Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell. | Page 749 | The Boneyard
.-.

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

shizzle787 said:
If you want to compete at the highest level, you need to play opponents of the highest caliber. End of story.
Expand ...

There's the delusion i'm talking about. We aren't at the highest level, we are G5. Why the denial about this fact? Are we pretending there is no difference between G5 and P5? There's an article in this thread about SMU paying 200 million dollars to join the P5. I guess someone should tell them they wasted their money.
 
Last edited:
metsfan2323 said:
There's the delusion i'm talking about. We aren't at the highest level, we are G5. Why the denial about this fact? Are we pretending there is no difference between G5 and P5? There's an article in this thread about SMU paying 200 million dollars to join the P5.
Expand ...
Our peers are in the P5, not G5. We may be a G5 school but that doesn't mean we should crawl up in a corner and play only G5 schools. BYU didn't do that, and neither should we. We have a brand people have heard of and P5 schools like UNC and Ole Miss are coming to our place. I'm not giving that up to play EMU or Jacksonville State every year. Yuck. It's a good thing AD Dave agrees with my line of thinking and not yours. Contrary to what you may think, if we join the MAC or CUSA (Sun Belt would not invite us), we would be downgrading our status in the college football landscape. There are degrees to the G5. Hint: we are near the top. Your proposal would lead us to sink to the bottom of the pool.

That me refresh you on this:

Tier 1: Big 10, SEC (multiple CFP bids yearly)
Tier 2: ACC, Big 12 (multiple CFP bids frequently)
Tier 3: AAC, MW (+ OSU, WSU), Army, UConn (CFP bid for conference champ frequently)
Tier 4: Sun Belt (CFP bid for conference champ rarely)
Tier 5: CUSA, MAC (no effective CFP access)
 
shizzle787 said:
Our peers are in the P5, not G5. We may be a G5 school but that doesn't mean we should crawl up in a corner and play only G5 schools. BYU didn't do that, and neither should we. We have a brand people have heard of and P5 schools like UNC and Ole Miss are coming to our place. I'm not giving that up to play EMU or Jacksonville State every year. Yuck. It's a good thing AD Dave agrees with my line of thinking and not yours. Contrary to what you may think, if we join the MAC or CUSA (Sun Belt would not invite us), we would be downgrading our status in the college football landscape. There are degrees to the G5. Hint: we are near the top. Your proposal would lead us to sink to the bottom of the pool.

That me refresh you on this:

Tier 1: Big 10, SEC (multiple CFP bids yearly)
Tier 2: ACC, Big 12 (multiple CFP bids frequently)
Tier 3: AAC, MW (+ OSU, WSU), Army, UConn (CFP bid for conference champ frequently)
Tier 4: Sun Belt (CFP bid for conference champ rarely)
Tier 5: CUSA, MAC (no effective CFP access)
Expand ...

I agree that CUSA is a non-starter. We are at the bottom pool as we will be locked out of the G5 auto-bid when playoffs expand. BTW Western Michigan out of the MAC was the G5 champ recently.
 
noeynox said:
I have had go net speed and you tube tv, for what will be a year this month. The savings and combo can't be beat. No house phone was the sacrifice.
Expand ...
Not much of a sacrifice, though. I found that the house phone incoming calls were mostly solicitation. Friends/family/work calls all came in on our cells.
 
.-.
metsfan2323 said:
I agree that CUSA is a non-starter. We are at the bottom pool as we will be locked out of the G5 auto-bid when playoffs expand. BTW Western Michigan out of the MAC was the G5 champ recently.
Expand ...
1 time out of 10 years. They needed to go undefeated and have atrophy in the AAC and MW. No team in the AAC or MW had less than two losses that year. Virtually, a miracle scenario.
 
If it’s so easy to schedule P5 games, I’m struggling to see why you wouldn’t take an AAC offer with its eight conference games and schedule the remaining 4 as P5s or 1 P5 1 FCS. We already have 7 G5 games on this year’s calendar
 
Urcea said:
If it’s so easy to schedule P5 games, I’m struggling to see why you wouldn’t take an AAC offer with its eight conference games and schedule the remaining 4 as P5s or 1 P5 1 FCS. We already have 7 G5 games on this year’s calendar
Expand ...
Easy? No. Easier than when you don't have to account for dates taken up with conference games the majority of your fanbase doesn't want to see? I would say say yes. I'm with @shizzle787 here. Until the current scheduling philosophy doesn't work, there is no need to change the approach. Can difficulty present itself given P5 became the P4? Sure. 1st thing i would do now is talk to Oregon State and Washington State about games.
 
shizzle787 said:
If you are over 50, it doesn’t make sense to cut the cord. People in their 30s don’t really care for baseball though so being without NESN, SNY, and YES isn’t a big deal.
Expand ...
In the Boston area, NESN is an important channel for both hockey and baseball fans as they carry the Red Sox, Bruins, Hockey East, the Beanpot.
 
.-.
There's a stigma to being classified as a G5 school within our own fanbase and opposing fanbases that is somewhat alleviated by being an Independent.

