I wrote an email to warde a few years back that they should award free tickets to honor students from inner city schools. Put on a tailgate for them the whole nine. I looked at it as way to expose kids to UConn football that wouldn't otherwise would be, while at the same time building the fan base and increasing attendance. Warde like the idea but it never materialized.
It was a dick move from the Courant and Turner himself. Perceptions become reality. Soon the article will be spun to habe said that former UConn AD said "UConn doesnt belong" yada, yada, yada.
Point is, we all saw where attendance took a HUGE hit. It was toward the end of P's 2nd year. By his last year they had a major problem. Diaco's first year didn't excite.
As long as it's offerred to non-prospects as well, it's fine.
People who talk about geography being an issue dont seem to actually look at the schedules of the non-revenue sports, a bunch of which arent round robin sports, and the only time you really see conference mates is the conference championship,
I think this thing has a looong way to go. The committee is going to present the presidents with any school that meets the criteria. It will probably be all of the assumed schools including UConn, UC, Houston, BYU, CSU, UCF/USF. Maybe even a few of the "really?" schools like SMU and Rice. They'll then argue over those schools until they get a consensus so they can vote unanimously. If Texas isn't in the room, these presentations are just fluff.
Why do people constantly reference "UCF/USF," as if they are the same program, joined at the hip, or somehow a package deal? They have only been in the same conference since 2013.
I think the idea is if they want a chance of taking any meaningful share of the Florida football market, they can't do it with either UCF or USF. Would need both.
I do it because they may as well use the same presentation and just tweak the demographic numbers of the school and Orlando / Tampa. I don't think they are joined at the him or are a package. It's pretty hard to distinguish their strengths and weaknesses (although I'm sure their students/alums would disagree with my analysis).
Interesting. So the function of this presentation is to cull those schools that don't meet a baseline? That's good.
In my opinion, it's either because the B12 is looking for ESPN and Fox to pay them off not to expand or because they are an incredibly disfunctional conference. Perhaps both.
east baby!!! uconn, UH, cincy, and USF...
Not a chance in hell that happens with USF or UCF - far more likely they just would decide to go by two and take UC-UH.
I'd have to disagree with the "we need BYU for 4" theory. By most reports it seems that 2 is more likely than 4. I think eliminating BYU and having the discussion between UH/UC/UConn is a more favorable scenario. In that sense, we have to just not finish last. I guess UCF has a shot but I'm not on that bandwagon.
If the choices are going two or going zero, then yes of course BYU being out helps. But BYU being in still means that four is on the table and a plausible compromise between the faction who would want UH included and the faction who would want BYU included.