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To be perfectly honest this is a much better time to be indy than in the past. There are a lot of p-5 teams who will pay UConn a million for a bodybag game. Every p-5 is looking for home games so I expect there will be lots of options. Probably means only a few home games each season. The g-5 schools are exploiting this and as an indy you will have many options later in the season for an SEC payday.

In the end FCS is probably the destination as the bowl money distribution for a FBS indy is hardly going to justify the expense of the scholarships and coaches salaries. I suspect they will give this a try for a few years but the AAC is not going to be an option and the MAC is FCS level anyway so there really is not an option other than indy. Idaho went through this recently. On the bright side that would probably cut 20+ million from the AD budget.
 
If Fox is working on coming up with a new football conference there is little chance it can be better than the AAC without many defections. As a last straw, I repeat something I said before: UConn could help create a new football conference based on academic and athletic quality. It could include: UConn, UMass, Buffalo/Army, Navy, Air Force/SMU, Rice, Tulane. It would include three sets of rivalries and academic quality just under the Ivy League. But it is far from perfect. It may be a place to hold UConn football until a P5 comes calling.
 
BlueDogs said:
Brilliant strategy. We have to be the single most stupid college athletics program in the country over the last 10 years. On the cusp of playoff expansion with the AAC at least getting a spot on the dance floor and with the AAC positioned to be very competitive in basketball, we head for the doors for a increasingly irrelevant catholic basketball conference and no plan for football. Simply, stunningly stupid. You can’t make this stuff up if you tried. We truly deserve everything that is coming our way.
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A moronic AD and short-sighted basketball fans, what a lethal combination
 
LoyalFanCT said:
. It may be a place to hold UConn football until a P5 comes calling.
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That ship has sailed. This FBS experiment from the 90's will likely be over soon. At this point it's about saving money for the BB and WBB programs, not about trying to join a p-5 football conference. UConn is in a p-6 BB conference. One that is stronger than the PAC and possibly even the AAC although Memphis and Houston have it going on.
 
These schools have open 2020 dates
FSU

Miami

Vetch

SMU

UCF

Florida international

La tech

Southern miss

Uab

Air Force

Arkansas

Coastal Carolina

Louisiana Lafayette
 
Palatine said:
The irony is that the AAC could soon be a better basketball conference than the BE.
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Not really. The bottom of the league is so weak and nobody wants to watch Tulane, ECU, etc. Big east has the brand and will draw fans, also not as much traveling flying all over the country.
 
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Caronimo said:
I actually think AD David Benedict is pretty good. It’s our fan base that’s pretty pathetic and fair weathered. Doesn’t help that we haven’t seen a decent football team in almost a decade
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As even implied by the AD, regarding fans. How do the fans reply? By crying more.
 
Caronimo said:
I actually think AD David Benedict is pretty good. It’s our fan base that’s pretty pathetic and fair weathered. Doesn’t help that we haven’t seen a decent football team in almost a decade
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By AD I meant athletic department as a whole.
 
LoyalFanCT said:
If Fox is working on coming up with a new football conference there is little chance it can be better than the AAC without many defections. As a last straw, I repeat something I said before: UConn could help create a new football conference based on academic and athletic quality. It could include: UConn, UMass, Buffalo/Army, Navy, Air Force/SMU, Rice, Tulane. It would include three sets of rivalries and academic quality just under the Ivy League. But it is far from perfect. It may be a place to hold UConn football until a P5 comes calling.
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No way Tulane is leaving the AAC. It’s great for them. Army, Navy and can’t be in a conference with a championship game that means they could play twice.

Army, UMass, UConn and Buffalo could be interested. But that’s not enough.

We have to hope that Fox is willing to incent B12 and B10 to give us home and home games. Maybe with hoop tie ins. Kansas, IU, MSU etc.

Edit: forget that Buffalo won’t leave the MAC. No place to park it’s other sports.
 
Ldandy said:
It will be rough if you are a fan who likes to attend games. The majority of home games will likely be against FCS, low level G5 (MAC/CUSA) and some combination of independents like Army, Umass, BYU, and NMSU. I imagine that there will be a good bit of black balling from current AAC Schools and ESPN Properties like The ACC and SEC. Fox will probably arrange some payday road games for your AD against Pac 12, Big 12, and B1G Schools as a reward for helping prop up the NBE. Here come 10 PM kicks at Oregon State on a Friday Night...
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Hahaha...Oregon St. isn't good enough to guarantee us much of a payday game.
 
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Jimdish255 said:
Any thoughts about what's feasible in terms of longer term arrangements with other programs?
What might we see? What would you like to see?
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Maybe you guys can schedule teams you can beat. Good riddance to a crappy program that never should have existed anyway.
 
BY06518 said:
Maybe you guys can schedule teams you can beat. Good riddance to a crappy program that never should have existed anyway.
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It still amazes me how many people say UConn shouldn’t have gone FBS. We went to the Fiesta Bowl, we won Big East titles, we beat Notre Dame and WVU among others. It was a great run and it was killed by nothing but bad coaching hires. We were a media darling heading into our game at the Big House several years back.

