Courant Columnist Colin McEnroe view on CR and UConn

[Fishy]

This new conference really isn't that bad. In basketball Uconn,Temple,Memphis and Cincy are all tournament quality teams. UCF is right behind too. In football Cinci,Houston,SMU are all good. ECU is an up and coming program and tulsa and tulane aren't that bad either. This conference will take a few years, but if given enough time it will be the best of the rest in FB and a power conference in BBALL.

It actually sucks monkey nuts in basketball.

The first four are fine.

UCF hoop just got prison-raped by the NCAA for cheating their balls off. SMU will be a mirage until Larry Brown leaves and they dissipate as an entity. ECU, Tulsa, Tulane, USF and whoever the hell I'm forgetting will face duck* our RPI until we either get out of the conference or start our death rattle.

You have a better argument in football. So many of the so-called power conference teams are actually pretty bad football programs - the individual programs in the conference match up fine with most of them.

We just don't any perennial top-20 type programs.

 

[upstater]

It actually sucks monkey nuts in basketball.

The first four are fine.

UCF hoop just got prison-raped by the NCAA for cheating their balls off. SMU will be a mirage until Larry Brown leaves and they dissipate as an entity. ECU, Tulsa, Tulane, USF and whoever the hell I'm forgetting will face duck* our RPI until we either get out of the conference or start our death rattle.

You have a better argument in football. So many of the so-called power conference teams are actually pretty bad football programs - the individual programs in the conference match up fine with most of them.

We just don't any perennial top-20 type programs.

The problem hasn't been UCF, Tulsa and East Carolina. They actually play decent bball at those schools. Even So. Mississippi (which isn't a member) was in the 30s this year. Tulsa and ECU were 102 and 104. The problem has always been SMU and Houston at the 200 level. Those teams have been pretty bad. Tulane too at 178. I think ECU is going to compete well because they get decent talent out of Carolina. If the conference has any hope, Houston and SMU will have to up its game. Houston grabbed a blue chip recruit last year, but then sucked. So we'll see.

 

[CAHUSKY]

. If the conference has any hope, Houston and SMU will have to up its game. Houston grabbed a blue chip recruit last year, but then sucked. So we'll see.

And SMU picked up Larry Brown and McDonalds all-America Keith Frazier. Looks like they are trying to step it up