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

[CTFAN4LIFE]

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.

So, should we move basketball to the Patriot League, too?

 

[CoastAtlantic]

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.

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.

 

[zls44]

https://x.com/espnpr/status/1699900242056135087?s=46&t=i533GYWYlMMfz46DQir1nA

Happy ESPN Day, everyone!

 

[Platt81]

i just don’t like the interface of YoutubeTV. Comcast and DirectTV are far superior.

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.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

https://x.com/espnpr/status/1699900242056135087?s=46&t=i533GYWYlMMfz46DQir1nA

Happy ESPN Day, everyone!

do we really need to mark this day if we are uconn fans

 

[Alum86]

You really think joining the Sun Belt or CUSA will help UConn close the recruiting gap on P5 schools?

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…….

 

[metsfan2323]

You really think joining the Sun Belt or CUSA will help UConn close the recruiting gap on P5 schools?

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.

 

[zls44]

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…….

Considering how many contracts they have signed that disprove this

 

[shizzle787]

If you want to compete at the highest level, you need to play opponents of the highest caliber. End of story.

 

[metsfan2323]

If you want to compete at the highest level, you need to play opponents of the highest caliber. End of story.

There's the delusion i'm talking about. We aren't at the highest level, we are G5. Why the denial about this fact? Are we pretending there is no difference between G5 and P5? There's an article in this thread about SMU paying 200 million dollars to join the P5. I guess someone should tell them they wasted their money.

 

[shizzle787]

There's the delusion i'm talking about. We aren't at the highest level, we are G5. Why the denial about this fact? Are we pretending there is no difference between G5 and P5? There's an article in this thread about SMU paying 200 million dollars to join the P5.

Our peers are in the P5, not G5. We may be a G5 school but that doesn't mean we should crawl up in a corner and play only G5 schools. BYU didn't do that, and neither should we. We have a brand people have heard of and P5 schools like UNC and Ole Miss are coming to our place. I'm not giving that up to play EMU or Jacksonville State every year. Yuck. It's a good thing AD Dave agrees with my line of thinking and not yours. Contrary to what you may think, if we join the MAC or CUSA (Sun Belt would not invite us), we would be downgrading our status in the college football landscape. There are degrees to the G5. Hint: we are near the top. Your proposal would lead us to sink to the bottom of the pool.

That me refresh you on this:

Tier 1: Big 10, SEC (multiple CFP bids yearly)
Tier 2: ACC, Big 12 (multiple CFP bids frequently)
Tier 3: AAC, MW (+ OSU, WSU), Army, UConn (CFP bid for conference champ frequently)
Tier 4: Sun Belt (CFP bid for conference champ rarely)
Tier 5: CUSA, MAC (no effective CFP access)

 

[NE Football]

We might have to agree to one home and two road games to get P4 opponents on our schedule.

 

[metsfan2323]

Our peers are in the P5, not G5. We may be a G5 school but that doesn't mean we should crawl up in a corner and play only G5 schools. BYU didn't do that, and neither should we. We have a brand people have heard of and P5 schools like UNC and Ole Miss are coming to our place. I'm not giving that up to play EMU or Jacksonville State every year. Yuck. It's a good thing AD Dave agrees with my line of thinking and not yours. Contrary to what you may think, if we join the MAC or CUSA (Sun Belt would not invite us), we would be downgrading our status in the college football landscape. There are degrees to the G5. Hint: we are near the top. Your proposal would lead us to sink to the bottom of the pool.

That me refresh you on this:

Tier 1: Big 10, SEC (multiple CFP bids yearly)
Tier 2: ACC, Big 12 (multiple CFP bids frequently)
Tier 3: AAC, MW (+ OSU, WSU), Army, UConn (CFP bid for conference champ frequently)
Tier 4: Sun Belt (CFP bid for conference champ rarely)
Tier 5: CUSA, MAC (no effective CFP access)

I agree that CUSA is a non-starter. We are at the bottom pool as we will be locked out of the G5 auto-bid when playoffs expand. BTW Western Michigan out of the MAC was the G5 champ recently.

 

[CL82]

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.

Not much of a sacrifice, though. I found that the house phone incoming calls were mostly solicitation. Friends/family/work calls all came in on our cells.

