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

[RuffRuff]

Rutgers BB had two lottery picks last season and couldn't make the tournament- that's all you need to know

Not just lottery picks, but top 5, no? Having two top 5 picks and not making the tourney has to be a first.

I don't think there is anyone here that would find more joy in routing for a lousy Rutgers-like program just because they're in the B10, over what UConn fans have.

 

[BigTenFan]

I think all Big10 fans would agree- Rutgers brings absolutely nothing to the league.
Uconn BB men's and women's would be unbelievable.

 

[buddy]

What percentage of UConn football fans would want UConn to trade places with Rutgers just so they could say they were fans of a Big 10 school? 10%? 20%? More?

UConn would be competitive pretty quickly in any power conference

 

[FfldCntyFan]

The B1G hasn't won a men's basketball title since 2000, we've won five of our six in that time frame. It would take quite a bit of willful ignorance to believe that our fate in that sport (or nearly every other sport we participate in) would suffer Rutgers' fate.

Waylon knows better, he just puts on this act for reasons I'd prefer not to speculate on.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

The B1G hasn't won a men's basketball title since 2000, we've won five of our six in that time frame. It would take quite a bit of willful ignorance to believe that our fate in that sport (or nearly every other sport we participate in) would suffer Rutgers' fate.

Waylon knows better, he just puts on this act for reasons I'd prefer not to speculate on.

Everyone would rather we were in the Big 10. You do not have some genius insight on this point. Nice try to claim I didn't want us in a P4 though. I will let you in on a secret though. UConn is not in the Big 10, and there is no path for us to get into that league, no matter how many strawmen you create.

 

[MilliniumPrince]

A half billion dollars in the whole over the decade since the B1G move.

Is that an unfathomable amount of money spent, sure. But look at the results! The results speak for themselves.

 

[bendm]

My premise is that you would rather say you supported a Big 10 team than win championships and enjoy supporting a winning program. Not a controversial assertion in your case.

My premise is I would rather have both. You just claim they are mutually exclusive realities based on nothing.

 

[JohnFSilver]

What percentage of UConn football fans would want UConn to trade places with Rutgers just so they could say they were fans of a Big 10 school? 10%? 20%? More?

I think UConn wins wherever it goes.

 

[Stinger92860]

Losing $78 million in a single year is less of a budget shortfall and more like a work of art. In these large conferences someone has to occupy the cellar as half the conference will always have a losing record. However, Indiana just proved the cellar isn't a life sentence. Yet for Rutgers that seems to be the case in every sport. Same for BCU.

 

[Purple Stein]

My premise is that you would rather say you supported a Big 10 team than win championships and enjoy supporting a winning program. Not a controversial assertion in your case.

Your premise is literally a false dilemma.

 

[RSTuthill]

Everyone would rather we were in the Big 10. You do not have some genius insight on this point. Nice try to claim I didn't want us in a P4 though. I will let you in on a secret though. UConn is not in the Big 10, and there is no path for us to get into that league, no matter how many strawmen you create.

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?

 

[RSTuthill]

I think UConn wins wherever it goes.

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.

 

[jostar1]

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Remember this from last year?

 

[BlueHen]

Remember this from last year?

We should reach out to Rutgers and see if they have a trophy case. If they do it's never been used and might even be an antique.

 

[mcs333]

lost 78 mil last year. Lost 517 mil. since joining the big ten. AD says they have a revenue problem.

Rutgers athletics hits record $78 million deficit. New AD says ‘It’s got to get better.’

 

[CL82]

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:

 

[John]

My premise is that you would rather say you supported a Big 10 team than win championships and enjoy supporting a winning program. Not a controversial assertion in your case.

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.

 

[Husky68]

lost 78 mil last year. Lost 517 mil. since joining the big ten. AD says they have a revenue problem.

Rutgers athletics hits record $78 million deficit. New AD says ‘It’s got to get better.’

Maybe it's an expense problem.

 

[UConn Dan]

The Big10 has to know how very wrong they were to include Rutgers. Have any of these conferences ever kicked out members?? I’m including the ACC in this too. I’m just curious.

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).

UConn went 3-3 in its first season in the Big East and Temple went 0-6 in that same (final) year.

So I would say, there's still hope for Rutgers and/or BC to be booted from their conferences.

 

[Ldandy]

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:

The B1G would probably add Syracuse...

Rule #1 amirite?

 

[buddy]

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).

UConn went 3-3 in its first season in the Big East and Temple went 0-6 in that same (final) year.

So I would say, there's still hope for Rutgers and/or BC to be booted from their conferences.

I read on X where the P4 will start thinning the herd in the next 3 years. Perhaps the old Big East may return?

 

[CL82]

The B1G would probably add Syracuse...

Rule #1 amirite?

Why would they add a team from Canada?

 

[CL82]

I read on X where the P4 will start thinning the herd in the next 3 years. Perhaps the old Big East may return?

Lol, well, if you read it on X...

 

[spsct]

The B1G would probably add Syracuse...

Rule #1 amirite?

Nah... Not enough of a junk punch. They would take BCU to try to lure in ND.

 

[Enrique]

Rutgers may have lost hundreds of millions since joining the big 10, but since then they have a least filled up their trophy case...with air.

 

[uconnbill]

lost 78 mil last year. Lost 517 mil. since joining the big ten. AD says they have a revenue problem.

Rutgers athletics hits record $78 million deficit. New AD says ‘It’s got to get better.’

They have a losing problem and no one outside of Rutgers alumni gives two cents about Rutgers.
They have always been losers and will remain that way unless someone throws $50 million a year at them for football and basketball and even then

 

[Chin Diesel]

 

[gioff2323]

So I would say, there's still hope for Rutgers and/or BC to be booted from their conferences.

Where do all those Cuse communications majors go? ESPiN. I see Cuse as safe, regardless of how little value they add.

 

[SU1968]

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).

UConn went 3-3 in its first season in the Big East and Temple went 0-6 in that same (final) year.

So I would say, there's still hope for Rutgers and/or BC to be booted from their conferences.

Actually, Temple was booted for failing to meet the NCAA's requirement for teams to have an average 15,000 butts in the seats for home games. That requirement no longer exists.

 

[Kolumbo]

Actually, Temple was booted for failing to meet the NCAA's requirement for teams to have an average 15,000 butts in the seats for home games. That requirement no longer exists.

so cuse and bcu are safe for now, vis-a-vis the NCAA anyway. Maybe the ACC feels differently at some point😎