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metsfan2323 said:
Since the Rent opened in 2003 I have only missed two seasons and I used to go to the Rutgers away games when that was a thing.

Serious question, what's wrong with playing Temple, Navy, Tulane, South Florida, East Carolina, Memphis, Rice, UT San Antonio, and in the future Army as conference games?

I still fondly remember the South Florida rain storm game as my favorite all time game at the Rent.

UConn would probably take a football only life raft invite to the AAC in a nano second. You are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
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Jeez I don't know besides the decade of futility, fan apathy, and zero geographic cohesion it's a match made in heaven.
 
In 2024 we play as our big games .
Maryland B1G
Duke ACC
Wake Forrest ACC
Syracuse ACC
Nice but hardly an opponent that gets xour heart rate up but all are potentially winnable as they are not typically strong teams .
Plus the other side
Army AAC ?
Fla Atlantic AAC
Buffalo MAC
Temple AAC
Ga Stete. Sun Belt
UMass Indy
UAB AAC
Playing ab 8 game conference schedule against Navy ,Army?
USF , Tulane , ECU , Charlotte with 4 OC .is any different if you’re beating those team
The AAC we left was the best G5 football conference by any metics however its lost almost 1/2 it’s teams .so it’s a lot weaken now
However A football only media deal is still worth $4,000,0000 plus FBP distribution. You still have buy games add to that the Big East money and the athletic Dept revenue from both sports is significant.
If your Indy and can get m get 4-5 games a year against power conference teams and win a fair share that’s great but is that possible. it not then football needs to find a home in a conference
How anyone can claim people didn’t come because we played in the AAC. is a complete rationalization , The truth is they didn’t want to see us humiliated by those teams as we were 11-45 in 6 seasons With double digit margins of defeat each year except 2015 . Fans turn out.to see the home team perform the opponents have only marginally appeal . Alabama , Ohio Dtate aren’t coming here so getting asses in seats is on us
I suggest if we’re were 45 - 11 in those five years attendance would’ve close to doubled . The real number bear me out .
In our one good year in the dreaded AAC , 2015 with a 4-4 record we averaged close to 28,000 a game . .. And it one could only imagine a 6-2 or 7-1 year .,
Get over the excuses Attendance is. >90% how good the home team is < 10% the Opponent. Unless is a Big name The largest crowd we ever played in front of was over 100,000 people . If you pick a number between 1-1000 prople that’s the number that came because we were the opposition.
 
AZHuskiePop said:
In 2024 we play as our big games .
Maryland B1G
Duke ACC
Wake Forrest ACC
Syracuse ACC
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and sadly what are our chances of winning any of these games? If we go 1-3 our coach did an amazing job. There is about a 95% chance we won't win any.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Great analysis professor! You are quite the scholar.
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In contrast to what you've provided, being I don't mind playing University of Texas at San Antonio in a minor league conference, so of course we should join.
 
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Joining a conference of any sort allows the players to play for a championship. Before you go and crap on that, think about what that means to a player versus what they have now. Not saying they should join a non-P league anytime soon, but it is a reason to do so.
 
Rdkid said:
Joining a conference of any sort allows the players to play for a championship. Before you go and crap on that, think about what that means to a player versus what they have now. Not saying they should join a non-P league anytime soon, but it is a reason to do so.
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Winning a bowl should be in the same ball park as far as thrills go.
 
noeynox said:
You have to stop being so doom and gloom over this. None of those teams are world beaters. Keep banging the portal and chart our own path.
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I stand by my statement, If we go 1-3 in those games it would be a great accomplishment. When 1-3 meets the definition of greatness there is something wrong with the scheduling.

I'm not being doom and gloom, I am being realistic. The guy saying we wouldn't be able to compete in the AAC is being doom and gloom.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Great analysis professor! You are quite the scholar.
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metsfan2323 said:
I stand by my statement, If we go 1-3 in those games it would be a great accomplishment. When 1-3 meets the definition of greatness there is something wrong with the scheduling.

