Come on August. That was a cobbled up POS where everyone was looking to get out from day 1. For whatever reason, Cincinnati and UH were willing to pay for way better coaches than UConn was in FB.
Those schools you mentioned plus UCF USF Tulane, blah blah blah were football!
You seem to be forgetting that the Big East urged UConn to upgrade in football and the FB schools bounced and the BB schools said they were done with FB. They left UConn holding the bag.
And now we can play most of them in the New Big 12 too! Don’t forget TCU and BYU!
Yeah, they’d surpass that in 2 games. Football only plays 6 games at home
I mean we will never be Michigan or Ohio State in Football so we shouldn't try to be Minnesota or Purdue either. BB has spoiled this fanbase. If you're not at the tippity top of the sport you shouldn't try. In its first ever game at The Rent this program pimp smacked Indiana.
I remember vividly hearing people say we could never be Georgetown or St John's in basketball. They said that a realistic goal would be more seasons over .500 than sub .500 (all games, not BE), maybe a couple tournament appearances each decade and a stray run to the top half of the BE.
I remember all the FB schools that meant a crap getting life rafts for a decade straight. Not all at once. Should’ve seen the writing then. Maybe go check the years.
Before my time, but I remember how giddy the state was during the Dream Season and before that, one of my teachers at school telling the whole class how unbelievable tiny little UConn winning the NIT was. Literally writing down how improbable it was on the chalk board. We got what 7 seasons in the BE as FB member? Maybe less before we got rug pulled and half the fanbase thinks that was enough.
Lol making that equivocation. I already outlined why that doesn’t wash.
So the school must have a had reason for not poleaxing the program then. I am sure it wasn't so we could languish along with UMass as New England independents.
Thank you Carnak the magnificent
Nope. They tried to set us up for something bigger. We blew it. Some of it due to us, some of it beyond our control. That’s life.
Tell me what our football ceiling is, jimmy the Greek.
Pretty similar to PC's ceiling in men's basketball
What is something bigger and how did we blow it? They got played time and again by the ACC. The something bigger may or may not be a Big12 invite. Crazy to think that the FB program was give 6 or 7 seasons as BE/BCS participant, had the rug pulled on them, and that is it. The state invested hundreds of millions in upgrading FB for a possible P5 invite but its not the one you want so we should just quit and go home? I'll say again. If that happens they will likely be joined by SU, Pitt, and BC in less time than the time in between our last 2 men's national titles.
How does 2002-2013 = 6 or 7 years? And then another 6 in a football league? Yeah we got played by ACC , we also got played by Big12 WAY more recently, or don’t you remember?
I would imagine several people who commented in those threads are no longer with us.
Thanks for you honesty, yeah you made my case. I’m not torpedoing our basketball program for THAT.
You seem like a big football fan and a big UConn fan. I respect both. But jeez I don’t know much about football but know why cinci could do that. I bet noey does too
B12 is the premier BB league. We just have to beat Pitt, SU and BC there 1st. The ceiling I thinks is what they were in the Big East 8-4, 9-3.Thanks for you honesty, yeah you made my case. I’m not torpedoing our basketball program for THAT.
You do know that it will be 13 years before your proposal can happen, right? And if that’s not the case the whole system of college athletics was set aflame and it won’t matter where ANY team not in B1G or SEC is. Seriously.