Jeff Jacobs: The Truth Is, UConn Isn't In BC's League

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College Football TV Ratings For Every Game - Sports Media Watch
Ratings are a data point that back me up. What do you have beyond your own opinion?

Unless its Clemson, ND or Miami, the ACC draws crap
IF BC is a big a draw as you claim, UConn should get a huge boost for this past Saturday, correct? I am not holding my breath on that one
Did they kick you out of the BC blog? Do they have one?
Good luck to your basketball team at the Nike Tournament

 

[HartfordHank]

Good luck to your basketball team at the Nike Tournament

I assume that UConn is hoping to make the NIT this year. Interesting a powerhouse like UConn cannot dominate the AAC. Couldn't even make the NCAA Tournament the past few years. You want to talk about BC being irrelevant in the ACC, UConn has become irrelevant in the AAC. Well except for WBB! You will always have WBB! And Field Hockey!

 

[Pudge]

My point is UConn’s profile nationally in football is about the same as any MAC or CUSA school based on Tv ratings versus your belief that it is part of the great national Uconn brand of the B.B. programs. Look at Uconn numbers and look at Miami of Ohio, Bowling Green, Central Mi numbers and draw your own conclusion about about UConn’s national brand recognition for football. I question even the regional appeal since Uconn and the American have been on ESPN broadcast games a significant number of times this year.

Uconn Ratings -
(70K) Tulsa
UConn American Oct. 21, Noon ESPNU
(769K) Memphis
UConn American Oct. 6, 7 PM ESPN
84K ECU
UConn American Sept. 24, Noon ESPNU
286K UConn
Virginia American
ACC Sept. 16, Noon ESPN2

Average = 302,250


MAC/CUSA Ratings
(369K) Akron
Miami (Ohio) MAC Nov. 7, 7:30 PM ESPN2
(272K) Miami (Ohio)
Ohio MAC Oct. 31, 8:00 PM ESPN2
453K) Marshall
Mid. Tenn. C-USA Oct. 20, 7:00 PM ESPN2
(90K) W. Michigan
Buffalo MAC Oct. 7, 3:30 PM ESPNU

Average 296,000

Other AAC teams -
(565K) Memphis
Houston American Oct. 19, 8:00 PM ESPN
(284K) USF
Tulane American Oct. 21, 7:00 PM ESPN2
(102K) SMU
Cincinnati American Oct. 21, 4:00 PM ESPNU
(295K) Navy
Memphis American Oct. 14, 3:45 PM ESPNU
(173K) Cincinnati
USF American Oct. 14, 7:30 PM ESPNU
(131K) UCF
Cincinnati American Oct. 7, 8 PM ESPNU
(61K) Temple
ECU American Oct. 7, Noon ESPNU
(442K) Memphis
UCF American Sept. 30, 7:00 PM ESPN2
(251K) Navy
Tulsa American Sept. 30, 3:30 PM ESPNU
(209K) Houston
Temple American Sept. 30, Noon ESPNU
992K Temple
USF American Sept. 21, 7:30 PM ESPN

Average 318,636

I was going to post the average for each of the P5 conferences but that is just too depressing to post.

Silly ... you can't average these things. They are massively differing platforms.

 

[Pudge]

I assume that UConn is hoping to make the NIT this year. Interesting a powerhouse like UConn cannot dominate the AAC. Couldn't even make the NCAA Tournament the past few years. You want to talk about BC being irrelevant in the ACC, UConn has become irrelevant in the AAC. Well except for WBB! You will always have WBB! And Field Hockey!

We'd kick BC's butt with our B team. And ... if we were in the same conference ... we'd repeat the 19 in a row stuff Calhoun did to you in the 90s. You suck. And uconndogs is right ... the MONEY got you nothing. Certainly not charm.

 

[Pudge]

Stellar? Impossible! Attendance for the game was 20,133. You are claiming UConn brought more people to the game than actually attended the game. Pretty impressive. Were you a math major at UConn or maybe Statistics?

