Next move is?

[Carl Spackler]

And no hope for a bowl game. Sounds peachy.

There's no reason why we couldn't negotiate a bowl game contract. Independants have had bowl game relationships for decades. Unless the entire university finances are a charade, the University of Connecticut is a financially viable institution that isn't anywhere near where the likes of Rutgers and Maryland were before the Big 10 came in with their money, and the revenue streams from athletics related to the Big East conference, aren't a bank breaker for the school.

The question is - are we better off long term by signing a media deal for football with this new conference, or by striking out in football on our own. It does behoove the athletic deaprtment to remain aligned with teh same catholic backbone of the basketball conference, that we joined in 1979 in basketball, and non-revenue sports.

Personally, I think that Susan Herbst, and the UConn BOT, are probably the only people right now that are going to determine whether or not the Big East survives, or dissolves.

It's sad that it's come to this. Could have been avoided so many, many times, and the Big East - with a visionary leader, could be pulling the strings right now, that the Big 10 conference is capable of pulling.

Coulda shoulda - hindsight 20/20.

We gotta move forward. And with that - I"m done talking about this - out of my control.

We've got a football game to play Saturday, and as has been the case all season long, we are NOT overmatched, and I expect our Huskies to go out there and roll those cincy players in the frozen dirt, and get us to a post season game.

THey better all be focused on their jobs this week, every minute, every day.

This confernece alignment crap is nothing new to UConn.

 

[tzznandrew]

Did I miss Rutgers' ACC invitation?

Context. The original question: why would B1G want UConn after the ACC didn't want them?

My response implied that what the ACC and B1G find desirable has been proven to be different by RU.