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Big East's Next Media Deal

August_West said:
To steal a page out of your playbook: "No one cares" certainly not the B1G or the Big12 or the ACC ( who will take SMU for free over us for free.)
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Imitation is the highest form of flattery.

I don’t know the answer to your question. If the worst case is that we run the program smarter and have to remain Indy for the long term then I I am fine with that.

I laugh at these people who actually believe we were near the top of the Big 12’s list. I’m a realist.

I also laugh at you who wants to attack something that plenty of people still enjoy.

We sacrificed what little credibility the football program had left so that you clowns could feel good playing Immaculate Little Sister of the We Are Responsible For the Agony of Christ U. So go troll somewhere else.
 
ZooCougar said:
We sacrificed what little credibility the football program had left so that you clowns could feel good playing Immaculate Little Sister of the We Are Responsible For the Agony of Christ U. So go troll somewhere else.
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I get what you're saying from a pigskin prospective. But in my perspective it was the smartest thing we ever did in this mess. Our recruiting instantly leveled up and we won a natty. Did Hurley have us getting better in AAC? Yes he did. Would we have reached the same heights as quickly? We will never know, but I don't think so. Basketball got a bump from BigEast, and UConn gave BigEast a bump.
 
August_West said:
are facts trolling?
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Sometimes. Often, in fact when they're used to support a comparison to some thing called "rutgirls", but you know that August.
 
CL82 said:
Sometimes. Often, in fact when they're used to support a comparison to some thing called "rutgirls", but you know that August.
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Oh I forgot. You are closet Rutgirls and Hall fan Jersey guy. I see your gratuitous pandering on the Hall board, it's cloying.
 
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August_West said:
I get what you're saying from a pigskin prospective. But in my perspective it was the smartest thing we ever did in this mess. Our recruiting instantly leveled up and we won a natty. Did Hurley have us getting better in AAC? Yes he did. Would we have reached the same heights as quickly? We will never know, but I don't think so. Basketball got a bump from BigEast, and UConn gave BigEast a bump.
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I think it was smart too. Depressing but the right play.

But if you don’t think we would be better off in the Big 12 or ACC then you are stupid.

And no the fact that they don’t want us doesn’t invalidate anything.

So tell us. How pitiful will the next deal be? And will UConn make more than a Champions League Benchwarmer.
 
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August_West said:
We cant draw 1/3 of Rutgirls. Let that sink in.
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Imagine if they fired Ollie, replaced him with Dom Perno, gave him a shoe string budget for assistants, and let him stay there after it was obvious to anyone with eyes he was going through the motions, putting in miminum effort. What do you think BB would draw with that? You were seeing attendance decline under Ollie. The perception the school abandoned FB had less to do with going independent and more to do with hiring a guy going through the motions with laughable incentive clauses.

When they funded this program well relative to their peers they had success on the field and decent attendance.
 
August_West said:
It was gorgeous and beautiful. And now Im banned. I knew mods here read our private messages, and I stupidly PM'd my handle at Syracusefan to ONE person on the boneyard during the tournament when I was feeling giddy after a win, and within 4 hours I was banned there after 10 years of an active account.

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nobody here reads private messages.
 
August_West said:
Oh I forgot. You are closet Rutgirls and Hall fan Jersey guy. I see your gratuitous pandering on the Hall board it cloying.
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Again, not like trolling it all...

Lol it's so funny to watch trolls reveal themselves. Usually, all it takes is politely responding to them. They will grow frustrated and continue to escalate rhetoric in the hopes they'll get an emotional response.

Disappointingly predictable August. To be perfectly honest, I expected more.
 
August_West said:
If you want to use the no one cares line. Let's use this one: No one cares (literally no one, not even in their own state) about UConn Football. No one goes to the games, no one watches the games. New England as a whole cares nothing for College Football. No one cares.

THAT is why we are where we are today.
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This is not true. Here's a question for you. Texas has double the population of New England. Which one has more 4 year college football teams and players? New England. New England has 53 4 year college football teams and Texas has 36. The big difference between Texas and New England is Texas has more FBS schools than New England (12 to 3) and New England has many more D3 schools than Texas (30 to 10). New England has more FCS (13 to 9) and D2 (7 to 5) schools than Texas.

College football is ingrained in New England colleges, but until the early 90s, New England had 1 FBS school, Boston College so they didn't have teams to embrace high level college football.
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Virtually no college built their fan base overnight, but over years and years. I have used Penn State as an example before. Their stadium held 30k until ~1960 and they have been steadily expanding over time. The stadium held 57k in 1972 and 83.8k in 1980...

Connecticut is willing to embrace high level college football, but they need top competition. Look at The Travelers golf tournament. One of the best attended PGA golf tournaments. Why? Connecticut people like golf, but they love attending a top event.
 