Maybe, UConn had 12,000 people at the game. The balance were BC fans and a few were people who just came to watch a football game.

HENCE the very essence ... YOU have no Fanbase. YOU don't deliver a market. And ... when (NOT If) the cracks come in the next decade - because the ESPN money is illusory - you BC will find yourself back in the pile with us. Still with no FANBASE; but UConn could grow one.

 

[UConnDan97]

I assume that UConn is hoping to make the NIT this year. Interesting a powerhouse like UConn cannot dominate the AAC. Couldn't even make the NCAA Tournament the past few years. You want to talk about BC being irrelevant in the ACC, UConn has become irrelevant in the AAC. Well except for WBB! You will always have WBB! And Field Hockey!

HA!!!

That's hilarious, dude. Yeah, a fan from the team that we beat 23 consecutive times on the court is going to tell us that the AAC has made us irrelevant. Toward the end of the streak, I thought that you guys were going to call Amnesty International to get us to stop. And the AAC has made us so irrelevant that we don't know what we're going to do with our 2014 National Title. Do we melt it down and make a hockey mask for our BC friends? Do we take a picture of it and send it to Chestnut Hill so that they know what it looks like? Oh, the choices...

 

[whaler11]

UConn has some pretty serious issues but at least we have reasons for them.

BC is an ongoing tire fire across the board - what’s the excuse for that?

 

[HartfordHank]

We'd kick BC's butt with our B team. And ... if we were in the same conference ... we'd repeat the 19 in a row stuff Calhoun did to you in the 90s. You suck. And uconndogs is right ... the MONEY got you nothing. Certainly not charm.

Really? You barely beat Stoney Brook!

Charm is overrated!

 

[HartfordHank]

HA!!!

That's hilarious, dude. Yeah, a fan from the team that we beat 23 consecutive times on the court is going to tell us that the AAC has made us irrelevant. Toward the end of the streak, I thought that you guys were going to call Amnesty International to get us to stop. And the AAC has made us so irrelevant that we don't know what we're going to do with our 2014 National Title. Do we melt it down and make a hockey mask for our BC friends? Do we take a picture of it and send it to Chestnut Hill so that they know what it looks like? Oh, the choices...

How has that UConn powerhouse done the past two years? Have fun living in the past! Well you still have WBB and Field Hockey!

 

[UConnDan97]

How has that UConn powerhouse done the past two years? Have fun living in the past! Well you still have WBB and Field Hockey!

How have we done in the past two years??? Ha ha ha ha!

You crack me up. That's as far back as you could go from our last national title. Two years. You really do crack me up. NATIONAL TITLE!

We'll take a picture of it and mail it to Chestnut Hill. It's the right thing to do. This way, you can also feel like you're a part of a winning culture...

(p.s., I'm happy that you were able to pull out that game against Sacred Heart. Trailing by 1 to them at the half must not have felt very nice for you...LOL...)

 

[crazyUCfan23]

How has that UConn powerhouse done the past two years? Have fun living in the past! Well you still have WBB and Field Hockey!

well in the last two years we have still made the tournament more than BC! and I'm referring to the men

 

[Adios]

Soon? Like Wednesday or maybe next week? HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA! I think you are the one having a math issue. 1+1 does equal 2! UConn Football does not equal P5!

You should aspire to being competitive in the AAC. You are going to be there for a while!

See? You're already losing your mind. Regardless of how long we're in the AAC, we're more desirable than BC now. Times change...

Football isn't everything anymore. And I say that as someone with deep interest in football.

 

[HartfordHank]

See? You're already losing your mind. Regardless of how long we're in the AAC, we're more desirable than BC now. Times change...

Football isn't everything anymore. And I say that as someone with deep interest in football.

Wow, you like being wrong! Football is everything!

UConn is so desirable you are still in the ACC! No from the ACC, No from the B1G and No from the BigXII. I guess that is what you consider desirable.

