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[jho]

Speaking of click/follow bait:

State Senator from Norwalk/Darien

Bob Duff ‏@senatorduff 2h2 hours ago
22 National Championships across all sports since 2000. @UConn would make a great fit in the Big 12! Let's go #Huskies

Bob Duff ‏@senatorduff 2h2 hours ago
@UConn has both the academic AND athletic excellence, which is a natural fit for the Big 12. Go Huskies! #Proud

The Duffman says "Oh, yeah!"

 

[cttxus]

That is a lucid, intelligent, well thought-out objection.

B12 Hayseeds: Overruled.

 

[huskymedic]

RedditCFB@RedditCFB 1 hour ago
2016 /r/CFB Academic Rankings are out! Measure academic quality for athletes in particula
2016 /r/CFB Academic Rankings • /r/CFB

UConn comes in @ 64 among ALL DI football playing schools:

>>Very simply, this is a ranking of the academic experience a college football player can expect to get at a school. We’ve divided the ranking into four subrankings:

• Athletes: This is a ranking of the academic programs and accomplishments particular to athletes, especially football athletes. This incorporates Academic All-Americans, APR, and a few other factors.
  
• Undergrads: This is probably closest to a traditional college ranking system. This incorporates metrics relevant to what makes a school competitive in particular to an undergraduate.
• ROI: This comprises a few measures of what students can hope to get out of a university and the marginal value of their degree.
• Research: This ranks research output in a number of dimensions. Having a strong university strengthens the case for conference acceptance, and provides more opportunities for students and student athletes.<<

Graphs

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Have fun...

 

[HuskyBandDad]

RedditCFB@RedditCFB 1 hour ago
2016 /r/CFB Academic Rankings are out! Measure academic quality for athletes in particula
2016 /r/CFB Academic Rankings • /r/CFB

UConn comes in @ 64:

>>Very simply, this is a ranking of the academic experience a college football player can expect to get at a school. We’ve divided the ranking into four subrankings:

• Athletes: This is a ranking of the academic programs and accomplishments particular to athletes, especially football athletes. This incorporates Academic All-Americans, APR, and a few other factors.
  
• Undergrads: This is probably closest to a traditional college ranking system. This incorporates metrics relevant to what makes a school competitive in particular to an undergraduate.
• ROI: This comprises a few measures of what students can hope to get out of a university and the marginal value of their degree.
• Research: This ranks research output in a number of dimensions. Having a strong university strengthens the case for conference acceptance, and provides more opportunities for students and student athletes.

Graphs

Tables

Have fun...

Sorry I would rather poke my eyes out with a rusty fork.
Just tell me what schools lead in hookers and blow

 

[UConnNick]

Here's the clincher. As long ago as the late 1960's, UCONN was ranked the No. 2 party school in America, just getting edged out by the U of Miami a/k/a Convict U.

No school in America can claim our pedigree as an absolute party haven. You bring your teams to Storrs and it's party time! We had to create our own parties because there sure wasn't much of anything else to do in Storrs in the late 1960's, or the 70's, 80's and 90's for that matter. We're the party experts.

 

[dayooper]

Sorry I would rather poke my eyes out with a rusty fork.
Just tell me what schools lead in hookers and blow

Louisville, but with the money Ole Miss is paying, they can procure as many hookers and as much blow as they can handle.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Here's the clincher. As long ago as the late 1960's, UCONN was ranked the No. 2 party school in America, just getting edged out by the U of Miami a/k/a Convict U.

No school in America can claim our pedigree as an absolute party haven. You bring your teams to Storrs and it's party time! We had to create our own parties because there sure wasn't much of anything else to do in Storrs in the late 1960's, or the 70's, 80's and 90's for that matter. We're the party experts.

Hasn't that really declined since Suzie and Co took over?

Here's a more interesting list Best College Athletics - College Rankings

#44 Best athletics. Top ranked G5 not that that should surprise anyone.

 

[huskymedic]

Same kid who posted on the UNC fan site about UConn to the ACC, then linked it on our boards for click bait.

Same kid linked an SB nation "article", and then put "ESPN reports...." in the thread title. Click bait.

Also the same kid who thinks UConn football is peaking at 6-7 with a loss to Marshall in a bowl game. That's not click bait, it's just moronic.

Yup... UConn to Big East May Be Gaining Steam

 

[HuskyHawk]

Here's the clincher. As long ago as the late 1960's, UCONN was ranked the No. 2 party school in America, just getting edged out by the U of Miami a/k/a Convict U.

No school in America can claim our pedigree as an absolute party haven. You bring your teams to Storrs and it's party time! We had to create our own parties because there sure wasn't much of anything else to do in Storrs in the late 1960's, or the 70's, 80's and 90's for that matter. We're the party experts.

Playboy ranked us #6 my Freshman year (1984), which lead to MTV coming to campus two years in a row during spring weekend. Almost all of the anecdotes they used as evidence dated to the late 70's though, and UConn started clamping down even during my time in Storrs.

