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

[mike012]

I agree have to be half way decent in football in a few years. Basketball will be fine in the BE for now. But we had 5 years to fix football and that should still be the plan.

 

[HuskyHawk]

The number I saw talked about for the big 12 was 15 M for us. That's less than a half share. That would make an increase of 9 million a year, actually probably more, but that's a convenient number, so that our $15 million exit fee would've been been paid in two years.

Keep in mind that that doesn't take into account the potential receipt of college football playoff money, a full share of which would be worth $15 million on its own. Granted we certainly wouldn't be entitled to that prior to 2031, but we would be on a path to attain it.

Also, the report was that we'd get 4 football games a year against Big XII teams, which would completely change our schedule as an independent, would help recruiting and would likely have increased home attendance. If it was $15m and 4 games that easily makes financial sense.

 

[superjohn]

I don't know if we're going to have a choice. When revenue sharing kicks in we will have to put all of that towards basketball. How will we compete in football without real dollars coming in from a conference and CFP money?

Nobody has answered this.

 

[UConnJim]

The bottom line is that UConn needs to increase investment in football. The key question is how? My suggestions:

1) Reallocate expenses in the athletic department towards football.

2) Appoint a group to focus on raising money for football.

 

[temery]

what tipped you off?

I just saw that UConn is tied for 2nd among all independents, so there's that.

 

[superjohn]

If they cut football they are gonna halve the athletic department budget and it will affect basketball, tremendously.

How many ncaa champions last 50 years didn’t play football?

Outside of Villanova and UConn (1999) no other program that isn’t in top tier football has won since 1984.

UConn technically has football but it certainly has brought zero success to our basketball program. You can say the same for Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, Nova, UNC. The overwhelming majority of basketball national championships are won by the basketball schools.

 

[gsmooth]

Show me where the $15mm was a firm number. All I saw were a handful of wild ass guesses on what we would receive.

The figure I used in my example was the figure from the post I quoted.

One significant reason that I am not currently on the ledge many from this site are currently occupying is that I did not view this round as make or break for our programs. If we improve football we will be fine. If we don't, we won't. Spending the next half dozen years under our current situation is not materially different than if we received the partial B-12 invitation.

I think that is what is annoying many here including myself is that the bar for football as far as what the fans demand and what would facilitate a Big 12 invite is so low and yet the football program keeps tripping over it.

 

[John]

If this is true then Benedict fumbled bad. Hopefully it’s not or wildly blown out of proportion. If not. This is very bad. Like go find a new job bad.

Good Lord.

 

[CL82]

Show me where the $15mm was a firm number. All I saw were a handful of wild ass guesses on what we would receive.

The figure I used in my example was the figure from the post I quoted.

One significant reason that I am not currently on the ledge many from this site are currently occupying is that I did not view this round as make or break for our programs. If we improve football we will be fine. If we don't, we won't. Spending the next half dozen years under our current situation is not materially different than if we received the partial B-12 invitation.

I never said it was a firm number, I just said it was the number that I was seeing thrown around.

(By the way, you didn't link anything in the post that I replied to.)

 

[CL82]

Also, the report was that we'd get 4 football games a year against Big XII teams, which would completely change our schedule as an independent, would help recruiting and would likely have increased home attendance. If it was $15m and 4 games that easily makes financial sense.

Especially if the football admission in 2031 was conditioned upon specific spending criteria, the obtaining of which would be entirely in our control.

 

[GampelGladiator]

If this is true then Benedict fumbled bad. Hopefully it’s not or wildly blown out of proportion. If not. This is very bad. Like go find a new job bad.

Considering his tweet included a grammatical error...even more hilarious

 

[JohnFSilver]

Considering his tweet included a grammatical error...even more hilarious

It’s a fake account. Lol.

 

[JohnFSilver]

UConn technically has football but it certainly has brought zero success to our basketball program. You can say the same for Kansas, Duke, Kentucky, Nova, UNC. The overwhelming majority of basketball national championships are won by the basketball schools.

