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

[huskyinfl]

Everything's coming up Milhouse!

 

[How Sway?!]

Yeah F the B12, we belong in the ACC anyway.

 

[Exit 4]

Dear Big East nostalgists, you won again. Congrats on your victory. How will you celebrate? Can't wait for your parade.

We are stupid.

 

[AntG168]

Yeah F the B12, we belong in the ACC anyway.

We'd just be hopping on to a sinking ship. It just about over.

 

[TRest]

Love Benedict but this is crushing. Accept that we are outside looking in at whatever the top level of college athletics will be. And we are more likely to drop football down than ever building an on-campus stadium.

 

[superjohn]

IMMINENT

What options does UConn have?

The ACC hates us and that conference won't even be around down the road.

Yormark wants us but not enough presidents in his own conference want us and they have once again made us look like fools and they gave their commissioner the middle finger. ESPN and Fox aren't our friends, they seem to actively conspire against us.

Continue to lose tons of money on football every year waiting for the ACC to implode and have our fingers crossed we end up with Wake Forest, BC, SMU, and Cal? Or get rid of football and the 100 or so women's scholarships that go along with it so we can devote the money to basketball?

I really wish it wasn't this way but I'm leaning more and more towards scrapping football, it just hasn't happened for us and the financial drain with no end in sight doesn't seem sustainable.

 

[CTBasketball]

Seek mental help. All of you.

 

[superjohn]

Love Benedict but this is crushing. Accept that we are outside looking in at whatever the top level of college athletics will be. And we are more likely to drop football down than ever building an on-campus stadium.

Dropping football down makes zero sense. If we aren't going to continue this charade then you need to get rid of the football program completely.

 

[bendm]

F the BIG12 and leadership if they do this dance again.

F them for doing it twice already

 

[metsfan2323]

Put football in the MAC for now if we can, it would be a huge improvement. At present time we are a G5 team and we should play a G5 schedule.

Being the best G5 team or at least the best team in the MAC is a realistic goal, trying to beat P4 teams is not a realistic goal. If a G5 tournament becomes a thing we should strive to be in it.

 

[How Sway?!]

Dear Big East nostalgists, you won again. Congrats on your victory. How will you celebrate? Can't wait for your parade.

We are stupid.

Lmaoo the B12 makes us do a dog and pony show just to leave us hanging again and you blame UConn fans?

 

[CL82]

IMMINENT

Frdking Zanetto

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Dear Big East nostalgists, you won again. Congrats on your victory. How will you celebrate? Can't wait for your parade.

We are stupid.

It's our fault that UConn keeps getting turned down by the Big 12? Walk me through this logic.

 

[CL82]

WERE TEASED AGAIN.

Shaddup Kansas boy.

 

[gsmooth]

Endeavor, the outside marketing consulting firm the Big 12 has hired, thinks UConn would be a great addition. Brett Yormark does, too, and AllState, from what I read, will consider the conference naming rights much more if UConn is added since they carry the NYC market. I have thought this for a while as I am sure others here have, but it really comes down to football being merely adequate, that's it.

Think of it like a 4x400m relay race in the spirit of the Summer Olympics that just ended about 1 month ago. UConn Women's Basketball, UConn Men's Basketball, and Brett Yormark, Endeavor, and NYC/Northeast market factors each "ran great legs to get a humongous lead" as they are great positive factors to getting a Big 12 invite. UConn Football has the last leg and such a "huge lead" all they need to do is merely be competitive with some decent offensive football to attract 75% capacity at the Rent for a large raucous crowd that will look good on TV-they just have to run a decent anchor leg and get across the finish line. Think of the last USA woman runner in 4X400 that had no pressure and really didn't have to run all that well because USA was so far ahead you could not see the 2nd place runner in the frame-that's the lead what UConn Football has, they don't have to be great. Yet UConn Football is falling woefully short.

