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Coming Together

After thinking about it all day, I’ve concluded I need to take a break. I don’t know if it will be two days, two months or two years. I just know that I was emotionally invested in the idea of P6 and now that is over.

I have a Syracuse client/ friend that has always challenged my UConn fandom knowing that I was originally from upstate NY. Just a month ago he reached out to say UConn football is rumored to be terminated. Like the story which broke last night, I arrogantly dismissed his rumor as fake news. Uh, boy was I wrong. So wrong. And I am sure he is laughing right now.

Maybe this will all work out. Maybe the AAC will implode once the next round of CRA gets rolling vindicating this move as smart. Maybe we make independent football fun (come on university - start selling this story next week). Maybe Fox gets us a soft landing schedule wise. Maybe Hurley gets a final four which would certainly soften the blow. But really my personal fun was with recruiting and roster building. Not sure independent football really warrants the level of attention I would give a floundering P6 program.

What won’t be fun is watching the inevitable churn in this recruiting cycle and with the roster.

So for now- I need a break. Emotionally this is still like a ton of bricks with too many “told you so’s” to deal with.
 
I’m just pissed that UConn will never be mentioned in the same sentence with UNC, Michigan, Florida, etc. from an academic perspective. We were so close. Now it’s gone forever.

Seriously, our only hope of becoming a significant player again is if the NCAA drops FB as a sport for safety reasons and we win a couple more NC’s in BB. Other than that, we’re URI.
 
Redding Husky said:
I’m just pissed that UConn will never be mentioned in the same sentence with UNC, Michigan, Florida, etc. from an academic perspective. We were so close. Now it’s gone forever.

Seriously, our only hope of becoming a significant player again is if the NCAA drops FB as a sport for safety reasons and we win a couple more NC’s in BB. Other than that, we’re URI.
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We’ve screwed ourselves on so many levels. In many senses, I’m embarrassed to be an alum. We were mismanaged and didn’t receive the support a flagship university deserves.
 
UCFBfan said:
I have a plan for them now, shut it down. Why burn money away. Honestly? I never thought I'd ever say this, but here I am. This program is better off being dead then bleeding money playing as an independent against worthless opponents. People think it's bad now? Just wait until we play a different schedule each year with the highlight being UMass. Then again, they'll probably take our spot in the AAC and not have room to schedule us.

Can you imagine....UMass has just passed us on the P5 pecking order should they join the AAC.....hahahaha.....
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UMass in the AAC makes more sense than ever now, unfortunately
 
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HUGE HUGE black eye for those running the show at the top over the last 6 years. They screwed us, big time. We developed an ID by the time we reached the Fiesta Bowl. Then we hire incompetent a**holes that only used us as a launching pad to other opportunities. They changed EVERYTHING and left us out to dry. Put us in a downward spiral. Now, we have some down years and we simply quit.
NOBODY at the top embraced what we built. Sad stuff. Downright disrespectful.
Nice job.
 
Redding Husky said:
I’m just pissed that UConn will never be mentioned in the same sentence with UNC, Michigan, Florida, etc. from an academic perspective. We were so close. Now it’s gone forever.

Seriously, our only hope of becoming a significant player again is if the NCAA drops FB as a sport for safety reasons and we win a couple more NC’s in BB. Other than that, we’re URI.
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Agree 100% on this. What is the excitement of striving for PC, Butler, or Seton Hall?

UConn officially became a mid major with this move. They've decided to hitch the UConn AD to a bunch of regional Catholic schools.

Yeah...
 
uconnphil2016 said:
We’ve screwed ourselves on so many levels. In many senses, I’m embarrassed to be an alum. We were mismanaged and didn’t receive the support a flagship university deserves.
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That sums it up right there.

States with smaller populations (Arkansas, Mississippi, West Virginia, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa) support their flagship a lot better than Connecticut.
 
uconnyankee said:
Agree 100% on this. What is the excitement of striving for PC, Butler, or Seton Hall?

UConn officially became a mid major with this move. They've decided to hitch the UConn AD to a bunch of regional Catholic schools.

Yeah...
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Exactly. We join a conference solely with basketball in mind that is actually going to be worse than the AAC going forward.

Every team loses with this move, including basketball. And it absolutely signals we have bowed out of any chance to get into a P5 conference.

University wise, the athletic department will hemorrhage even more money.

But hey, the Big East was so cool in the 80s and 90s, amirite?

Amateur hour.
 
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Exit 4 said:
After thinking about it all day, I’ve concluded I need to take a break. I don’t know if it will be two days, two months or two years. I just know that I was emotionally invested in the idea of P6 and now that is over.

I have a Syracuse client/ friend that has always challenged my UConn fandom knowing that I was originally from upstate NY. Just a month ago he reached out to say UConn football is rumored to be terminated. Like the story which broke last night, I arrogantly dismissed his rumor as fake news. Uh, boy was I wrong. So wrong. And I am sure he is laughing right now.

Maybe this will all work out. Maybe the AAC will implode once the next round of CRA gets rolling vindicating this move as smart. Maybe we make independent football fun (come on university - start selling this story next week). Maybe Fox gets us a soft landing schedule wise. Maybe Hurley gets a final four which would certainly soften the blow. But really my personal fun was with recruiting and roster building. Not sure independent football really warrants the level of attention I would give a floundering P6 program.

What won’t be fun is watching the inevitable churn in this recruiting cycle and with the roster.

So for now- I need a break. Emotionally this is still like a ton of bricks with too many “told you so’s” to deal with.
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Appreciate all you have contributed to the board. You and huskymedic keep that recruiting board afloat with timely updates.

Sucks. But I don’t blame you.
 
Block C said:
I have to say I saw this coming. I wouldn’t of made the move unless football was set. I honestly think we as a independent team could get great schedules. Independent is okay as long as you can get big time teams. If we can this might intrigue recruits into coming. I thought it was weird when Edsall was getting transfers and such. He knew this was coming also.
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What move did you make?
 
Look at it from UConn's POV, the AAC/ESPN is trying to steal money from UConn to pump up the ESPN deal. They other schools have zero T3 value. UConn can sell it's WBB and FB for more than the AAC was offering when combined with the BE MBB number. Plus they get to keep more games on TV.

I could already here the whining that would occur when every UConn FB Game is on ESPN+. Compared to every other CR kick in the nuts that this program has endured, this is nothing and might be better if the FB schedule improves.
 
Well... we have another year in the AAC. The news is going to be a distraction to the program. Our team, our staff, our head coach... has the program in their hands.

Our response to this is going to be one of the biggest challenges we will ever embark on. We aren’t basketball fans or football fans... we’re UConn fans. Maybe one day we will look back on this watching UConn football headline an E:60... maybe not. But damn, man. If there was ever a time to support this program and get butts in the seats. Scream. Yell. Face paint. It’s now! They need us more than ever.
 
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I am utterly shocked by this. I understand why UCONN did it from an AAC perspective and the Big East perspective but not from a football perspective. If this story hadn't been leaked early, maybe there are answers to these questions in 3 weeks. Right now, it looks like UConn is doing everything to be considered a public IVY school down to the sports.
 
Purple Stein said:
If you're a fan, you stick with the team through thick and thin, right?

Well, we've officially reached thin. Time to see who sticks with it, I guess.
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You need a team to be thin. This the slime ball hospice plan because they don’t have the balls to kill it or to step up and make it work. They talk about economic development, yet they do everything possible to ensure failure. They could have bought their way into the Big12, the ACC or B1G, but we step over dimes to pick up pennies. This is why Connecticut is falling apart. While states invest in major vision projects, we half do things.
 
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