BYU and AAC

[Storrs South]

Western Michigan would have qualified 5 years ago. Are you telling me that UCONN can't accomplish what Western Michigan accomplished?

By joining the MAC we might actually have an easier path to the tournament than BC, Syracuse, and Rutgers, so bonus points for joining the MAC. We might be able to accomplish in the MAC what Boise has accomplished in the MWC. Boise used the easier MWC schedule to out perform their PAC 12 neighbors and UCONN would have an opportunity to do the same.

Could it happen? Maybe. But Western Michigan was paying $800k annually for PJ Fleck and offered $3.6 million annually for him to stay and he turned it down. UConn hasn't been interested in paying that much for a coach since the Diaco debacle and buyout. The assistant salary pool would also need to be increased significantly.

My point is, unless UConn decides to increase financial resources allocated to the program particularly from a coaching standpoint, you're basically hoping you run into a really good coach on the cheap before running off to a P5 program and that's not a sustainable way to run a program. You can't run a program on hope.

There would be more years they would not go on a WMU type run (realistically hoping for once every 10 years) and playing a bad schedule with limited TV exposure will promote apathy within the fanbase if we haven't reached that point already.

Indy you can at least craft a narrative and promote something interesting. I'd like to see a competitive team take the field for the first time in 5 years before thinking about the playoffs. Winning solves all problems.

This is not an issue I have with the MAC. I would make the same points if the argument were for UConn to try and get back into the AAC.

 

[Husky25]

Western Michigan would have qualified 5 years ago. Are you telling me that UCONN can't accomplish what Western Michigan accomplished?

By joining the MAC we might actually have an easier path to the tournament than BC, Syracuse, and Rutgers, so bonus points for joining the MAC. We might be able to accomplish in the MAC what Boise has accomplished in the MWC. Boise used the easier MWC schedule to out perform their PAC 12 neighbors and UCONN would have an opportunity to do the same.

We did make a BCS bowl by being in the easiest BCS conference, if this new playoff were in place in 2010 we would have qualified for the playoffs in 2010. So yes UCONN can dream big again if we join the MAC. We can get a playoff spot.

UConn is blamed for why they just had to blow up the BCS and why college football finds itself in the current crapshow.

 

[Viet Vet]

and as an OT aside,,,,

I will next week, for the first time, be coming through the fair state of Connecticut on my way to Bar Harbor....My GPS wants me to take I 95 through NY. and Boston..but I am skipping around by way of Scranton to Hartford to Worchester Mass. to Portland.

Wise move.

 

[CL82]

and as an OT aside,,,,

I will next week, for the first time, be coming through the fair state of Connecticut on my way to Bar Harbor....My GPS wants me to take I 95 through NY. and Boston..but I am skipping around by way of Scranton to Hartford to Worchester Mass. to Portland.

Seems way out of the way, but enjoy Bar Harbor. It is beautiful up there.

 

[Hoophound]

and as an OT aside,,,,

I will next week, for the first time, be coming through the fair state of Connecticut on my way to Bar Harbor....My GPS wants me to take I 95 through NY. and Boston..but I am skipping around by way of Scranton to Hartford to Worchester Mass. to Portland.

Your plan is better. Nicer ride and often quite a bit faster. 95 is a mostly flat, completely non-scenic ride and I never use it when making that trek. The only benefit to 95 is if you want to stop somewhere along the shoreline for seafood. That said, you’ll find plenty of good seafood in Maine, so no need to get it in CT unless you need a CT style lobster roll.

 

[Husky25]

Your plan is better. Nicer ride and often quite a bit faster. 95 is a mostly flat, completely non-scenic ride and I never use it when making that trek. The only benefit to 95 is if you want to stop somewhere along the shoreline for seafood. That said, you’ll find plenty of good seafood in Maine, so no need to get it in CT unless you need a CT style lobster roll.

I-95 generally mean GWB. That alone would compel me to find an alternate route.

 

[whalerfan]

and as an OT aside,,,,

I will next week, for the first time, be coming through the fair state of Connecticut on my way to Bar Harbor....My GPS wants me to take I 95 through NY. and Boston..but I am skipping around by way of Scranton to Hartford to Worchester Mass. to Portland.

No disrespect but where is Worchester Mass? No such town exists.

 

[LBird33]

It’s between Partsville and Never Never land

 

[billybud]

No disrespect but where is Worchester Mass? No such town exists.

Yeah...my GPS may not understand "Wooster" either...OK...what the "H"?

 

[billybud]

If I have time, coming or going I would like to pop over to Storrs...Eat at the Toast Four Corners.

Say hi to John Reuber...

 

[Husky25]

Yeah...my GPS may not understand "Wooster" either...OK...what the "H"?

Yes, the "h."

