Herbst Spoke w/ BC Pres. re: Block

[1husky]

You have to play the cards you are dealt. We are drawing 3 cards on an inside straight right now. It is a bad play.

I'd say you gotta know when to fold em and find a new game.

 

[Yonick]

ACC requires 4 votes to "block." I would imagine FSU and VT or Clemson are the others but I see only three of the four anyway and they will not object of the other entrant is a FB school (ND?).

I doubt VT would block us. We've always had a good relationship with them. My guess is Miami & bcu for past indifferences. FSU for want of a big football power.

 

[Rumrunner]

Moreover, what was a result of this conversation?

I'm not sure if it got lost in this silly argument that's developed, or if nobody actually focused on it, but what the reporter's statement says is actually very huge. He is a staff sports writer for the Waterbury Rep-Am and has covered UConn football.

I personally would hope that Ms. Herbst is in contact and pursuing contacts with the presidents of every university in the country that is of interest to UConn in moving forward in this intercollegiate athletics landscape. That's not the news - the news is that according to the reporter's statement, BC has actively blocked UConn from entering the ACC. So very much info around a single sentence.

I hope his statement was accurate, because I've read it about a dozen times, and I'm sure I'm not misinterpreting it.

http://twitter.com/#!/EdDaigneault/status/116897899748667392


Source: #UConn president Susan Herbst has spoken recently to BC president Fr. William P. Leahy regarding BC's block of UConn to the ACC.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

We don't have 6 votes in the ACC right now, because they see no reason to take us. We will just whither and die, and they will get our market without spending a nickel. We need to make them think we are sticking around.

 

[HuskyNan]

I personally would hope that Ms. Herbst is in contact and pursuing contacts with the presidents of every university in the country that is of interest to UConn in moving forward in this intercollegiate athletics landscape.

Isn't former UConn President Hogan now in holding that same position at a Big 10 school - Illinois?

 

[mattp]

Other then her statement of yesterday, where do you see a quote from her. Don't attribute every "source" to being a comment from her. C'mon now.

it's amazing to me that anyone lends any credence at all to all the B-S being twittered from "unnamed sources". i have a hint for anyone following this at home: "unnamed source" = made up B-S that sounds feasible. these idiots make money by how much people follow their twitters and blogs, not for being accurate. the sooner some of you realize this the easier your lives will be.

 

[RS9999X]

He went to a Catholic HS outside Framingham and was a sports star there. I doubt it was fabrication by him and likely he knows some old buddy with decent insight. That's a fertile pool for BC student recruiting (not just athletic)

 

[2Infinity]

5 schools circled the wagons, and the next 5 years were great for the conference and the individual schools, including UConn.

What do you expect from the conference? I want a schedule and enough quality to make for good games and a decent national reputation. In football, being in a super-tough conference is not an advantage. In basketball, I would argue otherwise.

Please Mr. Muntz ....let's not let the actual facts get in the way of our opinion!

(June 2003) As you can see from this first link, Boston College fully expected an invite and most likely would be leaving the BE, along with Miami. The invite came for Miami, but not for BC.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/02/sports/plus-colleges-boston-college-meeting-with-acc.html

(Aug 2003) BC's AD GD is quoted in this second link regarding BC's pledge to make the BE the strongest possible conference it can be.
http://bceagles.cstv.com/genrel/defilippo-colm18.html

(Oct. 2003) Finally, this last link announces that the invitation was eventually extended to BC..and immediately accepted!
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/20...ston-college-miami-and-virginia-virginia-tech

After being rejected for an expected invite from the ACC and then pledging to essentially help the BE in "circling the wagons", they then bolted the conference just two short months later. I don't think I'd call that loyalty and integrity...would you?

 

[ctchamps]

I'm not sure if it got lost in this silly argument that's developed, or if nobody actually focused on it, but what the reporter's statement says is actually very huge. He is a staff sports writer for the Waterbury Rep-Am and has covered UConn football.

I personally would hope that Ms. Herbst is in contact and pursuing contacts with the presidents of every university in the country that is of interest to UConn in moving forward in this intercollegiate athletics landscape. That's not the news - the news is that according to the reporter's statement, BC has actively blocked UConn from entering the ACC. So very much info around a single sentence.

I hope his statement was accurate, because I've read it about a dozen times, and I'm sure I'm not misinterpreting it.

http://twitter.com/#!/EdDaigneault/status/116897899748667392

Source: #UConn president Susan Herbst has spoken recently to BC president Fr. William P. Leahy regarding BC's block of UConn to the ACC.

She has no way of knowing if it is a rumor or accurate. Either case it is important for her to develop relationships. The one thing most os us realize is that UConn does not control its fate in these matters. I'm happy to hear she is out speaking with other Presidents. If UConn has any chance to come out ok she is the wild card to deliver that chance. I believe she makes quite an impression on most people not named nelson, waquoit and rumrunner. And my feeling is she is the perfect person to represent UConn. I have no illusions that relationships can overcome other concerns of ACC schools such as a concern over UConn's football. But if she can impress her peers the way she impresses us, it could move the presidents who are flexible Uconn's way.

 

[kibblesnbits]

We don't have 6 votes in the ACC right now, because they see no reason to take us. We will just whither and die, and they will get our market without spending a nickel. We need to make them think we are sticking around.

We probably don't because they are waiting on bigger fish, but I don't think they honestly believe they'll get our market and RU's just by waiting for us to die. They need to expand the ACC network. I looked at the TV stations carrying the BC-Wake Forest game on October 1st. There is one in MA, none in the rest of NE, none in NY south of Albany/Bingo (where 80+% of the state's population resides), none in NJ, one in PA (and it's just a secondary digital channel out of Philly, 10.2 - does anyone even watch those?), etc. Adding Syracuse and Pittsburgh will do absolutely nothing to fill in those gaps except perhaps picking up one or two stations west of Altoona.

 

[coachcap]

Isn't former UConn President Hogan now in holding that same position at a Big 10 school - Illinois?

Um, Yeah. And another former UConn President went on to the same position at a Big-10 school in the Motor State (he may be retired by now though).

 

[Vowelguy]

Put your thinking caps on for a moment. If the ACC had no intention of adding two teams relatively quickly, how long do you think it would take them to get the word out, and stop this madness
? 10 seconds.

Yet they haven't.

What is the downside to them?
As long as there is uncertainty, more & more schools have to put their cards on the table. How exactly is that bad for the ACC?

You may have no intention of leaving your job, but are you going to put up a billboard announcing that? Of course not, because there's no advantage to doing so, and on the downside you could foreclose some great offer might possibly come your way.

 

[huskymedic]

You go, Herbst!

She lives up to CL82's bad-arse avatar more every day. haha.

I hope she told the good Father that if they don"t knock it off she'll personally kick Flippers all over the Quad!

 

[SAMCRO]

A source close to the situation said there were no words exchanged, she merely showed the good reverend a number of polaroid pictures. At the sight of them, perspiration began forming on his brow, he turned red. He nodded, and she glided off with a "don't f' with me" grin on her face.

 

[Waquoit]

Um, Yeah. And another former UConn President went on to the same position at a Big-10 school in the Motor State (he may be retired by now though).

I believe you are talking about John DiBiaggio, the UConn prez when they joined the Big East. He left MSU in 1992.