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August_West said:
It was gorgeous and beautiful. And now Im banned. I knew mods here read our private messages, and I stupidly PM'd my handle at Syracusefan to ONE person on the boneyard during the tournament when I was feeling giddy after a win, and within 4 hours I was banned there after 10 years of an active account.

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Doesn’t surprise me one bit. That’s a shame though.
 
uconnyankee said:
Those schools know what brings value to the league. It ain’t Butler or Depaul
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True, but it's not as if the other BE schools will get some kind of benefit from being nice to us with media revenue.

It was clear to all that we are in this conference as a marriage of convenience and we'd jump in a heartbeat if the opportunity to earn P conference revenue arose. Anyone foolish enough to believe this wasn't the case found out how wrong they were the past few weeks.

What would the C-9 and Butler gain by giving us a larger share of the conference revenue? Our best chance at that would have been lobbying for a distribution model based on premium television appearances a few years ago. Today, as it is obvious we'll get more than our share of those nobody else would consider this.
 
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August_West said:
You can’t compare apples to apples there. Football is a different animal on a grander scale. The middle of pack p4 averages 50k . Even the crap teams
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What's sad about this comment is that if anyone with a little competence replaced fat Lew (instead of Hathaway) your 50k number would be well in the rear view mirror.

Anyone who was at the Rent when it opened (against Indiana) would have known what the crowd was that day. Considering what we had & where we were prior to the Rent opening, a crowd like that one was unimaginable. Hathaway was freshly (I believe less than a month) on the job the day we opened the Rent. An achiever, someone who demands excellence from his work product, someone who wants the best for what he is and what he does would have left the stadium that day saying "My God, if we can do this today, in fifteen years we can consistently pack a 50k stadium. In thirty years we can pack 75k-80k seats. Unfortunately he saw the packed house and said to himself "My work's done here".

Sadly, we may have let the window pass us by. The opportunities could have been there but we were rudderless on many levels of management while the window was open. Now we'll need to force a window open and this will a tremendous amount of work, an unbelievable amount of persistence and enough luck that we won't be faced with some unexpected setback as it won't take a lot to derail the effort.

One thing I can't understand (which has permeated this thread) is the notion that different sports, different aspects of the school, are not connected. It's kind of like saying the right leg is exceptionally strong so who cares about the left arm. If it gets mangled and they have to cut if off, no problem.
 
temery said:
You were banned by a 'cuse admin at the same time you had a post deleted. I wouldn't have deleted the post, but it's their call.

Four consecutive posts were deleted, including yours, and two people were banned.

And reading DMs wouldn't be needed. Your ip address is all I

Nothing that happens here affects syracusefan, and vise versa.

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I read a post at syracusefan.com a while back about UConn giving up on football so I registered and politely, I thought, offered my differing opinion. I was immediately banned. :confused:
 
Kolumbo said:
I read a post at syracusefan.com a while back about UConn giving up on football so I registered and politely, I thought, offered my differing opinion. I was immediately banned. :confused:
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Please call 911 if I ever post over at that delusional site dedicated to an antique athletic program, because it will mean I have had a severe neurological event.
 
WestHartHusk said:
August jumped the shark on logic months ago. Save your effort.
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Im the one who said we werent going anywhere. Its all you doofuses that were wrong. I cant believe anyone thinks that we are going anywhere. Its mind bottling.
 
In this thread Football fans come to grips with the fact we are sloppy 10th's to schools like Arizona State, SMU and UCF.
 
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August_West said:
In this thread Football fans come to grips with the fact we are sloppy 10th's to schools like Arizona State, SMU and UCF.
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Patience is a virtue and The Basketball Capital Of The World wasn't built in a day.

From 1986-1988 UConn Basketball finished last in the Big East. 3 years in a row.
In 1990 UConn finished tied for first
It took 10 years in the conference to climb that hill. The rest is history.

2004 Big East Football Standings - UConn finished 5th in its first year
2010 Big East Football Standings - UConn finished 2nd behind WVU and went to the Fiesta Bowl

The next conference will begin the next chapter.
 
Big East will be fortunate to get a half eaten bag of lays, a handful of m&m’s and a few mints for their next tv deal. no one’s watching and no one cares.

here’s to 50 more years of UConn in the Big East!
 
Fox just got their hands on a boatload more basketball games at schools people care about, so I can't imagine the Big East is going to have much leverage.
 
hoopsfan22 said:
Fox just got their hands on a boatload more basketball games at schools people care about, so I can't imagine the Big East is going to have much leverage.
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I will not pull an "I told you so" like A-Dub but in all candor, don't be surprised if the next media contract ends up being very disappointing.
 
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