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Drew said:
Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire 56s56 seconds ago
Greg Flugaur retweeted Brett McMurphy

https://mobile.twitter.com/McMurphyESPN/status/646338104714903552… As I've said..B10 thinks very highly of UCONN.May not have top FB brand...but it doesn't matter. Relationship tight

Greg Flugaur added,

Brett McMurphy @McMurphyESPN
BYU, Army, Notre Dame, Cincinnati & UConn will count toward Big 10’s requirement of playing 1 non-league Power 5 opponent, source told @ESPN
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I assume Navy will count also as they are in the same league as UConn and a deep history in football (and can kick Army's arse!).
 
Keep Charging On ‏@UChrisF · 4h4 hours ago
@flugempire UConn and Cinci are only on there because Indiana already had games scheduled and B1G is letting them keep them.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 4h4 hours ago
@UChrisF B1G would let them keep them without the status of "P5"...that is not the reason.

Keep Charging On ‏@UChrisF · 4h4 hours ago
@flugempire no no no. I like you and your information but stop trying to blow it out of context.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 4h4 hours ago
@UChrisF http://espn.go.com/college-football...roves-byu-army-notre-dame-nonconference-quota …

Wrong.
UCONN and CINCY are not just exceptions because of current schedule. Read the article

Keep Charging On ‏@UChrisF · 4h4 hours ago
@flugempire you're REALLY trying to use Brett and ESPN as a source? Notice how they're separated by paragraph. Means 2nd paragraph is rumo

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 4h4 hours ago
Some AAC schools will be considered P5 games....some will not. Case by case. B10 will make decisions and take requests.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 4h4 hours ago
But if Minnesota scheduled a game vs UCONN for 2025 the game would be considered a P5 game. But for now not vs Memphis.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 3h3 hours ago
To say that UCONN and CINCY are only be included as P5 games because they are on future B1G schedules is inaccurate.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 3h3 hours ago
It's probably a good time to remind everyone UCONN & CINCY Revenues for 2014 are the only 2 G5 schools higher than at least 1 P5 school.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 3h3 hours ago
I'm not sure if that played a part in the B1G decision or not....but it could have as part of a comprehensive metric

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 3h3 hours ago
@UChrisF
The guy is wrong.
Minnesota can schedule UCONN as a P5 game in the future...UCONN status as P5 is not just for Indiana

Keep Charging On ‏@UChrisF · 3h3 hours ago
@flugempire OK. Whatever you say. Keep reading things so you sound correct. Cheers.

Keep Charging On ‏@UChrisF · 3h3 hours ago
@flugempire if that's the case, Minnesota could go and schedule Utah State and consider them P5.

Greg Flugaur
‏@flugempire @UChrisF No it's not the case. Big Ten would have to ok it. But UCONN has been ok'd.
I have no idea what your problem is...but get a grip

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 35m35 minutes ago
@UChrisF You choose not to believe....and I have no idea why you are so butt hurt by this designation. It doesn't hurt UCF bid for B12

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 39m39 minutes ago
@UChrisF http://espn.go.com/college-football...tre-dame-cincinnati-uconn-nonconference-quota …

3rd time I've posted it. It will be on BTN tonight at 5. Not a one time designation for CINCY and UCONN.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 3h3 hours ago
B1G and UCONN have a growing relationship...this is the truth. Sorry..it just is.

Do you know what it takes to get a road HCKY game @MINN?

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 3h3 hours ago
Do you know that every College HCKY program in the nation wants to play @ Minnesota Golden Gophers Marricui Arena?
UCONN is here January 1st
 
HuskyHawk said:
Damned if this stuff doesn't just feed my hope machine a little bit. I suspect my grey hair will turn brown again if we ever get out of this conference purgatory.
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His point about getting a game at Minnesota is total garbage, they're in the Mariucci Classic. It's a lower-level imvitation tournament that last year consisted of Ferris State, RPI, and Colgate. It's not hard to get Minnesota to play you at home, much less in their tournament. If UConn got a home and home with Minnesota, then it'd be slightly different. Playing in this tournament, on its own, foreshadows absolutely nothing about conference realignment.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
His point about getting a game at Minnesota is total garbage, they're in the Mariucci Classic. It's a lower-level imvitation tournament that last year consisted of Ferris State, RPI, and Colgate. It's not hard to get Minnesota to play you at home, much less in their tournament. If UConn got a home and home with Minnesota, then it'd be slightly different. Playing in this tournament, on its own, foreshadows absolutely nothing about conference realignment.
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Conspiracy Kitty says:
...or does it?
 
