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[Husky25]

Well Connecticut, obviously, after we're in. Connecticut became contiguous the instant they establish a NYC office.

Well in that case...I don't give a flying duckk. If UConn's already taken care of, they could admit Bunker Hill Community College for all I care.

 

[TruDomGopher]

Does Bunker Hill have hockey?

 

[TruDomGopher]

Sorry about the last post. I can't seem to find a way to delete it.

 

[Husky25]

Sorry about the last post. I can't seem to find a way to delete it.

Don't be sorry. Personally, I thought it was kind of humorous...

 

[Oxford Bob]

Does Bunker Hill have hockey?

No, but they are closer to AAU status than Louisville.

 

[TruDomGopher]

University of Phoenix is closer to AAU status than Louisville...

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Sorry about the last post. I can't seem to find a way to delete it.

That's probably the best post this tread has seen in weeks..

University of Phoenix is closer to AAU status than Louisville...

Watch it. I teach Philosophy ,Logistics ,and Quantum mechanics at the Univerity of Phoenix . I also coach their coed fantasy football team.
In fact while typing this response ,I'm instructing three classes and a practice session all from my living room.
Eat your heart out Upstater

 

[pj]

I teach Philosophy ,Logistics ,and Quantum mechanics at the Univerity of Phoenix . I also coach their coed fantasy football team.
In fact while typing this response ,I'm instructing three classes and a practice session all from my living room.
Eat your heart out Upstater

And your research funding is two pizzas and three beers.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I grew up in NJ, went to UConn, lived in CT a few years after graduating and have been living/working in NYC since then for two years.

I have never met anybody who went to Buffalo or met anyone that roots for Buffalo.

The idea that a historically awful football program that plays in a high school stadium is somehow lucrative to the B1G athletic conference due to some arbitrary academic distinction and because they put New York on school uniforms is so stupid.

THAT being said, it's still not as stupid as suggesting Boston U, a school WITHOUT a football program, could be a candidate.

 

[TruDomGopher]

Yeah, like I'm the only one that stays up late at night drinking and posting on boneyard...

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Yeah, like I'm the only one that stays up late at night drinking and posting on boneyard...

When you suggested BU joining the B1G for all sports you were beyond even HFD territory. And I'm a BU alum and hockey season ticket holder!

 

[TruDomGopher]

I don't know much about either hockey or New England sports and schools. To the extent I do anything, it's because I'm a football junkie. DI, DII, DIII, NAIA--football's pretty much the only sport that exists in my world. And, for the record, it's not like I was doing anything more than thinking out loud--what if you added a non-football school. (The bigger problem--at least as I see it--is I forgot UConn doesn't play on campus.)

I've noticed a lot of what I've reported hearing as suddenly my thought when it's not. For example, I said that some people in the B1G wouldn't take Nebraska in a do over--and I stand by that statement. But that's not me--I nearly pooped with glee because I knew the MN/Nebraska series left off at 67 games played and I was happy to get back at it. If anything, I was and am a little po'd that everybody says Nebraska has to develop rivalries and the logical candidates are Iowa and Wisconsin. BS--Minnesota's played them the most, and I hope losing a couple irritates NE to the core cause that'll get the rivalry going again. (For those interested, MN quit playing NE in the Osborne period cause the Minnesota score looked like, well, a hockey score and Nebraska's score looked liked, well, a UConn basketball score.)

And, as an added bonus, when my euro-trash family arrived in America, half settled in Nebraska and half in Minnesota. I have a cousin that was a Nebraska All-American lineman back in the 60's. For me personally, Nebraska was the best possible addition the B1G could make and truth be told, I hear more stuff out of Nebraska than MN these days.

And, as long as I'm pretty much in full rant mode: It's not fair to me or to Greg Fluguar to insist I am him when I am not. That isn't fair to him and is basically saying I'm a liar.

When I registered here, I said it was because I figure UConn was coming to the B1G and I wanted to get to know y'all. Still holds, but I consider myself a guest and try to act accordingly. If I've overstayed my welcome, I'll be happy to move on...

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

No, we're just yanking your chains. We appreciate some thoughtful insight that isn't from the usual ACC crowd of LOL UCONN SUX.

 

[Fishy]

I grew up in NJ, went to UConn, lived in CT a few years after graduating and have been living/working in NYC since then for two years.

I have never met anybody who went to Buffalo or met anyone that roots for Buffalo.

The idea that a historically awful football program that plays in a high school stadium is somehow lucrative to the B1G athletic conference due to some arbitrary academic distinction and because they put New York on school uniforms is so stupid.

THAT being said, it's still not as stupid as suggesting Boston U, a school WITHOUT a football program, could be a candidate.

I live in New York. Outside of four years in Storrs, I have always lived in New York.

I have never met a Buffalo fan. I've never seen Buffalo sports mentioned in the local paper. I don't know of anyone who has gone, is going or will go to Buffalo.

They don't exist as an presence in most of the state. (As for their rebranding, good luck. SUNY has 64 campuses and not a one of them is close to being considered a flagship.)

