Get Us Out of This God-Forsaken Conference

[campcalhoun2009]

Xavier was in the bonus at 14 min, in the double bonus at 11 min. They shot 14 FTs in the second half before we shot one. They shot 20 more free throws than us in a blowout.

This is not sustainable. This conference is an absolute travesty.

The Big East is just terrible basketball. Terrible officiating. It’s not even the Big East anymore really. Why are we playing Catholic schools from Nebraska and Ohio.

Save us AD David Benedict

 

[FfldCntyFan]

My only comment is that for very long stretches it appeared the rule for calling anything on X was "no blood, no foul".

 

[Purple Stein]

For now we're stuck where we are. Hopefully HC JC will make football attractive enough to get us somewhere else.

In the meantime, let's beat the crap out of Georgetown tonight.

 

[HuskyNan]

Sure, it worked so well for BC and Rutgers

 

[Kowalski]

Sure, it worked so well for BC and Rutgers

I wouldn’t exactly call BC and Rutgers success stories when they were in the Big East either.

 

[KryHavok]

I wouldn’t exactly call BC and Rutgers success stories when they were in the Big East either.

I feel dirty for even saying this, but Rutty wasn't terrible in the Big East. Their football team had some decent years getting 11 wins in 2006 (with 3 9-win seasons afterwards) and their women's BBall team made the NCAA championship game...I remember this cuz Don Imus made some st00p3d racist remarks about that team that led to his firing. That said, now that they're "rolling" in Big10 money and can't get 3 of their teams in any post-season play...

 

[WestCoastHusky]

I feel dirty for even saying this, but Rutty wasn't terrible in the Big East. Their football team had some decent years getting 11 wins in 2006 (with 3 9-win seasons afterwards) and their women's BBall team made the NCAA championship game...I remember this cuz Don Imus made some st00p3d racist remarks about that team that led to his firing. That said, now that they're "rolling" in Big10 money and can't get 3 of their teams in any post-season play...
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RU is bleeding money the last we heard. What did they spent all the money on when all of their teams suck?

 

[freescooter]

Boston Collegevwas actually pretty good in their early years in the ACC. Their problems have more to do with mismanagement and poor coaching hires than anything. They went to the NCAA tournament 2005-2009 I think. After that it was almost like they lost interest. On the football side they have also been badly managed. And they haven’t kept coaches.

Rutgers is Rutgers.

 

[HuskyNan]

Follow up post.

The Colonel forgot three time National Champion field hockey, which got to the Elite 8

 

[Ldandy]

I know that football is apparently all that matters in any realignment discussion, and don't get me wrong I love it, but IMO it's almost criminal that UConn is not at least in the ACC when you read the results in that Tweet. Realistically you would add more to the B1G than a third or more of the current conference membership. A UConn Addition immediately makes the B1G a top 2 league for Men's Hoops and #1 for Women's. You would add competitive teams in the majority of nonrevenue sports while potentially motivating another program to upgrade Women's Hockey so that there could be a Big 10 League. Football would take some time to ramp up, but even if it struggled in perpetuity, you would still bring far more to the table elsewhere than legacy members like Purdue, NW, Minnesota, RU, and a few others are currently providing. I hope that you get your turn when the carousel spins again in the next few years. You've earned that.

 

[CL82]

Sure, it worked so well for BC and Rutgers

Rutty, BCU and FSU?

 

[ZooCougar]

I know that football is apparently all that matters in any realignment discussion, and don't get me wrong I love it, but IMO it's almost criminal that UConn is not at least in the ACC when you read the results in that Tweet. Realistically you would add more to the B1G than a third or more of the current conference membership. A UConn Addition immediately makes the B1G a top 2 league for Men's Hoops and #1 for Women's. You would add competitive teams in the majority of nonrevenue sports while potentially motivating another program to upgrade Women's Hockey so that there could be a Big 10 League. Football would take some time to ramp up, but even if it struggled in perpetuity, you would still bring far more to the table elsewhere than legacy members like Purdue, NW, Minnesota, RU, and a few others are currently providing. I hope that you get your turn when the carousel spins again in the next few years. You've earned that.

Too bad they loaded up on empty calories and they don’t have any room.

 

[Ldandy]

Too bad they loaded up on empty calories and they don’t have any room.

I do think that UConn will eventually be in some version of The ACC, it’s too bad that this version will likely be diminished. I’d like to see The Huskies there now getting to match up in football and M/W Basketball.

 

[B1GEast]

I'm curious to see if UConn can somehow take advantage of private equity

It's a national brand. I understand you give up some long term equity, but the up front cash infusion could buy us some time.

 

[Kolumbo]

I'm curious to see if UConn can somehow take advantage of private equity

It's a national brand. I understand you give up some long term equity, but the up front cash infusion could buy us some time.

 

[ZooCougar]

I'm curious to see if UConn can somehow take advantage of private equity

It's a national brand. I understand you give up some long term equity, but the up front cash infusion could buy us some time.

 

[B1GEast]

Honestly I don't get the negativity. I'm just asking a question here.

UConn has a national brand. To me it makes sense.

If anyone wants to provide reason, by all means, share. It's not like I scroll through all the thread if this has been discussed

 

[KryHavok]

Honestly I don't get the negativity. I'm just asking a question here.

UConn has a national brand. To me it makes sense.

