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rashadray11 said:
I do because I want the best for us. It is not good that we don’t play another game that help us advance until February. Every game we play from now until then can really only hurt us. That is not good.
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Tell Hurley not to lose any games. The reality is if we lose a game to Villanova, Seton Hall or Butler, it'll help them a heck of a lot more than it'll hurt us.

Love to be a 1 seed. Thats not why we have the conference though. It is going to be the laboratory where we work out the kinks both individually and teamwise, in order to be ready to go come March. If we are a 2 instead of 1, it won't be ideal, but we would probably be the strongest 2 against the weakest 1 of the 4, and we would have had to beat them anyway(as a 2). Very confusing I'm sure, but makes sense to me.

Lets play some Big East games. Go Huskies!
 
rashadray11 said:
I do because I want the best for us. It is not good that we don’t play another game that help us advance until February. Every game we play from now until then can really only hurt us. That is not good.
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Yep.... we don't play another Q1 game until SJU on Feb 6th. That's 12 straight games. :-(
 
Is the biggest concern that we lose seeding strength(weak SOS) or that our quality of play will be dumbed down?

Seems like SOS is pretty good given our OOC gauntlet.
 
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gsmooth said:
SJU is very athletic with guys mostly in between 6-4 and 6-7. They are switching on every screen on defense and forcing 1-on-1 play.

Hopkins looks slimmer and quicker. I don't know about his perimeter shooting ability if that has improved.
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Hopkins was a nemesis at PC. I expect no less now that he is playing for Rickey. Weight loss should help the knee and his chances at the next level. Great competitor. Wish him all the best except when he plays us.
 
rashadray11 said:
It is a liability for us to be in the big east. It is far and away the worst of the power 5. Where am I wrong?
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We play several teams where fans both in Connecticut, and elsewhere in the Northeast can attend road games.
We don’t wear out the players (and coaches) with extensive travel.
Our conference tournament is at a great venue within easy reach to most fans.
We don’t overly dilute our finite resources trying to compete in the nuclear arms race that is college football (ducks and runs for cover - but its true)

If being in the Big East is such a liability, why has no other conference won more in the last ten years?
 
mussels said:
We play several teams where fans both in Connecticut, and elsewhere in the Northeast can attend road games.
We don’t wear out the players (and coaches) with extensive travel.
Our conference tournament is at a great venue within easy reach to most fans.
We don’t overly dilute our finite resources trying to compete in the nuclear arms race that is college football (ducks and runs for cover - but its true)

If being in the Big East is such a liability, why has no other conference won more in the last ten years?
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If you think this is good, I don’t know what to tell you. We should be in a league with better teams. This is not good enough.
 
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We have a thread demonstrating how awed some on here are with Michigan (who evidently would barely be underdogs to the 1997 Bulls) and quite a few that with different approaches, are displaying a massive amount of apprehension over what our seeding may be in this springs tournament (evidently unless we are a top two seed, a championship run won't be possible).

I'll say it again, our fanbase is soft.

As far as the other schools in our conference:

There was a time (it lasted many decades) when in any non-conference matchup I would always want the BE school to win. I would want the BE to always be clearly the strongest and deepest conference in the country and if we didn't win it all, I wanted another BE school to do so.

That changed over time when for many years from around our first title through our third, the appearance was that outside of Villanova, every non-football member was happy cashing checks while pretending to put an effort into fielding a competitive program. Then, during the last season of the BE as many knew it, we weren't allowed to play in the conference tournament. Their actions from the split to our return have made it clear that this is nothing more than a business transaction.

I can live with that. I've been in the business world for nearly 45 years, I understand it well and know how to react to any situation. As far as our conference goes, we need to take care of what we can take care of. If other schools do well, great, but we still need to do what we need to do. If they don’t do well, too bad for them but we still need to do what we need to do.

The good things about this conference are the locations of the conference tournament and the proximity of a handful of schools. When the day arrives that we are elsewhere, I may miss the Garden but that's about it.
 
