WestHartHusk
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Everyone around here seems interested except the football fan base, which has the most to gain. What gives?
Football fan base knows the Conference Realignment Forum is the place to be (multiple active threads)Everyone around here seems interested except the football fan base, which has the most to gain. What gives?
Aka realignment rule # 1Football fanbase is just more than a little beaten up by a decade of rumor followed by crushing let down.
It's also hard to get excited to play in basically the AAC+.
I don't agree. I would rather play random schools like Utah St and Fresno St mixed in with ACC schools than play UCF...Texas Tech and Kansas St etc, year after year.Then you must be on life support with our current random G5 laden home schedules. Our home schedule would improve dramatically in the B12 and our attendance would likely return to a plus 30k average.
Imagine what recruiting could be like with Mora in the B12.
Do you also like running a $40M yearly deficit?I don't agree. I would rather play random schools like Utah St and Fresno St mixed in with ACC schools than play UCF...Texas Tech and Kansas St etc, year after year.
I like the randomness of the Indy schedule. And if they are going to play a fixed conference schedule...I would rather it be BC, Syracuse, Pitt etc. Not Texas leftovers.
90% of that figure is bookkeeping hokum. It isn’t real.Do you also like running a $40M yearly deficit?
90% of that figure is bookkeeping hokum. It isn’t real.
I don't agree. I would rather play random schools like Utah St and Fresno St mixed in with ACC schools than play UCF...Texas Tech and Kansas St etc, year after year.
I am answering the question from a fan's viewpoint. UConn administration will have to answer it from a financial perspective. Benedict made it clear that the decision isn't all about closing a financial gap.Do you also like running a $40M yearly deficit?
I think all Benedict was doing was saying: "please don't lowball me."I am answering the question from a fan's viewpoint. UConn administration will have to answer it from a financial perspective. Benedict made it clear that the decision isn't all about closing a financial gap.
Would you rather play in a watered down ACC (without some of the unhappy 7)...or the Big 12? If you sign up to play UCF every year, you lose the chance to be in a conference with BC, Pitt and Cuse.You do realize that B12 teams play out of conference games don't you?
You independence sycophants are nuts. The upcoming home schedules mostly stink as does having to play body bag games so we can pay our coaches.
I think 90% might be high, but certainly a significant portion is due to accounting for the value of scholarships, which are inflated. Essentially we are being charged MSRP for a car that most people would get for $.50 on the dollar and one that many of our kids would get for little to no cost anyway.90% of that figure is bookkeeping hokum. It isn’t real.
I don't agree. I would rather play random schools like Utah St and Fresno St mixed in with ACC schools than play UCF...Texas Tech and Kansas St etc, year after year.
I like the randomness of the Indy schedule. And if they are going to play a fixed conference schedule...I would rather it be BC, Syracuse, Pitt etc. Not Texas leftovers.
I think 90% might be high, but certainly a significant portion is due to accounting for the value of scholarships, which are inflated. Essentially we are being charged MSRP for a car that most people would get for $.50 on the dollar and one that many of our kids would get for little to no cost anyway.
The XL Center issue is a little more interesting in that it is "bookkeeping" when you look at it from the global perspective that it is money being paid by the state of Connecticut to the state of Connecticut, but, for us it's a real number since we actually pay those excessive lease rates to the CDRA so that it can "only" show losses of a few million dollars rather than its actual loss figures.
Money isn't real, it's just bookkeeping. Got it. Only in the Boneyard. You might change your mind if your next pay check had a 75% bookkeeping error decrease.
I think 90% might be high, but certainly a significant portion is due to accounting for the value of scholarships, which are inflated. Essentially we are being charged MSRP for a car that most people would get for $.50 on the dollar and one that many of our kids would get for little to no cost anyway.
The XL Center issue is a little more interesting in that it is "bookkeeping" when you look at it from the global perspective that it is money being paid by the state of Connecticut to the state of Connecticut, but, for us it's a real number since we actually pay those excessive lease rates to the CDRA so that it can "only" show losses of a few million dollars rather than its actual loss figures.
Benedict has been vocal about it lately, hasn't he? The legislature is serious about promoting games in Hartford, let Connecticut use the XL without charge, or at least at a fixed price equal to whatever the cost is to open up Gampel. We still won't get parking in concession revenues but at least we won't be paying 90,000 for the privilege of not getting parking and concession revenues.And when is a good time PR-wise to drive up the fake deficit? When you’re negotiating a new lease for the Rent and the XL Center as well as seeing what sort of renovation money both get. Maximum leverage.
They will still play Sacred Heart.Right, who wouldn't want to host Sacred Heart in a meaningless exhibition in November when you could have an Oklahoma State or TCU in town.