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Benedict Wants Meeting With Aresco On Remaining In AAC For Football

Everyone here is very familiar with how badly the conference is run and how big a doofus Aresco is.

It would not surprise me one bit if they play themselves here we stay in the AAC.
 
UConnTrumbull said:
I don’t see how this matters. If any AAC school gets poached it’s game over any ways. Leaving out UConn just gives you one less brand. It’s a quicker death that way.
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If you and five other people applied for the same job, and it was your dream job that would set you up for life financially, what would you do if you and four of the other five applicants had a foolproof way to disqualify job applicant No. 6? You'd act in concert with your other four job applcants to send No. 6 packing, right? That increases the odds of getting the job from 16 to 20 percent for the five of you who are left in the running.

That's what the AAC will do to UConn. Losing one more team, let's say UCF, is irrelevant. Losing UConn isn't harming them. They lose two or three teams, then they have a problem, but so what? Those teams move on to greener pastures, and the rest of the league has to find replacement schools, or the league folds.
 
It would be hard to get a 12th football member for 2020 unless you dip down into the less desirable schools like Marshall, FIU, FAU, Southern Miss., Georgia St.

I just looked at BYU's future schedules. It seems like they really couldn't join the AAC until 2024 at the earliest. In 2020, they have 6 P5 schools scheduled (Utah, Mich. St., Arizona St., Minnesota, Missouri, and Stanford) as well as Houston, Utah St., Boise St., Northern Illinois, and San Diego St. If you are undefeated or a one loss team with that schedule, you are probably going to the playoffs.

Army is problematic because of the Army/Navy game played in December could not be a conference game. Due to the history of the Army/Navy game, and the recent success of Army playing a lesser schedule than Navy, I think it would be impossible for Army to become a conference mate with Navy.
 
whaler11 said:
We do. They are scrambling. Blindsided. We knew - Aresco didn’t. l-o-l.

we had multiple people post it here and the brilliant tv man didn’t know
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That's the best part. It's been mentioned by multiple posters from the most absurd sources. I was impressed that UConn kept it under wraps as long as they did, but Im more impressed by how inept Aresco is. Good riddance, I hope we bend you over for football scheduling because you showed up with your pants down.
 
huskysupporter said:
Holy Cow what a cluster. That’s nice AD Dave, you would like to have a conversation. What a joke. Trying to figure out who was a bigger clown - Hathaway, Manuel, or Benedict. Incompetence at its finest.

He wants to sit down with Aresco. Is this real?
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Hathaway. You're welcome.
 
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An AAC schedule Just through 2020 would be coup for UConn. Time to workout independent schedules and time to work with Fox and SNY to set up something profitable. I see no way that the AAC lets UConn stay as a permanent football member. That is worth being part of the negotiations for the exit.
 
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Aresco.

Maybe the worst UConn alum toward our athletic programs ever. Makes George DeLeone look like Jim Calhoun...
 
I have a feeling Aresco will regret such a definitive statement this early. What happens when their 3rd and 4th choices say no? They're not going to be allowed to have a CCG with 11 teams. Letting his pride get in the way is just as stupid as signing a bajillion dollar deal contract in exchange for a bajillion years
 
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BlueDogs said:
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.
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That becomes apparent. The scary thing is the discussions that should of been happening behind close doors weeks it months ago - gets thrown out at an official press conference like they’re a caller on a third rate radio talk show. You literally can’t make it up.
 
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I don't get the handwringing here.

Of course Benedict wants to have a talk with Aresco about football. Of course AAC is gonna say no to partial membership, but 2 AAC athletic directors have expressed publicly a desire to keep playing our women's basketball. There is room to negotiate a few football games a year, particularly with the florida and texas schools for recruiting. Our women's team will have no trouble finding out of conference opponents.

This can work out nicely.
 
noeynox said:
I don't get the handwringing here.

Of course Benedict wants to have a talk with Aresco about football. Of course AAC is gonna say no to partial membership, but 2 AAC athletic directors have expressed publicly a desire to keep playing our women's basketball. There is room to negotiate a few football games a year, particularly with the florida and texas schools for recruiting. Our women's team will have no trouble finding out of conference opponents.

This can work out nicely.
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This. We need to be intelligent about this and add a football home and away as a quid pro quo. We dropped the ball when Tennessee was hot to trot for a WBB game. We should have made a hard date at the Rent as a quid pro quo.
 
Exit 4 said:
"Hi, its Buffalo (and umess) again. Where is the application form? Oh wait, what- you want a directional south school on par with Memphis?"
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Wait, is media market giant Southern Mississippi more “directional south school” than West Northeast Buffalo or no one gives a carp about umess inconveniently situated in the unusually referenced “Northeast East”?
 
JMick said:
I have a feeling Aresco will regret such a definitive statement this early. What happens when their 3rd and 4th choices say no? They're not going to be allowed to have a CCG with 11 teams. Letting his pride get in the way is just as stupid as signing a bajillion dollar deal contract in exchange for a bajillion years
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Now... this is from a Blauds article so take the accuracy w/ due diligence:

>>AAC commissioner Mike Aresco said on Thursday he was confident the NCAA would grant the AAC a waiver on that requirement, wondering why the NCAA would enforce a rule that would basically require the AAC potentially raiding another conference to get back to 12 teams.<<
 
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