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We do not want this to happen if football is in a downgraded situation.
Yup, this is the part where I lose all self control and my hopes skyrocket.I bet you this happens. Wonder if that's the reason we haven't officially announced the home and home with Villanova
That is Rothstein's website and it's not the same article. This one is saying the Big East (aka FS1) would take all UConn sports (obviously not hockey or FB). As a FB season ticket holder I don't want them to go to a lesser league than the AAC but the status quo is not going to suffice. We need to force ESPN's hand here to decide if they want to keep UConn's rights (more money to UConn by whatever means necessary) or let FS1 take another valuable property.This is just a rag website quoting the Rothstein article from the other day, which we already discussed. We do not want this to happen if football is in a downgraded situation.
This. If we could keep football in the AAC for the time being, this would be okay. If--as is most likely-- we can't, then this wouldn't be a good idea.
All of those cities mentioned sound a hell of a lot better than Greenvile, NC, Tulsa, northern Dallas, Houston, and a high school in New Orleans.So, we hire Edsall, the first Edsall2 recruiting class is looking good, we're in the 6th bestfootball conference, and--we're going to dump it all?
I'm all for playing Villanova and Georgetown and St. John's and Providence too--but I don't find playing Butler and Marquette and Creighton all that more thrilling than playing Cincy and SMU and Memphis.
The old BE foes would be great, but anyone selling this as a return to the old BE with little travel has never heard of Omaha, Milwaukee, Indiana, Chicago and, yes, Cincy, Ohio.
That is Rothstein's website and it's not the same article. This one is saying the Big East (aka FS1) would take all UConn sports (obviously not hockey or FB). As a FB season ticket holder I don't want them to go to a lesser league than the AAC but the status quo is not going to suffice. We need to force ESPN's hand here to decide if they want to keep UConn's rights (more money to UConn by whatever means necessary) or let FS1 take another valuable property.
Everything includes football. So they can't take us in everything. There are only two ways this happens in my opinion.
1. The AAC lets football stay
2. Fox Sports gets us a scheduling arrangement with the Big Ten and Big XII for football, with perhaps 6 games (3 home 3 away) every year. That would allow us to make Independent football work. Prestige wise, I think it would be a boost to the program.
Hopefully only a ploy to get the ACC moving.
All of those cities mentioned sound a hell of a lot better than Greenvile, NC, Tulsa, northern Dallas, Houston, and a high school in New Orleans.
I agree though if this requires demoting football to Indy, MAC, or CUSA it's absolutely not worth it. If we can remain in the AAC as FB-only that'd be ideal. MWC as a FB-only would be an interesting thought as they're competitively on par, though travel would be awful.
All of those cities mentioned sound a hell of a lot better than Greenvile, NC, Tulsa, northern Dallas, Houston, and a high school in New Orleans.
I agree though if this requires demoting football to Indy, MAC, or CUSA it's absolutely not worth it. If we can remain in the AAC as FB-only that'd be ideal. MWC as a FB-only would be an interesting thought as they're competitively on par, though travel would be awful.
Im sure the acc is shaking in its boots over this...
Honestly, is it possible for uconn to go indy for football? If not, why not? Sure you dont get the guarantee bowl games but maybe that is overrated.
I recall a number of high intensity UConn-Marquette games, far more than we've had against any current AAC teams other than Memphis/Cincy/SMU.We used to play DePaul and Marquette after all. It's not like we've never been in a conference with them, and there was no extra juice for those games.
You lose your access to decent recruits and you become UMass. You don't want to go down this road.
In terms of how many people care about it in New Orleans and how much attention it gets nationally? Yeah, Tulane is a high school.So you called the bast school in the AAC (including UConn), and the one with probably the nicest campus..a high school?
I will raise one thought here, still not convinced I think it is a good idea for us to move to the Big Eat if we can keep football where it is.
If the money in the Big East is far in excess of what we're getting today in the AAC for football and hoops, would the AAC keep our football in if we played for free? Maybe under that scenario they wouldn't feel the need to kick us out.
I don't think playing football in the AAC but keeping the TV rights to our home football games would work, because that would almost certainly need ESpn's permission and why would they help Fox get us in hoops.