Herbst and Manuel on Live Radio - 9 am 12/19

[businesslawyer]

If that was their message they we are completed ****ed. Does Coca-Cola advertise: "hey, we're really having a tough year, but if you love American business come by our soda. It's not as good as it used to be, it's in a smaller bottle, but you owe it to us to buy it." Of course not, they create/maintain/improve their product and envelope the product in multi-media marketing through compelling and cohesive story lines (the Santa Coke, Polar Bears, etc). Athletics are no different and they need to work to get the casual fan in the stadium. I mean, we don't even know what we are (UConn, UCONN, The University of Connecticut?) or which of our like 9 symbols, fonts we want to use. And one of the few things WM can control, our OOC schedule, is void. How the hell does he expect to sell a 3-year ticket packages/luxury boxes when we don't know our conference and don't know our schedule? I know the circumstances are tough for them, but damn it, dictate the story and stop being a victim.

No, no, no. Athletics are totally different. I get what you are saying, and as a marketing matter you are right, but Nebraska can sell out their stadium even if they go a season without a forward pass and even if they go a few seasons not being any good. The fact that we can't puts us at a disadvantage that can only be solved by supporters making bigger donations and buying more tickets.\

It's fine to want more marketing and a better product -- who doesn't -- but if our success as a fanbase is limited to when the school is performing, then we are not in fact a candidate for the Big Ten or any other conference not really about basketball.

 

[businesslawyer]

BL ... is this your Poster Boy?

I am not panicked because more realignment will come, and most likely will come soon. And the asswipes who, because we unexpectedly got turned down last time, now believe no one will ever invite us are being silly.

But I don't think we can thrive long term in our current arrangment, because I expect the power conferences to start determining how they can take a bigger slice of the hoops pie as soon as they are done dealing with the football pie. Is that 3 years? Five years? Ten years? Don't know. But it will happen.

 

[specialisthusky]

I am not panicked because more realignment will come, and most likely will come soon. And the asswipes who, because we unexpectedly got turned down last time, now believe no one will ever invite us are being silly.

But I don't think we can thrive long term in our current arrangment, because I expect the power conferences to start determining how they can take a bigger slice of the hoops pie as soon as they are done dealing with the football pie. Is that 3 years? Five years? Ten years? Don't know. But it will happen.

sheesh one statement on how i don't think SH and WM will not get us an invite without further instability and I'm lumped into the asswipes who don't think we will ever be invited category.

 

[jbdphi]

No, no, no. Athletics are totally different. I get what you are saying, and as a marketing matter you are right, but Nebraska can sell out their stadium even if they go a season without a forward pass and even if they go a few seasons not being any good. The fact that we can't puts us at a disadvantage that can only be solved by supporters making bigger donations and buying more tickets.\

It's fine to want more marketing and a better product -- who doesn't -- but if our success as a fanbase is limited to when the school is performing, then we are not in fact a candidate for the Big Ten or any other conference not really about basketball.

So the only real answers are to either win more consistently (doesn't seem likely right now but who knows) or to convince CT residents and UConn alumni to accept and fanatically support a product that isn't very good? You have to think that the former is by far the easier path to pursue and that isn't looking too promising right now in football.

 

[huskymedic]

If this is true, the state should ask for its money back.....

Info is in 7 post above... Mid January start.

 

[businesslawyer]

sheesh one statement on how i don't think SH and WM will not get us an invite without further instability and I'm lumped into the asswipes who don't think we will ever be invited category.

I wasn't talking about you. Pudge asked me a question and I was answering it for me.

 

[RMoore1999]

I am not panicked because more realignment will come, and most likely will come soon. And the asswipes who, because we unexpectedly got turned down last time, now believe no one will ever invite us are being silly.

But I don't think we can thrive long term in our current arrangment, because I expect the power conferences to start determining how they can take a bigger slice of the hoops pie as soon as they are done dealing with the football pie. Is that 3 years? Five years? Ten years? Don't know. But it will happen.

100% correct.

One of the best sentences in recent BY history: "And the asswipes who, because we unexpectedly got turned down last time, now believe no one will ever invite us are being silly."

 

[Adios]

Damn BL. It got to you, huh? lol

 

[HuskyHawk]

I am not panicked because more realignment will come, and most likely will come soon. And the asswipes who, because we unexpectedly got turned down last time, now believe no one will ever invite us are being silly.

But I don't think we can thrive long term in our current arrangment, because I expect the power conferences to start determining how they can take a bigger slice of the hoops pie as soon as they are done dealing with the football pie. Is that 3 years? Five years? Ten years? Don't know. But it will happen.

This is exactly how I see it. We will likely get a seat at the table, but the window to do that without suffering long term damage is not unlimited.

 

[Waquoit]

Sue displayed some surprisingly poor grammar during the course of the interview. Leads me to consider an HFD connection with the president's office.