I love how indignant the MWC blog is about this:

Apparently they forgot that UConn had Boise State on the ropes through nearly 3 quarters last year at home before we let them slip away.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
Boise should try not being located in Boise before they complain.
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And perhaps not being a glorified community college that sucks at everything but football. The take away here is that football matters...if you are a flagship state university with a strong track record of success in other sports, strong academics, and a location in an useful market.
 
Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 5h5 hours ago
Do you know that every College HCKY program in the nation wants to play @ Minnesota Golden Gophers Marricui Arena?
UCONN is here January 1st

Stefe ‏@slurpee387 · 57m57 minutes ago
@flugempire so does this mean Ferris State, RPI and Colgate are also going to join the B1G bc they played the goofs in the Mariucci Classic?

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 47m47 minutes ago
@slurpee387 Did I say UCONN was going to join B10 once?
Nope.
I only mentioned it b/c UCONN has tighten its B1G relationship over last 5 yrs

Greg Flugaur
‏@flugempire @slurpee387 It's takes a lot of talking...a building relationship to get an invite to Mariucci in any manner or form.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 46m46 minutes ago
@slurpee387 Ferris State/Colgate/RPI have all played Gophers in the past...but Uconn has a new building relationship was my point

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 46m46 minutes ago
If you want a simple way to get people upset with you on Twitter just say something positive about UCONN in relationship with P5 Powers :)
 
Wonder what the B1G's play is in this. Are they doing it to create an "affiliate" network beyond their league?
 
I have to agree with the Flugs on his last point. There are lots of grumpy fools out there that are bitter over the news about UConn and the B1G scheduling. Nobody said a peep when Notre Dame, BYU (AND ARMY!) were declared power schools. But now that UConn is in the B1G club, all of the folks that are worried that UConn is getting some momentum again can't help themselves to take their stupid, uninformed shots.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Wonder what the B1G's play is in this. Are they doing it to create an "affiliate" network beyond their league?
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It is strange, right? BYU and Notre Dame make sense cause they are strong independent programs with a history of success. Army and Navy, sure you should reward your schools for playing the service academies, it's good for America (and the academies recruiting footprint).

But UConn and Cincy are strange. At first blush you say, well they were BCS teams in the last decade and have shown a recent history of success. But so did Boise State, Hawaii, UCF and Northern Illinois.

UConn you say that maybe they are laying the groundwork for eventual admission into the conference, but there is no way that Cincy would ever join the B1G so if you're packaging them with UConn to give you cover why exclude Boise and UCF?

It's tough not to look at this move independent of any tea leaf reading because it's really so bizarre.
 
You have to keep in perspective this is the b10 only saying this due to their internal rule. Ultimately, other than osu and msu right now, those other teams have to find non conference game with opponents who they have a chance to compete with, and the matchups are efficient in terms of travel, etc., and have some fan interest A lot of aac schools fit the bills for those types of opponents, and can bring fans as well. As we have seen, the b10 is not the sec, not even close from top to bottom. This is where the 64 team power scenario has a big flaw, it needs more content, and more balance. That will become even more crucial as these network tv deals melt away. It's happening, it's just a case of timing.
 
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Dooley said:
I have to agree with the Flugs on his last point. There are lots of grumpy fools out there that are bitter over the news about UConn and the B1G scheduling. Nobody said a peep when Notre Dame, BYU (AND ARMY!) were declared power schools. But now that UConn is in the B1G club, all of the folks that are worried that UConn is getting some momentum again can't help themselves to take their stupid, uninformed shots.
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It's jealousy. For now and the last few years everyone can point and snicker at our conference, but now the worry is starting to creep into some minds that UConn may soon hit the Powerball jackpot with their conference upgrade while others settled for whatever life raft to the ACC or SEC was throw their way at the time of conference musical chairs. At the end of the day, the teams that were able to secure a chair still aren't winning anything. They just have a wider audience to watch them not win anything. UConn can at least point to winning titles in a major sport that people actually care about, and if they can get into the B1G, I doubt it's very long before they are at least middle of the pack in football - hell they probably aren't far from being competitive with the bottom half of the B1G now.
 
HuskyHawk said:
And perhaps not being a glorified community college that sucks at everything but football. The take away here is that football matters...if you are a flagship state university with a strong track record of success in other sports, strong academics, and a location in an useful market.
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I think the takeaway is this - you need to be a university first ( not a community college football factory with a university facade ), you need to have big boy budget, and you need to be appealing in some way for member schools to schedule.
 