It's much easier to sell ourselves as that then to be lumped into the minor leagues.

Joining any non p4/p5 league as football only member kills that.

As long as our home broadcast rights are national in reach on linear TV there's no reason to join a g5 league.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
There's a stigma to being classified as a G5 school within our own fanbase and opposing fanbases that is somewhat alleviated by being an Independent.

It's much easier to sell ourselves as that then to be lumped into the minor leagues.

Joining any non p4/p5 league as football only member kills that.

As long as our home broadcast rights are national in reach on linear TV there's no reason to join a g5 league.
Expand ...
UConn isn’t G5. They don’t get CFP money. If UConn is top rated non p5, they don’t get into the playoff either
 
huskymedic said:
UConn receives nominal $$ (in the scope of things) as an Independent from CFP system (?$300k +/-)
Expand ...
I don't think it would be much more today in AAC (believe it'd be around $1.5 million). Basically something UConn offsets having the annual buy game.
 
shizzle787 said:
Our peers are in the P5, not G5. We may be a G5 school but that doesn't mean we should crawl up in a corner and play only G5 schools. BYU didn't do that, and neither should we. We have a brand people have heard of and P5 schools like UNC and Ole Miss are coming to our place. I'm not giving that up to play EMU or Jacksonville State every year. Yuck. It's a good thing AD Dave agrees with my line of thinking and not yours. Contrary to what you may think, if we join the MAC or CUSA (Sun Belt would not invite us), we would be downgrading our status in the college football landscape. There are degrees to the G5. Hint: we are near the top. Your proposal would lead us to sink to the bottom of the pool.

That me refresh you on this:

Tier 1: Big 10, SEC (multiple CFP bids yearly)
Tier 2: ACC, Big 12 (multiple CFP bids frequently)
Tier 3: AAC, MW (+ OSU, WSU), Army, UConn (CFP bid for conference champ frequently)
Tier 4: Sun Belt (CFP bid for conference champ rarely)
Tier 5: CUSA, MAC (no effective CFP access)
Expand ...
UConn has a basketball brand, no doubt. Beyond that? Tier 6.
 
huskymedic said:
UConn receives nominal $$ (in the scope of things) as an Independent from CFP system (?$300k +/-)
Expand ...
Really. That is t too bad then. They don’t have access to game though. They could go 12-0 and be locked out next year.
 
.-.
UConnJim said:
In the Boston area, NESN is an important channel for both hockey and baseball fans as they carry the Red Sox, Bruins, Hockey East, the Beanpot.
Expand ...
YES is DTC. So, that works great.

I help older people at my wife’s school cut the cord. 80 year old man, cable for 45 years, got him YouTube tv, magic Jack home phone, and xfinity flex box Saving him $120 a month.

His favorite channel is paramount +. It is like he discovered great tv.
 
JohnFSilver said:
If UConn is top rated non p5, they don’t get into the playoff either
Expand ...
Although they are revising the rules, UConn would be in the playoffs if they are one of the 6 highest ranked teams not a conference champion. That is the same rule for Notre Dame.
 
JohnFSilver said:
UConn isn’t G5. They don’t get CFP money. If UConn is top rated non p5, they don’t get into the playoff either
Expand ...

I'm not saying they are - quite the opposite.

If UConn ever goes 12-0 or 11-1 and is ranked in the top 12 and doesn't get an at large then we'll have grounds to complain...I think NOT playing an AAC schedule is well worth that risk.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
I'm not saying they are - quite the opposite.

If UConn ever goes 12-0 or 11-1 and is ranked in the top 12 and doesn't get an at large then we'll have grounds to complain...I think NOT playing an AAC schedule is well worth that risk.
Expand ...

You can't be serious, the AAC would be a huge improvement to our schedule. You do realize we would still have 4 out of conference games so the "Power" junkies could get their rocks off.
 
metsfan2323 said:
You can't be serious, the AAC would be a huge improvement to our schedule. You do realize we would still have 4 out of conference games so the "Power" junkies could get their rocks off.
Expand ...
Serious question:

Are you a football season ticket holder?
 
JohnFSilver said:
Really. That is t too bad then. They don’t have access to game though. They could go 12-0 and be locked out next year.
Expand ...
Then again they could go 12–0 in the American and also be locked out next year.
 
.-.
metsfan2323 said:
You can't be serious, the AAC would be a huge improvement to our schedule. You do realize we would still have 4 out of conference games so the "Power" junkies could get their rocks off.
Expand ...

I am serious and don't call me Shirley.

Aside from the fact that Connecticut football fans already rejected the AAC once, and that of the rejected conference nearly all of the recognizable programs left you're absolutely right.

Do you even know who is in the AAC these days? The only school even worth playing is Temple and we already have them on future schedules if memory serves.

You think the average Connecticut football fans discerns any difference between playing Old Dominion and Charlotte? Please.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Online statistics

Members online
153
Guests online
4,849
Total visitors
5,002
Totals may include hidden visitors.

Forum statistics

Threads
165,981
Messages
4,462,543
Members
10,334
Latest member
Wccurrie


Top Bottom