Those schools enjoy the money their football brings in.

Nova is the only school they doesn’t have major football revenue.

 

[Forte]

If this is true then Benedict fumbled bad. Hopefully it’s not or wildly blown out of proportion. If not. This is very bad. Like go find a new job bad.

I want to not believe this, but if our marketing department was involved in any way, shape, or form I would not completely doubt this. We have all seen the incompetence of UConn AD's marketing team etc.. heck just look at our roster ... maybe they pitched our opening game vs. NC State this year in the meeting.

 

[CL82]

Also, the report was that we'd get 4 football games a year against Big XII teams, which would completely change our schedule as an independent, would help recruiting and would likely have increased home attendance. If it was $15m and 4 games that easily makes financial sense.

Especially if the football admission in 2031 was conditioned upon specific financial criteria, the obtaining of which would be entirely in our control.

 

[aburks41]

If this is true then Benedict fumbled bad. Hopefully it’s not or wildly blown out of proportion. If not. This is very bad. Like go find a new job bad.

This is a fake account. Same thing as the Simon Charles NFL “reporter” account. It's just a troll account. People buy the premium Twitter thing so they can get a blue checkmark and fool people into thinking they’re real reporters. I guess it works sometimes…

But ya, fake account. Ignore it

 

[3rdbass]

This is a fake account. Same thing as the Simon Charles NFL “reporter” account. It's just a troll account. People buy the premium Twitter thing so they can get a blue checkmark and fool people into thinking they’re real reporters. I guess it works sometimes…

But ya, fake account. Ignore it

https://twitter.com/RealRobReinhart...31749545182511167|twgr^|twcon^s1_c10&ref_url=

Definitely fake if they are worried about men's basketball attendance and Uconn educational achievements. We just sold out our season tickets for this year and last year most games were a sell out. As noted before we would be the best ranked school as far ad education is concerned.

 

[CCSU97]

We won’t be the only ones in the hurt locker. Let some other schools cut it and we can benefit.

If Wyoming can field an FBS team then Connecticut can.

Yes, Connecticut absolutely can (and should) field an FBS team.

And so does the public flagship universities in Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, Delaware, Massachusetts and New York (SUNY Buffalo) - and none of them will ever be in a Power Conference.

 

[3rdbass]

More trolling coming from him. 10-12 years is definitely trolling as nobody knows what college football will be like then.

 

[Sea Goat]

What ever is really happening, we need to realize that time is of the essence. Ned Lamont is key to getting something done. He gets the money issues crystal clearly! He has private sector experience and understands the realities of college athletics as a business. When he leaves God only knows which uninformed career politician will be the Governor/Ex Officio Chair of the BOT.

I think Lamont grasps the problem. He knows that the P-2 is primed to move on BB as they have in FB. Then what? UConn should be at any table where the fate of BB is being determined. Will we be?

Is UConn going to become a discrete Catholic private institution located in the Northeast w/o football? The BE is perfect for StJ, PC, GT etc but not for UConn. Simply put, we are a fish out of water in the BE and we need to get into a suitable lake.

Importantly, We need to redouble our efforts and get it done while Lamont is still in charge.

 

[LBird33]

Yeah… he’s farming.

The more he spews this stuff the uninformed he shows himself to be. In desperate need to get attention

 

[Chin Diesel]

The more he spews this stuff the uninformed he shows himself to be. In desperate need to get attention

It's almost like tou don't know what is a troll account and what is its function.

 

[aburks41]

The more he spews this stuff the uninformed he shows himself to be. In desperate need to get attention

Rob Reinhart is not a real person. It's a fake name and fake account created by a troll.

 

[huskymedic]

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[nelsonmuntz]

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Somewhat unusual statement to make by the Big 10. It feels like a CYA from a tortious interference suit from the ACC, since that league is probably pretty pissed. I don't think it means much beyond that. They can "change their mind" any time they want.