Meet college football scheduling savant Dave Brown, the secret weapon in UConn’s independent future (Putterman)

[uconnbill]

Didn't really need to...but did.

Miami, Boston College, and Syracuse were the original schools that the ACC had been pursuing to form a 12 team league.

Syracuse was supposed to be the first addition as Shalala's bride price to get Miami. The Virginia Governor's blackmail to get VT in the ACC slowed down Cuse's addition.

"We are very appreciative of the invitation from the ACC to join the conference," Shalala said in a statement. "We are disappointed that they have decided not to issue invitations to Boston College and Syracuse. This is a new proposal; we will have to study it before making a decision."

But Pitt wasn't

 

[CL82]

I beg to differ. While his actions weren’t the only cause of our rejection, we should never diminish them either. Blumenthal’s taking control of the lawsuit from both a legal strategy standpoint (suing several University presidents individually) and commandeering media cameras and microphones (largely for his own aggrandizement) morphed the BE lawsuit into the “Connecticut lawsuit”. This created a huge negative impression of UConn on the decision makers in the ACC—an extremely visceral one for some—and drained us of whatever goodwill we could draw upon in the final deliberations.

Yeah this just isn't accurate. BCU was not going to want us in the ACC whether we sent them flowers. We know that from their ADs comments. If the lawsuit was a big deal they wouldn't have offerred Pitt. Likewise, SH heard that we were in from ACC contacts. We lost that bid because FSU decided to flex its muscle versus Tobacco road. On the other hand the lawsuit prevented 'cuse from leaving earlier and got us an extra million dollars.

 

[billybud]

Nope...it was football...

From 2012 Dog House...And the Director of Scouting for Fox Sports Net put his finger on it.

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While UConn's sports have ardent support, football trails both the men's and women's basketball teams. And since all this conference reshuffling is about football -- and the money that comes with it -- that's a huge problem. And it's not clear that will change anytime soon.

"UConn faces challenges with a lack of local talent, interest in professional sports regionally, a more popular game [basketball] on its own campus ... so wherever the Huskies end up, there will be challenges no matter what," said Scott Kennedy, director of scouting for Fox Sports Net, via the Courant.

 

[Husky25]

Lets bring this thread back on topic. Dave Brown helped put a scheduled together for UConn that barely pales to BYU (In terms of # of P5 opponents, if nothing else.) in less than 5 months (Announcement came at the end of June.).

 

[Husky92]

Lets bring this thread back on topic. Dave Brown helped put a scheduled together for UConn that barely pales to BYU (In terms of # of P5 opponents, if nothing else.) in less than 5 months (Announcement came at the end of June.).

It's too bad that Indiana is the only P5 at home, but given the super short time to put it together, it is pretty incredible.
Additionally, he pulled off 7 home games. That's great under the circumstances.

 

[huskymedic]