Football Drags on UCONN P5 Ambitions (NYT)

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/sports/basketball/football-drags-on-uconns-power-5-ambitions.html

 

[nomar]

Joe Nocera, EABFD.

 

[BoatShow]

What about BC'S and Rutgers everything?

 

[SubbaBub]

Unless your favorite program has been to a BCS game in the last 5 years, STFU.

 

[warbler1055]

Pretty good analysis. If HCBD can have a great year then UConn will be part of the conversation. During the mean time, let's shock the world at the dance!!!

 

[SaeHusky]

well written article

 

[amory]

wait, so this guy's saying our football isn't great?

well, damn. that explains a lot. thank god someone finally let us know.

 

[djct1999]

This just in...............UConn hoops is elite. Football not so much.

 

[Matrim55]

Joe Nocera, EABFD.

No, he's a good writer. And his editor, Andrew Das, is UConn class of '92.

This article is well-written and researched, and not inaccurate.

 

[David 76]

This just in.....UConn hoops is elite. Football not so much.

I think the audience for the NYT goes even beyond the BY crew.

 

[Tenspro2002]

Pretty straightfoward article -- the dig at Rutgers from within the NYC media market (i.e. the sole reason for Rutgers to be in the B1G) is amusing as well.

 

[Greathusky]

I think the audience for the NYT goes even beyond the BY crew.

Yeah more like the back page of the New York Post.

 

[husky8273]

just published

 

[raf46]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/sports/basketball/football-drags-on-uconns-power-5-ambitions.html

He says that the B12 might expand this coming Summer. They have been denying that.

 

[David 76]

Question:
Would the Big 12 schedule significantly increase our travel? We already have 2 teams from Texas and one from OK.

 

[nomar]

No, he's a good writer. And his editor, Andrew Das, is UConn class of '92.

This article is well-written and researched, and not inaccurate.

He's editorializing, and he sounds like Nelson.

Do you wish we didn't move from I-AA? Do you want us to drop football?

Things have not gone well over the last few years, and he does a fair job describing what happened, but there's not a single new fact in there and he has nothing positive to say about UConn's future.

So I stand on my original terse comment.

 

[junglehusky]

Jeff Hathaway.

 

[David 76]

And BC(U)

 

[jorge34]

Well researched? More like well written synopsis, with nothing new added to what is already well established and known.

 

[Point6]

At least the local paper is focusing on the 6th borough. I remember when NYC was primarily a pro sports town.

 

[BoatShow]

Confused how he says upgrading football was a mistake but football is what matters. Implying we'd be better off in the NBE? I'd rather play Tulane in football than DePaul in basketball .

 

[FartMan69]

Question:
Would the Big 12 schedule significantly increase our travel? We already have 2 teams from Texas and one from OK.

No it would be more or less the same. People always bring that up when trying to disconnect UConn and the Big 12 completely ignoring the fact we're currently in a conference with the same foot print making millions on millions less than we would in the Big 12...

 

[UConnNick]

He says that the B12 might expand this coming Summer. They have been denying that.

This pronouncement strikes me as a WAG - wild ass guess. What he fails to explain is 1) The Big 12 has no need to expand now that they've been granted the waiver to have a conference football championship game; 2) Texas has no reason to give up it's lucrative Longhorn Network, because it makes them richer at ESPN's expense, even though it's been an unmitigated financial disaster; and 3) UT could give a rat's ass about the Big 12's survival because they are looking to go independent in football. OU's president David Boren wants expansion to solidify the league, or they'll seek greener pastures elsewhere. They're sick and tired, like everybody else in the conference, of UT running the show like a fascist dictator, because they've got all the cash, and they can get away with it.

If Boren is able to make a viable threat to leave the conference, he might succeed in convincing UT to play ball on expansion, but that's a doubtful scenario.