If anyone thinks this situation is better than playing Houston, Iowa State, and Texas Tech or Louisville, UVA, and UNC in conference you’re not being honest with yourself.

This is not the old big east and it isn’t fun to play bad teams for 3 months out of the season.
 
Mora4Prez said:
If anyone thinks this situation is better than playing Houston, Iowa State, and Texas Tech or Louisville, UVA, and UNC in conference you’re not being honest with yourself.

This is not the old big east and it isn’t fun to play bad teams for 3 months out of the season.
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Some of you are just setting yourselves up for a major freakout when we lose some Big East games.
 
rashadray11 said:
It is a liability for us to be in the big east. It is far and away the worst of the power 5. Where am I wrong?
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Okay. So why dont you ask Connecticut to return to the American conference? We all know thats the only realistic option on the table right now.

So That's it. You take the American or the Big East. The P4 FB confernces have show time and time again that they have NO interest in UCONN.

So I ask you - If you know the best option available right now is the Big East Conference then why dont you do your best to hype the league? The league that gave us a boost when we needed it the most and allowed us to return to top tier?

Hating on the league that gave you a hand when times were rough isnt the way to go. It makes us look bad as fan base and as a conference partner.

(And ofcourse - people like you are now going to claim in hindsight that Uconn was always going to win 2 National Championships with Danny Hurley even if they stayed in the American which we all know deep down is complete b.s! The American took UConn out of its geographic region and was slowly destroying UConn Athletics.)
 
storrsroars said:
If the current NET holds up, we'd play our next Q1 game on Jan 13 @Hall (NET 38)

@Butler and @Nova would also qualify as Q1 if things hold.
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Does the committee use the quad ranking when y play the team or at the end of the season?
 
ecasadoSBU said:
Okay. So why dont you ask Connecticut to return to the American conference? We all know thats the only realistic option on the table right now.

So That's it. You take the American or the Big East. The P4 FB confernces have show time and time again that they have NO interest in UCONN.

So I ask you - If you know the best option available right now is the Big East Conference then why dont you do your best to hype the league? The league that gave us a boost when we needed it the most and allowed us to return to top tier?

Hating on the league that gave you a hand when times were rough isnt the way to go. It makes us look bad as fan base and as a conference partner.

(And ofcourse - people like you are now going to claim in hindsight that Uconn was always going to win 2 National Championships with Danny Hurley even if they stayed in the American which we all know deep down is complete b.s! The American took UConn out of its geographic region and was slowly destroying UConn Athletics.)
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The american or the big east is not the only option. You can’t put lipstick on a pig, the big east is objectively not good and not the same level of competition as the power 4.

As long as we are not in a power conference, we should be taking advantage of our status as a national powerhouse and scheduling as aggressively as humanly possible. we should schedule out of conference games even after big east play starts, like Gonzaga does. Gonzaga is the closest example to us. They do everything in their power to not be dragged down by their league, and we will have to do the same going forward. And luckily, Hurley gets that. That’s why he is going to schedule even more tough next year. He understands what you don’t - the big east is trash now and we don’t owe them anything because we’ve given them their only relevance the past decade.
 
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NJHusky said:
Does the committee use the quad ranking when y play the team or at the end of the season?
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End of the season.

Things are in flux till the very end.

After all the shifting during conference play some teams will work their way to becoming Q1 while others work their way out. So there is no point on stressing out over this right now.

Just win the games in your schedule and the rest wil work itself out
 
rashadray11 said:
The american or the big east is not the only option. You can’t put lipstick on a pig, the big east is objectively not good and not the same level of competition as the power 4.
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If we had a better option for ourselves we would be in a different league. Right now the big east is the best option and you being on here whining in multiple posts doesn’t change that.
 
rashadray11 said:
You are not getting it. Of course we will lose a couple games. The point is those losses will be BAD for us because they will not be against highly ranked competition. We should always be striving to play the best as much as possible, because we are the best.
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We just played 5 games against ranked teams, by the end of the regular season we'll have played 7 or 8 games against ranked teams. In our back to back seasons we played 7 and then 8 ranked teams during those regular seasons.
 