 

[Exit 4]

Just ignore HH. We have something BC will never have....at least not for another 100 years and that is 23 national championships. 23 vs 5. BC's only shot is at hockey championships, that's it.

Oh, and BC has one other accomplishment, it stabbed this school in the back twice in what has become a failed effort to prop itself up. Congratulations.

 

[beasteast]

Wow, you like being wrong! Football is everything!

UConn is so desirable you are still in the ACC! No from the ACC, No from the B1G and No from the BigXII. I guess that is what you consider desirable.

UConn has a BCS appearance. the BC Powerhouse?........... nothing to major bowl games since wwII

Flutie to Phalen , was a lone time ago now, in a game that propelled BC to ???

 

[uconndogs]

Wow, you like being wrong! Football is everything!

UConn is so desirable you are still in the ACC! No from the ACC, No from the B1G and No from the BigXII. I guess that is what you consider desirable.

Struggle a little bit if you get off the script Hank? It's really old and suggests a serious lack of intellect. Suggests you might not be a BC grad. Hope so.

 

[Adios]

Wow, you like being wrong! Football is everything!

UConn is so desirable you are still in the ACC! No from the ACC, No from the B1G and No from the BigXII. I guess that is what you consider desirable.

You just don't know. We are actually desirable to the Big Ten. Do you think the Big Ten ever expresses interest in any school publicly? People who matter are very interested in us. But, again, whatever makes you feel better to validate spending your Saturday at BC games.

 

[LRock34]

I never understood the calm After we lost out to Louisville. That was the beginning of the end. Regardless of what Sue or Warde said.

THIS! Anyone remember the article...don't remember who the writer was but the reporter spoke to a UConn official and the person talked about how we were happy in the Big East, that it had been good for us and there was no reason to leave. I knew then that our leadership was clueless about the college sports landscape and we were doomed. No excuse for being outfoxed by Pittsburgh let alone Louisville.

 

[Stainmaster]

I assume that UConn is hoping to make the NIT this year. Interesting a powerhouse like UConn cannot dominate the AAC. Couldn't even make the NCAA Tournament the past few years. You want to talk about BC being irrelevant in the ACC, UConn has become irrelevant in the AAC. Well except for WBB! You will always have WBB! And Field Hockey!

Shut your trap, troll.

 

[Stainmaster]

How has that UConn powerhouse done the past two years? Have fun living in the past! Well you still have WBB and Field Hockey!

Piss off, wanker.

 

[06029]

You just don't know. We are actually desirable to the Big Ten. Do you think the Big Ten ever expresses interest in any school publicly? People who matter are very interested in us. But, again, whatever makes you feel better to validate spending your Saturday at BC games.

I don't know which is harder to believe, your unwavering belief that the B1G is coming for Uconn any day now or Pudge's that the State of CT and New England is sleeping giant that will awaken and flock to Uconn football. Maybe they belong together.

After 5 rounds of conference realignment, I suppose anything is possible and if a conference not named the ACC really wants a presence in New England/northeast, they either take a school from the ACC (the MD move with other schools) or Uconn since Yale, URI and Holy Cross are not moving up. The Pac12 and SEC are not making that move, so it leaves the BigXII (which said no thanks), the B1G or the ACC expanding again. I suppose it could happen but is as likely as me growing hair in my flying, driverless car.

 

[Redding Husky]

How has that UConn powerhouse done the past two years? Have fun living in the past! Well you still have WBB and Field Hockey!

You are an ass. I'd love to say it to your face. You're probably 5'5", 135 pounds, living in your mother's basement.

Typical BC fan.

 

[06029]

You are an ass. I'd love to say it to your face. You're probably 5'5", 335 pounds, living in your mother's basement.

Typical BC fan.

Fixed it for you

 

[ktuck911]

I know some might not like what I'm about to say, but I'm a say it anyways... would be a huge help if we had a football stadium on campus again... even though it makes too much sense... it would this program all the way around.. The Rent is beautiful, don't get me wrong, but because of our situation... having an on campus (meaning the furthest campus walk of no more than 2 1/2 to 3 miles to get to for college students on a campus that takes pride in fitness) there should've been a way to make that happen before that new facility that's being put up in the middle of campus got approved... Good ol CT stubbornness at its best....

