More Fuel to Big East Fire

[IMind]

Remember how there was all this talk before about UConn going to the Big East... and then we put our Women's Lacrosse team there? Wow those were the days. Maybe we're finally adding a Men's Lacrosse team?

 

[GemParty]

UConn is very unique. In the perfect storm, they have 3 fan bases that often don't intertwine, and great pain from being a realignment loser.

Our rivals like Pitt, Cuse, Rutgers, & MD all received a golden parachute with minimal overall sports success.
We want regional rivals &/ or more cash for the school. Currently we're not achieving much of either. UConn will need to fix that.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

You want a lawyer's view of that quote? Of course there have been no discussions about "possible" membership. UConn would only engage in discussions about actually being a member.

It also does not rule out the (likely) scenario that there were backchannel discussions through intermediaries on both sides so that both the Big East and UConn could make these statements while technically telling the truth.

 

[UConn990411]

I love the fans of the new Big East acting like UConn would be an underwhelming addition.

Fox is bleeding money from their deal with the BE, so that price tag is going down the next time their contract is up. Our women's team is a bigger draw than basically all their programs, so it's hilarious how much these bozos are pretending they don't need UConn.

 

[UConnSwag11]

I love the fans of the new Big East acting like UConn would be an underwhelming addition.

Fox is bleeding money from their deal with the BE, so that price tag is going down the next time their contract is up. Our women's team is a bigger draw than basically all their programs, so it's hilarious how much these bozos are pretending they don't need UConn.

 

[CL82]

that's a long statement for a denial lol

Nah, AD Dave knows that the denial will be widely circulated so he threw in a plug for the university. So far, I like him.

 

[UConnfan8]

I love the fans of the new Big East acting like UConn would be an underwhelming addition.

Fox is bleeding money from their deal with the BE, so that price tag is going down the next time their contract is up. Our women's team is a bigger draw than basically all their programs, so it's hilarious how much these bozos are pretending they don't need UConn.

But the fact that there are posters (UConn fans) on here that are actually agreeing with them!! It's like...where were you guys when we literally dominated the greatest conference of college athletic history?? Under a rock??

 

[RJScootin]

Football program is nothing but TRASH!!!! All it has done is help take down a top notch basketball program. If UConn can get back to BIG EAST you can make UConn football an intramural sport. Such an unwatchable boring product, people only go to tailgate. Cash me at XL Tonight!!!!!

 

[Brochacho]

Football program is nothing but TRASH!!!! All it has done is help take down a top notch basketball program. If UConn can get back to BIG EAST you can make UConn football an intramural sport. Such an unwatchable boring product, people only go to tailgate. Cash me at XL Tonight!!!!!

ok

 

[shizzle787]

Football program is nothing but TRASH!!!! All it has done is help take down a top notch basketball program. If UConn can get back to BIG EAST you can make UConn football an intramural sport. Such an unwatchable boring product, people only go to tailgate. Cash me at XL Tonight!!!!!

This should end up going really well.

 

[CTBasketball]

It's amazing how people still respond to trolls.

 

[Stinger92860]

Um Creighton has made the NCAAT 3 times in the last decade. They have finished in the top 20 three times in their program history and have only entered the top 20 6 times in the last FORTY years.

Do people realize basketball has been played for longer than a few years?

One might conclude that joining the BE has increased Creightons fortunes on the court.

 

[Stinger92860]

Congress could..and probably would, stop it. They know this. Why do you think there is a non P5 playoff spot? It's as far as they could go. I've said it before, they can't split off unless they dramatically increase the number of schools in the pool. In particular, state universities, who have Senators and Congressmen who would not look kindly to their permanent relegation to lower status.

Each school is a competitor to every other school in the athletics market. Some have come together, in conferences, and those conferences compete with each other. At present, the P5 has "market power", at the very least in the market for college football. They need to tread very carefully here, or they will find their cartel (and it is a cartel) broken up.

Congress would not stop it. Every Senator and House Rep from a P5 state would risk political suicide. Could you see a congressman or congresswoman from Fl, AL, MI, VA, TX, etc. getting in the way?

 

[tjc1888]

Every year when the brackets came out, I thought the NBE was always over seeded and I was bored at work so I did some research.

Since the league has been established (3 years) 15 NBE teams have made the tournament. 7 have under performed seed, while only 2 (Nova Natty being one and the other was Xavier 2015 who got to play two double digit seeds) over performed. These two have also been there only 2 sweet sixteen teams.

The fact that they "underwhelmed" by adding UConn is hilarious considering the performance above. We could certainly help out their tournament performance, given our history.

Furthermore our old BE dregs (Prov. SH, and SJ) have been able to each make the tournament in the 3 years of existence (Prov x3, SH x1, SJ x1), yet in the last 10 years of the OBE (03-13) the three of them combined made the tournament 3x (1 each).

Don't know what that proves but thought it was interesting.

 

[huskyrob1]

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.

Though the move in all sports except football to the NBE has some good things about it, it is not the right time to even consider it. This is not the time to be rocking the boat. Makes HCRE's job that much more difficult. This article also is basically calling DB a liar, after the recent tweets. DB knows what he's doing, I'm confident in that. If he says we're staying 100% in the AAC for the time being, that's good enough for me.