 

[Mr. Hand]

Playboy ranked us #6 my Freshman year (1984), which lead to MTV coming to campus two years in a row during spring weekend. Almost all of the anecdotes they used as evidence dated to the late 70's though, and UConn started clamping down even during my time in Storrs.

Things have changed dramatically.

I remember when large outdoor frat parties were the norm, with hundreds of drunk students openly carrying and consuming large quantities of booze right out in the open right on campus.

Such a sight is unthinkable now. It's been a dramatic transformation. Parties still happen I'm sure, but the days of UConn being spotlighted as a party school are over.

 

[MattMang23]

Playboy ranked us #6 my Freshman year (1984), which lead to MTV coming to campus two years in a row during spring weekend. Almost all of the anecdotes they used as evidence dated to the late 70's though, and UConn started clamping down even during my time in Storrs.

By my sophomore year, 2004-2005, Playboy stopped including us. But that year they did give us an honorable mention and wrote the line: "We had to take the University of Connecticut off this list because we can not include professionals on a list of amateurs."

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

RedditCFB@RedditCFB 1 hour ago
2016 /r/CFB Academic Rankings are out! Measure academic quality for athletes in particula
2016 /r/CFB Academic Rankings • /r/CFB

UConn comes in @ 64 among ALL DI football playing schools:

>>Very simply, this is a ranking of the academic experience a college football player can expect to get at a school. We’ve divided the ranking into four subrankings:

• Athletes: This is a ranking of the academic programs and accomplishments particular to athletes, especially football athletes. This incorporates Academic All-Americans, APR, and a few other factors.
  
• Undergrads: This is probably closest to a traditional college ranking system. This incorporates metrics relevant to what makes a school competitive in particular to an undergraduate.
• ROI: This comprises a few measures of what students can hope to get out of a university and the marginal value of their degree.
• Research: This ranks research output in a number of dimensions. Having a strong university strengthens the case for conference acceptance, and provides more opportunities for students and student athletes.<<

Graphs

Tables

Have fun...

Cougar High and Memphis CC both respectably up there in the 140s.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I'll not wait around for @CougarRed to say Cougar High is only the nickname because AM fans called it that because a building was an old high school or something. Always makes me think of this:

 

[IMind]

By my sophomore year, 2004-2005, Playboy stopped including us. But that year they did give us an honorable mention and wrote the line: "We had to take the University of Connecticut off this list because we can not include professionals on a list of amateurs."

Heh the did the exact same thing with my alma mater, Lehigh. Lehigh reacted exactly like UConn did and cracked down hard when it got the reputation of being a party school.

 

[MattMang23]

Heh the did the exact same thing with my alma mater, Lehigh. Lehigh reacted exactly like UConn did and cracked down hard when it got the reputation of being a party school.

Yeah, schools hate that rep. But Lehigh couldn't have done too much cracking down. Colleges.niche.com, another one of those college search engines, still has Lehigh ranked 18th in the country for party school lol. UConn is nowhere to be found in the top 100. Collegeatlas.com still has Lehigh 6th, based on the Princeton Review. UConn was again unranked.

I wish our admin cracked down the way Lehigh's did.

 

[SubbaBub]

UConn was and still is very late to the liability risk management crackdown party. Most schools did away with kegs and open fraternity parties by the late 80's, early 90's.

Mine had it's own version of spring weekend, except it lasted an entire week. The fall version lasted a month, though that was a smaller more endurance driven event.

You find one freshman passed out under the student life office....Yada, yada, yada...things were never the same.

 

[Point6]

84 was my freshman year too. This was soon after the time they started prohibiting kegs in the jungle and I assume other dorms. How many Schaeffer and Piels bar bottles had to make the ultimate sacrifice because of that arbitrary rule?

 

[jho]

I remember bringing coolers and kegs into soccer games in the early '80s.

 

[HuskyHawk]

84 was my freshman year too. This was soon after the time they started prohibiting kegs in the jungle and I assume other dorms. How many Schaeffer and Piels bar bottles had to make the ultimate sacrifice because of that arbitrary rule?

Yes, Kegs were banned in campus housing by at least 1985. 1984-85 had the "in transit rule", which allowed drinking in common areas/halls if you were moving somewhere at the time and not standing still. So we had "around the world parties". They banned the in transit exception in 85-86.

We beat the keg rule by parking a car with a keg in a hatchback in the back horseshoe of our dorm in Towers. We lowered a bucket in a milk-crate, held by telephone wire on the corners, from the 4th floor. Lower, fill, hoist, pour into pitchers, repeat. It's that kind of creativity they've now killed.

 

[D/$$$]

Yes, Kegs were banned in campus housing by at least 1985. 1984-85 had the "in transit rule", which allowed drinking in common areas/halls if you were moving somewhere at the time and not standing still. So we had "around the world parties". They banned the in transit exception in 85-86.

We beat the keg rule by parking a car with a keg in a hatchback in the back horseshoe of our dorm in Towers. We lowered a bucket in a milk-crate, held by telephone wire on the corners, from the 4th floor. Lower, fill, hoist, pour into pitchers, repeat. It's that kind of creativity they've now killed.

