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Connecticut governor declares UConn is 'all in' on big-time college football despite its current spot at bottom (Yahoo Thamel)

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kingdobbs said:
The only reason he is saying that is because to say the actual truth of “we will absolutely leave for the ACC or B1G if offered” is, as the kids say, a bad look.
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You can look at it that way. Or you can look at the 17 million dollars plus it cost UCONN to leave the AAC and joint the NBE.
 
huskysupporter said:
You can look at it that way. Or you can look at the 17 million dollars plus it cost UCONN to leave the AAC and joint the NBE.
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A necessary step in the journey. Step 1 - get out of the AAC. Look at it now, Conference USA wants to merge with them. How would you like to lose Cinnci, Houston and UCF and replace them with Pick any Conference USA school?

Step 2 - reinvigorate the fan base and all programs. Basketball on the men's side is stoked. Women's a little better than AAC. Facilities - big jump. Now to fix football.

Step 3 - see where the shifting landscape offers opportunities.
 
Blades said:
From the article, so no, it's not as hard as most think on a national level ( and we can also add NC St. , BC, Purdue, Indiana and Illinois as H & H's that DB has also scheduled )

"Former ESPN executive and noted scheduling consultant Dave Brown summed up UConn’s scheduling success by saying that the Huskies essentially scheduled everyone they’d want to in the Northeast and Eastern seaboard. “It came out better than I ever would have imagined,” Brown said. “People want to play up there.”....home-and-homes in upcoming seasons include Maryland, Pittsburgh, Duke, Wake Forest, Buffalo, Temple, Ole Miss, Syracuse (again), Army (again) and North Carolina. "

PS. I heard Edsall mention Pitt as a possible team in the future, but hadn't seen it announced, so does Thamel know something we don't ?
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FWIW, I've heard Pitt had been scheduled for a while, but it hasn't been announced for some reason.
 
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Skiblets said:
Disagree with lack of context regarding the schedule this year. It was admittedly cobbled together so it had to be all over the place. Also disagree that the article was ‘worth a click’ because… well written by the self proclaimed genius
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agree he is an idiot and self promoter
 
huskymedic said:
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What does it mean "the return is significant?" I will probably be dead in 5 years, but if not, I will check back and I suspect we will still have the believers. Hope I am wrong (on both counts).
 
CTrefugee said:
What does it mean "the return is significant?" I will probably be dead in 5 years, but if not, I will check back and I suspect we will still have the believers. Hope I am wrong (on both counts).
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Fortunately no one in the decision making process is operating based on your mortality tables. Enjoy the Casino and Women's Basketball.
 
Give it five more years. Enough time to hire a competent coach to build the program up. if, in 5 years, the program has not made any progress and is STILL the butt of all jokes, yah, by that time it will be time to think about moving down.

But if you want to continue this, actually spend and make all efforts possible to make UConn at least decent. 1 or 2 bad hires, that could happen to just about anyone. But 3 is a lot (PP, D, RE counting him as one) and if this 4th one is a stinker and UConn is still having winless seasons in 2025/6, by that time, end it already IMO.

The correct hire can right this ship within a few years. Holding out hope.
 
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Zissou said:
Don’t forget - UConn stayed in the AAC long enough to collect the exit fees from the Big East split. It has both collected exit fees and paid exit fees.
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True, when you look at the $$$ that changed hands, Uconn left the AAC right around the time that the payments ended to " the "football faction" ( of Connecticut, Cincinnati and South Florida --left behind ), which was a cash fund of "close to $100 million for distribution."

www.cbssports.com

Report: UConn, USF, Cincinnati could get payday from Big East

Connecticut, Cincinnati and South Florida could receive a payday from the Big East thanks to millions of dollars in exit fees.
www.cbssports.com www.cbssports.com
 
We can look to the northern Chicago suburbs for a case study.

Northwestern was dog meat for years, an 'Ivy' in a big land grant conference. They figured out how to win with constraints and get to meaningful bowl games from time to time. I know they get Big 10 money so don't point out the obvious here, but they have a much tougher hill to climb in the BIG and have figured it out with institutional commitment plus the hiring of Barnett and then Fitzgerald.

