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When you're chewing on life's gristle,You mean the part where they say "Life's a piece of , when you look at it"?
Don't grumble, give a whistle
When you're chewing on life's gristle,You mean the part where they say "Life's a piece of , when you look at it"?
WOW...what a difference a year makes. He failed at every one of his goals.http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...er-mike-aresco-cbs-tv-negotiations-notre-dame
Some of these quotes are comedy gold.
Fixed it.
My movie analogy is Breaking Away. UConn is Dave Stoller and Big Time College Sports is the Italian cycling team. Like Dave, UConn was way behind, caught up and showed them that he/they were just as good as any of them. But they were never, ever truly one of them in the eyes of the established powers. Hence the literal and figurative tire pump in the spokes.
I don't think political/legal recourse is out of the question. These guys are pushing hard and there is lot's of money on the table. That usually dictates a strategy of asking for foregiveness rather than permission.
Not sure if there is a viable cause of action here. Besides haven't we suffered enough because of the ill-conceived litigation that Blumenthal championed?
Remember it wasn't good enough for Blumenthal to sue institutions, he made it personal by suing several individuals. Judges don't like that - it introduces unnecessary personal vitriol into a matter that should be handled at an institutional level. All it succeeded in doing is create immense bitterness against Connecticut, the State and the University.
That is not an optionI'm pretty sure Nelson's idea of going to the big east for bball is the worst case scenario. Hey let's make that happen!!!!
WOW...what a difference a year makes. He failed at every one of his goals.
That is not an option
The Big East has a model we don't fit.
That ship has long gone.
They will not get in a situation were they are competing against Public's.
The only option beside the AAC is the A 10 for BB and Maybe the MAC for football.if we chose to stay FSB.
If Temple and us go that's not a death sentence for BB.
football I'm afraid is a different issue.
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I can see it now...the day after we get a B1G or ACC invite the entire collegiate athletic setup collapses under its own weight of impropriety and greed.
The Big 12 doesn't really care about WVU. They won't add a school just to make travel on them easier because it makes travel more difficult for the other 9 teams, specifically Texas. This summer Oliver Luck went to the Big 12 admins and asked if they could give his teams preferable scheduling so they didn't have to fly halfway across the country in consecutive weks and they literally laughed him out of the office.the next nail in the coffin will be cincy and either usf or ucf going to the b12. maybe it doesnt happen for a couple years, but i think it will eventually happen. wv on island could really languish and drive the issue. and i'm not saying FL does much for WV travel, but it does bring a cheap place to travel, good recruiting and tv potential.
the next five years will be interesting...hopefully we can be the boise st of the east.
The Big 12 doesn't really care about WVU. They won't add a school just to make travel on them easier because it makes travel more difficult for the other 9 teams, specifically Texas. This summer Oliver Luck went to the Big 12 admins and asked if they could give his teams preferable scheduling so they didn't have to fly halfway across the country in consecutive weks and they literally laughed him out of the office.
I definitely agree. It's not like we were going to compete for national championships in ANY league in any of our lifetimes. As long as we keep turning wining seasons, winning AAC championships, especially getting to Sweet Sixteens and Final Fours in basketball, we'll keep putting asses in seats. Create a demand and we become a wanted commodity... that leads to expanding the stadium and looking like a real football team.It's crazy how bad it's worked out, that's for sure. But in any case, who cares? The AAC will, in time, develop rivalries that we'll care about and that will be fun to watch. We can still compete for national championships in basketball, especially with a coach who I believe will recruit as well as UConn ever has. And let's be honest, basketball is our sport.
It's too bad that we'll never know how far UConn football could've gone, but that's how it played out. We still get to tailgate on freezing cold Connecticut mornings and evenings. The beer and food will still taste as good. We'll still win games. The Rent will continue to develop piece by piece into a stadium that's great to watch a game in.
I see it as a consolation that UConn didn't really do anything wrong in any of this. We got screwed. They didn't want us to play with them anymore. So be it.
And maybe I'm the only one, but for at least a couple of years it'll be fun to see new blood in conference play. I'm excited to play ECU and UCF and Houston, it's something different.
You can expect a run of bad news every now and again, but seriously, this has been impressive.
Every single development in conference realignment has been unfailingly negative for us - so many things had to fall just right for us to get where we are and they all did.
Expansion that happened was bad for us and expansion that didn't happen was bad for us.
And now the 'power 5' are thinking of closing the doors? Of course - we wouldn't expect it any other way.
I definitely agree. It's not like we were going to compete for national championships in ANY league in any of our lifetimes. As long as we keep turning wining seasons, winning AAC championships, especially getting to Sweet Sixteens and Final Fours in basketball, we'll keep putting asses in seats. Create a demand and we become a wanted commodity... that leads to expanding the stadium and looking like a real football team.