 

[noeynox]

Endeavor, the outside marketing consulting firm the Big 12 has hired, thinks UConn would be a great addition. Brett Yormark does, too, and AllState, from what I read, will consider the conference naming rights much more if UConn is added since they carry the NYC market. I have thought this for a while as I am sure others here have, but it really comes down to football being merely adequate, that's it.

Think of it like a 4x400m relay race in the spirit of the Summer Olympics that just ended about 1 month ago. UConn Women's Basketball, UConn Men's Basketball, and Brett Yormark, Endeavor, and NYC/Northeast market factors each "ran great legs to get a humongous lead" as they are great positive factors to getting a Big 12 invite. UConn Football has the last leg and such a "huge lead" all they need to do is merely be competitive with some decent offensive football to attract 75% capacity at the Rent for a large raucous crowd that will look good on TV-they just have to run a decent anchor leg and getting it across the finish line. Think of the last USA woman runner in 4X400 where they were so far ahead you could not see the 2nd place runner in the frame-that's the lead what UConn Football has, they don't have to be gregreat

You want decent offensive football? Stop hiring your OL coach to be offensive coordinator. What UConn continues to try and do with football is so, so, stupid. Benedict has been here how long? He hasn't come close to fixing this. His Hurley hire was great, but FB wise he has been a big zero.

 

[CL82]

You want decent offensive football? Stop hiring your OL coach to be offensive coordinator. What UConn continues to try and do with football is so, so, stupid. Benedict has been here how long? He hasn't come close to fixing this. His Hurley hire was great, but FB wise he has been a big zero.

Mora was a good hire on paper. Let's see how the rest of the season turns out.

 

[UConn Dan]

Big 12, UConn pause expansion discussions, though commissioner Brett Yormark remains bullish on Huskies

A potential agreement would have seen the Huskies join the Big 12 first in basketball and then in football, but that has fallen through

www.cbssports.com

 

[Ha Who]

 

[Forte]

I don't think Yormark would have voluntarily put that tweet out. The BIG12 presidents likely directed it wanting to send a loud and clear message in case there was any remaining hope. BIG12 Presidents are making it clear they are a football only conference.

 

[superjohn]

Mora was a good hire on paper. Let's see how the rest of the season turns out.

A pretty big name because he coached in the NFL and because of his father but it looks to be another terrible hire.

 

[noeynox]

Mora was a good hire on paper. Let's see how the rest of the season turns out.

Eh, just a continuation of balling on a budget. Its not so much him, but the money for assistants doesn't seem to be there. It is what it is. That offense last week looked like dog barf. People complained about Charlton all the time, this looked much worse.

 

[John]

 

[buckley503]

Lolz, it's all about sports.

Isn't school pride also related to sports? I assume you didn't ask a bunch of people why they're wearing MSU gear, so your comments are really just opinion. I can't quite wrap my ahead around what "regional tradition" means in regard to merch.
I went to UConn because my oldest brother went there from 77-81. He would bring me to the men's soccer games and I was an avid fan of Husky Hoops on the B&W TV in my room. There was nowhere else I wanted to go. So even back then, the sports kicked off my love of and pride in UConn. I'm not suggesting sports is the end all for why people buy merch, but successful sports teams, like back-to-back natties, can really amplify the purchases.

There are 44K undergads at MSU. You can still buy your son/daughter season tix package for football and hockey as of now. Basketball is only sport wait listed. They still think the 2000 Championship makes them blue bloods, not to mention the statue of Magic in front of the Breslin Center. Regardless, every man, woman and child was wearing MSU green and white and I'm pretty sure it's not because of their sports programs. It's because it is the true State U of Michigan (UM smaller and much harder to get into) and they love it. It's a generational thing. Believe me, it was eye opening.

And yes, say "Go Blue" to someone in the East Lansing region and I'm pretty sure you won't get a high five. So that is what is meant by regional tradition. Think bloods and crips.

If that's opinion then fine but I did proudly wear my Hook C baseball hat around campus for what its worth.

 

[huskymedic]