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Whtdmd said:
I read Michael Oher's book. The sad thing is that in the SEC, most players r there for football only. Many players pack their belongings after the last game of the senior yr. They do not come back for the spring semester to finish their degree. The worst deal for your future health is to play SEC football with no degree or NFL career
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SCC schools are football factories. Most of these guys couldn't get back into high school. The whole concept of student atheletes is a joke at these places, and a lot of other schools as well.
 
Mokum said:
Maybe Vermont was a bad example. How about Wichita twit? They used to play major league football. How are they doing in BB, twit? This was meant for metsfan2323. Don't know why his post did not show up above my reply.
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I agree 1000% that our basketball program should aspire to be as good as Wichita State. I love watching them play. They play the same wonderful style of basketball our Women's team plays. If anyone wants to know what Geno ball would look like on a men's team just watch Wichita State.

but please note that Wichita's basketball success has everything to do with coaching and nothing to do with football.
 
Drop hockey and baseball and then cut the corresponding women's scholarships. Then with the extra money we can do a, b and c. See...anyone can play this game. To blame football for current state of hoops is just smoke and mirrors. Being middle of the pack in the AAC for men's hoops is more due to mismanagement of hoops and less about another sport
 
Mokum said:
Maybe Vermont was a bad example. How about Wichita twit? They used to play major league football. How are they doing in BB, twit? This was meant for metsfan2323. Don't know why his post did not show up above my reply.
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a) The reason Wichita St dropped football was due to losing much of its team and staff in a plan crash many years ago.

b) the school has been considering restoring its football program for a few years now. What some posters on this board view as sunk costs, others can view as existing infrastructure. It is the lack of existing infrastructure (stadium, practice facility) and the costs to build those that is holding them back. As we already have those in place, the effective cost of the program is far less than many want to imply.

Wichita St is not a good example to illustrate the point of your initial post. If anything, they are an example of a school with current, high level success in men's basketball who saw the AAC as an opportunity to bring their program to a higher level and a school that would throw their hat in the ring for football if they had the existing infrastructure. Dropping football would just make us more similar to all other New England state flagships.
 
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Drop Football and start the move toward NCAA Division I Sumo Wrestling. If we get there first we can corner the market on talent before the Big Ten and SEC show up. Of course, the PAC 12 may ultimately prove to be the real power in Sumo, but we can at least build first.

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Looks close to National Flag Blue to me. Only question, Husky Logo, Old Husky Logo, or Block C? Thoughts?
 
MilliniumPrince said:
Drop Football and start the move toward NCAA Division I Sumo Wrestling. If we get there first we can corner the market on talent before the Big Ten and SEC show up. Of course, the PAC 12 may ultimately prove to be the real power in Sumo, but we can at least build first.

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Looks close to National Flag Blue to me. Only question, Husky Logo, Old Husky Logo, or Block C? Thoughts?
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I have wondered at times why colleges don't recruit Sumo wrestlers.
Bad transcripts?
 
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metsfan2323 said:
I agree 1000% that our basketball program should aspire to be as good as Wichita State. I love watching them play. They play the same wonderful style of basketball our Women's team plays. If anyone wants to know what Geno ball would look like on a men's team just watch Wichita State.

but please note that Wichita's basketball success has everything to do with coaching and nothing to do with football.
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Yes certainly coaching is the # 1 factor.
 
We are NOT dropping football. It will be the biggest fluke in UConn history to pull the plug on a program becuase of two bad coaches. Is it currently a bad investment yes. But with better coaching and a few winning seasons the rent will fill up. Look at the women's team. They sold out the XL center for the Notre Dame game. Why is that? Is Connecticut the women's basketball state? Does Hartford or central have flocks of fans for women's games. Success sells. Football is a better supported sport nationally and state wide. If we can get 6+ wins and keep competitive the program will be fine. Yeah the American sucks. But having this thread every 4 weeks is rediculous. Stop blaming the conference for bad basketball. Cinci has half the history but still is relevant. OLLIE IS TRASH AT COACHING. That's the only reason we stink. Don't try and make excuses about football being the downfall of UConn.
 
The entire premise of this argument rests on the idea that the conference is to blame for UConn basketball's recent failures. That just isn't true. We recruit at the top of the conference every single year, and yet have never won the regular season title in the conference. We have been a middling team in the conference, and this year will probably finish in the bottom third. How will going to the new Big East and eliminating football change that? Won't we just get slaughtered by a slightly more interesting group of teams than we do now? How about we focus on actually playing well in the American first
 
metsfan2323 said:
Good God, this twit with his 7th post wants UCONN to aspire to be Vermont.
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That's nothing compared to some who have 17,000 posts who wants to get rid of the mens team and concentrate on the ladies
Some people just talk to hear themselves talk and/or say absolutely stupid things to get some likes from other dolts
 
Mokum said:
Maybe Vermont was a bad example. How about Wichita twit? They used to play major league football. How are they doing in BB, twit? This was meant for metsfan2323. Don't know why his post did not show up above my reply.
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Maybe you should have quit when you thought you were relevant
you are already getting old - do yourself a favor - join Super John's team
 
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gtcam said:
That's nothing compared to some who have 17,000 posts who wants to get rid of the mens team and concentrate on the ladies
Some people just talk to hear themselves talk and/or say absolutely stupid things to get some likes from other dolts
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Palatine uses sarcasm correctly for once and half the place doesn’t get it.

#boneyardin’
 
Whtdmd said:
I read Michael Oher's book. The sad thing is that in the SEC, most players r there for football only. Many players pack their belongings after the last game of the senior yr. They do not come back for the spring semester to finish their degree. The worst deal for your future health is to play SEC football with no degree or NFL career
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Kinda like UConn basketball...
 
Anyone enjoy the irony of the guy who claims to work for the super elite university posts incoherently with r and u for 3 letter words?

Susie Lax told them it’s the best of the New England publics! Eat that URI and Maine!
 
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We are in an excellent football league. Possibly the best league we ever played in.
Every other G5 school and many independents would love to be in our conference in football. I believe the next contract will be suptantially better than the current one.
Forget P5 ,football at this level is the only sport with the potential to create enough revenue.
to sustain our somewhat bloated athletic department.
Yes we support too many teams that generate zero revenue.
I know you guys don’t like to hear that ,but that’s the truth.
The conference also has made moves to generate additional basketball revenue.
Moves they should have done years ago.
Our problems in football and basketball are self inflicted ,to blame the conference borders on insanity.
Our conference mate ,UCF a team we beat a couple of years ago , won a major bowl this year. Why couldn’t that be us?
If you never win how could you possibly know what the revenue potential is.
Have we even won a dozen league games in 6 years.
Even in basketball if you have a mediocre basketball record why do you suppose more people will come out.
Nova of course
PC because of their location
But Even Georgetown isn’t the draw it once was
How exciting are matchups with these team
Hall?
St John’s
DePaul
Marquette

Butler
Xavier
 
AZHuskiePop said:
We are in an excellent football league. Possibly the best league we ever played in.
Every other G5 school and many independents would love to be in our conference in football. I believe the next contract will be suptantially better than the current one.
Forget P5 ,football at this level is the only sport with the potential to create enough revenue.
to sustain our somewhat bloated athletic department.
Yes we support too many teams that generate zero revenue.
I know you guys don’t like to hear that ,but that’s the truth.
The conference also has made moves to generate additional basketball revenue.
Moves they should have done years ago.
Our problems in football and basketball are self inflicted ,to blame the conference borders on insanity.
Our conference mate ,UCF a team we beat a couple of years ago , won a major bowl this year. Why couldn’t that be us?
If you never win how could you possibly know what the revenue potential is.
Have we even won a dozen league games in 6 years.
Even in basketball if you have a mediocre basketball record why do you suppose more people will come out.
Nova of course
PC because of their location
But Even Georgetown isn’t the draw it once was
How exciting are matchups with these team
Hall?
St John’s
DePaul
Marquette

Butler
Xavier
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Many independents: UMass and New Mexico State.

