Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[superjohn]

It depends on how we define doable. Can UConn crack the small group of schools that actually compete for championships in football? No. Just like most of the P5 can't either, even if every now and then one of them lucks into a brilliant season. Can UConn become a K-State level program? Yeah, that's about the ceiling, I think. Regular bowl participation, challenge for league title once in a while. Even that is hard. Harder still as an independent. If it was easy, everyone would do it. Somebody has to lose every game.

Basketball is easier to do, but still not easy. The number of schools with multiple championships since the tournament went to 64 in 1985 is 7 by my count. UNC, Duke, KU, UK, UConn, Nova, Florida. Louisville if you include 2013, and I suppose if you don't, Michigan would be on the list. So in almost 40 years, 8 teams have done it.

Michigan has no claim for 2013, they shouldn't have even gotten their one championship against Seton Hall.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

You know there are people who do exist who find CFB boring, right?

I am fully aware. I've also run into a large number of people over the years who (at a point in the time) found college basketball boring. The reasons (excuses) many make about college football being boring normally begin as a comparison to the NFL and are very similar to the arguments I've heard about college basketball vs the NBA.

I've taken quite a few who found college basketball boring to games over the decades (just as I have for football). Some come around and try to appreciate the game, others spend their time at the game far too closed minded to ever get it. This happens in both sports and for the life of me I don't understand why anyone wouldn't be willing to see if it is worth the effort (this goes for both sports).

You are obviously allowed to beat your drum, believing the football program can never be developed and the fan base can never be grown to compete with some of the better programs in the country. I am allowed to believe we can be the exception to what most see as the limitations of northeast football. It can be done and the path to get there, while difficult, is far more possible than most realize.

This upcoming season may still be a bit early in the process (the Jim Mora era) to make any noticeable noise but I have very high expectations for year four under Mora and I would not be surprised if in year three we start getting votes in the polls.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I heard that Ricky down at St. John's has brought in new 'cheerleaders' by the hour to help with recruiting, again

I'm guessing they aren't that "new".

 

[Vowelguy]

. It would also be interesting to see who the B1G would pair up with Stanford, .

who says they need an even number of schools?
When you have a few schools all playing on the same days, then an even number is needed.
But there really is no difference between a 33 and 32 team conference.

 

[August_West]

Yes, they seem to manage to stop by and tell us about it.

This ain’t the football board last I checked. You may get away with that weak ass stuff on the seton hall board , but it will be Mutombo’d here.

 

[tzznandrew]

Michigan has no claim for 2013, they shouldn't have even gotten their one championship against Seton Hall.

I hate Louisville as much as anyone, and I want that program to burn to the ground. I'm even cool with a big ole asterisk next to the title.

But they won the title. To pretend otherwise is embarassing.

 

[CL82]

This ain’t the football board last I checked. You may get away with that weak ass stuff on the seton hall board , but it will be Mutombo’d here.

Lol, you are forgetting to switch tone in lines between you as your sock puppet burner account, Friar J and you as August. Really, you used to be better at this.

 

[Vowelguy]

Nah. All the folks who fell for it this time will believe that is a smoke screen and that we really are in consideration for conference X Y or Z.

And to prove my point, check out the Yormark thread.

Lucy van Pelt would have a field day on this board.

 

[Huskyforlife]

I wish someone would keep the Key and Non Key threads separate. They’re starting to merge too much.

 

[noeynox]

Man, you're tattletaling.

 

[XaMu]

Big 12 leaving UConn, Gonzaga behind in conference realignment will prove best for both in long run

The Big East and the West Coast Conference have been spared in realignment -- at least for now. That's a good thing for the Huskies and Zags

www.cbssports.com

 

[WestCoastHusky]

If the below is true, UConn should look into this especially if Big East+ FB indy can't get close to this $14M number.

Fan puts forth hypothesis of $280 million TV deal for the Pac-12 and AAC superconference if Oliver Luck succeeds in negotiating a fair deal

The Pac-12 is in a bit of a mess, and there could be a Pac-12 and AAC superconference forming.

www.sportskeeda.com

 

[HuskyHawk]

You’re not. You put up with too much grief for that.

 

[noeynox]

If the below is true, UConn should look into this especially if Big East+ FB indy can't get close to this $14M number.

Fan puts forth hypothesis of $280 million TV deal for the Pac-12 and AAC superconference if Oliver Luck succeeds in negotiating a fair deal

The Pac-12 is in a bit of a mess, and there could be a Pac-12 and AAC superconference forming.

www.sportskeeda.com

Sportskeeda is trash. Couldn't even finish that.

 

[CL82]

To be fair, I didn't start that theory. It was actually started by you when you started a thread on the Providence board about how you read that "someone on The Boneyard had planted a mole on their board who was pretending to be a Providence fan." Immediately August jumped into that thread and posters put two and two together.

For what it's worth, I don't ever remember there being a thread here about some Friar talk mole, so it was a little weird that August knew what you were talking about and immediately jumped right in.

Plus, your Seton Hall persona's handle is "Corny T". Weird that a a Providence fan is posting a Seton Hall Board using a former UConn great as a handle, isn't it?

We've heard August talk about the "long con" that he was running on the Syracuse board pretending to be a Syracuse poster. So, we know that posting under bogus handles and bogus identities is some thing that he gets a kick out of. "Cringy?" Definitely, but whatever floats your boat August.

 

[BlueandOG]

We'll never have the hoops success in football. For some, that's what they expect and if we can't achieve that then we might as well not try. It's truly part of the attitude for why many are anti-football. "If we're never going to win the whole thing then why try?"

I sort of see why people think that but college football is a weird sport.

I do think that we could get to the point where we pump out a 9 or 10 win season once a decade and bowl more years than not. If Mora gets us to the foundation I think he's capable of getting us to, and we have a homerun hire after him, it's doable.

We really just need a decade of not having terrible teams and winning a big game here and there.

People in 1990 would have said the same thing about UCONN hoops reaching excellence. We have the raw material to be a legitimate football school, we just need time to overcome the self-inflicted wounds of the past decade (PP, GDL, BD, RE2, cancelled season, Civil Conflict, worst defensive numbers in college history, low attendance, etc).

My hope for the end of this season is we win enough and play well enough that we are viewed on a level with schools like Maryland at the start of the 2024 season. Progress!

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[bendm]

this guy is so non-key he should get his own thread

 

[August_West]

No offense taken

 

[huskymedic]

 

[uconnbaseball]

this guy is so non-key he should get his own thread

All of that info is common sense stuff that is almost certainly happening. It doesn’t take a seer to believe Cal and Stanford want in the Big 10.

 

[Storrs South]

 

[CL82]

Wow, that came out of nowhere!