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Huskymagic said:
I agree. Not because of the conference because the AAC is trending up and doing a good job of building. However, we have no rivalries in this conference nor we create any because UCONN's rivals are already established in the collective psyche of fans. Allowing the Catholic schools to take the BIG East name was a HUGE mistake.

We play in front of mostly empty arenas and a conference tournament that draws nobody.

Our former rivals are having the same issue as the Cuse have zero rivals in the ACC, and are getting clowned annually by Duke, UNC, and Virginia. Pitt has become a nobody. Louisville has similar issues in the ACC with no real rivals.

PS: Basketball is the future not football. Interest in football is declining among the youth.

PS: However, I think the AAC needs to be aggressively courting Gonzaga for basketball only and BYU for all sports. If Aresco can make that happen, I'd rather the AAC be our home, and it would be like creating a new BIG East once again. This would force ESPN and Fox to pay the AAC close to P5 levels.
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We're simply going to need to develop new rivalries period. Cincinnati, Memphis, Temple, SMU, Houston. Then you add the out of conference rivalries once we get them scheduled. Coaches and Recruiting get's this done. Remember Penny over at Memphis has the number 1 or top 3 recruit in the nation coming into the conference next year and a Top 7 class. Kelvin Sampson at Houston is going to bring in a solid class and his classes will get better especially if he stays in the AAC. Winning and star power solves a lot the attendance problems. UCONN has to move forward and stop living in the past. It's a new era. Good things are coming.
 
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Stainmaster said:
Name me one school with a big-time athletic department whose sport-specific fans not only hate fans of other sports, but are proud of it.
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None. But I can't blame fans that are split.

UConn waited too long to move football up. If they had moved the football program up in the late 80s/90s, same time basketball became relevant. You wouldn't have this problem. Everyone I know who is a die hard UConn basketball fan is a fan of another school in football.

This was all setup to fail.
 
Stainmaster said:
Name me one school with a big-time athletic department whose sport-specific fans not only hate fans of other sports, but are proud of it.
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Or where employees of the athletic department lobby against sports the school sponsors.
 
After experiencing this tournament in person I will say this... the potential is there for a great conference in the future. The fans that are here are passionate about their teams. I just don't know how uconn fits in with the culture and geographic qualities of the conference, but we bring a unique brand of basketball to the conference. I spoke to a Memphis fan while eating some late lunch on Beale St at Blues City Cafe. He had nothing but respect for our program and had encouraging things to say. He was optimistic that top to bottom the AAC will be getting better and that both Memphis and UConn will rise to the top, along with Wichita St. He also talked about Wiseman and how insanely good he is and how he thinks we will be landing Achiuwa and that Hurley is a crazy dude who will rope in some serious talent for us. He also said he vividly remembers Shabazz destroying their point guard our championship year and how much bs it is that we had a post season ban for APR and North Carolina gets a slap on the wrist for their violations. It's refreshing to hear all this but it's all speculation right now. Bottom line is as long as the AAC doesn't win on the big stage and beat the big boys, we are essentially in a high mid major conference. The member schools need to win games to rake in the money needed to grow their programs. And tbh, UConn needs to be good for the AAC to gain some steam.
 
polycom said:
The only thing that is objectively true is the fact that we'd be playing more games at MSG assuming we kept the Cuse game and made deep runs into the BE tourney. The rest of those things are maybe... we've already talked at length that CT fans are fare weather fans. If we were good in the AAC we'd have the same or better attendance numbers. Not to mention the Big East schools have rather bad TV contract. There is no value in being a basketball only school right now people like you need to understand that. Read about the economics of college sports, basketball doesn't drive that bus for most schools.
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Really now? I see your idiocy extends everywhere. The schools are making significantly more in the BE than they were attached to the FB schools including the contract that was turned down. We got zero FB money. UConn, Cindy and USF are the only schools in a worse situation.
 
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McLovin said:
UConn currently has the #18 recruiting class for next year. And while Ollie couldn't develop players, we always ranked highly in recruiting and getting top 100 talent. Being in the Big East would have little (and most likely, no) impact on recruiting. If any recruit is making the school's conference affiliation a priority, then they are going ACC, SEC, BIG 10 or BIG 12. Being in the BE vs AAC isn't going to make an impact in a recruit like that.
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When does the big east aac challenge start? That would be big boost. Cmon aresco.
 
FriarJ said:
Really now? I see your idiocy extends everywhere. The schools are making significantly more in the BE than they were attached to the FB schools including the contract that was turned down. We got zero FB money. UConn, Cindy and USF are the only schools in a worse situation.
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Okay.
 