 

[shizzle787]

We might have to agree to one home and two road games to get P4 opponents on our schedule.

We don't need to do this. We don't do it now and we don't need to start to.

 

[shizzle787]

I agree that CUSA is a non-starter. We are at the bottom pool as we will be locked out of the G5 auto-bid when playoffs expand. BTW Western Michigan out of the MAC was the G5 champ recently.

1 time out of 10 years. They needed to go undefeated and have atrophy in the AAC and MW. No team in the AAC or MW had less than two losses that year. Virtually, a miracle scenario.

 

[Urcea]

If it’s so easy to schedule P5 games, I’m struggling to see why you wouldn’t take an AAC offer with its eight conference games and schedule the remaining 4 as P5s or 1 P5 1 FCS. We already have 7 G5 games on this year’s calendar

 

[noeynox]

If it’s so easy to schedule P5 games, I’m struggling to see why you wouldn’t take an AAC offer with its eight conference games and schedule the remaining 4 as P5s or 1 P5 1 FCS. We already have 7 G5 games on this year’s calendar

Easy? No. Easier than when you don't have to account for dates taken up with conference games the majority of your fanbase doesn't want to see? I would say say yes. I'm with @shizzle787 here. Until the current scheduling philosophy doesn't work, there is no need to change the approach. Can difficulty present itself given P5 became the P4? Sure. 1st thing i would do now is talk to Oregon State and Washington State about games.

 

[UConnJim]

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.

In the Boston area, NESN is an important channel for both hockey and baseball fans as they carry the Red Sox, Bruins, Hockey East, the Beanpot.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

We might have to agree to one home and two road games to get P4 opponents on our schedule.

It won't be BCU, so don't get your hopes up.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

There's a stigma to being classified as a G5 school within our own fanbase and opposing fanbases that is somewhat alleviated by being an Independent.

It's much easier to sell ourselves as that then to be lumped into the minor leagues.

Joining any non p4/p5 league as football only member kills that.

As long as our home broadcast rights are national in reach on linear TV there's no reason to join a g5 league.

 

[JohnFSilver]

There's a stigma to being classified as a G5 school within our own fanbase and opposing fanbases that is somewhat alleviated by being an Independent.

It's much easier to sell ourselves as that then to be lumped into the minor leagues.

Joining any non p4/p5 league as football only member kills that.

As long as our home broadcast rights are national in reach on linear TV there's no reason to join a g5 league.

UConn isn’t G5. They don’t get CFP money. If UConn is top rated non p5, they don’t get into the playoff either

 

[huskymedic]

UConn isn’t G5. They don’t get CFP money. If UConn is top rated non p5, they don’t get into the playoff either

UConn receives nominal $$ (in the scope of things) as an Independent from CFP system (?$300k +/-)

 

[Storrs South]

UConn receives nominal $$ (in the scope of things) as an Independent from CFP system (?$300k +/-)

I don't think it would be much more today in AAC (believe it'd be around $1.5 million). Basically something UConn offsets having the annual buy game.

 

[hank970]

Our peers are in the P5, not G5. We may be a G5 school but that doesn't mean we should crawl up in a corner and play only G5 schools. BYU didn't do that, and neither should we. We have a brand people have heard of and P5 schools like UNC and Ole Miss are coming to our place. I'm not giving that up to play EMU or Jacksonville State every year. Yuck. It's a good thing AD Dave agrees with my line of thinking and not yours. Contrary to what you may think, if we join the MAC or CUSA (Sun Belt would not invite us), we would be downgrading our status in the college football landscape. There are degrees to the G5. Hint: we are near the top. Your proposal would lead us to sink to the bottom of the pool.

That me refresh you on this:

Tier 1: Big 10, SEC (multiple CFP bids yearly)
Tier 2: ACC, Big 12 (multiple CFP bids frequently)
Tier 3: AAC, MW (+ OSU, WSU), Army, UConn (CFP bid for conference champ frequently)
Tier 4: Sun Belt (CFP bid for conference champ rarely)
Tier 5: CUSA, MAC (no effective CFP access)

UConn has a basketball brand, no doubt. Beyond that? Tier 6.