 

[UConnDan97]

I know some might not like what I'm about to say, but I'm a say it anyways... would be a huge help if we had a football stadium on campus again... even though it makes too much sense... it would this program all the way around.. The Rent is beautiful, don't get me wrong, but because of our situation... having an on campus (meaning the furthest campus walk of no more than 2 1/2 to 3 miles to get to for college students on a campus that takes pride in fitness) there should've been a way to make that happen before that new facility that's being put up in the middle of campus got approved... Good ol CT stubbornness at its best....

You're 100% correct....I didn't like what you were about to say.

Here's the reality that one in Connecticut cannot escape; the campus is nowhere near our population centers. That's the reason it's in East Hartford. If you are trying to better accommodate the 6k students that we could get, I understand, because they are often our rowdiest fans. But If you are trying to better accommodate our 6k students that we could get at the expense of the other 20k - 25k full-paying non-student fans, then you are doing it at your own peril.

My argument for not having the stadium at UConn isn't one of good ole CT stubbornness. It's one of common sense. We need to continue to pull folks up from Fairfield County and New Haven County and surrounding Hartford County, or else the football team is dead...

 

[Adios]

I don't know which is harder to believe, your unwavering belief that the B1G is coming for Uconn any day now or Pudge's that the State of CT and New England is sleeping giant that will awaken and flock to Uconn football. Maybe they belong together.

After 5 rounds of conference realignment, I suppose anything is possible and if a conference not named the ACC really wants a presence in New England/northeast, they either take a school from the ACC (the MD move with other schools) or Uconn since Yale, URI and Holy Cross are not moving up. The Pac12 and SEC are not making that move, so it leaves the BigXII (which said no thanks), the B1G or the ACC expanding again. I suppose it could happen but is as likely as me growing hair in my flying, driverless car.

I didn't say they are coming for us, did I? I have nothing to prove to you. I mean, look at who likes your posts. Just same BC dorks.

 

[BlueDogs]

Don Brown's salary is ~$1M without bonuses or incentives. So, how are we hiring him again?

Could have had him in 2010 when he was begging for a shot, but Hathaway knew better.

 

[NE Football]

There is little interest in women’s sports and no P5 conference is going to give any TV revenue to women’s sports by adding a field hockey or basketball team.

The biggest obstacle to building a football program in New England is a lack of D1 talent and a long established P5 competitor in BC. Even if we split the best recruits we are still going to be bad. Football is a southern game, even Michigan and ND struggle playing SEC teams. New England produces major league talent in every sport except football. Kids just don’t play three sports anymore.

 

[willie99]

JJ stating the obvious for 2017, but that's not going to be the case forever. Done Nothing College has done nothing, and exceeding their football status is "doable".

I'd bet JJ was one of the brilliant media members telling us UConn should withdraw from the Big East before Jim Calhoun came here. You see, them there media peoples told us inner-city athletes would never come to Storrs and we would never compete in the basketball arena with the likes of BC, PC, St John's, Georgetown, Nova, Pitt and Cuse.

Yes, I'm being serious and they were serious and that's what they argued, so forgive me when I look at the JJ's of this world and laugh

 

[whaler11]

JJ stating the obvious for 2017, but that's not going to be the case forever. Done Nothing College has done nothing, and exceeding their football status is "doable".

I'd bet JJ was one of the brilliant media members telling us UConn should withdraw from the Big East before Jim Calhoun came here. You see, them there media peoples told us inner-city athletes would never come to Storrs and we would never compete in the basketball arena with the likes of BC, PC, St John's, Georgetown, Nova, Pitt and Cuse.

Yes, I'm being serious and they were serious and that's what they argued, so forgive me when I look at the JJ's of this world and laugh

Jacobs covered the Whalers until 1995. Other than that sure.