You’re both correct. Our current situation is great for basketball, but not for football. Our current situation is not sustainable if we want football to flourish. I would argue staying in the big east long-term is not a viable option regardless, especially as the top conferences (B10 & SEC) start to consolidate their power.
My opinion is the only thing a conference would have done is be possibly be able to pay Mora and staff more. But CSU probably is committing way more than the state of CT will ever allow to happen. The program has become a political talking point instead of a way to bring more investment into CT
Everyone knows that being in the P4 is better. Who would deny that? But that's not a plan. That's not a path to get into the P4. We've already seen that the Big East + Independent football is better than the AAC. The data is there.
It's getting really hard and tiring to continue to explain it to the people who can't keep up...
CSU plays second fiddle to Colorado at Boulder. This is purely a life move with a little bit of CFP hopes involved.
Oh s4!t 97’ going nuts!! I love it
AD David Benedict needs to hire soon so the recruits that are committed stay. We all need to know who that is but hoping the next coach has big ties to New England and can recruit this area. Plus we need a coach that can get a QB not just from the portal.
I didn’t say there were existing options. I assume not but I’m also not embedded in the AD’s office. I was responding to a post that I believe said we should intentionally remain independent until after realignment happens in 2030.
I can't be positive 100% of the time. There's not that much whiskey around...
I'm going to disagree. UConn needs a coach that can coach and recruit, wherever that may be. We can't limit our recruiting to New England. Sure, UConn should try to develop a HS QB, but, in the portal era, the top QBs go to a top school and then if they don't win the competition for starter, they transfer.
He couldn't go to Stanford because the ACC refs would have killed him and their chances every game due to his excessive bashing while at UConn! Lol
I agree that right now the big east is clearly our only option and football independence is the only available option. But long-term, obviously none of this is sustainable.
UCONN has spoken to at least two different conferences in the past. I do not know why things have not worked out, but there should be a lot of changes in conferences within the next five years, so hopefully we find a safe landing spot. All UCONN can do is make their basketball, football and other sports attractive to the conferences. I am really hoping AD David Benedict hires a coach who can at least maintain the football teams current success.
End of the day, he turns 65 next season and probably wants to be in a different location than Connecticut for next year and the rest of his life. That said, he was fortunate at UConn because the expectations were so low and there are some parts of the head coaching job that he didn't want to do like raising money and UConn didn't object.
Agree with this but my belief is that the P4 will break off and form their own association and UConn will not be invited into that group. What has become clear through all this is that only football matters to these conferences especially the SEC and B10 and they are the ones making all the rules anyway.
Was anyone expecting Mora to live near Storrs for 20 years????