Every other G5 - except those that were in the league and left!
 
Mokum said:
I agree we need a new coach. But I keep seeing on here that the state can not afford to buy out Ollies contract. With a losing football team with no chance of making the big time, loosing tons of money, that was the connection I was implying.
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The state has nothing to do with buying out coaches' contracts. That has to come from money the AD generates or raises through donations or sponsors.
 
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When we say football participation is plummeting, we are talking 50%? Or 5-10%?
 
Mokum said:
I am going out on a limb with this, and just speculating. I will probably get called names by some of the arrogant posters, but I don't care. I am starting to think that dropping Football may not be a bad idea, and just be a basketball school. All those big east catholic schools played bigtime football when I was a kid in the '50's & '60's. They could not compete, could not afford it, and eventually dropped it. Big time FB is a closed club. Uconn will never get in. They will just flounder around on the periphery and loose tons of money. There are only so many quality players coming out of HS each year, and if they are 5 stars they are going to go to one of the long established programs, not Uconn. Furthermore, and here is were I could be dead wrong, but I see football possibly going the way of Roman Gladiator fights by the end of this century. We are all aware of all the talk about brain injuries in football, as well as other life long debilitating injuries. ( I tore my cartilidge in my knee playing HS FB, and still suffer from it. Just had another knee operation a few years ago, and I am almost 70). Football starts in high school. You need your parents permission to play as far as I know. You see where I am going with this? As more brain injury crap comes out, more parents say no, the player pool dwindles, and it is all down hill for the sport of football. Keep in mind I said by the end of the century, not over the next few years. Vermont dropped football, and while they are no BB powerhouse, they manage to put some pretty good teams on the court in BB for a small school from a tiny state. Would like to know what you all think about the future of football for Uconn and the sport in general. Maybe I am dead wrong, I am like I said just speculating.
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I'm an advocate of UCONN basketball in the Big East, but my estimations is that the administration is waiting to see what the new AAC tv deal will look like. UCONN is playing the attrition game.

The goal is to get more than the Big East currently gets which is about $5 million per school. The AAC is looking for 8 to 10 million. If we don't get that kind of money then, UCONN will look to move to Big East and put football anywhere that will have them, go independent, or drop it altogether.

PS: They are also hoping something happens with Notre Dame and the ACC hoping that means UCONN will be the 16th member:

College Football Realignment Moves That Need to Happen
 
FfldCntyFan said:
a) The reason Wichita St dropped football was due to losing much of its team and staff in a plan crash many years ago.

b) the school has been considering restoring its football program for a few years now. What some posters on this board view as sunk costs, others can view as existing infrastructure. It is the lack of existing infrastructure (stadium, practice facility) and the costs to build those that is holding them back. As we already have those in place, the effective cost of the program is far less than many want to imply.

Wichita St is not a good example to illustrate the point of your initial post. If anything, they are an example of a school with current, high level success in men's basketball who saw the AAC as an opportunity to bring their program to a higher level and a school that would throw their hat in the ring for football if they had the existing infrastructure. Dropping football would just make us more similar to all other New England state flagships.
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Some no doubt will grouse about the shipping costs, but couldn't the Rent and Burton Center be sold to Wichita State, and basketball goes back to Big East? Gotta think outside the box sometimes when going for a win-win.
 
freescooter said:
Kinda like UConn basketball...
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believe it or not, the only 4 yr student athlete who did not graduate under Ollie was Ryan Boatright. The basketball team has been doing their homework and staying out of trouble. It does not deserve to be compare with a SEC football program in academics
 
gtcam said:
That's nothing compared to some who have 17,000 posts who wants to get rid of the mens team and concentrate on the ladies
Some people just talk to hear themselves talk and/or say absolutely stupid things to get some likes from other dolts
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And some do it irrespective of Likes.
 
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