At this point I'm starting to think rankings don't matter that much because everyone bounces. The winner of the ACC gets to go to the CFP. If UConn gives that program a win every other year, so be it. They all need wins. Duke is ranked 70. No one is going to argue that Duke is 56 spots higher than UConn right now. We'll see how good UConn can be by the end of the year.
LOL. there are also a couple of d3 schools there. Emory, John’s Hopkins. Someone ought to ask Emory, Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Berkeley and Michigan how they see UNC. My guess is those guys would think the Tarheels are being a bit presumptuous.
large state university with high quality research with a ton of resources. Location within the "research triangle" which has a lot of influence. Maybe Berkeley and Michigan can turn their nose up but its closer than you think.
Chaos is a ladder.
That would also describe NC State, but hey…I’m not knocking Carolina but that’s like BC saying its peer institutions are Harvard, Yale, Georgetown and Chicago.
The issue is they are already in and won't be thrown out. "We" are on the outside looking in and the perception of the football program is poor, at best. I believe this is a crucial season. Our AAC peers seemed to have improved. UConn has not. Memphis and Tulane especially. The one and only thing that has kept UConn out is football.
Every time i read on here how our AAC peers have improved i think of the coaches they hired and the money they paid their coaches. It led to success on the field. We took the opposite approach and the results speak for themselves. Feels like so much crucial time was wasted during RE 2.0.
You're not wrong, but at a time when schools were really ramping up we looked like we weren't even trying to tread water. The real shame was letting him stay on as long as they did.
This is something else I’ve said for a while. UConn basically quit trying once the Big East broke up. Then when we started again we focused on basketball but not just that. We basically de-emphasized football. Which essentially made us unacceptable to any P4. SMU, Cincinnati, Houston UCF all went all in on good football. Houston has demonstrated that you could also have good basketball in the AAC, as did Cincy until Cronin left, despite the comments to the contrary from the NEWBE fanboys. Had we taken that route we would be in a P4 league, either the B12 or the ACC, today.
Higher Ed Times has an interactive website that listed who each university thought of as their peer and who thought them as peers. Michigan listed all the AAU schools as peers and nobody else so UNC was on their peer list.
That is why ACC is not a P2 league. As long as UConn can be a top 70 team consistently that should be good enough for ACC or Big 12. UConn does not have to be competing for Football national championships but be competitive against middle of the pack football teams. I think unless their is some type of collective bargaining agreement with the players among the P4, you will keep seeing only about 20 teams in football really having any realistic shot to win a football national championship. I do not see the same issue with basketball since to field a team is way less costly and even 1 star player can make a difference.
Seriously. UConn has never finished in the top 25. However that level of football competency would have gotten UConn a bid to ACC eventually.
They’re obviously angling for an Ivy League invite.
It’s not a question of good when the ratings for your games are typically double even some of the middle and lower level schools .
