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

[nelsonmuntz]

I am more worried about UConn Big East apologists trying to sabotage UConn moving to another conference.

What about AAC loving Big East Haters that would burn the athletic program to the ground for a football schedule with Tulsa and ECU?

 

[gioff2323]

What about AAC loving Big East Haters that would burn the athletic program to the ground for a football schedule with Tulsa and ECU?

They both moved on.

 

[ScottVib]

What about AAC loving Big East Haters that would burn the athletic program to the ground for a football schedule with Tulsa and ECU?

I think they are referring more towards the commentary during the last round of Big XII reporting where you had high profile folks including the state speaker of the house, US Senators, etc, positing that UConn needs to stay in the Big East, vs taking a Big XII invite for non-football (with an alleged phase in for football membership).

There is no one (in the last three years) that I've seen stating UConn should leave the Big East to go to the AAC.

 

[CL82]

There is no one (in the last three years) that I've seen stating UConn should leave the Big East to go to the AAC

Just one idiot, apparently.

 

[uconnyankee]

I mean no offense to you personally, but I hate this sentiment that there is always something “more” needed by UConn, particularly from the basketball teams. Nobody has ever been held to this standard.

Yeah, it’s either good enough now or it isn’t. Should the men not win a third in a row, that shouldn’t discount the program.
Geno and the women have been riddled with injuries for a few years, but that program is the measuring stick. Only issue on that side is Geno is getting up there in age. Big shoes to fill in the near-term.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I think they are referring more towards the commentary during the last round of Big XII reporting where you had high profile folks including the state speaker of the house, US Senators, etc, positing that UConn needs to stay in the Big East, vs taking a Big XII invite for non-football (with an alleged phase in for football membership).

There is no one (in the last three years) that I've seen stating UConn should leave the Big East to go to the AAC.

First of all, there was no phase-in for football membership. There was a one way option by the Big 12 to consider taking UConn football in 2032, which would likely mean a phase in starting at that point. A deal like that would require tens of millions of state dollars to fund, without any surety that UConn would even be invited in 2032. And UConn would take all of the risk of a P2 split without any of the revenue benefit. Is it really that difficult to figure out why that option was not appealing to a lot of people at the state house?

It is also completely reasonable for people to think that the Big East haters want a return to the AAC because many of those Big East haters are deceptive about their own positions and what UConn's options really are.

 

[Ha Who]

Here we go again. Charlie Brown is waiting for a real tweet.

 

[coachcap]

Yeah, it’s either good enough now or it isn’t. Should the men not win a third in a row, that shouldn’t discount the program.
Geno and the women have been riddled with injuries for a few years, but that program is the measuring stick. Only issue on that side is Geno is getting up there in age. Big shoes to fill in the near-term.

If & when Geno decides to retire, AD Dave's first call should be to Diana Taurasi. There is a list of former players who would make viable candidates. In no particular order: Taurasi, Sue Bird, Carla Berube, Jen Rizzoti. That position will be filled 5 seconds after Geno signs the retirement papers.

 

[Stinger92860]

If & when Geno decides to retire, AD Dave's first call should be to Diana Taurasi. There is a list of former players who would make viable candidates. In no particular order: Taurasi, Sue Bird, Carla Berube, Jen Rizzoti. That position will be filled 5 seconds after Geno signs the retirement papers.

Great players do not always make great coaches. My first call would be to Carla. She has had Princeton ranked.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Come on people. There is nothing more that this program can do.

It wins in every sport. Every sport.

No, it isn’t national titles, but neither does every program.

UConn is elite basketball, competitive fbs football with a lot of potential if it gets in a bigger league, and its other sports can fit in any conference in the country.

Enough with UConn having to prove something. How about these other schools prove something?

 

[RioDog]

Come on people. There is nothing more that this program can do.

It wins in every sport. Every sport.

No, it isn’t national titles, but neither does every program.

UConn is elite basketball, competitive fbs football with a lot of potential if it gets in a bigger league, and its other sports can fit in any conference in the country.

