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huskymedic said:
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Uh, Dave? You couldn't find a better stadium shot than that?

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CL82 said:
Ha ha, aren’t championships what people play for? I mean not in the American, other than us, but in other conferences.
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That wasn't the point he made, nor the point of my response. The premise was our place in the conference and our failure to maintain our excellence. This was a discussion of titles. But, ok.
 
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MilliniumPrince said:
That wasn't the point he made, nor the point of my response. The premise was our place in the conference and our failure to maintain our excellence. This was a discussion of titles. But, ok.
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The premise is you don't want to admit that UConn is in a much, much better place now than it was a year ago. Fans except apparently you are happy. Why are you intent on revisiting our bondage?
 
Waquoit said:
The premise is you don't want to admit that UConn is in a much, much better place now than it was a year ago. Fans except apparently you are happy. Why are you intent on revisiting our bondage?
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You have no idea of what you are talking about, and neither do I.
 
Exit 4 said:
According to calculations run at Los Alamos - tomorrow, but no later than by Friday.
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According to my local voodoo priestess that is as likely as HCRE2.0 ending his head coaching career with a winning record. I asked her to put a spell on HCRE2.0 to make him a winning coach, she told me she's only a priestess, I need to be directly contacting the Big Fella for parting of the Red Sea type of requests. HCRE2.0 is 6 and 30 (102 and 134 as HCRE1.0, HCREDreamJob1.0 and HCRE2.0) and counting.

At least the AD took the team out of a conference so HCRE2.0 won't have to execute against conference opponents where his teams are 34-71 (how you keep head coaching jobs when your wins record against conference foes is less that 33%, that is HCRE's real talent).

On the positive side, 3 wins in 2020 would be a 50% increase over 2019 and also 50% over his average win totals as HCRE2.0.

Get to that total in 2020, maybe time for a contract extension, don't want some new Dream School popping up.
 
I don't know if it's much, much, better. It certainly more assertive. Better to put destiny in their own hands as opposed to ESPN and the AAC.

The only thing missing is a guaranteed bowl game and access to a conference title (not to be discounted).

Everything else is close, but the AAC has reached its ceiling. You can't have a run in FB in the G5 as good as the AAC has had recently with the top 25 teams and UCF going undefeated for nearly 2 years.

They should have gotten a better deal if this were just about on field performance. But it isn't. The P5 is still a cabal and no one else is getting in until they say so.

No being bound by a conference just adds to UConn's value add should the world tilt favorably. We stand as our own thing now, no more comparisons to Cincy or Memphis or UCF.

Its up to the program to go succeed. By that I mean cheat if neccessary.
 
Husky68 said:
On the positive side, 3 wins in 2020 would be a 50% increase over 2019 and also 50% over his average win totals as HCRE2.0.
Get to that total in 2020, maybe time for a contract extension, don't want some new Dream School popping up.
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I should hope 3 wins in your 4th year wouldn't be enough for an extension.
 
Waquoit said:
I should hope 3 wins in your 4th year wouldn't be enough for an extension.
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Probably not. It depends on the wins, the timing of them and how competitive we were in the losing games. I think 4 wins is still on the bubble.
 
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UConnDan97 said:
So by that logic, the AAC should have really been elevated if, let's say, we won a national championship in men's basketball or women's basketball?

Well, we did both (the women did it 4 times in conference). And the conference still sucks in both. At some point, you have to say that we were playing against schools nobody cared about, including us not carrying about them either. We didn't take care of everything we could have on the field, but the conference hurt us way more than it helped us. That's just a fact...
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You can crap on the AAC all you want but what was the alternative for UConn? Not join the AAC? We'll see how that plays out in time.

I'll be very curious to see how the Big East and AAC schools look a decade from now.... financially. The AAC still has football to sell to TV and the Big East still does not. Unless there is a new wave of conference re-alignment where a number of AAC schools get poached and the league folds that football is just going to get better and better and more appealing for TV. And UConn football will still be begging for table scraps every season when it comes to a possibility for a bowl game or a couple of decent P-5 matchups. Alabama ain't coming to E. Hartford and no one is going to donate a penny to put any kind of roof over the seats so that fans have some kind of protection from the elements in November and actually stay past halftime. Not as an independent. Notre Dame is a fluke living off past glory. BYU has an insolated fan base(what else is there to do big-time sports-wise in Utah?).
 
