Meaning, we have to exist at Rutgers does as part of the B10? Flip brands, history? If you're saying we could go there as UConn and start at their level and build, might take that. If we have to become Rutgers, forget it.
His premise is dumb and he repeats it every chance he gets. for some reason he assumes that if we’d been invited to the BIG instead of Rutgers, we’d be in the same exact position that they are in right now. Magically Take away the 2 titles for men and 3 titles for women and replace them with nothing but a $70+mill deficit.
I bet 3/4 of this country has no idea they are the State University of NJ. They have zero recognized history or brand. So if you told me we went there as UConn when they did, I'd take it in a heartbeat. You're talking about what is shaping up to be the most prestigious league in the US athletically and academically. They seem to even be leapfrogging the SEC in football, are in the running for best basketball conference this year. That is the conference to be in.
Not just lottery picks, but top 5, no? Having two top 5 picks and not making the tourney has to be a first.
UConn would be competitive pretty quickly in any power conference
Is that an unfathomable amount of money spent, sure. But look at the results! The results speak for themselves.
My premise is I would rather have both. You just claim they are mutually exclusive realities based on nothing.
I think UConn wins wherever it goes.
Your premise is literally a false dilemma.
Respectfully, I have heard this a million times. But I have never heard an argument that is convincing. Could you take a shot at that here?
Pretty much agree -- assuming they go somewhere. If UConn gets at least one BB natty this year and a third winning season in FB with a couple P4 wins this year (and let's say next for good measure), I think the stage would be set about as well as could be reasonably expected.
you need to have more faith in UConn Athletics. Just because we're THE big fish in a tiny pond right now doesn't mean we cannot become a big fish in a huge pond down the road. There's more to life than being Seton Hall North Campus.
Maybe it's an expense problem.
When Temple was a football-only member of the Big East they were booted for failing to be competitive the year after we joined as a football member in 2004 (they were voted out in 2001).
The B1G would probably add Syracuse...We should each pretend to be Rutgers alumni and email the Rutgers athletic department and then their president's office, pointing out that Rutgers loses more money as a member of the Big Ten than it did as a member of the big east and demand that they withdraw from the Big Ten. I mean if the Big Ten wants an NYC presence I'm sure they can find someone:
