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DiacosArmy said:
Seriously. "Cultural Fit." This means more than geography. Any Big 12 fan would feel right at home on the runway.
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Our tailgating is seriously underrated. Every time I bring a new person they're shocked. There's a reason students will go to the pregame and then drive 20 minutes back to campus without even going to the game. I mean, don't get me wrong it's counterproductive and is bad for the program, but it speaks volumes about the atmosphere.
 
FAIRTIDES said:
I wonder how the Chambers of Commerce, restaurant, club and bar owners in the major bowl cities feel when they hear that BYU might one-day be forced on one of their cities?


Seriously, check BYU's bowl history. It goes back 30-years and includes some really good teams. Most telling is the year BYU was undefeated, ranked number-one in both polls, running up huge total offense numbers behind a future Hall of Fame QB. Any other team with those credentials would have played in the Orange, Sugar or Cotton bowls against another top-five team. BYU had to settle for beating unranked Michigan in the Holiday Bowl. Pretty telling.
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I believe BYU was contractually obligated to play in the Holiday Bowl as the winner of the Western Athletic Conference. As fans we were disappointed to not be able to play Oklahoma or Washington, but those schools opted not to play in the less prestigious, and lower paying Holiday Bowl, choosing to play in the more lucrative big bowls. I think you're wrong to make the connection with our fan's lifestyles though as to why we didn't play in the Sugar or Cotton Bowl. We were just making a name for ourselves back then, and didn't have the prestige of the schools with longer tradition. BYU did play in the Cotton Bowl a decade later, though.

As an independent, BYU has been able to contract with some decent bowls such as the Poinsettia Bowl where they will play in 2016 if they qualify. It's not a major bowl, but it's not too shabby for an independent team without the power of a conference behind them. We fans take pride in once making the Holiday Bowl what it is today, since BYU played in it so often in the '80s and '90s; and it's no secret that the Las Vegas Bowl in the 2000's has always welcomed the prospect of a BYU.
 
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JMick said:
Our tailgating is seriously underrated. Every time I bring a new person they're shocked. There's a reason students will go to the pregame and then drive 20 minutes back to campus without even going to the game. I mean, don't get me wrong it's counterproductive and is bad for the program, but it speaks volumes about the atmosphere.
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I want to know how to get from EH to Storrs in 20 minutes.
 
Kansas can sell that their first bball coach was the man who created basketball. We can sell that we are close to the location where basketball was invented and the dribbling was invented in New Britain. Kansas is directly related to the development of the sport of basketball, our school is not. That makes Kansas truly a historical program.
 
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Yep. Until they get picked because they act like they care and we play hard to get. I ain't buying our behind the scenes philosophy
 
Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN · 6h6 hours ago
@RyanECU That’s great, but I’ve never heard ECU mentioned as a serious candidate for Big 12. Don’t shoot the messenger

Brett McMurphy ‏@McMurphyESPN · 6h6 hours ago
@RyanECU I don’t speak for a lot of ESPN folks, only myself. All I know is I haven’t had 1 source ever mention ECU for Big 12. We’ll see
 
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Just for kicks the entire state if Ct is half the size of greater Houston
Take your Storrs blinders off .
The UConn Campus encompasses the entire state.
Butch said:
Kansas can sell that their first bball coach was the man who created basketball. We can sell that we are close to the location where basketball was invented and the dribbling was invented in New Britain. Kansas is directly related to the development of the sport of basketball, our school is not. That makes Kansas truly a historical program.
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Not only was BB created in Springfield but Volleyball slso
But most importantly football was created in Ct by Ct native
Not only did he re-invent the game of Rugby to American tastes but through a series of Saturday Evening Posts articles created the football myth that quickly made it a national sport . Not a small part of that promotion was he term All-American ( you might have heard the term)
Football is our sport
It was so popular in the state when Yale was a major player they had to construct Yale Bowl to seat 70,000 largely local people 100 years ago.
It's an amazing structure,unimposing from the outside, but dug many stories into the ground.
Big time college football deserted the great fans in Ct that UConn could revive.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
Just for kicks the entire state if Ct is half the size of greater Houston
Take your Storrs blinders off .
The UConn Campus encompasses the entire state.

Not only was BB created in Springfield but Volleyball slso
But most importantly football was created in Ct by Ct native
Not only did he re-invent the game of Rugby to American tastes but through a series of Saturday Evening Posts articles created the football myth that quickly made it a national sport . Not a small part of that promotion was he term All-American ( you might have heard the term)
Football is our sport
It was so popular in the state when Yale was a major player they had to construct Yale Bowl to seat 70,000 largely local people 100 years ago.
It's an amazing structure,unimposing from the outside, but dug many stories into the ground.
Big time college football deserted the great fans in Ct that UConn could revive.
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Volleyball was created in Holyoke.
 
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methodology said:
Agree 100%. As of right now Kansas is higher in basketball hierarchy based on historical performance over UConn
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How far for heaven's sake do you guys want to go back? My god, the 40s and early 50s? Ancient history.
 
Beverly Davenport ‏@UCPrezDav 24h24 hours ago
Cincinnati-Dayton, w/in 600 miles of 54% of US population; a Top 20 TV market; Westchester explodes along I-75
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Beverly Davenport
@UCPrezDav
Interim President University of Cincinnati
 
sportsart said:
Embarrassing....
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Cincinnati is a hub airport. It's not a deciding factor but it isn't nothing to people worried about travel time.

BDL has daily nonstops to Dallas and Houston and I think Pittsburgh from B12land . Obviously this doesn't matter for FB Charter flights, but it does for olympic sports.
 
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noeynox said:
You take this place too seriously. It was funny, as I'm sure it was meant to be.
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TBH, I found it a bit creepy. Didn't feel like getting pulled into the thread.
 
huskymedic said:
Mike DiMauro@BCgenius 42 mins ago
COLUMN: If @Big12Conference wants more money, UConn's selection should be inevitable
Since it's all about the money, UConn is the answer
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Very good article from DiMauro. It seems like he may be the only CT print journalist that is beating the drum in support of CR/B-12 and UConn. Doyle just comes out with an arrangement of stuff we have already discussed here a few days prior and Jacobs then comes here..reads our discussions and puts his own spin on them by adding doom and gloom.
 
Not so much anymore. Delta has cut most of the flights from there. I remember back in the early 2000s flying 767s between Cincy and BDL. Now they may fly little regional jets.


SubbaBub said:
Cincinnati is a hub airport. It's not a deciding factor but it isn't nothing to people worried about travel time.

BDL has daily nonstops to Dallas and Houston and I think Pittsburgh from B12land . Obviously this doesn't matter for FB Charter flights, but it does for olympic sports.
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Butch said:
Kansas can sell that their first bball coach was the man who created basketball. We can sell that we are close to the location where basketball was invented and the dribbling was invented in New Britain. Kansas is directly related to the development of the sport of basketball, our school is not. That makes Kansas truly a historical program.
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Then consider Wilt Chamberlain. Despite never winning a title, he was almost certainly the best college player of all time. I spent three years in law school across the street from Allen Field House. For all the talk of road trips around here, I strongly suggest that if we get in, any UConn fan must put a road game at AFH on the top of their list. Lawrence is loads of fun anyway, lots of bars and live music, but there's no better college basketball venue.
 
JSM1970 said:
Not so much anymore. Delta has cut most of the flights from there. I remember back in the early 2000s flying 767s between Cincy and BDL. Now they may fly little regional jets.
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Non-stop cities, if anyone actually cares:

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