Fagnano and Bell are out for the Wasabi Bowl

[ATLDYKA]

I hate to break it to you, but no UConn football games have national championship implications.

What are you breaking to me, I get it, you just made my point

 

[ConnHuskBask]

So why did Bell and Fagnano play in the last game against FAU or the game against Air Force? Both were identified as having a shot at the next level before the end of the regular season.

Travis just signed a $40.5M NFL contract and I’m fairly certain he did not sit out any games based on future livelihood. Playing paid off for him. He will always be a Husky for me even if it means he is playing for the Ravens.

Why don't you check out how many snaps a game Josh Allen takes in the preseason vs how many snaps he takes in the regular season.

They are both football games .. but what could be the difference.

 

[uconnyankee]

Parsing fault (kids versus schools) is a fool’s errand. College revenue sports are just like the pros - squeezing the fan’s wallet and loyalty for a diminishing regular season product. Maximizing revenue via the playoffs/tourney when the casuals show up to watch. When they start killing off non-revenue sports for this, I’m out.

When they start??? To quote The Gladiator- ‘miss the battle? You missed the war son’

Colleges have been cutting sports programs for the past 20 years.
Maybe even longer.

 

[uconnyankee]

I hate to break it to you, but no UConn football games have national championship implications.

No. But it was exciting thinking that a 9-3 or 10-2 UConn might get a shot at a P4 opponent.

Unfortunately this is the reality of college football. 12 teams make a playoff. Everyone else plays a meaningless game like The Crown or NIT.

The term is Anticlimactic.

 

[ScottVib]

Making the "NIT" football tournament into the Crown, made for TV with NIL awards for teams who participate is probably the way to limit opt-outs (and/or the play for the bowls if they want to attract teams/players).

 

[HuskyAlum012]

I see this as a very simple solution. If these bowl games are such cash cows for networks aka ESPN, then why not include a NIL payout to the winners Ala the players era tourneys? I know There are a lot more mouths to feed but could entice most players to play rather than opt out. You will still get the Skyler cases but could help with a player in Evers situation

 

[Chief00]

All these posts later, believe even more than I did before that we should have declined the bowl invite, given the circumstances.

 

[CTBasketball]

All these posts later, believe even more than I did before that we should have declined the bowl invite, given the circumstances.

AD wanted the paycheck. Can’t blame him for running it like a business. But optically losing to Army will not be good, but yet again, it’s the bowl season and no one cares.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

All these posts later, believe even more than I did before that we should have declined the bowl invite, given the circumstances.

We are far from being in position to decline bowl games.

 

[king conn]

Last year 5 players opted out for UNC for the Fenway Bowl

The boneyard: Lets roll them and prove we can beat a p4 team!

This year 2 players opt out for us.

The boneyard: We should not only decline the game, college football needs to be eliminated as a sport

 

[Zonepress]

The NCAA has nothing to do with that.

Making athletes employees would be the end of college sports.

how are the players not already employees?
They are getting a check from the University or will be soon
perhaps they are considered 1099 contract workers
For scholarship for footbal and basketball IMHO “college sports” is over
Give it a few more years and women’s basketball. Will be there as well.

 

[Scoe]

Last year 5 players opted out for UNC for the Fenway Bowl

The boneyard: Lets roll them and prove we can beat a p4 team!

This year 2 players opt out for us.

The boneyard: We should not only decline the game, college football needs to be eliminated as a sport

Is it just 2 opting out?

 

[Chief00]

Last year 5 players opted out for UNC for the Fenway Bowl

The boneyard: Lets roll them and prove we can beat a p4 team!

This year 2 players opt out for us.

The boneyard: We should not only decline the game, college football needs to be eliminated as a sport

So how did that work for UNC?
My dad used to say, if you are going to do something, do it right! Or don’t do it at all.
Applying that standard and recognizing our head coach, interim head coach and QB have left us, the decision seems pretty obvious.

 

[BlueWolf25]

So how did that work for UNC?
My dad used to say, if you are going to do something, do it right! Or don’t do it at all.
Applying that standard and recognizing our head coach, interim head coach and QB have left us, the decision seems pretty obvious.

Sammis is still coaching the bowl game even though TCU hired him

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Last year 5 players opted out for UNC for the Fenway Bowl

The boneyard: Lets roll them and prove we can beat a p4 team!

This year 2 players opt out for us.

The boneyard: We should not only decline the game, college football needs to be eliminated as a sport

Context never matters... until it does.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

So how did that work for UNC?
My dad used to say, if you are going to do something, do it right! Or don’t do it at all.
Applying that standard and recognizing our head coach, interim head coach and QB have left us, the decision seems pretty obvious.

Written by someone who has not had his Precious adversely affected in this manner.

 

[king conn]

So how did that work for UNC?
My dad used to say, if you are going to do something, do it right! Or don’t do it at all.
Applying that standard and recognizing our head coach, interim head coach and QB have left us, the decision seems pretty obvious.

That's a strawman Chief, has nothing to do with my post.

Your only good answer would have been that you protested last year the fact that UNC didn't decline the game. But you and everyone else crying here didn't.

What we have here is crybaby hypocrisy

 

[Hondo 77]

Nope. Not what us fans signed up for and shell out $$ for. Seems like everybody has their hands out and takes care of themselves except the fans and NIL supporters.

This 💩 has to stop. It’s not right.

Fans are just cash cows to be milked.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

My dad used to say, if you are going to do something, do it right! Or don't do it at all.

That was your father?

Thank you for clearing that up. I've heard that expression my entire life, but until now I never knew who to attribute it to.

 

[CTBasketball]

Fans are just cash cows to be milked.

This sport is not about the fans. At one point it was about the college athlete, now it’s about the Benjamin’s for the higher ups.

 

[superjohn]

All these posts later, believe even more than I did before that we should have declined the bowl invite, given the circumstances.

UConn football is no position to be declining bowl games. We cancelled a whole season and we were the laughingstock of college football for it.

 

[HuskyAlum012]

Nobody is going to remember who won the 2025 Fenway Bowl. If we pack out Fenway in b2b years with almost double the attendance of the ACC school who plays in its backyard, that will open up significantly more eye balls to where we stand as a program than anything else. From the website, it looks like there are more sections opened for this year's game than last year's which makes you think the ticket sales are going very well.

AD David Benedict playing chess while everyone else is still playing checkers, per usual. Do I wish our players care more about getting that 10th win? Absolutely, but lets be frank, nobody outside of UConn will look at us differently with 9 vs 10 wins this season.

 

[Hoophound]

Nobody is going to remember who won the 2025 Fenway Bowl. If we pack out Fenway in b2b years with almost double the attendance of the ACC school who plays in its backyard, that will open up significantly more eye balls to where we stand as a program than anything else. From the website, it looks like there are more sections opened for this year's game than last year's which makes you think the ticket sales are going very well.

AD David Benedict playing chess while everyone else is still playing checkers, per usual. Do I wish our players care more about getting that 10th win? Absolutely, but lets be frank, nobody outside of UConn will look at us differently with 9 vs 10 wins this season.

Getting spanked by Army won’t be a good look at all. We need to avoid that.

 

[HuskyAlum012]

Getting spanked by Army won’t be a good look at all. We need to avoid that.

Nobody will be talking about that in 5 years in the next realigment. People would be talking about us selling 26k tix in back to back fenway bowls.

 

[CTBasketball]

Nobody will be talking about that in 5 years in the next realigment. People would be talking about us selling 26k tix in back to back fenway bowls.

I would be surprised if we matched last years ticket numbers.