This program can still prosper. It is entirely up to Fox and the administration. I’m viewing this as a good thing for UConn. I feel like we might have finally done something for us. We’ve made a move that says, “don’t tread on me”, and I like it. I may be wrong, but for now I will anxiously await football news from the school and I will be closely watching Randy Edsall.

I might add, we picked up some pretty decent recruits in the last 10 days. What did we tell them?
 
Notre Dame has done ok with independence and its NBC deal. If we can get a similar (but lite-version) with SNY, why are we not in a better position for football than we would be streaming on the AAC? Imagine we are on TV in NY for every football game for years to come. I don't think we would lose ground in football. And scheduling would come because we are on TV in NY- no? I suspect/hope this is what we are going to hear about independence and it will end up being much better in the end for us than being in AAC.
 
Hoophound said:
It still amazes me how many people say UConn shouldn’t have gone FBS. We went to the Fiesta Bowl, we won Big East titles, we beat Notre Dame and WVU among others. It was a great run and it was killed by nothing but bad coaching hires. We were a media darling heading into our game at the Big House several years back.

This program can still prosper. It is entirely up to Fox and the administration. I’m viewing this as a good thing for UConn. I feel like we might have finally done something for us. We’ve made a move that says, “don’t tread on me”, and I like it. I may be wrong, but for now I will anxiously await football news from the school and I will be closely watching Randy Edsall.

I might add, we picked up some pretty decent recruits in the last 10 days. What did we tell them?
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Very good question
 
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Palatine said:
The irony is that the AAC could soon be a better basketball conference than the BE.
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That will never happen. AAC bottom is way too low. BE will always be. 5-7 bid conference. AAC will max out at 4.
 
Point6 said:
Notre Dame has done ok with independence and its NBC deal. If we can get a similar (but lite-version) with SNY, why are we not in a better position for football than we would be streaming on the AAC? Imagine we are on TV in NY for every football game for years to come. I don't think we would lose ground in football. And scheduling would come because we are on TV in NY- no? I suspect/hope this is what we are going to hear about independence and it will end up being much better in the end for us than being in AAC.
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All good points but the AD will need to some how make up the loss of guaranteed money that the football program loses by going independent. It's a bold move but the money shortfall needs to be addressed, and maybe it already has, but only those very close to the program would already know that. The other option is football only in the AAC (very unlikely) or the MAC. An SNY football deal helps a lot, and I love the fact that UCONN basically just told ESPN to gfthmslvs. Bottom line UCONN football needs to have a better season than the last one, the pressure is on the BOT, the AD, and Randy Edsall.
 
PP was probably the most knowledgeable coach UConn has ever had. But he had major flaws as a college coach unrelated to knowledge of the game. Thing is, and this still gets me, UConn could have had just about any coach that we wanted after the 2010 season by explaining away the RE departure as a long festering clash with the AD. And yet the powers that be chose PP.
 
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It's been a rough ride since 2015 for sure, but we are no worse off than we were a week ago in FB and BB looks a bit better. The balance sheet will also look better.

Look at it this way, the school has been slow to act forna very long time. Think about hoe much of a no brainer this had to have been for them to get off the block?

Win and we'll be no worse off with a higher upside.
 
SubbaBub said:
It's been a rough ride since 2015 for sure, but we are no worse off than we were a week ago in FB and BB looks a bit better. The balance sheet will also look better.

Look at it this way, the school has been slow to act forna very long time. Think about hoe much of a no brainer this had to have been for them to get off the block?

Win and we'll be no worse off with a higher upside.
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How exactly will the balance sheet look better?
 
I'm resigned to an independent football schedule. The question is when? Will the AAC let us take basketball a year earlier than the required 27 month notice called for, and let is keep our FB a year longer? Will they ask for more cash for this?

How about they let us stay for for 3 home and away bball games in both sports in perpetuity? I'm spitballing obviously.

An independent schedule isn't much different for me than an AAC schedule. I never hated the league but it didn't get the juices flowing like games against Rutgers, Pitt, and Syracuse did. If we're playing FIU at home is not that much different to me than if we are playing UCF.
 
The AAC might have been tough to look at, but it sure was solid. Going to the Big East feels like going to the MAAC.

Let's schedule a road game at Fairfield University, @superjohn !
 
RSTuthill said:
PP was probably the most knowledgeable coach UConn has ever had. But he had major flaws as a college coach unrelated to knowledge of the game. Thing is, and this still gets me, UConn could have had just about any coach that we wanted after the 2010 season by explaining away the RE departure as a long festering clash with the AD. And yet the powers that be chose PP.
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The guy that hired Pasqualoni had no knowledge of anything, his mishandling of the athletic dept as a whole, reverberates to this day.
 
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