Matt Brown: UConn Expected To Reach TV Deal With SNY

[Palatine]

College football is the sport of choice in both the South and Midwest.

However, once the calendar turns to winter, the vast majority of bowls are in the south. The playoff is typically in the south. So many of the post season traditions are local traditions in southern communities. The ties are long and deep.

While some northern bowls now exist, there are no indoor facilities in Boston, NY, Philly, Pittsburgh or other northeastern cities. None of the meaningful college post season takes place in north of the Mason Dixon line.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

College football is the sport of choice in both the South and Midwest.

However, once the calendar turns to winter, the vast majority of bowls are in the south. The playoff is typically in the south. So many of the post season traditions are local traditions in southern communities. The ties are long and deep.

While some northern bowls now exist, there are no indoor facilities in Boston, NY, Philly, Pittsburgh or other northeastern cities. None of the meaningful college post season takes place in north of the Mason Dixon line.

Maybe Syracuse should let some FBS colleges play in the Carrier Dome for post-season bowl game.

 

[Redding Husky]

I can't disagree more. College football started in the North East(Rutgers claims the very first college football game). Ask Michigan, Ohio St and Notre Dame if college football is a game of the South. What is Yale and Harvard's biggest game of the year? It sure is not basketball. And the last time I looked neither Army or Navy were located in the South.

College football is strongest in the South, just like Major League Baseball is strongest in the North.

America has become more homogenized over the last 100 years, but there are still regional differences.

 

[Griggs]

Yes. It’s flowing the way we would want ... without the wickedness some football Fanbase opined.

“Thanks to a bevy of local opponents, a potentially growing number of fellow independents, and plenty of teams looking for a bodybag game, finding games to play wasn’t too bad.”

UMASS has to get better; but they are far more important than a Middle Tennessee or something other from CUSA. Army. Then Virginia & Mississippi.

College football is a Game of the South. No place else hyped up their University experiences & the STATE culture like we have seem ... and will grow in the future. UConn had to work hard to grind through a northeastern regional Brand. And both the SNY tie & the DB schedule makes steps towards that. The Death of The Program pronouncements were premature.

There will be more independents & that simple numbers game makes our spot as an Independent better. Like? James Madison. I see us playing Yale again as the Ivy Football has risen.

Uconn would not be playing Yale or any other Ivy League school because those teams do not give out athletic scholarships. Therefore a win would not be counted toward number of wins needed to be bowl eligible.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

2022 BCS Championship > Indy

Potentially, Minneapolis or Detroit sometime down the road ? ? ?

 

[FroginCT]

Of the 12 highest watched games in 2019, 6 of them had at least one "non-south" team (counting OK as non-south).

 

[BlueMAB]

Of the 12 highest watched games in 2019, 6 of them had at least one "non-south" team (counting OK as non-south).

LMAO - Talk about molding stats.

Of the 12 highest watched games in 2019, 10 of them involved the SEC or a southern school (OU/Tex/Baylor).

70%, or 17/24 of those teams in those games are from the south.

Oklahoma is in the South

Why would anyone pretend like college football isn't more popular in the south than literally everywhere else in the world?

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

Perhaps balancing history and extensive experience in different regions, I see 4 of the 12 listed games involve non-Southern schools. Yup, Oklahoma which only became a state in the 20th century being a south central Plains state. And, the Lone Star State plain and simply being the Republic of Texas. A border state abutting Mexico, but decidedly independent and its' own region. Like beauty, regional perspectives lie in the eyes and experiences of the beholders.

 

[freescooter]

ND played somebody in England. thought it was BC. And it was well televised and definitely not in the South.

A few years ago they played BC in Ireland. I don’t remember a game in England

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

I guess I could have found a better way to waste a post, but one doesn't occur to me off the top of my head.

Sure

 

[TerryD]

A few years ago they played BC in Ireland. I don’t remember a game in England

ND played Navy in Dublin in 2012.

Those two teams play there again to open the season next year.

 

[RSTuthill]

Michigan won in 97-98.

So close!! But not quite.

 

[Husky25]

So close!! But not quite.

Time frame is arbitrary. Michigan won the National Championship.

 

[FroginCT]

LMAO - Talk about molding stats.

Of the 12 highest watched games in 2019, 10 of them involved the SEC or a southern school (OU/Tex/Baylor).

70%, or 17/24 of those teams in those games are from the south.

Oklahoma is in the South

Why would anyone pretend like college football isn't more popular in the south than literally everywhere else in the world?

I think you counted wrong - Ohio State played in 3 of those games against big ten teams. And whatever that link says, people in OK do not consider themselves "south". OK was not a state and was part of Indian Territory during the civil war. In an odd historic twist, the Indian residents in what now is OK "favored" the confederency because they thought state rights would allow them to live more independently, and the native Americans had slaves. But if support for the confederency is the measuring stick, then buly that logic KY is not "south" since it never seceded. But I digress.

Of course college football support is higher in the south than new england, but it is rabidly supported in the midwest and plains. I could post the attendance figures for the big ten, ND, etc but I doubt it would change your perception.

 

[RSTuthill]

We are officially into the silly season now, aren't we?

 

[Palatine]

Of the 12 highest watched games in 2019, 6 of them had at least one "non-south" team (counting OK as non-south).

Midwest and Southeast. Exactly as I said.

 

[Purple Stein]

We are officially into the silly season now, aren't we?

That depends. What's your position on the regional location of Oklahoma?

 

[weyuo]

Football is enjoyed everywhere. It would be nice to see more CT kids join the ranks but you get who you can and it's nice seeing young adults from California and Texas willing to join students from the Northeast to make UConn football "Great Again".

 

[FroginCT]

LOL. Not offended, but don't respond to me with arguments I didn't make.

Culturally, demographically, and just about every measure, OK is far more akin to MS or AL than NY, CT, MA, NJ...

OK is not South or New England, its a plain state. One example: African Americans are 10% in OK, 9% in IN, and 38% in MS. OK is in the top ten farming states with no southern states in the top 10 (but all are plains and Midwest except CA). I could go on and on, but let's agree to disagree.

 

[Guapo]

This is the only way to determine what is South or not.
Still doesn’t really help explain Oklahoma, other than Oklahoma is “kinda” South

 

[GridironGR8]

This is the only way to determine what is South or not.
Still doesn’t really help explain Oklahoma, other than Oklahoma is “kinda” South
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Bogus. I don't see a category for youse guys. Somebody got something against New Jersey?

 

[CL82]

This is the only way to determine what is South or not.
Still doesn’t really help explain Oklahoma, other than Oklahoma is “kinda” South
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[FroginCT]

This is the only way to determine what is South or not.

That map is so true, with this exception: western PA south of Pittsburgh into surrounding WV and SW OH should include "Y'ins" -- as in You Ins contracted, originally You Ones from Irish-Scottish amalgamation with English.

 

[SU1968]

That map is so true, with this exception: western PA south of Pittsburgh into surrounding WV and SW OH should include "Y'ins" -- as in You Ins contracted, originally You Ones from Irish-Scottish amalgamation with English.

You're right. That's why Pittsburghers call themselves "yinzers".

 

[Guapo]

That map is so true, with this exception: western PA south of Pittsburgh into surrounding WV and SW OH should include "Y'ins" -- as in You Ins contracted, originally You Ones from Irish-Scottish amalgamation with English.

I know about “yinz”; however the map was developed using the most common response to the question “what word(s) do you use to address a group of two or more people?”