 

[RegisteredUconn]

... nearly pooped with glee ...

Is pooping with glee a mid-western phenomenon? Cause I'm pretty sure I've never done so or even nearly done so. Full disclosure though, I have been drunk enough that I can't be 100% positive. Still, I don't ever remember waking up wishing I'd slipped on a Depends prior to taking out a long term lease in a bar stool (no pun intended) the prior evening.

 

[pj]

When I registered here, I said it was because I figure UConn was coming to the B1G and I wanted to get to know y'all. Still holds, but I consider myself a guest and try to act accordingly. If I've overstayed my welcome, I'll be happy to move on...

What made you think you are not welcome? You've been very cordial.

If it was Fishy's threat of violence, don't mind him. He threatens his dog with a kick hourly, his mother with a whipping daily, and his grandma with the rack on weekends, but he never carries these threats to fruition when UConn has recently won a basketball championship.

 

[billybud]

Yaa...those Minnesotans!

Everything I know about those apple cheeked, plaid wearing folks comes from listening to smarmy Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion.

They appear to be much like my dad's Wisconsin side of the family with funnier accents....My heresy was, back in the day, rooting for the Purple People Eaters instead of the Packers.

Carl Eller and Alan Page were defensive gods and I was a Viking apostate....

 

[jostar1]

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · Feb 18
@bcinterruption @easternbias The Hockey content on BTN is making $ past its projections so Big Ten Hockey expansion will happen sooner...

BC Interruption ‏@bcinterruption · Feb 18
@flugempire @easternbias B1G will need the cash to pay out full cost of attendance. Any B1G expansion will be confined to B1G membership.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · Feb 18
@bcinterruption @easternbias ..register. The simple economics pushes for Big Ten Hockey expansion before any current B1G school is ready

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · Feb 18
@bcinterruption @easternbias So right more content on BTN = more cash beyond breaking even period of expanding to feed more mouths

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 2h 2 hours ago
@easternbias @posas13 @bcinterruption If you don't think BTN has an effect on future hockey expansion...well...don't know what to tell you

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 2h 2 hours ago
@easternbias @posas13 @bcinterruption FOX Sports also puts on Big Ten games(part of same package). More conference games = more money.

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 2h 2 hours ago
@easternbias @posas13 @bcinterruption High probability Big Ten Hockey expansion happens East...because EC has sweet spot for bigger AD BTN$

 

[AZHuskiePop]

What made you think you are not welcome? You've been very cordial.

If it was Fishy's threat of violence, don't mind him. He threatens his dog with a kick hourly, his mother with a whipping daily, and his grandma with the rack on weekends, but he never carries these threats to fruition when UConn has recently won a basketball championship.

Fishy actually once put a contract on my life for undue optimism.
I was one of the few voices of UConn being a great addition to the B1G back then.
I'm still mad ,not at the contract ,but the the pitiful amount it was for,it was insulting. The man is Cheap.

 

[OkaForPrez]

Imagine if Hockey is what carried us into the B1G? Warde would be an instant hero for the good work hes done there.

 

[CTGoonie]

Imagine if Hockey is what carried us into the B1G? Warde would be an instant hero for the good work hes done there.

@OkaForPrez so what's the statute of limitations on the secondhand news you posted about last week? I.e. If nothing happens in 6 months can you tell us the part you left out?

 

[OkaForPrez]

@OkaForPrez so what's the statute of limitations on the secondhand news you posted about last week? I.e. If nothing happens in 6 months can you tell us the part you left out?

Don't expect insights quickly. My inside info was completely about uconn's actions, not necessarily a conferences. But I do believe the many schools are preparing for something to shake.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Imagine if Hockey is what carried us into the B1G? Warde would be an instant hero for the good work hes done there.

It won't, Flug has been smoking something different this week with all of his hockey talk. He's right the BTN likes hockey, but they won't expand east just for hockey, and none of the eastern teams they would target for hockey-driven expansion (read: BU, BC) would agree to come as hockey-only. If they somehow were able to armwring BC into joining as hockey-only, they'd be able to convince BU, but I don't see it. If they expand, it'll be North Dakota and ASU.

 

[OkaForPrez]

It won't, Flug has been smoking something different this week with all of his hockey talk. He's right the BTN likes hockey, but they won't expand east just for hockey, and none of the eastern teams they would target for hockey-driven expansion (read: BU, BC) would agree to come as hockey-only. If they somehow were able to armwring BC into joining as hockey-only, they'd be able to convince BU, but I don't see it. If they expand, it'll be North Dakota and ASU.

Yea more of a hypothetical to give a nod to the success of UConn's inaugural season in hockey east.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Yea more of a hypothetical to give a nod to the success of UConn's inaugural season in hockey east.

Oh, it's been a great success, but if the B1G were looking for eastern hockey-only candidates there are still many in line ahead. But taking UConn as hockey-only makes no sense. I said in another thread, that'd be like the B1G adding Duke as football-only.