Let's be clear. Calling for UConn to turn down a Big12 invite is calling for football to be shut down or relegated. And it's also hurting the long term viability of all other sports that wish to compete for championships. It's just financial reality. You gotta pay for stuff.
Why would the Big 12 take all these teams that aren't worth anything? I mean surely the Pac 12 would have compromised and said you know what we'll just play our games a couple hours early to get more exposure if that's what the TV guys want to save the conference.
You didn't say he was a hypocrite and a coward, and I didn't disagree with those statements. You said he quit on his team. I am pointing out that it is simply wrong to claim a coach can quit on his team after a season is over. He doesn't have a team to quit on at that point until it gathers for the next season, and either players or coaches are free to leave before the next season starts.
Yes, and this is one set of circumstances (nearly August and no PAC media deal) that plausibly nobody foresaw, leading to a number of things needing to be discussed/determined before the next move. Adding to this equation is that evidently, as there is no media deal, a P-12 school can leave after the upcoming academic/athletic year (as Colorado did) and have no departure fees or penalties.
Sly minx Hurley is.Hurley ended the UConn practice today by grabbing the microphone and thanking the fans before finishing with some like “and no I don’t know if we are joining the Big 12 or not”
Coaches aren't just hired seasonally. He just bailed on the team and went to Maryland instead of coming back and explaining his decision. Characterizing that as "quitting on the team" probably isn't all that unfair.
Thank you for your interest in UConn athletics and conference realignment. You can see yourself out and never come back.
Bye Felicia. You don't have to come back to this insane asylum.
Should have focused on an offensive game plan instead of negotiating a contract with Maryland. He was a penis personified.
Yes, he quit on his team. He wouldn't even fly with them or see them face to face.
Yes, treating Todman that way appalled me after seeing what he then did. That was classless.
Sigh. We've been through this so many times ovewr the last 13 years. Fact -- quitting on your team would have been bailing out before the Fiesta Bowl, as a clear majority of coaches bailing out do. He stayed. The fact that he gets more criticism for leaving immediately AFTER the bowl game than coaches get for leaving their teams in the lurch before the bowl game is totally irrational.
We disagree. My opinion is he quit on them, yours is he didn't quit on them.
What????
Dude, it’s pretty obvious we are the fifth option and we were used to prompt Colorado with appearance of an at minimum 2 team expansion, and then use Colorado to pull another PAC team into slot 2, and then see if dominos fall for slots 3 and 4.
Sadly, there are still some so called fans at UConn that think this way.
Either he thinks he's being funny or he's one of the handful of people who think we should only support men's basketball and then, only in the Big East.
This is dumb.
indeed, this is contradictory. We don't have zero leverage because we aren't communicating with the ACC and PAC. We have zero leverage because we only have one hope.
Just because odds makers have UConn 5th, certainly doesn't mean the Big 12 does.
GoKU if you’re right about this you might as well move to Connecticut. You’ll never pay for a meal or drink again.
If this type of poster interferes with our chances I’ll let you on a secret. He’s a Syracuse troll angry that any perceived (his) advantage his program had over us is now going out the window.