I'm not being doom and gloom, I am being realistic. The guy saying we wouldn't be able to compete in the AAC is being doom and gloom.
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It’s very plausible we could go 2-2 against that slate.
 
Why not give Alabama and tOSU 3 home games to 1 for us? Think about getting those two teams to help sell season tickets, not to mention how much it would help recruiting. How bout them road trips!!!
 
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NE Football said:
Why not give Alabama and tOSU 3 home games to 1 for us? Think about getting those two teams to help sell season tickets, not to mention how much it would help recruiting. How bout them road trips!!!
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Because you don't need to go for the two top programs in all of CFB. Good ones are good enough. UConn fans would be plenty excited to play Pitt.
 
NE Football said:
Why not give Alabama and tOSU 3 home games to 1 for us? Think about getting those two teams to help sell season tickets, not to mention how much it would help recruiting. How bout them road trips!!!
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Why would getting beat 49-0 by tOSU or Alabama help recruiting?
 
ConnHuskBask said:
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.
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That ‘s actually incorrect . We didn’t reject AAC football The AAC rejected our bid to continue as a football only But they were kind of butt hurt at us talking BB away plus our last two years in the conference we were 0-16 and if not the worst than close to the worst FSB program in the country , The general consensus was the Randy hire and the withdrawal as a full member was an indication that we would soon be a real New Big East team as those schools dislike of association with FSB football schools was a well known fact .
 
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If UConn was in the ACC for all sports....the football schedule might look like this...(borrowed Louisville's this year)...

The ACC has dropped divisions starting this year for having three permanent rivals and rotating 5-5, playing a different rotating five every other year,

Boston College
NC State
Notre Dame
Pitt
Duke
Virginia Tech
Virginia
Miami
 
billybud said:
If UConn was in the ACC for all sports....the football schedule might look like this...(borrowed Louisville's this year)...

The ACC has dropped divisions starting this year for having three permanent rivals and rotating 5-5, playing a different rotating five every other year,

Boston College
NC State
Notre Dame
Pitt
Duke
Virginia Tech
Virginia
Miami
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That would be a great schedule. You'd think BC and Cuse would be two of the permanent rivals, probably Pitt for the third.
 
pj said:
That would be a great schedule. You'd think BC and Cuse would be two of the permanent rivals, probably Pitt for the third.
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They split up the three permanent rivals...

Syracuse has FSU, BC, and Pitt

BC has Miami, VT, and Pitt

(that has been announced and is a head scratcher...how can Cuse have a yearly rival in BC without it being reciprocal ?)
 
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billybud said:
They split up the three permanent rivals...

Syracuse has FSU, BC, and Pitt

BC has Miami, VT, and Pitt

(that has been announced and is a head scratcher...how can Cuse have a yearly rival in BC without it being reciprocal ?)
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That is a workaround to impose 4 permanent rivals on BC -- they have to play Syracuse every year along with their other 3 -- the heritage ACC schools are keeping BC off their schedules as much as possible by making them play old Big East teams as much as possible.
 
pj said:
That is a workaround to impose 4 permanent rivals on BC -- they have to play Syracuse every year along with their other 3 -- the heritage ACC schools are keeping BC off their schedules as much as possible by making them play old Big East teams as much as possible.
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Well...I know that FSU was not happy getting Syracuse as a permanent rival...after playing them as a division team all of these years. Hoping for a team that made more geographic sense.
 
Is there ever any news that is good for us? On the flip side, we’ll be guaranteed to always finish in the top 3 for football independents… ;-)
 
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We should be angling to get involved as a football only with whatever Oregon St and Washington St are doing, maybe with USF or Memphis as a partner. That’s the best opportunity possible right now and it will help the PAC/MWC get more east of the Mississippi attention. I’m not sure that UConn is even interested in football only in the AAC at this point.
 
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