Enough with UConn having to prove something. How about these other schools prove something?

When you're on the outside looking in the need keep proving yourself doesn't end until you're in. I get the pride thing, but that's the unfortunate truth of the matter. Then the equation changes. We can also see clearly that the parasites on the inside have to prove nothing.

 

[gioff2323]

Great players do not always make great coaches. My first call would be to Carla. She has had Princeton ranked.

Not Shea?

 

[Chin Diesel]

If & when Geno decides to retire, AD Dave's first call should be to Diana Taurasi. There is a list of former players who would make viable candidates. In no particular order: Taurasi, Sue Bird, Carla Berube, Jen Rizzoti. That position will be filled 5 seconds after Geno signs the retirement papers.

Is there anything worse than replacing a legend with a former player with no coaching experience????

 

[JohnFSilver]

Listen. Next UConn women’s basketball coach doesn’t have to be a former player.

 

[uconnyankee]

Listen. Next UConn women’s basketball coach doesn’t have to be a former player.

No it doesn’t. But my guess is that he will stay within the ‘family’.
If I were betting man, it’s a former player with success as coach.

 

[CL82]

Is there anything worse than replacing a legend with a former player with no coaching experience????

Sometimes you can squeeze a natty out of that before they decide they don't want to put the work in.

For what it's worth Taurasi is indicated she has no interest in coaching, but would be interested in owning a team.

 

[Ldandy]

The state of the Connecticut Football Program may have been advanced by some in Big 12 Country as a reason to hold on The Huskies, however I believe that the real reason has always been geography. They're primarily a Midwest/Southwest/Mountain West conference with a Florida School tacked on for recruiting purposes. Connecticut probably feels like another country to most of their membership. Easy solution ship SMU to the Big 12 and backfill with UConn. Stanford and Cal make no sense in either The ACC or Big 12, but the B1G probably doesn't see a bump adding the pair or they would have done it initially.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Sometimes you can squeeze a natty out of that before they decide they don't want to put the work in.

For what it's worth Taurasi is indicated she has no interest in coaching, but would be interested in owning a team.

Laugh for the first part (although Ollie had coaching experience as an assistant) and pitential smart move on the second part if she is talking ownership of anything other than a WNBA franchise.

 

[Patman]

Great players do not always make great coaches. My first call would be to Carla. She has had Princeton ranked.

the first call would be to whoever Geno says it goes to

 

[Ha Who]

You realize once the cartel gets a hold of milking women’s basketball, we are nothing other than Immaculata and Delta State

 

[Stinger92860]

the first call would be to whoever Geno says it goes to

Geno’s first call will be to Carl Berube

 

[CashewCrew]

Key Tweets turns into potential women’s basketball coaching hires…. Awesome stuff guys

 

[JohnFSilver]

No it doesn’t. But my guess is that he will stay within the ‘family’.
If I were betting man, it’s a former player with success as coach.

Why? That never works.

Shea. Elliott, Berube or whoever. If they are qualified they are qualified.

But what happens if dawn staley wants the job? You say no? Or even Kara Lawson.

 

[Stinger92860]

Key Tweets turns into potential women’s basketball coaching hires…. Awesome stuff

It’s a Boneyard tradition. I keep coming here looking for key tweets and I decided to give up. But you are right.

 

[Rufus]

Stanford and Cal make no sense in either The ACC or Big 12, but the B1G probably doesn't see a bump adding the pair or they would have done it initially.

Some of the talking heads said the Presidents of the B1G were for adding Stanford and Cal, but FOX wouldn’t pay for it. FOX would only pay for Washington and Oregon. No idea if it’s true or not. But, if we go back to 2022, after USC and UCLA announced they were joining the B1G, former B1G Commissioner Kevin Warren said the B1G wasn’t done expanding and he could see going to 20 schools. This was the same week Dennis Dodds named Washington, Oregon, Stanford, and Cal as B1G targets. The B1G Presidents and FOX did not like him publicly stating that and it contributed to a strained relationship that ultimately led him to leave the B1G.

Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren talks expansion on Real Sports

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