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Impact on Recruiting for Move to Big East

DaveHuskiesFan said:
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People this is not the old Big East, I dislike the AAC as much as anyone. I remember the battles - was there from the start but IDK how this move does anything except cut down on travel and revive some rivalries but it ain't the promised land and isn't going to put us anywhere different on the National Map- only winning will do that.
As far as P5 - without FB it's not gonna happen. I know FB is way down, but pulling out of the AAC isn't gonna help it rise to the level we need if we are hoping for a P5 invite.
Big East would work for me - now that I am I'm in Delaware I would have greater opportunity to see UC in person but not convinced it's the right move.
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
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The Big East has been 3x the conference the American has been and is closer to the ACC than the American is to the lowest P5 conference.
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I can’t believe you’re serious. Outside of Nova, what Big East team do you seriously consider a marquis match-up going into this season?
 
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skies88 said:
I can’t believe you’re serious. Outside of Nova, what Big East team do you seriously consider a marquis match-up going into this season?
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I mean are you ignoring facts? Look at the conference ratings. 15.33 is almost 3x as much as 5.59. It’s 3x as good. The last 3 years 9/10 teams have been ranked inside the top 100. The American has never had a year with more than 8 teams inside the top 100. The big east worst ranked team last year was 118. The Americans was 283.
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
I mean are you ignoring facts? Look at the conference ratings. 15.33 is almost 3x as much as 5.59. It’s 3x as good. The last 3 years 9/10 teams have been ranked inside the top 100. The American has never had a year with more than 8 teams inside the top 100. The big east worst ranked team last year was 118. The Americans was 283.
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That’s not what I asked. If you want to compare the best of the worst, congrats, the BE wins in a landslide. As far as where both conferences are trending, what about Big East recruiting, coaching hires, non-Nova tournament production is any better than the AAC, considering we need to sacrifice virtually every other program to join? And again, what BE match-up outside Nova are you that excited for?
 
skies88 said:
That’s not what I asked. If you want to compare the best of the worst, congrats, the BE wins in a landslide. As far as where both conferences are trending, what about Big East recruiting, coaching hires, non-Nova tournament production is any better than the AAC, considering we need to sacrifice virtually every other program to join? And again, what BE match-up outside Nova are you that excited for?
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Villanova, Georgetown, Providence, Marquette, Xavier, Butler, and creighton are all games I’m excited for. If you want to talk about NCAA tournament, up until this year UConn had more NCAA tournament wins since joining the AAC than the rest of the conference combined and we’ve been crap. Villanova has won two in that time frame. The big east had two #1 seeds in 2018, the AAC has never had a one. Uconn in the Big East would give them 3 top 25 recruiting classes this year. Without UConn the AAC has 1. Do I need to keep going?
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
Villanova, Georgetown, Providence, Marquette, Xavier, Butler, and creighton are all games I’m excited for. If you want to talk about NCAA tournament, up until this year UConn had more NCAA tournament wins since joining the AAC than the rest of the conference combined and we’ve been crap. Villanova has won two in that time frame. The big east had two #1 seeds in 2018, the AAC has never had a one. Uconn in the Big East would give them 3 top 25 recruiting classes this year. Without UConn the AAC has 1. Do I need to keep going?
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Again, none of those teams outside of Nova has done any more than anyone in the AAC in terms of tournament success. Xavier checked out in the second round that 2018 1 seed year to FSU and providence lost to arkansas in the first round of the NIT this year. Marquette lost in the first round by 19 to Murray State. And if we stayed in the AAC then we would have the same number of top 25 recruiting classes for the year, the difference being the AAC would still have the top ranked class in Memphis, so not sure what your end game was with that point. The difference in all of this, again, is one scenario we don’t sacrifice our other programs and in one we do for what is virtually a lateral, if not negative, basketball
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Recent offers or interest and where they play or are from:

Andre Jackson...NY. Jonathon Kuminga...NY,WV
Jabari Abdul rahim...NJ. Lance Ware...NJ
Hassan Diarra...CT. Matt Cross....MA
Cliff Omoruyi...NJ. Demarr Langford...CT
Trey Patterson...NJ. AJ Griffin...NY
Terrance Clarke...MA. Justin Lewis...MD
Jonathon Aku...NH. Noah Collier...PA
Karin Mane... Quebec. Jaylin Williams...AR
Dylan Caldwell...VA. Mark Williams...VA
John Hugley...OH

Staffs plan was to make the NE-Mid Atlantic area their target for recruiting.
I believe going to the BE can only help with getting players to stay closer to home and play in front of family and friends. Now throw in playing at The Garden and against other local universities that they may HS friends or rivals on can only entice them more.
 
KSC94 said:
We don't need the rest off the Big East to be elite at recruiting. We push the UConn brand with the opportunities the Big East provides us and we will get elite recruits.
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Lol. Yeah and MSG. Sorry to say it isn’t 1990 anymore
 
Storrs South said:
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That was fast for the naysayers to look exceptionally stupid.

“For a top-50 guy like Jabri [Abdur-Rahim], that obviously makes UConn a totally different option,” said Blair Academy coach Joe Mantegna

“Not to say they’ll get him,” Mantegna added, “but to say they look totally different on that list and they can sell totally different things that I think is a real benefit to the Northeastern’s highest-level guys.”
 
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skies88 said:
The kids we're trying to target aren't old enough to remember the OBE so as a selling point, can't imagine it meaning much to them especially with Pitt and Cuse gone
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Their parents will have an influence
 
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jibsey said:
WTH? Please explain why we are a more national team in the American?
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We aren’t, many people don’t even know the conference exists. It’s like a marginally better conference than 90s C-USA. Being a northeast regional basketball power IS our national identity. Big East is home.
 
DaveHuskiesFan said:
I mean are you ignoring facts? Look at the conference ratings. 15.33 is almost 3x as much as 5.59. It’s 3x as good. The last 3 years 9/10 teams have been ranked inside the top 100. The American has never had a year with more than 8 teams inside the top 100. The big east worst ranked team last year was 118. The Americans was 283.
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Take Nova and Marquette out of the NBE and take the 2 cellar dwellers out of the AAC and it looks different
 
shizzle787 said:
The fact the DePaul has the 26th best class tells you all you need to know about how well our recruiting will go.
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DePaul has Chicago and DL took years to get a foot in on recruits and its finally paying off
I agree that Dan Hurley may have a better weapon with the NBE conference now vs the AAC but who knows in a few years
This is a huge gamble for UConn in the long run and over the past 5 years, I don't like how Susan Herbst or the BoD have been playing their hands
 
The AAC has certainly been tough on UCONN but it just doen’t have good name association among recruits. For heavens sake we can’t land a big man. For years. And now we can’t even get a transfer back up center. Names count for something especially in the BE with Nova’s success.
 
Can you imagine if Bobby Hurley had taken the St. John’s job...
 
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