As long as we are not in a power conference, we should be taking advantage of our status as a national powerhouse and scheduling as aggressively as humanly possible. we should schedule out of conference games even after big east play starts, like Gonzaga does. Gonzaga is the closest example to us. They do everything in their power to not be dragged down by their league, and we will have to do the same going forward. And luckily, Hurley gets that. That’s why he is going to schedule even more tough next year. He understands what you don’t - the big east is trash now and we don’t owe them anything because we’ve given them their only relevance the past decade.
 
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rashadray11 said:
The american or the big east is not the only option. You can’t put lipstick on a pig, the big east is objectively not good and not the same level of competition as the power 4.

As long as we are not in a power conference, we should be taking advantage of our status as a national powerhouse and scheduling as aggressively as humanly possible. we should schedule out of conference games even after big east play starts, like Gonzaga does. Gonzaga is the closest example to us. They do everything in their power to not be dragged down by their league, and we will have to do the same going forward. And luckily, Hurley gets that. That’s why he is going to schedule even more tough next year. He understands what you don’t - the big east is trash now and we don’t owe them anything because we’ve given them their only relevance the past decade.
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You're not getting it at all, of course those are the only two options. If there was another option we would be in that conference.

We did schedule aggressively, it's why we're in a great position right now and for when they determine NCAA seeding.
 
rashadray11 said:
Yeah, all out of the big east. Because it is terrible! Why are you okay with mediocrity? We should be clamoring as loudly as possible either for leadership change in the big east or for us to get into a better situation. I do not want be a mid major when Hurley eventually leaves.
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You're not making any sense. As we've told you the Big East and the AAC are our only two options. We did schedule aggressively and will continue to do so. We'll have played as many ranked games tbis regular season as we did in our back to back regular seasons.

You're just venting and saying the same thing over and over even though you're not making sense.
 
Let it also be known that the stength of the Big East will vary from year to year. Our main issue is 11 teams...how many get in with 11 teams? 5 max. So what if this year we get 3...other years we get 4, 5.
 
superjohn said:
You're not making any sense. As we've told you the Big East and the AAC are our only two options. We did schedule aggressively and will continue to do so. We'll have played as many ranked games tbis regular season as we did in our back to back regular seasons.

You're just venting and saying the same thing over and over even though you're not making sense.
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We have no more non big east games for 3 months. We should change that. Schedule another two OOC games for Jan/Feb next year. Because from now on all we play are bubble teams at best and midwest mid majors (DePaul, Xavier, Creighton, Butler) at worst
 
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AllHusky said:
Tell Hurley not to lose any games. The reality is if we lose a game to Villanova, Seton Hall or Butler, it'll help them a heck of a lot more than it'll hurt us.

Love to be a 1 seed. Thats not why we have the conference though. It is going to be the laboratory where we work out the kinks both individually and teamwise, in order to be ready to go come March. If we are a 2 instead of 1, it won't be ideal, but we would probably be the strongest 2 against the weakest 1 of the 4, and we would have had to beat them anyway(as a 2). Very confusing I'm sure, but makes sense to me.

Lets play some Big East games. Go Huskies!
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You are absolutely correct. Our losses help them much more than they hurt us.

Which is precisely why I believe that the BE (refs) do that to us several times.during the BE season where other teams have not earned their records/playoff aspirations.

BE sucks.

How much?

Without the Huskies this year, they are the CAA.

BTW, how does a conference enter or exit the P5, exactly....
 
rashadray11 said:
It is a liability for us to be in the big east. It is far and away the worst of the power 5. Where am I wrong?
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The SEC has an identical winning percentage against the major conferences and the BE has a better winning percentage this year than last year. The ACC is no better than the Big East. They have three second weekend teams; we have two but only 11 total members. Our #3 team (SH) beat their #4 team. Our #4 team (Butler) beat their #5 team (UVA) and the BE has a WINNING record against the ACC (and that is without having to face St. John’s or UConn at all).
 
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