No AAC-SEC for UConn

[Austin316]

BECAUSE MAINE AND THE GOD FORSAKEN NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ARE ON THE SCHEDULE?!?!!

Hey you know when UConn was relevant and good - Ole Miss visited the HCC?

The home schedule is a gd disgrace - they should take home and homes with every one of those teams rather than playing the claptrap they want to charge $800 donations for.

Wouldn’t it benefit out SOS by having our conference teams play against good opponents? Their SOS would go up an, if all goes well, so would ours. I think staying out of the SEC “challenge” is OK for us. We aren’t playing a bottom feeder team. We have Florida in a regular season game (potentially twice). I’ll take it and let the other conference teams take on the remaining ones. I think we still have a couple games left to add so I wouldn’t worry about it. Realistically we arent winning a national championship this year... we are trying to compete enough to be ranked and make a tournament appearance so 2020-2021 when we can make some legitimate noise. The upcoming season is a stepping stone.

 

[AdamaNation]

You're becoming insufferable.

Sorry. Don’t want to be. I’m actually a positivity training specialist. Regarding our team. I just want some respect back. And already feel we are going to hear the phrases of
Once we get real UConn talent.. ( this isn’t the 1990-2000s anymore so that may not happen)

Next years (2020 or 2021) class (sounds like the cubs and browns, this will likely be our 4th non winning season IN A ROW... that is not just insufferable it’s unacceptable and is now the norm. We do 3 year trailing army company. This is a trend or a new reality both of which blow)

I am seeing an exact copy of last regime recruiting. Unless the target wasn’t already all about us we aren’t selling anyone and are once again resorting to 3* unknowns or less. ( I know we play a cleaner game. Honor is our weakness sadly)

Still can’t get a big.
Placing all faith in Sal is unheard of and unfair

I’ve been on this boat for 40 years and hope I get 40 more. LOVE our school. Will still love them. I just keep feeling like we are turning into UCLA NC State Indiana or Georgetown. Irreplaceable to irrelevant.
Sorry.
Now to go pump some people up!!!!!!!!

 

[Slasher]

If you’re picking 4 teams you’re probably going to pick teams that have actually finished in the top 4 spots.

Cincy finished in the top 4 in every year of history of the AAC I think so it's obviously not that. I think it's pretty simple. UConn and Cincy both already have a home and home with SEC teams this year and next.

 

[HuskyAlum012]

Pretty sure this has everything to do with the location of the 4 AAC teams all being in the south, and 0 to do with the quality of those programs compared to us.

 

[Fishy]

We're not going to be in this series often. Neither will Cincy.

More often than not, it will be the middle of the AAC prestige pile against the bottom of the SEC.

 

[Caronimo]

Good. It’s a laughing stock of a challenge. The leftovers from the SEC! Sad!

 

[auror]

Claxton (if he returns)

He's already rising up the boards. He's not returning. He'll likely be gone before pick 20 this year.

 

[Fishy]

Good. It’s a laughing stock of a challenge. The leftovers from the SEC! Sad!

Oh, for the love of God, this is not complicated.

It's not a challenge or a tournament or any kind of event - it's eight teams filling their schedules every year with something other than yet another Sun Belt scrub.

 

[Caronimo]

Oh, for the love of God, this is not complicated.

It's not a challenge or a tournament or any kind of event - it's eight teams filling their schedules every year with something other than yet another Sun Belt scrub.

Relax fishy

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

He's already rising up the boards. He's not returning. He'll likely be gone before pick 20 this year.

I was under the impression he was really in a gray area. He put up some insane block #'s at the combine if not mistaken. I hope he leaves.

 

[auror]

I was under the impression he was really in a gray area. He put up some insane block #'s at the combine if not mistaken. I hope he leaves.

He says he'll leave if he's going to go in the first round. Good mocks had him late 1st pre-combine, and he was one of the top 5 performers in the combine 5v5 and tested well in both measurements and athletics. He gone.

