Exactement! Who would trust UConn again (unless there were a really good legal reason for just up and leaving, which there isn't)? Membership in a conference is a legal agreement. You can't just walk away, as attractive as that option might seem.
I know. I counted on the UCF game, too, because we were only two hours away. Not that it was fun to watch, unless you like rugby on a basketball court. But I used to watch the old Rutgers games, so I know what that's like.But UCF is 20 minutes from me
Thing is, Rutgers had a rhyme and reason for their physical play; it was a schemed defense. Bodying a player up is a legit play, even if it was aggressively done. UCF just pushes and shoves arbitrarily.
Oh, I didn’t know you were a Wrestlemania fan?But UCF is 20 minutes from me
I remember a Rutgers forearm shove in the back to Maya on a lay up that may have cost us a championship.
Whenever California is strapped for cash, and needs an immediate infusion of revenue, they turn to a tried and true source of taxing gasoline. We have one of the highest per gallon prices for gas in the country. There are stations in my neighborhood charging $4.19 a gallon for premium gas. You’ll pay even more if you need gas on your way to Las Vegas and fill up at a station in the desert.
We just had an 5.6 cent a gallon tax increase on gas July first. The lawmakers here have no problem sticking it to us. Gas in California should be cheap. We’ve got several refineries right here in Southern California (El Segundo). We don’t have to import it like some states do.
These gas taxes are permanent. Most drivers don’t curtail their driving habits because of the increased prices. They simply dig a little deeper into their pockets and purses and bear it. Hope that none of your law makers in Connecticut thinks seriously about a gas tax. I’m expecting another increase in the state sales tax soon. We’re due for one.
Those UCF games are going to be UGLY this year. The UConn players will need to put padding on before those games. Last year to beat up on the Huskies.
I don’t know. After that ugly game two seasons ago, the Huskies have pretty much owned UCF. I think Katie Abramson has toned down her team’s “hack a Husky” strategy somewhat as UConn has made it clear that UCF is not yet ready for prime time.
Coach Abe doesn’t have the talent to compete with UConn this year and probably never will. The truth is that UConn leaving the AAC is probably good for UCF. Once the Huskies are gone the Knights will have a legitimate opportunity to compete with USF for the league championship and an AQ to the Big Dance.
I'm fairly certain that Coach Abe's vision is to build UCF into a team that's good enough to receive an at-large bid -- which, in fact, UCF did this past year. UConn's presence elevated the profile of the AAC and made it a multi-bid league every year since its inception. Without UConn, the AAC is in danger of regressing to one-bid status. I'm willing to bet that a major reason Coach Abe left Albany for UCF was precisely because it was an upgrade from a one-bid league to a multi-bid league with UConn in it. If she was happy collecting AQs, she would have stayed at Albany.
UCF has much bigger fish to fry then they will find in the AAC. They have the #1 non-P5 football program in the country, a great fan base and a great location in Central FL. During the next round of conference expansion I would not be surprised if UCF is the top expansion candidate for both the BIG & Big 12, that is unless the SEC or ACC implement a preemptive strike to bring in UCF and keep the other conferences out of the lucrative southeastern market.
No... just no.
Time will tell. As we all know, it’s all about football, and no school makes a better case than UCF.
Sorry, also the largest school too... 68k? In a good position if anyone goes.
Lol for the B1G? Pretty much every school does.
So you’re sayin’ there’s a chance!I have a better chance of marrying Beyonce than UCF has of getting invited to the Big10, ACC, or SEC
A comment on the AAC. Just about every team in the conference has the ultimate goal of finding a way out of the AAC into a P5 conference. UConn certainly did, until they decided a move to the NBE was a better option.
Wanting to leave is distinctly different than having a place to go. The B1G in particular has some well defined and well know criteria for inviting a school to join them.
A better opyion or the only option?
Money will dictate the eventual expansion of one or more P5 conferences. Specifically, TV money amounting to 100’s of millions in revenue for top conferences will push P5’s to expand. The attraction of UCF to the B1G or Big12 is the expansion of TV revenue into the lucrative southeastern market where there are literally 100’s of thousands of retirees from the Midwest who love to watch college football in the fall.
Don't forget to throw the bouquet.I have a better chance of marrying Beyonce than UCF has of getting invited to the Big10, ACC, or SEC
With FB in the toilet and the new AAC media deal greatly reducing UConn's market visibility something had to be done. Luckily it came together. Best news of the decade.
All B1G expansion previously has been to schools that are contiguous with its existing schools and AAU. UCF is neither. It is a bad fit for the Big Ten.
The ACC already has Florida State & Miami, and the SEC has Florida. So they would be expanding into a TV market they're already in (no additional TV revenue, but they'd have to share what they already have with the newbies) just to keep the Big 12 away from the 2nd tier chumps?