It’s not over until the fat lady sings

[billybud]

UConnJim...

You are definiteky on to something...football and especially the bowl games and playoff have been somewhat monetized outsude of the NCAA.

The NCAA hasdips into the basketball tournament and takes a big wad...

 

[uconnyankee]

We had two things almost twenty years ago when we started that we don't have now. We had fans who thought this would be fun, who didn't have to sit through 12 years without a winning season, and we had a conference tie in that meant if we won our conference, which didn't have any traditional superpowers, we would play in a Top 4 bowl. Neither of those are there now.

NO ONE IS SAYING WE WOULDN'T BENEFIT FROM A BETTER COACH. CERTAINLY I'M NOT SAYING THAT. But the question remains as to what we will accomplish with a better coach, and we're nowhere near where we were in terms of either attracting that guy or keeping him after some initial success. (And yes, I'd take initial success.)

I think we fundamentally agree. UConn has challenges and we certainly don’t have the BCS or P5 moniker like RE had during his 1.0 term.

but you control the things you can and try to mitigate those you can’t. You get the best coach you can and get this program some forward momentum. Best coach isn’t some objective term but very fluid and has to account for UConn’s current status.
One only has to look at Army for a very similar situation (except football tradition/history).

they struggled. People wanted program dropped. Even brought in NFL coach. Finally, brought in coach that fit. Was he beat coach? Probably not. But he stopped bleeding, got their pride back, and turned the program around. HCRE was not the right coach for last 2-3 seasons.

 

[UCSouth]

Ok, let the insults fly while you’re backtracking, that’s all you have. Troll

Yes he is.

 

[John Greene]

Agree with everything except the shortsightedness of BC. This was intentional so they could (paraphrasing) "remain the face of college athletics in New England". In some fantasy world they thought, in 2011, they were the face of New England college sports. We shall see as the dominos fall over the next decade where BC ends up if the ACC falls apart. They bring absolutely no value to that conference now. They are equivalent to Wake Forrest (or Vandy in the SEC).

Not saying this will happen, but if the ACC gets poached by a SEC / Big10 mega conference and the leftover northeast schools (Cuse, Pitt, BC, Rutgers, Maryland, etc.) need a new home in the NEW New Big East, I hope UConn gets the last laugh and boxes out BC. F them.

The only problem is, if that were to happen to the schools you list there would also be others in the same position (NCST, GT, Louisville, etc.) They would then just form an all sport conference which while not on the same level as the 'super conferences' would still be superior to joining the NBE.