 

[BLUEDOGHOUSE]

He says he'll leave if he's going to go in the first round. Good mocks had him late 1st pre-combine, and he was one of the top 5 performers in the combine 5v5 and tested well in both measurements and athletics. He gone.

I think his father played at Georgia? Looks like his decision will come as time expires. Not sure there are many players that move the needle in an upward trajectory more than him as it relates to just how good a team can be IF a guy returns. I think the SEC has been hit pretty hard at the top by departures. Probably looking at Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia and Florida as the teams to beat. That is with Claxson (????). With Claxson I wouldn't bet against Georgia winning the SEC.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Sorry. Don’t want to be. I’m actually a positivity training specialist. Regarding our team. I just want some respect back. And already feel we are going to hear the phrases of
Once we get real UConn talent.. ( this isn’t the 1990-2000s anymore so that may not happen)

Next years (2020 or 2021) class (sounds like the cubs and browns, this will likely be our 4th non winning season IN A ROW... that is not just insufferable it’s unacceptable and is now the norm. We do 3 year trailing army company. This is a trend or a new reality both of which blow)

I am seeing an exact copy of last regime recruiting. Unless the target wasn’t already all about us we aren’t selling anyone and are once again resorting to 3* unknowns or less. ( I know we play a cleaner game. Honor is our weakness sadly)

Still can’t get a big.
Placing all faith in Sal is unheard of and unfair

I’ve been on this boat for 40 years and hope I get 40 more. LOVE our school. Will still love them. I just keep feeling like we are turning into UCLA NC State Indiana or Georgetown. Irreplaceable to irrelevant.
Sorry.
Now to go pump some people up!!!!!!!!

I understand the impatience, it's hard for us as fans of a great program to watch it burn to the ground. The reality is that Hurley and staff aren't going to win every recruiting battle, and there will be times we settle for plan C. Most of us are trying to be optimistic because Hurley hasn't shown us any reason not to be, so when I see posts like yours, saying things like Wichita State has surpassed us as a program, it comes off like you're trying to bring the moral down. Nobody is saying have blind faith, but being negative doesn't help anybody, especially in the off-season, where optimism should be at its highest point.

 

[superjohn]

What a whack arse lineup of games.

 

[superjohn]

Sorry. Don’t want to be. I’m actually a positivity training specialist. Regarding our team. I just want some respect back. And already feel we are going to hear the phrases of
Once we get real UConn talent.. ( this isn’t the 1990-2000s anymore so that may not happen)

Next years (2020 or 2021) class (sounds like the cubs and browns, this will likely be our 4th non winning season IN A ROW... that is not just insufferable it’s unacceptable and is now the norm. We do 3 year trailing army company. This is a trend or a new reality both of which blow)

I am seeing an exact copy of last regime recruiting. Unless the target wasn’t already all about us we aren’t selling anyone and are once again resorting to 3* unknowns or less. ( I know we play a cleaner game. Honor is our weakness sadly)

Still can’t get a big.
Placing all faith in Sal is unheard of and unfair

I’ve been on this boat for 40 years and hope I get 40 more. LOVE our school. Will still love them. I just keep feeling like we are turning into UCLA NC State Indiana or Georgetown. Irreplaceable to irrelevant.
Sorry.
Now to go pump some people up!!!!!!!!

WTF is a positivity training specialist?

 

[microfich]

I’m admittedly a bit too prideful of a fan to care about playing any SEC team not named UK or FLA.

 

[CallMeBruce]

UConn can do better than the last year's bottom 4 SEC teams.

We'll what they actually fill the schedule with.

 

[Hey Adrien!]

This a non-issue. UConn already has a home-and-home with Florida (a better team than the 4 SEC teams involved) so I doubt they’d be in consideration for this anyways.

I’m just happy it’s a good opportunity for other AAC teams to get more quality OOC opportunities.