My guess is he's just giving you static, but it is spelled "Worcester" and pronounced "wuh-ster (even though I grew up between Worcester and Framingham, I do not drop my "Rs"), as opposed to "War-chester."

 

[billybud]

Huh? Could almost be southern...we pronounce thangs thataway.

But it is like the sauce....so maybe British.

 

[baggerbob]

Yes, the "h."

My guess is he's just giving you static, but it is spelled "Worcester" and pronounced "wuh-ster (even though I grew up between Worcester and Framingham, I do not drop my "Rs"), as opposed to "War-chester."

Was stationed at Fort Devens in 65, and learned the correct way to say it.

 

[Husky25]

Was stationed at Fort Devens in 65, and learned the correct way to say it.

I remember the air convoys flying almost directly over my house in the '80s-early 90s.

 

[ClifSpliffy]

Yes, the "h."

My guess is he's just giving you static, but it is spelled "Worcester" and pronounced "wuh-ster (even though I grew up between Worcester and Framingham, I do not drop my "Rs"), as opposed to "War-chester."

howzaboot Peabody? Chatham? Needham? Quincy? Woburn? and my favorite, Billerica? lol. youse talk funny.

 

[Husky25]

howzaboot Peabody? Chatham? Needham? Quincy? Woburn? and my favorite, Billerica? lol. youse talk funny.

Invalid post without Haverhill and Quincy is pronounced as spelled.

I was going to say that Woburn is as well, but I suppose the pronunciation requires another 'o," as in "Woo-burn."

Also, Berlin is pronounced like the German city as opposed to the Connecticut town, where the emphasis is on the first syllable.

 

[whalerfan]

Yes, the "h."

My guess is he's just giving you static, but it is spelled "Worcester" and pronounced "wuh-ster (even though I grew up between Worcester and Framingham, I do not drop my "Rs"), as opposed to "War-chester."

I thought it was pronounced Wi-stah. I spent plenty of time there as I have close friends in Shrewsbury and Westboro. I will say this, my favorite grinder store is Elsa's Bushel and Peck at Tatnuck Square.

 

[Husky25]

I thought it was pronounced Wi-stah. I spent plenty of time there as I have close friends in Shrewsbury and Westboro. I will say this, my favorite grinder store is Elsa's Bushel and Peck at Tatnuck Square.

As I said, even after 18 years in the adjoining town, I don't have much of an accent.

 

[Adios]

and as an OT aside,,,,

I will next week, for the first time, be coming through the fair state of Connecticut on my way to Bar Harbor....My GPS wants me to take I 95 through NY. and Boston..but I am skipping around by way of Scranton to Hartford to Worchester Mass. to Portland.

95 is the better route. Unless you care to go by the UConn championship signs and Hartford. I'd move to Maine if I could.

 

[billybud]

Cairo Georgia is phonetically pronounced Kay Ro.....Vienna Ga. is pronounced VY-EEna....

Lafayette is not Laf ee et...but La Fay et.....and down my way Stiff and Ugly Floriida (Estiffanulga on map).

 

[whalerfan]

95 is the better route. Unless you care to go by the UConn championship signs and Hartford. I'd move to Maine if I could.

I was up there last October and found this brewery. It was really good. Nonesuch River Brewing | Scarborough, ME | Brewery

 

[billybud]

I was up there last October and found this brewery. It was really good. Nonesuch River Brewing | Scarborough, ME | Brewery

Thanks...leaving tomorrow...will try the place...

 

[SU1968]

Cairo Georgia is phonetically pronounced Kay Ro.....Vienna Ga. is pronounced VY-EEna....

Lafayette is not Laf ee et...but La Fay et.....and down my way Stiff and Ugly Floriida (Estiffanulga on map).

And Pueblo, Colorado is pronounced Pee-eb-lo.

 

[WestHartHusk]

and as an OT aside,,,,

I will next week, for the first time, be coming through the fair state of Connecticut on my way to Bar Harbor....My GPS wants me to take I 95 through NY. and Boston..but I am skipping around by way of Scranton to Hartford to Worchester Mass. to Portland.

You are going to have to stop before Maine if you want a decent lobster roll.

 

[billybud]

and as an OT aside,,,,

You are going to have to stop before Maine if you want a decent lobster roll.

Tired....traffic was bad today...tomorrow Harrisburg to Scranton to Hartford...But I'll wait until the 23rd for my roll...have a reservation at The Crown Jewel on Great Diamond Island for lunch...

 

[WestHartHusk]

Tired....traffic was bad today...tomorrow Harrisburg to Scranton to Hartford...But I'll wait until the 23rd for my roll...have a reservation at The Crown Jewel on Great Diamond Island for lunch...

Sounds nice, enjoy. (and seriously, a SE CT lobster roll is peak)