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

Urcea said:
I hate this stat. It's not reality. A shell-shocked fanbase after ten years of perennial losers not showing up due to what was supposed to be hurricane-like conditions is not necessarily an end-all, be-all "reality"
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I was at game. Thought there more than 15000

I get that announced that isn’t great.

Issue is UConn football has to have names. You can’t bring top 25 Liberty and expect fans here to be motivated. They would rather see UConn /temple.

I would say 25k for next week and 30k agaisnt duke.

That is tickets out. Distributed means sold, bartered, charged off. As long as ad department is getting money for ticket, why care if people go.

Ignore tickets scanned number. It is an incorrect number, by admission, of CRDA. A minimum of 1000 tickets a game aren’t scanned, and I suspect the more the fans come in the highest percentage of unscanned tickets happen.

That number is useful as a Minimum number, but to think it is accurate is wrong as well.
 
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RioDog said:
Yawner wins count for nothing.
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Nope, Tulane made it to the Cotton Bowl with a bunch of "yawner wins" and finished the season ranked. Wins are the only thing that counts.

Losses against Power teams count for nothing. (actually they are net negative)

You perfectly illustrate my point about the fanbase needing a reality check.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Nope, Tulane made it to the Cotton Bowl with a bunch of "yawner wins" and finished the season ranked. Wins are the only thing that counts.

Losses against Power teams count for nothing. (actually they are net negative)

You perfectly illustrate my point about the fanbase needing a reality check.
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Would you rather have the chance to beat P5 opponents or lose to G5 opponents? You are siding with the latter.
 
shizzle787 said:
Would you rather have the chance to beat P5 opponents or lose to G5 opponents? You are siding with the latter.
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That's a crap question.

I want to string together a bunch of winning seasons to change the perception of our football team. Even Coastal Carolina has a national cult following from winning so many "yawner" games. I also want UConn to compete for the G5 autobid.

A win this week (if we can get it) against GA State will be far more beneficial to the football program than last week's loss to NC State.
 
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metsfan2323 said:
That's a crap question.

I want to string together a bunch of winning seasons to change the perception of our football team. Even Coastal Carolina has a national cult following from winning so many "yawner" games. I also want UConn to compete for the G5 autobid.

A win this week (if we can get it) against GA State will be far more beneficial to the football program than last week's loss to NC State.
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What cult following does Coastal Carolina have? App State you could maybe make a case for and that was because they beat Michigan and since Texas A&M.

Also, if UConn goes 12-0 as an independent with a schedule consisting of 4 P5 schools, they will be one of the seven at-large teams in the new CFP. On top of that, the CFP will likely expand further in the near future.

And my question is a great question: would you rather be considered a CUSA team or an Eastern independent deploying a BYU-esque scheduling philosophy? I’ll take the latter.

Also, the AAC, Sun Belt, and MW won’t take us so our path to the autobid is nonexistent. A MAC or CUSA won’t get in even if undefeated.
 
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JMick said:
Yeah I'm basically done with baseball since Manfred is ruining the sport so I won't miss YES that much. YTTV is perfect for UConn sports at the moment. FS1/2 and CBSSN all in the base package
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Same for Hulu.
 
noeynox said:
I have had go net speed and you tube tv, for what will be a year this month. The savings and combo can't be beat. No house phone was the sacrifice.
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Go NetSpeed is fantastic. Cannot recommend highly enough.
 
PaulMec said:
Same for Hulu.
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Hulu has SNY and YouTube TV doesn’t, which is a big deal for WBB season. Otherwise I’d have gone with YouTube to get the Sunday Ticket discount.
 
zls44 said:
Go NetSpeed is fantastic. Cannot recommend highly enough.
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Blew COX out the water at a fraction of the price. I actually had T-Mobile home internet for a while but that was too spotty.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Sure, lets create a schedule that is so difficult that a good season is 4 wins. Lets tie that anchor around the program.

We need to play more G5 teams and those G5 games would be far more interesting if they were conference games.

