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First watch for the Boneyard... breaking down CCSU with their HC Adam Lechtenberg. First episode in series with Joe Fagnano drops Monday!
New pod! CCSU Preview with Head Coach Adam Lechtenberg
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Rooting for #CCSU to succeed this season and beyond... But just not against us...
They seem to have something going... except funding... Hoping they can get that going (somehow) with their Athletic programs... I think it will pay off tremendously, not just for them, but the entire state... Another public U to root for... that plays at a higher level of college athletics...
They seem to have something going... except funding... Hoping they can get that going (somehow) with their Athletic programs... I think it will pay off tremendously, not just for them, but the entire state... Another public U to root for... that plays at a higher level of college athletics...
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Central needs to get an invite to America East and CAA Football soon or the D-I athletic program will eventually wither and die in the NEC. The academic profile, facilities, and budget relative to the existing AE membership has kept CCSU out of that league since the 1980s. A new conference with an aspirational peer group (and some former Yankee Conference schools) would give Central the platform to raise its profile across the board - and, yes that would be great for the State of Connecticut!
But CCSU just can't get anything really going with the current level of State support. And don't kid yourself, the State Legislature and UConn Administration has done everything it can over many decades to prevent any academic or athletic growth at CCSU and continues to do so. Just not sure anyone in Hartford or Storrs has the vision that would enable Connecticut to support both a premier comprehensive public university alongside the State's land-grant flagship, national research university. Too many egos would be hurt ...
But CCSU just can't get anything really going with the current level of State support. And don't kid yourself, the State Legislature and UConn Administration has done everything it can over many decades to prevent any academic or athletic growth at CCSU and continues to do so. Just not sure anyone in Hartford or Storrs has the vision that would enable Connecticut to support both a premier comprehensive public university alongside the State's land-grant flagship, national research university. Too many egos would be hurt ...
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Would love to see America East become an Yankee-ish all-public conference and partner with the MAAC for football.
URI (football)
Maine (football)
New Hampshire (football)
Albany (football)
add CCSU (football)
add Stony Brook (football)
UVM
UMass Lowell
Binghamton
NJIT
UMBC moves to a more mid-atlantic conference, Bryant to the MAAC for all sports but football. SHU, Merrimack, Bryant, and maybe Marist (if they want to fund it) play football in America East. 9-10 football schools, 10 basketball schools.
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stony brook was sooo excited to step up to CAA when they got the call. It was their moment to prove themselves on the track to FBS, after the massive success they'd had in the early 2010's with Miguel Maysonet at RB.
sad to see them in the conversation about coming back to america east... def was not their plan, but with the way things are going in CAA, it will either be dead or a bunch of random southern schools in the next 5 years. The championship aura will be extinguished.
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Is it just a financial thing? Can CT significantly support more than one state school?
I am asking…I honestly don’t know…but if they don’t have the cash that may be why CCSU is not getting the support…more than it just being about ego.
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Absolutely! It is simply a matter that CCSU has never been a State priority and has lacked adequate investments. UConn has maintained a stranglehold on political influence and State resources at our expense.
In 1986, UConn had about 13K full-time undergrads at Storrs, while CCSU had just over 6K. By 2024, UConn grew to 19K (4.6%) while CCSU remains the same. Similar growth has happened for UConn in its graduate programs, as well as its branch campus locations (Stamford has nearly doubled and now has campus housing). CCSU has not seen any measurable growth and is on an enrollment decline from the 1990s.
The investment in physical campuses is not even close to comparable. The amount invested in UConn campus is at least 10x more than the modest improvements made in New Britain. The CSU System hasn't made things better for Central. There have been many promised made, but few delivered.
CCSU (which is older than UConn) was established as a teachers college and is known to produce the majority of school teachers (as well as blue collar careers like nurses, accountants, etc) for decades. Then in the 1990s, when they wanted to offer a Doctorated in Education for School Administrators, UConn leaders lobbied against its approval. While CCSU was allowed to establish such a degree program, UConn in return got further support from the State for other programs. Simply put, UConn has always tried its best to put itself ahead of the CSU System and had the political clout to do it. They simply did not want any competing academic programs and established ensured the State put all its eggs in one basket.
Look at a Utah, a state with a similar population (3+ Million) and economics. They have a national private university that dominates the State (BYU), very similar to this historical and cultural/political impact of Yale. They have two public research universities (Utah and Utah State) similar to UConn's role. They also support a 4 additional public D-I schools (Weber State, Utah Tech, Southern Utah, and Utah Valley).
Now we know this region is historically filled with private universities, so most non-flagship universities will always be at a huge disadvantage compared to other regions of the US (but this is no different than UConn comparisons to Michigan, North Carolina, or Texas). But the look at Maryland, they can support their flagship in the BigTen, and yet have Towson in the CAA and UMBC in America East.
The question I have for you and others that live in CT is -- shouldn't the State build and invest in an affordable public university for students that can't or don't want UConn? Instead what has happened is that Quinnipiac and Sacred Heart saw the market opportunity left vacant by the State's willful ignorance of middle-class families who wanted something in-state other than UConn. Thousands of CT high school graduates that would have gone to CCSU if we invested just a little more to be competitive in academics, campus/residential environment, and athletics, instead took the "private school" option at 3x the cost.