If by "football school" you mean a middle of the pack Big 12 team, then I 100% believe the program can be built to that level. If you mean that we would actually be competing for Big 12 titles and a playoff spot, then I don't think that's ever going to be possible and I'm ok with that. I just want us to be competitive again against your average to above-average P4 schools.
woosh
There is one game in NIL era.
The funny thing is I still vividly remember (from about 40 years ago; yeah, I'm old) when the narrative from the local press, the national press, our fan base, opposing fan bases, even many administrators within our school said the same thing about our men's basketball program.
That's weird because I grew up in Litchfield, CT and I watched every Knicks and Yankees game on WPIX and MSG and my choice for news was WNBC with Chuck Scarborough and Sue Simmons.
So - need to put my "TV nerd" hat on - sorry in advance.
I mean, sure, except that
FIFY.
Exactly! Other than that, they are identical.I mean, sure, except that
1) It draws the DMA boundary exactly at the county line, unlike the other map
2) Names the actual counties in the DMA, and which one
Aside from that, it's exactly alike?
It's certainly an odd thing to say when they were landing All-Americans even though they weren't very successful under Perno. Corny, Aleksinas, Earl Kelley, they grabbed 3 or 4 of these guys.
It appears that the Courant has nailed the back door shut by making many articles Subscriber Only.
Difficult to get desired coaches as well.
I get the Courant online subscription for .25 per week. I always negotiate a cheap rate when my subscription is up for renewal.
I have a subscription / I just won’t cut & paste the whole article in here.
Does the article have anything new? If so I’ll consider putting in a few bucks to support the local paper
Well worth the price. Good UConn academic and athletic coverage.
It’s easy: College athletes can now get paid. A sports economist says that could hurt UConn basketball
Men’s and women’s Bball will be just fine staying in the BE as long as the school lets them keep a few million of their revenue to pay players. But that would unfortunately require cutting football and half the women’s non revenue sports.
The only way we would keep up with revenue sharing in basketball by staying in the Big East is if we completely get rid of football and get rid of the 100 women's Title IX scholarships that go along with it.
Honestly, K-State was the worst football program in the country for decades until Bill Snyder arrived. KU was always up and down, but produced guys like Gayle Sayers, Nolan Cromwell, John Riggins Etc.
What revenue? Both men's and women's basketball lose money. Prior to Hurley's raise, the loss was significantly more than the entire Big East contract pays for all sports, now it is even more. Basketball has less than 5% of the athletes in UConn and is responsible for 30% of the athletic deficit. If a person was looking strictly at revenue and expense in the financials without any bias, you would easily say the basketball teams should be cut first. The basketball teams combined lost $10 million last year for 20 athletes and football lost $14 million for 85 athletes.