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Non-Key Tweets

ZooCougar said:
Bad news doesn’t get better with age. If people actually believed we were going to get in that is their fault. Benedict never set that expectation. We have lots to be excited about.

Personally I would have preferred no tweets. But the guy actually cares about engagement so credit to him.
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You’ll see. It’s common human behavior.

What’s more likely? UConn shows sustained improvement or Mora jumps for a P5 deal? Then what?
 
djct1999 said:
You’ll see. It’s common human behavior.

What’s more likely? UConn shows sustained improvement or Mora jumps for a P5 deal? Then what?
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It think the biggest change for UConn football was not the hiring of Mora (and I really like Mora), but the willingness to invest in football and the school allowing football to take many transfers from the portal. There is no way Mora would have turned around UConn as fast as he did without the administration allowing for an increased number of transfers. There are 33 transfers on the roster this year!
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Stanford and Cal spend a lot more money promoting their own patina of exclusivity than they do on athletics. They care a lot about academics, because it brings in a boatload of money to those schools.
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Stanford and Cal surely may, but they weren't the only ones pontificating about academics.
 
upstater said:
We reacted to Dave Benedict's tweets long before the Utah news was reported. So the biggest part of the reaction had little to do with what I consider a later confirmation.

"We're good" is practically the carbon copy of what UConn said a decade ago.

It's the right message. But it also means, "We're out."
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At a minimum Dave suddenly spending all this time on Twitter means it's over one way or the other. But the vibe of distraction feels more like pushing fans to focus on our successes and move on. It's like mom offering an ice cream after we lost a game when I was 10.
 
Jimdish255 said:
At a minimum Dave suddenly spending all this time on Twitter means it's over one way or the other. But the vibe of distraction feels more like pushing fans to focus on our successes and move on. It's like mom offering an ice cream after we lost a game when I was 10.
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Dave always spent lots of time on Twitter. He's very good at engaging with us.
 
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Saw this comment on Reddit and thought it was funny.
 
huskidork said:
hope? do i smell hope for the huskies?
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UConn is the only school that comes in to The Big 12 without any BS hassles or strings attached. Oregon getting cold feet could hold the others in place just long enough to create opportunity for you all.
 
What I cannot understand is how the narrative continues to be that we are a second rate athletic department. We have the best overall basketball programs in the country when you look at both the men’s and women’s team. No one comes close. We continue to excel at a number of sports, and we do so without the benefit of power five money.
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I think people really fail to understand the extent to which making the "non-traditional" move of leaving the AAC for a non-FBS conference was messaged as abandoning football. To many within the FBS media and whom cover the conferences that UConn would like to join, it was a clear sign that the athletic department didn't care. To them, you moved out of the FBS conference for a 1-AAA one.. you downgraded football, clearly you have sub-Sun Belt facilities, truth be damned.

If you dig in an do research, you'd see otherwise and that the move was absolutely the right one for the athletic department, ultimately increasing fan-engagement; while the university retained similar levels of revenues to continue to fund facilities, support staff, etc. However most columnists aren't going to take the time to do that without someone feeding them the information, plus even if they tried to be contrarian, they'd face the uphill battle of convincing their readers or face massive ridicule, it's much easier to go along with the narrative.
 

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