HoopsFan21 said:
It's jealousy. For now and the last few years everyone can point and snicker at our conference, but now the worry is starting to creep into some minds that UConn may soon hit the Powerball jackpot with their conference upgrade while others settled for whatever life raft to the ACC or SEC was throw their way at the time of conference musical chairs. At the end of the day, the teams that were able to secure a chair still aren't winning anything. They just have a wider audience to watch them not win anything. UConn can at least point to winning titles in a major sport that people actually care about, and if they can get into the B1G, I doubt it's very long before they are at least middle of the pack in football - hell they probably aren't far from being competitive with the bottom half of the B1G now.
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I think that UConn needs to be prepared for an extended stay in purgatory. That purgatory can't be the AAC because UConn wouldn't survive it, but maybe this is the first step towards something a little better.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I think that UConn needs to be prepared for an extended stay in purgatory. That purgatory can't be the AAC because UConn wouldn't survive it, but maybe this is the first step towards something a little better.
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I know I will hate myself for asking, but what exactly do you see as that "something a little better?"
 
NYUConn said:
It is strange, right? BYU and Notre Dame make sense cause they are strong independent programs with a history of success. Army and Navy, sure you should reward your schools for playing the service academies, it's good for America (and the academies recruiting footprint).

But UConn and Cincy are strange. At first blush you say, well they were BCS teams in the last decade and have shown a recent history of success. But so did Boise State, Hawaii, UCF and Northern Illinois.

UConn you say that maybe they are laying the groundwork for eventual admission into the conference, but there is no way that Cincy would ever join the B1G so if you're packaging them with UConn to give you cover why exclude Boise and UCF?

It's tough not to look at this move independent of any tea leaf reading because it's really so bizarre.
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I'm assuming Army was in at Rutgers' urging. They schedule Army a lot, and are now panicking that they can't play FCS anymore.
 
NYUConn said:
It is strange, right? BYU and Notre Dame make sense cause they are strong independent programs with a history of success. Army and Navy, sure you should reward your schools for playing the service academies, it's good for America (and the academies recruiting footprint).

But UConn and Cincy are strange. At first blush you say, well they were BCS teams in the last decade and have shown a recent history of success. But so did Boise State, Hawaii, UCF and Northern Illinois.

UConn you say that maybe they are laying the groundwork for eventual admission into the conference, but there is no way that Cincy would ever join the B1G so if you're packaging them with UConn to give you cover why exclude Boise and UCF?

It's tough not to look at this move independent of any tea leaf reading because it's really so bizarre.
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Well a lot might depend on which B1G school needed an exemption and which didn't, depending on who else (G5-wise) they were negotiating future dates with. And we don't know the timeframe of when they have to apply for it - could MSU apply for an exemption for Boise (not playing till 2022) in maybe 2017? 2020? #JustSaying...
 
Dooley said:
I have to agree with the Flugs on his last point. There are lots of grumpy fools out there that are bitter over the news about UConn and the B1G scheduling. Nobody said a peep when Notre Dame, BYU (AND ARMY!) were declared power schools. But now that UConn is in the B1G club, all of the folks that are worried that UConn is getting some momentum again can't help themselves to take their stupid, uninformed shots.
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You do realize the latest quote was me he was arguing with. :p And the poster here probably couldn't see the responses I gave via retweet. I'll add them below. I actually agree with all of his other points he made today, and was only taking issue with his ridiculous statements about "what it takes to get a game at Mariucci" (which he, a Gopher fan, spelled incorrectly) and that UConn playing in the Mariucci Classic this year was a result of some kind of lengthy relationship and discussion that was necessary in order to be invited to play there. Those points are categorically and provably false. It's the general aura of Gopher hockey fans that it's some kind of privilege to play them, and that you should bow at the altar of Don Lucia if he allows you to schedule his team. Completely preposterous.

Stefe ‏@slurpee387 3h3 hours ago
@flugempire does MN have a building relationship with second-rate HE programs UVM and Northeastern - who they actually played on the road?

Stefe ‏@slurpee387 4h4 hours ago
Stefe retweeted Greg Flugaur

So hard only the likes of Bemidji, Merrimack, Huntsville, Northeastern, and Northern Michigan could do it.

Greg Flugaur @flugempire
B1G and UCONN have a growing relationship...this is the truth. Sorry..it just is. Do you know what it takes to get a road HCKY game @MINN?
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Stefe‏@slurpee387
Stefe retweeted Greg Flugaur

lol no it doesn't

Greg Flugaur @flugempire
@slurpee387 It's takes a lot of talking...a building relationship to get an invite to Mariucci in any manner or form.
 
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TRest said:
I'm assuming Army was in at Rutgers' urging. They schedule Army a lot, and are now panicking that they can't play FCS anymore.
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Doubt it was Rutgers and people in New Brunswick do not even listen to their athletic department. Army has a lot of football history and while they are no longer on the level of the big boys today, no one is going to want to snub them because what Army represents.
 
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