Conference Is Legit

[rich1122]

Conference - wise. We will be able to recruit after this. No excuse.

0-12 to maybe 5 in the nation can happen in this conference.

 

[uconnphil2016]

Conference - wise. We will be able to recruit after this. No excuse.

0-12 to maybe 5 in the nation can happen in this conference.

Agree, but it's also easier for the better situated teams like UCF, USF and Houston. Even still, this game absolutely helps our ability to recruit.

 

[Adios]

We might want to ask ourselves if this conference is actually better than the Big East, 2004+. Because it just might be. At least in football. We do have 1 men's national champship, as a conference. Don't need to say anything about women's bball.

 

[noeynox]

The school with the largest athletic budget in the entire G5 should be doing better in this league.

 

[Adios]

The school with the largest athletic budget in the entire G5 should be doing better in this league.

We are dominating women's basketball. That does count for something.

 

[noeynox]

We are dominating women's basketball. That does count for something.

That's nice.

 

[uconnbill]

P6 is what Aresco should keep talking about with UCF being undefeated and being disrespected by the media and the NCAA

 

[sportsart]

P6 is what Aresco should keep talking about with UCF being undefeated and being disrespected by the media and the NCAA

Aresco looks pretty smart with the P6 marketing.

 

[Redding Husky]

We have zero natural rivals in the AAC. But there is some consolation in knowing the AAC is a slightly better football conference than the Big East was.

 

[BugsyCT]

The school with the largest athletic budget in the entire G5 should be doing better in this league.

At basketball, yes, based on our pedigree. In football we're still competing against a bunch of southern schools in much more fertile recruiting grounds.

 

[weyuo]

UConn women's basketball is elegant trim, but the engine that makes the AAC is football.

 

[Husky68]

UConn women's basketball is elegant trim, but the engine that makes the AAC is football.

Not to speak for him, but think his post might have been a little tongue in cheek, so to speak.

 

[sportsart]

The school with the largest athletic budget in the entire G5 should be doing better in this league.

If we could move Storrs to Orlando we would be better.

 

[noeynox]

If we could move Storrs to Orlando we would be better.

Or if you hire a Scott Frost instead of a Bob Diaco.

 

[uconnfan68]

We might want to ask ourselves if this conference is actually better than the Big East, 2004+. Because it just might be. At least in football. We do have 1 men's national champship, as a conference. Don't need to say anything about women's bball.

Don’t we have 2? Didn’t Louisville win in 2013 as an AAC team?

 

[huskyrob1]

The school with the largest athletic budget in the entire G5 should be doing better in this league.

Yes, that's true but remember that school had PP and Dicko as head coaches for six years. Coaching is everything in football, look at big powerful LSU after Saban and some key assistants left on Miles watch. They suck now.

 

[BugsyCT]

Don’t we have 2? Didn’t Louisville win in 2013 as an AAC team?

Nope - that was final year of the old Big East.

 

[noeynox]

Yes, that's true but remember that school had PP and Dicko as head coaches for six years. Coaching is everything in football, look at big powerful LSU after Saban and some key assistants left on Miles watch. They suck now.

I'd love to suck like LSU.

 

[huskyrob1]

I'd love to suck like LSU.

Oh yeah, would you like to lose to Troy? Because they did.

 

[noeynox]

Oh yeah, would you like to lose to Troy? Because they did.

And go 9-4, or so with a win over Auburn? Sign me up.

 

[huskyrob1]

And go 9-4, or so with a win over Auburn? Sign me up.

Look at how far that program has fallen though from where it was. That's my point, you must think UConn basketball is fine where it is now too. Coaching is everything. Not much of a difference between Les Miles and Kevin Ollie if you ask me. Lol

 

[noeynox]

Look at how far that program has fallen though from where it was. That's my point, you must think UConn basketball is fine where it is now too. Coaching is everything.

Sure coaching is everything. You won't find a bigger proponent of that than me on this board. Look at Mike Leach, the guy wins wherever he goes.

LSU has fallen from where they were under Saban because Saban, but I'm pretty sure they were top 25 this year. Uconn basketball is nowhere near that level. Again I'd love UConn football to suck like LSU.

 

[huskyrob1]

Sure coaching is everything. You won't find a bigger proponent of that than me on this board. Look at Mike Leach, the guy wins wherever he goes.

LSU has fallen from where they were under Saban because Saban, but I'm pretty sure they were top 25 this year. Uconn basketball is nowhere near that level. Again I'd love UConn football to suck like LSU.

The leash on football coaches is much shorter than on basketball coaches, but that doesn't mean Ollie won't be looking for a job soon too, like Les Miles was.

 

[CL82]

Nope - that was final year of the old Big East.

...and we are still the same conference. So technically, I'm going with yes.

 

[Chin Diesel]

A down year for LSU is playing on New Year's Day in Orlando against Notre Dame.

Yes, it is nice to wish for UConn to aspire to that level of success as a program.