Class of '80 (sorry dudes, but you missed it!!!!)

 

[Kolumbo]

argument against joining the new big east.

"The basketball-only approach may seem to be working for the new Big East but investments being made by schools like Virginia Tech, Auburn, Alabama, and TCU, hardly traditional hoops powers, portend a shift in basketball’s hierarchy, one driven by the massive windfalls of football revenue.
"The smartest way to “focus on basketball” these days is to make $20+ million per year playing football."
Does UConn Have a Realignment Contingency Plan?

 

[HuskyHawk]

argument against joining the new big east.

"The basketball-only approach may seem to be working for the new Big East but investments being made by schools like Virginia Tech, Auburn, Alabama, and TCU, hardly traditional hoops powers, portend a shift in basketball’s hierarchy, one driven by the massive windfalls of football revenue.
"The smartest way to “focus on basketball” these days is to make $20+ million per year playing football."
Does UConn Have a Realignment Contingency Plan?

Except we may run completely out of money to fund football playing in the AAC. It's a crapshoot really. Just trying to stay afloat until a P5 lifeboat arrives. How we do it is an arguable point.

 

[CL82]

I remember bringing coolers and kegs into soccer games in the early '80s.

Memorial stadium may have had a keg or two in the stands from time to time. Of course I have no idea who the neerdowells were who would perpetrate such a crime against humanity....

 

[Fairfield 1st]

Yes, Kegs were banned in campus housing by at least 1985. 1984-85 had the "in transit rule", which allowed drinking in common areas/halls if you were moving somewhere at the time and not standing still. So we had "around the world parties". They banned the in transit exception in 85-86.

We beat the keg rule by parking a car with a keg in a hatchback in the back horseshoe of our dorm in Towers. We lowered a bucket in a milk-crate, held by telephone wire on the corners, from the 4th floor. Lower, fill, hoist, pour into pitchers, repeat. It's that kind of creativity they've now killed.

I was a freshman in 85 and the older guys in the jungle (not kidding some of whom were on the 6 year plan-god I loved that place) would sing songs and tell stories about how easy kegs were. I remember the in transit rule and the boom in fake soda can label sales...could literally buy a red white and blue label that looked like a pepsi can and said "cola" on it at dairymart... god it was so much fun....

 

[Fairfield 1st]

argument against joining the new big east.

"The basketball-only approach may seem to be working for the new Big East but investments being made by schools like Virginia Tech, Auburn, Alabama, and TCU, hardly traditional hoops powers, portend a shift in basketball’s hierarchy, one driven by the massive windfalls of football revenue.
"The smartest way to “focus on basketball” these days is to make $20+ million per year playing football."
Does UConn Have a Realignment Contingency Plan?

Here's the thing..wouldn't it make sense (if we can make close to p5 money) to play football in C-USA for a few years and continue to build the program in hopes of getting picked up by any of the P5's---status quo in the AAC for all sports is increasingly looking like a poor option..especially if Cincy and Hou are the only two picked...Its about revenue at this point and bottom line is it needs to be maximized by any means necessary

 

[Fairfield 1st]

Yes, Kegs were banned in campus housing by at least 1985. 1984-85 had the "in transit rule", which allowed drinking in common areas/halls if you were moving somewhere at the time and not standing still. So we had "around the world parties". They banned the in transit exception in 85-86.

We beat the keg rule by parking a car with a keg in a hatchback in the back horseshoe of our dorm in Towers. We lowered a bucket in a milk-crate, held by telephone wire on the corners, from the 4th floor. Lower, fill, hoist, pour into pitchers, repeat. It's that kind of creativity they've now killed.

I can't like this post enough

 

[Waquoit]

I remember bringing coolers and kegs into soccer games in the early '80s.

That's what got me into soccer.

 

[NYUConn]

If The Big 12 takes 2 from The American - say Cincy and Houston - there is an argument to be made that the AAC is no longer the "best of the G5" conferences. Certainly the MWC would have something to say about that and The MAC could make an argument that top to bottom they are as good as an American.

So the idea that in an apocalyptic scenario, where we get left behind by the Big 12, staying in a depleted American best positions us to move up is not necessarily such a compelling argument.

 

[cttxus]

Never had to deal with any of this in the mid-late 70s. The 3rd and 4th floors of Wright-A in the frats quad was Animal House before they even made the movie. We probably could have used a little more adult supervision back then. It might have helped the GPA, although most of us still manged to get through in 4 yrs.

 

[Husky25]

Could not get into trouble for something the RAs or (more importantly) RDs could not see. I lived in West as a Sophomore in 1997 and a Junior accounting major on my floor was on winter internship. He came back to campus for Spring Weekend, 1/4 barrel in tow. They got it up the stairs in a hockey equipment bag and put it in the closet. We took hits off it all weekend. A week or so later, his internship ended and he returned with a second 1/4 barrel.