Just gotta do better with head coaching hires and with the commitment from the State and the U
 
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Skiblets said:
We can look to the northern Chicago suburbs for a case study. Northwestern was dog meat for years an 'Ivy' in a big land grant conference. They figured out how to win with constraints and get to meaningful bowl games from time to time. I know they get Big 10 money so don't point out the obvious here, but they have a much tougher hill to climb and have figured it out with Barnett and Fitzgerald. Just gotta do better with head coaching hires...
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Really it all comes down to. If you are in your mid 40s, you remember what schools like, Northwestern, Indiana, Wisconsin, Washinton State, and Missouri were. Absolute dog meat. They all changed their fortunes around with good hires. Yes they have to find the money for a HC and assistants. It is an absolute must. That said find the right guy. They don't have to unload the brinks truck to hire a HC. If you hire a Lance Leipold on the cheap, increase his pay to stay.
 
noeynox said:
Really it all comes down to. If you are in your mid 40s, you remember what schools like, Northwestern, Indiana, Wisconsin, Washinton State, and Missouri were. Absolute dog meat. They all changed their fortunes around with good hires. Yes they have to find the money for a HC and assistants. It is an absolute must. That said find the right guy. They don't have to unload the brinks truck to hire a HC. If you hire a Lance Leipold on the cheap, increase his pay to stay.
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Exactly, Temple was kicked out of the Big East because they were awful...
 
Skiblets said:
We can look to the northern Chicago suburbs for a case study.

Northwestern was dog meat for years, an 'Ivy' in a big land grant conference. They figured out how to win with constraints and get to meaningful bowl games from time to time. I know they get Big 10 money so don't point out the obvious here, but they have a much tougher hill to climb in the BIG and have figured it out with institutional commitment plus the hiring of Barnett and then Fitzgerald.

Just gotta do better with head coaching hires and with the commitment from the State and the U
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They have to make smart decisions, because they can't get the same athletes that the other schools can given the academic restrictions (like ND/Stanford/etc). But money is not a problem there for sure.

I toured the $280M athletics complex over labor day weekend (my son is an intern trainer for the FB team this year). The facilities are amazing. BUT I wouldn't say they are much better than UCONN's facilities - in some cases I thought UCONN's facilities are better because UCONN had more space to spread it all out.

The point being - the REAL expensive stuff - UCONN already has. They just need to MAKE GOOD CHOICES (maybe DB should tattoo it on his neck in Sanskrit) and hire the right staff.
 
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Zissou said:
Don’t forget - UConn stayed in the AAC long enough to collect the exit fees from the Big East split. It has both collected exit fees and paid exit fees.
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Smart point.
 
Banta55 said:
Exactly, Temple was kicked out of the Big East because they were awful...
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Ah, the good old days. They were hopeless, aimless and beyond fixable … until they weren’t with great coaching
 
giddyup said:
Ah, the good old days. They were hopeless, aimless and beyond fixable … until they weren’t with great coaching
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Al Golden, who id take a look at..He did as well at Miami as anyone since..
 
Travelman32 said:
Give it five more years. Enough time to hire a competent coach to build the program up. if, in 5 years, the program has not made any progress and is STILL the butt of all jokes, yah, by that time it will be time to think about moving down.

But if you want to continue this, actually spend and make all efforts possible to make UConn at least decent. 1 or 2 bad hires, that could happen to just about anyone. But 3 is a lot (PP, D, RE counting him as one) and if this 4th one is a stinker and UConn is still having winless seasons in 2025/6, by that time, end it already IMO.

The correct hire can right this ship within a few years. Holding out hope.
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I would agree with your assessment only if they are still independent in football.
 
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We’ll be viable much faster if we retain our good players this offseason. This is not a total rebuild.
 
I was laughed at for saying we couldn't afford Moorhead. Maybe he still signs elsewhere, but I doubt it'll be because we low balled him.
 
Hoophound said:
We’ll be viable much faster if we retain our good players this offseason. This is not a total rebuild.
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So much this. Our plays were competing when the offense was put into positions to succeed. And the defense fed off that energy too. All we need is to get the right mind that can maximize the production. Mazzone started it. We need someone to continue it.
 
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