Jeff Jacobs: As the season dies, it’s worth asking if UConn football is worth keeping alive?

[Stainmaster]

I don't buy that. Basketball will never die, especially if they can get back in the Big East. IMO, the P5 dream is just that. We need to come to grips with the real world.

The Big East will be a second-tier League in 25 years. Basketball as we know it will definitely die if we’re stuck in a division where the BE, A10, AAC, and MW are the top conferences. The AD needs to take every possible step to get into a P5 conference, no matter how unlikely it seems at the moment. Anything else is throwing in the towel.

 

[DAC17]

The Big East will be a second-tier League in 25 years. Basketball as we know it will definitely die if we’re stuck in a division where the BE, A10, AAC, and MW are the top conferences. The AD needs to take every possible step to get into a P5 conference, no matter how unlikely it seems at the moment. Anything else is throwing in the towel.

And I still don't think that the football presence will be enough to convince a P5 conference to take us in. Cincy, UCF and others will be ahead of us in line, for better or worse.

You call it throwing in the towel; I call it reality. Differences of opinion make it fun.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

If football dies, all of our other sports die. The stench of failure will be too great.

Then we become Idaho.

The "football drives the bus" guys have been wrong every step of the way, and are responsible for the current condition of UConn athletics.

 

[J187Money]

It's called fiscal responsibility.

Really? The program always lost money, even when it was an FCS program.

 

[J187Money]

I believe they have already raised $18m of the $25m for the soccer/baseball/softball facilities through private donations. The intent is 100% private funding (much like Werth).

It's much more fun to pretend that we went looting the homes of schoolteachers to pay for the facilities.

 

[J187Money]

When I've donated recently (nowhere near Rizza dollars unless you move the decimal way over to the left), I've explicitly stated it was for soccer and baseball. I've been a fan of UConn soccer since the late 70's and my brother is a season ticket holder. I have great memories of going to games and that's where I wanted my paltry donation to go. I'm also excited about how the baseball team has been doing and wanted to invest there in an attempt to strike while the iron is hot. I would not want my money routed towards football, though I do recognize it's significance in our perception and hopes.

I sponsored one of the foul poles for the softball field. If I find out that they took my foul pole money and spent it somewhere else I don't know what I'm going to do....

 

[Adios]

The "football drives the bus" guys have been wrong every step of the way, and are responsible for the current condition of UConn athletics.

Yes, the P5 conferences are still very interested in us. That really sucks.

Do you see Wyoming fans come around here? Or Ball State?

 

[Stainmaster]

The "football drives the bus" guys have been wrong every step of the way, and are responsible for the current condition of UConn athletics.

Nice to hear you admit you want UConn basketball to become JMU football.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

If I find out that they took my foul pole money and spent it somewhere else I don't know what I'm going to do....

Can you get them to name it J-Money's Fair Pole? It's got a nice hip-hop ring to it.

 

[J187Money]

Can you get them to name it J-Money's Fair Pole? It's got a nice hip-hop ring to it.

I don't know - but once the field has been built I will feel compelled to go to a softball game and sit next to it. One of my buddies bought the other one.

(that's what happens when you go out drinking and decide f-it! let's buy foul poles!)

 

[UConnDan97]

I don't know - but once the field has been built I will feel compelled to go to a softball game and sit next to it. One of my buddies bought the other one.

(that's what happens when you go out drinking and decide f-it! let's buy foul poles!)

Alcohol: making men think only about their poles since 3045 BC...

 

[RSTuthill]

Really? The program always lost money, even when it was an FCS program.

That is why Jacobs is saying FCS is not an option.

 

[J187Money]

That is why Jacobs is saying FCS is not an option.

As I've said 100 times, we lost money when we were winning or losing at both levels. People are just being pouting now.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

I don't know - but once the field has been built I will feel compelled to go to a softball game and sit next to it.

If the athletic department falls on harder times, they may ask you to do the upkeep on your pole. Hope you're not afraid of heights.

 

[Redding Husky]

The "football drives the bus" guys have been wrong every step of the way, and are responsible for the current condition of UConn athletics.

We'll be Georgetown without FBS football.

Georgetown hasn't been relavant in many years.

 

[LouieLouie]

For starters, the program needs to cut costs and reduce the $6 million it loses annually. Also, no more away games that require airfare. Can you imagine the cost to fly everybody, football equipment, hotel, food. Fly to Tusla or Florida and lose by 40 and not be competitive. Going forward, only bus trips, play BC, Syracuse, Rhode Island, UMASS, schools in the Northeast. Reduce the number of scholarships from 85 to 65 since there are at least 20 players that don't dirty their uniforms in 4 years and I don't feel like subsidizing athletic scholarships each worth $250,000 over 4 years for waving a towel on the sidelines.

 

[huskymedic]

For starters, the program needs to cut costs and reduce the $6 million it loses annually. Also, no more away games that require airfare. Can you imagine the cost to fly everybody, football equipment, hotel, food. Fly to Tusla or Florida and lose by 40 and not be competitive. Going forward, only bus trips, play BC, Syracuse, Rhode Island, UMASS, schools in the Northeast. Reduce the number of scholarships from 85 to 65 since there are at least 20 players that don't dirty their uniforms in 4 years and I don't feel like subsidizing athletic scholarships each worth $250,000 over 4 years for waving a towel on the sidelines.

You sure you know how this conference stuff works?

 

[HuskyDogArt]

For starters, the program needs to cut costs and reduce the $6 million it loses annually. Also, no more away games that require airfare. Can you imagine the cost to fly everybody, football equipment, hotel, food. Fly to Tusla or Florida and lose by 40 and not be competitive. Going forward, only bus trips, play BC, Syracuse, Rhode Island, UMASS, schools in the Northeast. Reduce the number of scholarships from 85 to 65 since there are at least 20 players that don't dirty their uniforms in 4 years and I don't feel like subsidizing athletic scholarships each worth $250,000 over 4 years for waving a towel on the sidelines.

Hell why not go D2 and play New Haven, Trinity and Tuft...and have the state sell the Rent...serves two things... the State can raise money on the sale of the Rent and we don't need to embarrass ourselves on TV...

I'm joking...and I hope LouieLouie is, too.