I want my season ticket money back

[ConnHuskBask]

I imagine there would be at least some feelers sent out to the MAC before making this move.

It would be unfathomable for a competently run university to leave a league and not know where to park it's football program. But this is UConn...so...maybe?

8 MAC games, plus a smattering of P5 in the out of conference? I know that the AAC Football was better. I know the programs have more cache. There's just nothing that was ever going to make UConn fans care about SMU, ECU, Houston, etc. From a fan interest perspective I don't find much of a difference in either scenario. I mean hell, we may actually win some ballgames.

 

[HuskyDogArt]

Today was the day D1 football died in Connecticut...oh well Lacrosse is growing...

 

[JMick]

Today was the day D1 football died in Connecticut...oh well Lacrosse is growing...

Lol lacrosse has been growing for 20 years and yet still, no one cares

 

[B12]

FWIW, we might have the fortune of having a BYU-like schedule. If we do, that might actually drive up fan interest, especially if we can attract regional schools. We're going to need schools like Syracuse and BC to want to play us.

Our basketball programs are going to be the collateral to make that happen. This is sort of an unprecedented realignment move. Cannot think of any school that has done what we are doing (I hope the vote fails) besides BYU. They're the closest that comes to what we are doing.

BYU can get some H/H as well as 2 for 1 with p-5 schools. UConn is going to get offered $1 million to play road games at BC, Cuse, SEC, etc... It wont' result in many good home games like BYU gets.

• 08/29 - Utah
• 09/07 - at Tennessee
• 09/14 - USC
• 09/21 - Washington
• 09/28 - at Toledo
• 10/12 - at USF
• 10/19 - Boise State
• 11/02 - at Utah State
• 11/09 - Liberty
• 11/16 - Idaho State
• 11/23 - at UMass
• 11/30 - at San Diego State

 

[UConnNick]

Discouraging to see so many UConn fans reveling in this news without any concern for what happens to the football program. Some would prefer that it just gets dropped altogether.

Me today:

View attachment 44035

They don't deserve to be called UConn Husky fans.

 

[Hoophound]

As an AAC member, Uconn counted as a P5 game. That goes away, so no benefit in scheduling Uconn other than a schedule filler.

Nope.

https://twitter.com/jeffjacobs123/status/1142589223750512640

Once again, Fox will have major sway in this. They own half of the Big Ten Network. We have to wait for more news before we give up. This could work out.