Stainmaster said:
Name me one school with a big-time athletic department whose sport-specific fans not only hate fans of other sports, but are proud of it.
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If any of the other schools left a great basketball conference for a different conference to prop up our lousy football program, those sport specific fans would be going nuts too.
 
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As long as the Big East tournament has this atmosphere, it isn’t going anywhere. It is worth protecting and nurturing.

I love football but good God, I wish we were playing in the Big East for basketball. The Big East will never lose power status. It’s just too entertaining.
 
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BY06518 said:
If any of the other schools left a great basketball conference for a different conference to prop up our lousy football program, those sport specific fans would be going nuts too.
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There’s the problem. You don’t even know what you’re talking about. UConn didn’t “leave” anywhere. The Catholics left and purchased the name.
 
Butch said:
Oh, so we should only cater to bandwagoners for just one program such as yourself instead of the greater good, such as a P5 conference?

Like I said, it's dumber to be illogical.
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I know this will shock you but I am a UConn football fan.
 
gampelcrazies said:
I know this will shock you but I am a UConn football fan.
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This might shock you but I am a UConn alum with bachelor of science in business administration. You are aware that the AAC has more revenue potential, which is beginning to show, as well as schools that are more prominent in their locales?

We should drop all that just for UConn men's basketball having almost as distant road trips and schools with less clout in their states. To look pretty on TV in MSG.
 
Butch said:
This might shock you but I am a UConn alum with bachelor of science in business administration. You are aware that the AAC has more revenue potential, which is beginning to show, as well as schools that are more prominent in their locales?

We should drop all that just for UConn men's basketball having almost as distant road trips and schools with less clout in their states. To look pretty on TV in MSG.
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Congrats you went to UConn. You want a medal? Does that make you a bigger UConn fan than me?
 
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gampelcrazies said:
Congrats you went to UConn. You want a medal? Does that make you a bigger UConn fan than me?
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I don't even care for fandom. Am getting tired of it. The degree suffices.

Apart from that, you are being completely illogical.
 
Butch said:
I don't even care for fandom. Am getting tired of it. The degree suffices.

Apart from that, you are being completely illogical.
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So let me get this right. Just because you have a "bachelor of science in business administration" from UConn makes you more knowledgeable when it comes to conference realignment than me?
 
gampelcrazies said:
So let me get this right. Just because you have a "bachelor of science in business administration" from UConn makes you more knowledgeable when it comes to conference realignment than me?
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You ever hear of the terms "business" and "growth"?

UConn being a basketball school is not part of its strategy going forward. They want a complete athletic department, so that they can fit with schools the administration now considers peers, such as Big Ten schools. Why? To grow the school even more. You really this dense? We've been aligning with globally powerful large schools, such as schools in an organization called Universitas 21. Not freaking Jesuit colleges. For the sake of things other than athletics.

If you think UConn exists to just play basketball, maybe you should be amongst the first to go to Mars.
 
UConn_Top_Dog said:
I traveled. I'm still here actually. Surprised not more uconn fans don't make the trip. It's a nice road trip and Memphis is a much better place to hold the tournament than Hartford. So much more to see and do, it's warmer down here, the people are extremely welcoming (nothing better than southern hospitality) and the food is better. After being down here it hit me how much Hartford sucks. There is literally nothing to do there. Outside of uconn basketball CT sucks in general.
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A nice road trip from where? There is no chance I would ever drive 18 hours to watch the AAC Tournament.
 
Memphis isn’t too great. Neither is Nashville and people would have you believe Nashville is the greatest city on earth these days. Regardless, Nashville is light years better than Memphis.

Pretty much, all Hartford needs to do is designate an alley way or three as night life areas and tell the cops and proprietors to be real lax on underage drinking. Within weeks, Hartford would be hopping. Hartford already smells a lot better than Memphis and Nashville on a hot summer day. The stink coming out of the sewers in TN cities is ripe.
 
Butch said:
You ever hear of the terms "business" and "growth"?

UConn being a basketball school is not part of its strategy going forward. They want a complete athletic department, so that they can fit with schools the administration now considers peers, such as Big Ten schools. Why? To grow the school even more. You really this dense? We've been aligning with globally powerful large schools, such as schools in an organization called Universitas 21. Not freaking Jesuit colleges. For the sake of things other than athletics.

If you think UConn exists to just play basketball, maybe you should be amongst the first to go to Mars.
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That's great and all. But this school is only what it is because of men's and women's basketball. I don't think many on this board care about what UConn is doing academically. Fans on this board care about winning and playing the best level we can. Only people like yourself who went to UConn will care about academics
 
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