No Big East/SEC Challenge for Us?

[gwhuskyfan]

Saw the matchups released and we are not on it. Anyone know anything about this?

Thursday, Nov. 29South Carolina at St. John’s
Seton Hall at LSU
Kentucky at Notre Dame
Marquette at Florida
Friday, Nov. 30Georgia at South Florida
DePaul at Auburn
Tennessee at Georgetown
Syracuse at Arkansas
Saturday, Dec. 1Mississippi State at Providence
Rutgers at Ole Miss
Alabama at Cincinnati
Villanova at Vanderbilt

 

[dsturdy5]

No UConn, Pitt, Louisville...

 

[Waquoit]

Why does Benedict Syracuse get to play?

 

[Ts5034]

This is a kick to the you know what!

 

[HooperScooper]

No conspiracy.

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/2012/06/no-uconn-in-next-seasons-secbig-east.html

 

[UConnDan97]

No conspiracy.

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/2012/06/no-uconn-in-next-seasons-secbig-east.html

Just because there isn't a conspiracy does not mean that it was the right or best thing to do, right? For a league that desperately needs UConn to be and stay a part of it, and knowing what our situation is for next year (including a Big East tourney ban, by the way), it would have been a very good gesture to allow us to be one of the 12 teams included. It has a pretty rotten feel to it, if you ask me, and they could have thrown us a bone (no pun intended)!

 

[HooperScooper]

Syracuse doesn't want to play. Or do they just not want to actually have a non-conference road game? Wahhhhhhhh!

'Cuse "overcommitted" for challenge

 

[UConnDan97]

Syracuse doesn't want to play. Or do they just not want to actually have a non-conference road game? Wahhhhhhhh!

'Cuse "overcommitted" for challenge

Fantastic. And I'm sure it was "accidental" that he hit reply-to-all on the email, right?

 

[auggie22]

Time for Dr. Gross to have a hard conversation,with an AD from one of the many, upstate NY private schools on the schedule. Will there be no joy in Ithaca, tonight?

 

[champs99and04]

*k that. Who chooses the matchups? Does the Big East choose which teams are going to participate? Maybe they wanted to give the SEC a chance this year.

Sigh...the Missouri-UConn matchup made too much sense.

 

[Tenspro2002]

There really isn't anything controversial here. The BE has more members than the SEC, ergo some BE teams don't play every year. I think this happens on a rotating basis.

 

[UCONNfan1]

can't say i'm surprised about PItt, but i am surprised about Syracuse. and no UCONN? oh well.

 

[upstater]

There really isn't anything controversial here. The BE has more members than the SEC, ergo some BE teams don't play every year. I think this happens on a rotating basis.

SEC has 14 teams, BE has 15.

 

[CL82]

No conspiracy.

http://borgesblognhr.blogspot.com/2012/06/no-uconn-in-next-seasons-secbig-east.html[/quote]

... or is there?

 

[UConnDan97]

... or is there?

It works every time!

 

[rw005]

Seriously how does DePaul get into the challenge but not us? Now that is enough to make my head explode!

 

[BarkingDog]

I'm thinking that the fewer nationally televised games we're in next year the better because it'll just be more time for the talking heads to go on about our post-season ban, coach's health, the uncertain future of the program, blah blah blah.
Next year will be a good time to fly under the radar.

 

[Waquoit]

No conspiracy.

Sez him. Make no mistake, this was a deliberate snub.

 

[willie99]

I'm getting pissed at the Big East snubbing their flagship program once again

My loyalty is waning

If either UConn or Louisville bolt, the conference as we know it is cooked

and they let Cuse participate? duck them

 

[willie99]

they leave both UConn and Louisville out

conference leadership is a bad joke

are they trying to fail?

 

[uconnsox23]

the sec blows anyways

 

[UCFBfan]

While playing a boring SEC team is uninviting to me, I agree that the Big East was not very smart in doing this. Why not put their big time programs on National TV? Why leave out Louisville and UConn? I understand Pitt but they scheduled Syracuse....then again, as someone stated earlier, maybe it's best that UConn stay away from national tv.