Our fanbase is obviously in need of a serious reality check. BTW if only P4 games turn you on then go root for another team. You are a fake UConn football fan.

Here is reality, the Boneyard was dead the week leading up to the Michigan game last year and far more energized by our win versus FIU.
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It’s a balance. As the program gets better we’ll get better opponents.
I think everyone would like to see P4 programs come to the tent. That will come in time if we continue on this path.

Nothing wrong getting mid tier P4 and top G5 programs.
 
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Was listening to WFAN on the drive home as they were talking about Spectrum and ESPN. Apparently YouTube TV doesn’t have MSG, SNY, YES…that’s a lot of lost local coverage for someone who wants to switch.
 
KryHavok said:
Was listening to WFAN on the drive home as they were talking about Spectrum and ESPN. Apparently YouTube TV doesn’t have MSG, SNY, YES…that’s a lot of lost local coverage for someone who wants to switch.
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If you are over 50, it doesn’t make sense to cut the cord. People in their 30s don’t really care for baseball though so being without NESN, SNY, and YES isn’t a big deal.
 
shizzle787 said:
If you are over 50, it doesn’t make sense to cut the cord. People in their 30s don’t really care for baseball though so being without NESN, SNY, and YES isn’t a big deal.
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Meh. I'm over 50 and follow the Yankees, and I'm fine with having shifted over to YouTubeTV. I can listen to most of the Yankees games on the radio via the WFAN website (as I'm doing while I type this), and if they are in contention next year, I can subscribe to YES digitally for about $25 a month whenever I feel like it. I split my YTTV subscription with a couple family members, so it comes out to only $25 a month (setting aside NFL Sunday Ticket, which was $250 for this season). I have some issues with YTTV (like not carrying NBC Sports Boston in Bristol, which prevents me from watching Connecticut Sun games - guess I have to move a few miles to Farmington if I want that), but overall it's been good. I don't watch much linear TV anymore, save for sports. And I'm really liking being able to fast-forward through commercials and easily DVR a few programs I used to watch on Hulu or various network apps, which don't let you skip ads.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Sure, lets create a schedule that is so difficult that a good season is 4 wins. Lets tie that anchor around the program.

We need to play more G5 teams and those G5 games would be far more interesting if they were conference games.

Our fanbase is obviously in need of a serious reality check. BTW if only P4 games turn you on then go root for another team. You are a fake UConn football fan.

Here is reality, the Boneyard was dead the week leading up to the Michigan game last year and far more energized by our win versus FIU.
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So, should we move basketball to the Patriot League, too?
 
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KryHavok said:
Was listening to WFAN on the drive home as they were talking about Spectrum and ESPN. Apparently YouTube TV doesn’t have MSG, SNY, YES…that’s a lot of lost local coverage for someone who wants to switch.
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Long term, local sports may have to go to a mix of OTA and streaming. It's already happening in Las Vegas, Utah and Phoenix.
 
Hoophound said:
i just don’t like the interface of YoutubeTV. Comcast and DirectTV are far superior.
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I love the interface personally. Went from Spectrum to YouTube, then to Hulu when they dropped SNY and hated Hulu so much I sacrificed not having SNY (I was able to do a workaround to use their app separately) back to YouTube TV. Not saying one of us is right or wrong but just sharing my preference for it personally.
 
zls44 said:
You really think joining the Sun Belt or CUSA will help UConn close the recruiting gap on P5 schools?
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No, but For football it may have to be. When there is nobody to play between after Labor Day to Thanksgiving because everyone else is locked in…….
 
zls44 said:
You really think joining the Sun Belt or CUSA will help UConn close the recruiting gap on P5 schools?
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Our ideal schedule should be one home P5 game, one away P5 game and ten G5 games. Obviously scheduling becomes a lot easier and the G5 games more interesting if we join a conference. Winning games will improve recruiting.
 
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Alum86 said:
No, but For football it may have to be. When there is nobody to play between after Labor Day to Thanksgiving because everyone else is locked in…….
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Considering how many contracts they have signed that disprove this
 
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