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weyuo said:
You can crap on the AAC all you want but what was the alternative for UConn? Not join the AAC? We'll see how that plays out in time.

I'll be very curious to see how the Big East and AAC schools look a decade from now.... financially. The AAC still has football to sell to TV and the Big East still does not. Unless there is a new wave of conference re-alignment where a number of AAC schools get poached and the league folds that football is just going to get better and better and more appealing for TV. And UConn football will still be begging for table scraps every season when it comes to a possibility for a bowl game or a couple of decent P-5 matchups.
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First, the most recent tv contract negotiation all but proved what the nation thinks of the AAC's market value. It's pretty much why we left to try independence.

Second, you're correct that we had no alternative to joining the AAC at the time. That doesn't mean the conference was good for us. It wasn't. And now we have chosen another option which looks more promising even in these early days. Imagine what it will become tomorrow...
 
The AAC sucks. It is unstable and undesirable. The day we left is the day we were were born again. My 19 year old son grew up a Gator fan. He plays D3 basketball. His only interest in UConn is that he loves me and he knows I love UConn. The other day he was eating a sub at the table while I was watching something on TV and he goes, “Dad, are we going to any UConn games this year? The Big East is fire”. For you old guys, “fire” is good.

Edit: He also loves the new logo and wears UConn hoodies all the time because the new logo is fire.
 
CL82 said:
Uh, Dave? You couldn't find a better stadium shot than that?

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He did better than the Coach. Edsall tweeted this cool pic of the Rent and didn't notice he happened to be coaching the visiting team in it.

Not a big deal, just thought it was funny.

 
BugsyCT said:
He did better than the Coach. Edsall tweeted this cool pic of the Rent and didn't notice he happened to be coaching the visiting team in it.

Not a big deal, just thought it was funny.

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You think edsall cares when he just got a shiny new recruit?
 
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huskymedic said:
Some leaps here...
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Not too far off on the analysis but completely whiffs on the WBB which is a significant revenue stream for UConn compared to other programs and is significant for alumni engagement and donations. Making sure the women weren't relegated to ESPN+ is a real factor.
Throwing out the $7m AAC average without the context of it being a staggered payout is also disingenuous.
 
Not a totally unreasonable analysis. we aren’t way better off than in the AAC with this deal. Probably long term worse. OTOH it is better than we expected and opens the door to other possibilities. Maybe we have a shot at a 2 for 1 type deal with a
national brand for example. Plus we have a home schedule most years that is more palatable to our fans so with a few wins we could begin to see bodies in the seats again. To me the goal ought to be 30;000. FWIW I’d still try to get UMass as a season ended every year. If we have a rival it would seem a school we have played more than 100 times over the years and is located 50 miles away would at least be worthy of consideration.
 
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freescooter said:
Not a totally unreasonable analysis. we aren’t way better off than in the AAC with this deal. Probably long term worse. OTOH it is better than we expected and opens the door to other possibilities. Maybe we have a shot at a 2 for 1 type deal with a
national brand for example. Plus we have a home schedule most years that is more palatable to our fans so with a few wins we could begin to see bodies in the seats again. To me the goal ought to be 30;000. FWIW I’d still try to get UMass as a season ended every year. If we have a rival it would seem a school we have played more than 100 times over the years and is located 50 miles away would at least be worthy of consideration.
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The ability for visitors to have the games shown on CBSSN vice ESPN+ is what will allow for higher quality opponents and bigger crowds. You can go chicken or the egg as which comes first but you can't split them apart.
The TV deal makes it easier to schedule better (and more appealing) opponents than the AAC allowed.
 
freescooter said:
Probably long term worse.
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I don't think so, for a lot reasons that I've posted previously. Right now, on a net basis the BE and AAC deals are equivalent (at best.) Keep in mind the American deal is at the start of it's 12 year run. The BE is toward the end of its 12 year run. Their next deal should be better.
 
CL82 said:
The BE is toward the end of its 12 year run. Their next deal should be better.
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Fingers crossed. Lots of things moving against a bump up.
 
Exit 4 said:
Fingers crossed. Lots of things moving against a bump up.
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Yes and no. The Big East has turned out to be a much better product than was previously anticipated. Our joining shouldn't hurt things either. I'm cautiously hopeful.
 
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