BTW, UConn is a damn good school too!

[Waquoit]

Such a thin skin. Everybody and anybody who disagrees with you or offers a different point of view is a troll.

Not true. But you are.

 

[Kolumbo]

The good news is we don't have to waste any more time following CR. That topic is officially dead. It makes no difference what UConn Football does. Academics and Hoops, that's the ticket. CAA, Patriot, Independent, it really doesn't matter for football. Today the program and the fans made a statement.

 

[DFW HOYA]

UConn moved to #58 in the new US News rankings, up from #67. Second among Big East schools

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

 

[LoyalFanCT]

The good news is we don't have to waste any more time following CR. That topic is officially dead. It makes no difference what UConn Football does. Academics and Hoops, that's the ticket. CAA, Patriot, Independent, it really doesn't matter for football. Today the program and the fans made a statement.

College realignment is just put on hold. It is not dead. UConn has to get out of the so-called Big East and into a power conference. The football program will improve. Jim Mora will make sure it will. If UConn can rank in the top 50 national universities based on the US News & World Report standards, that would be a great short-term achievement. We are not too far away.

 

[Patman]

College realignment is just put on hold. It is not dead. UConn has to get out of the so-called Big East and into a power conference. The football program will improve. Jim Mora will make sure it will. If UConn can rank in the top 50 national universities based on the US News & World Report standards, that would be a great short-term achievement. We are not too far away.

I think the mistake was not doing a hard legislative press to get UConn to AAU status, you get that and the "football" problem goes away. get the legislature to give you "their" own AAU school. Yeah, Yale is down the road but you don't own that, do you, CT legislature.

 

[Waquoit]

I think the mistake was not doing a hard legislative press to get UConn to AAU status, you get that and the "football" problem goes away.

Why do you say this? It's not AAU keeping us out.

 

[KryHavok]

Why do you say this? It's not AAU keeping us out.

Kinda, indirectly. The conferences we'd like UConn to get into have schools that are objecting to our joining, and several/many of those schools are part of the AAU. So by extension, not only are they blocking us during CR, but they are also saying No, Nein, Nyet to us to join the AAU while opening the door for lesser (why yes I'm biased) ranked schools.

 

[Viet Vet]

Why do you say this? It's not AAU keeping us out.

Correct. It’s eyeballs (the lack thereof) watching a moribund football team on TV),

 

[Patman]

Why do you say this? It's not AAU keeping us out.

I think if we were in the AAU we'd be in. It's all about perception and perceived intent. UConn is not perceived as trying to participate. We know that's not true, but that is the view.

 

[Waquoit]

I think if we were in the AAU we'd be in. It's all about perception and perceived intent. UConn is not perceived as trying to participate.

If we were AAU, where would we be now? Please tell me the point where no AAU kept us out.

 

[KryHavok]

Something that came up on my LinkedIn profile, 142 years ago on this day UConn (then the Stores Agricultural School) had its first classes. Happy Anniversary/Birthday UConn!!!