Is the Big East killing us?

[ERWUC65]

I said I would hold my opinion until after today's game. I think Georgetown showed that the BE still has some good teams and can provide enough quality competition to challenge UConn to work hard for a W and to show coach and us BYers where the weaknesses are as well as the strengths. I thought our play was average at best, a lot of good individual efforts, but still suffering from lapses in defense (especially the 3), rebounding and a cohesive team offense. A shoutout to Morgan, KK and Ash today, 100% hustle all game.

 

[huskyd]

Once again YouTube carried the UConn game live to the deprived souls in the mid-Atlantic. When the decision was taken out of my hands about watching the BE games because they were "Not Available for Streaming," I was sort of relieved. No longer feeling obliged to sit through the bloody abattoirs of those "contests" I could get back to the excellent Mick Herron book I've been reading. But now that the games are available, I am once again lured into peeking in. After the debacle with the Xavier Mousekiteers, I vowed to go back to skipping these exercises in futility. But I am unable to avoid watching the Huskies given the opportunity. And I was rewarded when a basketball game broke out here in Georgetown--until the Hoyas (a dog named after a climbing plant) remembered that they weren't very good and stopped pretending. More plant than dog.
So: I guess, try as I might to skip them, more Big Least games loom in my future. I must man up, but I refuse to develop a positive attitude.

 

[uconnbill]

UConn needs to get into the Big 12 or at the very least the ACC in the next year or two. Basketball for the women need an upgrade in competition and the men need a better top to bottom conference. Yes football needs a lifeline because only Notre Dame can get away with being independent in football and still have to play so many ACC teams in football and other sports

 

[cancontent]

Faith Masonius never made an impression on me when she was at Maryland. Put her in the big east and she is a top 5 player in the conference. It’s crazy.

No it's not considering the roster she played with while at Maryland. Look at the roster when she came in as a freshman. Way more depth and they didn't have to rely on her to run the offence.

Playing at Seton Hall just shows how she probably could have been a larger factor versus Frieseplacing to focus on other players like Reese, Miller, Owusu, Bibby and Sellers when she joined the team in 2021. I don't think it's a fair comparison.

https://umterps.com/sports/womens-basketball/roster/2020-21

 

[packwrap]

UConn needs to get into the Big 12 or at the very least the ACC in the next year or two. Basketball for the women need an upgrade in competition and the men need a better top to bottom conference. Yes football needs a lifeline because only Notre Dame can get away with being independent in football and still have to play so many ACC teams in football and other sports

Notre Dame has a contract with the ACC. They are full members in all sports except football, and are required to play x football games vs ACC each year. This doesn't happen by accident.

ND stays independent in football, because amazingly the contract with NBC for 'Notre Dame' football pays more money for their 6 home games than a share of a power conference TV package.

As soon as that is no longer the case, ND will either do the logical thing and fully join ACC, or shock the world and go SEC or Big10.

 

[cancontent]

Notre Dame has a contract with the ACC. They are full members in all sports except football, and are required to play x football games vs ACC each year. This doesn't happen by accident.

ND stays independent in football, because amazingly the contract with NBC for 'Notre Dame' football pays more money for their 6 home games than a share of a power conference TV package.

As soon as that is no longer the case, ND will either do the logical thing and fully join ACC, or shock the world and go SEC or Big10.

The ND brand in football is strong and has been for generations. They got ahead of the curve and found ways to build on it to what it is today. It's amazing to see what they built when you look at the overall picture.

 

[tomcat]

After all the words are said, this is, at heart, a binary question: Yes or No.
I emphatically vote yes.

 

[Plebe]

UConn needs to get into the Big 12 or at the very least the ACC in the next year or two. Basketball for the women need an upgrade in competition and the men need a better top to bottom conference.

I hope someone passes along this idea to the higher-ups pronto. Shocking that no one's thought of it or made any efforts to achieve it in the past 12 years.

 

[uconnfan68]

Notre Dame has a contract with the ACC. They are full members in all sports except football, and are required to play x football games vs ACC each year. This doesn't happen by accident.

ND stays independent in football, because amazingly the contract with NBC for 'Notre Dame' football pays more money for their 6 home games than a share of a power conference TV package.

As soon as that is no longer the case, ND will either do the logical thing and fully join ACC, or shock the world and go SEC or Big10.

They just made over $14 million (before the last game!) that they get to keep, while all the others schools have to share with their conferences. They’re always going to do what’s good for them.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Was it any better in the AAC?

At one time it definitely was. One major problem lately (past few years) is a lack of competent head coaches. Back in the day when Big East women’s basketball boasted having Geno, Kevin McGuff, Harry Paretta, Kim Barnes Arico, a young Doug Bruno, Melanie Balcomb, and Jim Fannery. All of them produced some very very good teams. Nowadays it’s just Geno and Flannery. If you’re asking why all those coaches left is simple, Big East coaches, with Geno being the exception, are not paid enough compared to other conferences. This has been endemic in women’s athletics in general in the Big East Conference for many years and ultimately, as I have already posted in other threads, will be the downfall of the Big East Conference, as far as being competitive with P4 and P5 women’s athletics teams. I mean, Seton Hall for example, has their women’s basketball team play all their games, in what’s basically a high school gym.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

The ND brand in football is strong and has been for generations. They got ahead of the curve and found ways to build on it to what it is today. It's amazing to see what they built when you look at the overall picture.

The state of Connecticut definitely contributed some of it’s best high school players over many years to Notre Dame football, Drew Pyne, John Sullivan, and Peter Demmerle, among others.

 

[HuskyNan]

UConn needs to get into the Big 12 or at the very least the ACC in the next year or two. Basketball for the women need an upgrade in competition and the men need a better top to bottom conference. Yes football needs a lifeline because only Notre Dame can get away with being independent in football and still have to play so many ACC teams in football and other sports

Boy, I bet Dave Benedict never thought of that. I wonder why he hasn’t done anything about getting into a P4 conference?