If anyone wants to provide reason, by all means, share. It's not like I scroll through all the thread if this has been discussed

There are others that are more business savvy than I, but I'll give you a bird's eye view: a private equity deal for an entity like UConn is akin to making a deal with devil. We are already running a deficit that is being partially subsidized by the state, and that would like be exacerbated with a private equity deal. I get that you want UConn to get a leg up and finally be rid of this conference alignment malignancy, but private equity isn't the panacea that it is being made out to be. The PE firm would be looking to maximize their ROI, not necessarily UConn's (though one can argue that having both succeed is mutually beneficial, the PE firm isn't into financial altruism and rather wants to achieve the highest return possible). Meanwhile, said deal would result in UConn giving up a piece of its already marginal monetary intake while having to potentially sacrifice other aspects. The way I see it, the PE deal would be a short term gain for UConn that would result in a long term loss for it...then how does the school recover, what are the safety guarantees? There's just too much risk. If a conference wants to make a PE deal, at least that Faustian agreement would be shared among conference members (reducing the impact of the soul selling), but again as a single entity, there is no ducking way UConn should ever entertain a PE deal.

 

[Purple Stein]

Too bad they loaded up on empty calories and they don’t have any room.

Much of which you consume you must excrete.

Not that this will help us at all, but it may be the best entertainment we get.

 

[ZooCougar]

There are others that are more business savvy than I, but I'll give you a bird's eye view: a private equity deal for an entity like UConn is akin to making a deal with devil. We are already running a deficit that is being partially subsidized by the state, and that would like be exacerbated with a private equity deal. I get that you want UConn to get a leg up and finally be rid of this conference alignment malignancy, but private equity isn't the panacea that it is being made out to be. The PE firm would be looking to maximize their ROI, not necessarily UConn's (though one can argue that having both succeed is mutually beneficial, the PE firm isn't into financial altruism and rather wants to achieve the highest return possible). Meanwhile, said deal would result in UConn giving up a piece of its already marginal monetary intake while having to potentially sacrifice other aspects. The way I see it, the PE deal would be a short term gain for UConn that would result in a long term loss for it...then how does the school recover, what are the safety guarantees? There's just too much risk. If a conference wants to make a PE deal, at least that Faustian agreement would be shared among conference members (reducing the impact of the soul selling), but again as a single entity, there is no ducking way UConn should ever entertain a PE deal.

I can think of so many brands that have been ruined irreparably by PE.

 

[jostar1]

What happened to page 1 of this topic? Posts are gone?

 

[B1GEast]

There are others that are more business savvy than I, but I'll give you a bird's eye view: a private equity deal for an entity like UConn is akin to making a deal with devil. We are already running a deficit that is being partially subsidized by the state, and that would like be exacerbated with a private equity deal. I get that you want UConn to get a leg up and finally be rid of this conference alignment malignancy, but private equity isn't the panacea that it is being made out to be. The PE firm would be looking to maximize their ROI, not necessarily UConn's (though one can argue that having both succeed is mutually beneficial, the PE firm isn't into financial altruism and rather wants to achieve the highest return possible). Meanwhile, said deal would result in UConn giving up a piece of its already marginal monetary intake while having to potentially sacrifice other aspects. The way I see it, the PE deal would be a short term gain for UConn that would result in a long term loss for it...then how does the school recover, what are the safety guarantees? There's just too much risk. If a conference wants to make a PE deal, at least that Faustian agreement would be shared among conference members (reducing the impact of the soul selling), but again as a single entity, there is no ducking way UConn should ever entertain a PE deal.

Utah's private equity deal allows the university to retain a majority ownership of equity and all athletic decisions stay in house.

I think there's a fine balance where UConn could gain some upfront funding without giving away the farm.

My point was that doing nothing isn't a safe option either. I'm concerned will UConn falling further behind.

 

[CL82]

There are others that are more business savvy than I, but I'll give you a bird's eye view: a private equity deal for an entity like UConn is akin to making a deal with devil. We are already running a deficit that is being partially subsidized by the state, and that would like be exacerbated with a private equity deal. I get that you want UConn to get a leg up and finally be rid of this conference alignment malignancy, but private equity isn't the panacea that it is being made out to be. The PE firm would be looking to maximize their ROI, not necessarily UConn's (though one can argue that having both succeed is mutually beneficial, the PE firm isn't into financial altruism and rather wants to achieve the highest return possible). Meanwhile, said deal would result in UConn giving up a piece of its already marginal monetary intake while having to potentially sacrifice other aspects. The way I see it, the PE deal would be a short term gain for UConn that would result in a long term loss for it...then how does the school recover, what are the safety guarantees? There's just too much risk. If a conference wants to make a PE deal, at least that Faustian agreement would be shared among conference members (reducing the impact of the soul selling), but again as a single entity, there is no ducking way UConn should ever entertain a PE deal.

 

[CL82]

Utah's private equity deal allows the university to retain a majority ownership of equity and all athletic decisions stay in house.

I think there's a fine balance where UConn could gain some upfront funding without giving away the farm.

My point was that doing nothing isn't a safe option either. I'm concerned will UConn falling further behind.

For the sake of argument, what do you see UConn doing with the influx of capital?

 

[B1GEast]

For the sake of argument, what do you see UConn doing with the influx of capital?

NIL first

Maybe getting a design firm for an on campus stadium. I know that this is an uphill battle, but if you can partner with a firm , it can help

Building out marketing as well

I'd look to see what Utah is doing