals. This is where Fox can help us. Can Fox nudge a B12, B1G or P12 school to sign a home and home with us. Fox - do your thing.

This would keep the fan base happy and help negotiate our exit with Aresco (hello, we have options too). And we really should have our our AAC exit largely set by the Wagner game. This can’t linger. Bad for recruiting / bad for many reasons.
 
noeynox said:
I think we will be better positioned at the end of the next 6 years than if we would have stayed with the status quo.
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^^^^This!

Mixed feelings about the move at first, but I think we can make this work to our benefit. We have a national brand because of basketball, and we need to use that to our advantage again to re-build this thing.

PARADIGM SHIFT
 
Chief00 said:
Looks like Chief called it years ago - Casual Fanbase. Again, I am not criticizing, it is what it is. We need to embrace it, if it’s considered a strength to us.
I remember when Randy returned, Chief was in the XL Center concourse during a MBB game and ran into Randy. As we were chatting a woman interrupted and started ordering him to keep players names on the uniforms and to also change the color-design. I guess to some extent he did listen LOL. But, he did say after she left, Chief now you know what I have to deal with. And here we are.
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chiefin is so hard hes gotta get up at 4am to find time to congratulate himself.
 
Chief00 said:
Looks like Chief called it years ago - Casual Fanbase. Again, I am not criticizing, it is what it is. We need to embrace it, if it’s considered a strength to us.
I remember when Randy returned, Chief was in the XL Center concourse during a MBB game and ran into Randy. As we were chatting a woman interrupted and started ordering him to keep players names on the uniforms and to also change the color-design. I guess to some extent he did listen LOL. But, he did say after she left, Chief now you know what I have to deal with. And here we are.
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If some woman walked up to the HC and barks orders about names on back and jersey colors after Dicko was fired, we have fans!
 
noeynox said:
I think we will be better positioned at the end of the next 6 years than if we would have stayed with the status quo.
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What we need ... another National Championship in MBB & maybe 3 in WBB. A Fanbase that buys into how special WE are. Winning games & playing like Huskies.

As an INDY ... we can be one like no other. Yes. More BYU than Liberty.

We weren’t going to have 7000 go to MSG for the Saturday Championship in the AAC; that push has momentum. Playing ECU the second week of November & the first week of March just didn’t.

All due respect
 
BlueDogs said:
Come on man, he’s a long term deal guy. He loves the billion dollar deal - $1 a year for a billion years. He takes his 10% success fee upfront.
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Sorry, lost my head there trying to do some Chief'n.
 
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Drew said:
ECU when invited at least had a strong football program (and decent history). I believe they were originally supposed to be football only but when s hit they got the full invite

Tulane and Tulsa should’ve never in 100 million years been considered, although at least now Tulane has hired an athletics staff hell bent on competing (good football coach, good basketball hire, great AD). Tulsa brings absolutely zero to any league on this planet. They wouldn’t even be the most prominent team in the Sun Belt.
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Uhhhh then, based on head to head competitions, what does that make us?
 
billybud said:
A big benefit of going Indy is that UConn can control their schedule.

Maybe schedule a way to 7 wins while incrementally improving.

And maybe go to a bowl (BYU went last year at 6-6), Miami of Ohio wen in 2016 at 6-6, Central Michigan bowled at 6-6 in 2016...etc,
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Those mac teams were bowl eligible and went generally in the past because the mac has a bowl tie in. Byu has a big travel base and history.
 
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huskymedic said:
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We will be fine. The AAC? Not so much. We were already recruiting/playing/behaving like an FBS independent, so I see no down shift there. Now we have a fan base that is energized again with respect to BB and that just had to happen.

Aresco can give all the sound bites he wants, there is no going back...he blew his chance already to keep us.
 
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Guapo said:
I’m not lawyer, but it is truly truly amazing that Aresco keeps talking.
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If this ends up in court, most judges or juries will view UConn’s attempt to remain as a football playing member as a reasonable and good faith effort to uphold at least part of their contract.

TL;dr Aresco is still such an incredible dolt
 
Aresco, though a UCONN alumn, is an idiot.

He signed a SH_T deal w/ ESPN+ and thought that we were going to take that lying down.
He's to blame for UCONN leaving. If he was a better commissioner and negotiator then he would have gotten a significantly better deal that would have included higher revenue and not have forced us off SNY.
 
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BlueDogs said:
West Hartford...that’s all I can say....and those who understand will understand
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Does she live in West Hartford? I live in West Hartford, it's a desirable community with great public schools and a booming center. Is there something about the West Hartford demographic that bothers you?
 
BlueDogs said:
West Hartford...that’s all I can say....and those who understand will understand
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TRest said:
Does she live in West Hartford? Is there something about the West Hartford demographic that bothers you?
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Cmon, bluedogs must be suggesting in between abject failures in the athletics arena Susie also spent some time slurping oysters and drinks in a West Hartford tossers’ bar. WeHa? ;)
 
LoyalFanCT said:
When many basketball fans claim they are supportive of football, too, Cougar's comments are closer to their true feelings. Football fans need to stand up for the UConn team's future now!
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Over the years I've seen a number of football-only fans here. What about rooting for all UConn teams?
 
TRest said:
Does she live in West Hartford? I live in West Hartford, it's a desirable community with great public schools and a booming center. Is there something about the West Hartford demographic that bothers you?
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I hope he clarifies what he means. It would be unfortunate with the increase in antisemitism that he is referring her being Jewish. I hope not but his cryptic message smells of it.
 
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