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The college football equivalent of UConn’s game-winner vs. Duke and more in Mandel’s Mailbag

Plus, in the spirit of UConn-Duke, a ranking of the top five postseason finishes in college football.
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Ughhhh I’m sure Mandel said it was stupid for UConn to leave the AAC back then, but now he’s saying why mess with a good thing? lol. Because it’s for the longterm survival dimwit.

With both UConn hoops teams in the Final Four (again) and with the football program’s recent resurgence (two straight nine-win seasons), will they ever get a Power 4 invite? Seems crazy that a school that supports its sports at a high level (both hockey teams made the NCAA tournament as well) has been on the outside looking in for a decade and a half now. — John L.

What Jim Mora (now at Colorado State) pulled off there the last couple of years was remarkable. Bob Diaco and Randy Edsall (the second time) drove the program into a ditch, at which point the school sent the football team to purgatory as the price to get the hoops teams back into the Big East. Hard to argue with that decision now, given Dan Hurley quickly turned UConn back into a behemoth, Geno Auriemma may have his most dominant team yet this season and football is no longer on life support.

Because of that, I’m not sure it’s a no-brainer decision for UConn to accept a Power 4 invite if it means ditching the Big East a second time.

This first came up a couple of years ago, when Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark had expansion conversations with UConn leadership. Having just added the four Pac-12 schools, he began eying UConn as a basketball power play. It never got off the ground, as the league’s football-minded schools wanted nothing to do with it.

Around that time, I asked UConn fans whether they’d even want to join that league if it meant leaving the Big East, and was surprised at the results. While they were split, more favored it than not, seeing it as a matter of survival in a world where Power 4 football revenue dwarfs everyone else’s anything. Football relevance would be nice, too.

The better alternative, if ever offered, is the ACC. The money is roughly the same, it would keep the school in a mostly East Coast conference and Hurley’s program would reunite with former Big East foes such as Syracuse, Boston College and Pitt. That Jim Phillips’ conference hasn’t even considered it, despite its current clunky 17-team football lineup, tells you those schools, like the Big 12’s, don’t have much confidence that UConn can field a consistent Power 4 football program.

Personally, if I were UConn, I’d stay where I am. Why mess with a good thing? But a Power 4 invite, especially from the ACC, would likely prove irresistible.
 
That includes best positioning UConn for inclusion in a Power Conference like the ACC or Big 12. The easiest, most controllable way to do that is for Blumenthal and his counterpart, Sen. Chris Murphy, to stay off X. Having our state’s U.S. senators opine that ‘UConn belongs in the BIG EAST’ works directly against the university’s best interests.
 
CL82 said:
That includes best positioning UConn for inclusion in a Power Conference like the ACC or Big 12. The easiest, most controllable way to do that is for Blumenthal and his counterpart, Sen. Chris Murphy, to stay off X. Having our state’s U.S. senators opine that ‘UConn belongs in the BIG EAST’ works directly against the university’s best interests.
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Finally someone said it (outside of us)
 
UConnTrumbull said:
Finally someone said it (outside of us)
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Meh. The lawsuit was 20+ years ago and people have moved on. It isn't why UConn isn't in a power conference at this point. It is about football and football tv valuation. We're just going to have to knock down the door by winning on the field and waiting for another ACC/Big12 movement/shift.
 
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UConnTrumbull said:
Finally someone said it (outside of us)
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For what it's worth, the timing and subject matter of this article follows a conversation fishy, and I have been having. Personally, I have no objection when stuff gets taken from the board and talked about in articles. The Boneyard is a great sense to get the pulse of the fan base.
 
CTFAN4LIFE said:
Meh. The lawsuit was 20+ years ago and people have moved on. It isn't why UConn isn't in a power conference at this point. It is about football and football tv valuation. We're just going to have to knock down the door by winning on the field and waiting for another ACC/Big12 movement/shift.
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I’m talking about the dumb things spewed on Twitter about loving the Big East
 
CTFAN4LIFE said:
Meh. The lawsuit was 20+ years ago and people have moved on. It isn't why UConn isn't in a power conference at this point. It is about football and football tv valuation. We're just going to have to knock down the door by winning on the field and waiting for another ACC/Big12 movement/shift.
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To me, the big takeaway was Connecticut politicians need to stop shooting themselves, and the university, in the foot. They need to shut the hell up because they actually have no idea of what the stakes are and how their idiotic uninformed comments can potentially impact realignment.
 
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CL82 said:
To me, the big takeaway was Connecticut politicians need to stop shooting themselves, and the university, in the foot. They need to shut the hell up because they actually have no idea of what the stakes are and how their idiotic have informed comments can potentially impact realignment.
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Our politicians absolutely need to STFU. Unfortunately, politicians in general are seldom capable of this, and ours specifically are over the top when it comes to speaking when silence is the better option.

One thing that they continually demonstrate is how out of touch they are as for the most part they are saying what they believe their constituents want to hear, while they are in fact sabotaging what their constituents want to see happen.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Our politicians absolutely need to STFU. Unfortunately, politicians in general are seldom capable of this, and ours specifically are over the top when it comes to speaking when silence is the better option.

One thing that they continually demonstrate is how out of touch they are as for the most part they are saying what they believe their constituents want to hear, while they are in fact sabotaging what their constituents want to see happen.
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Nobody screws up local issues like a US Senator.
 
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CTFAN4LIFE said:
Meh. The lawsuit was 20+ years ago and people have moved on. It isn't why UConn isn't in a power conference at this point. It is about football and football tv valuation. We're just going to have to knock down the door by winning on the field and waiting for another ACC/Big12 movement/shift.
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I agree with this ... partly. I would like to point out however, that it would be 100 percent true if our damned Senators could keep their mouths shut. Let UConn determine its own pathway to eliminating its horrendous AD subsidy paid for mainly by students. Every time they open their mouths we, and others not in CT including in other conferences, are reminded of what happened 23 years ago, and that things have never changed. Same guy in power, past his sell by day date, ready to drop yet another suit. The Big East is not good for women's hoops and several other sports. Marginal for MBB. Staying there cannot be the plan.
 
RSTuthill said:
I agree with this ... partly. I would like to point out however, that it would be 100 percent true if our damned Senators could keep their mouths shut. Let UConn determine its own pathway to eliminating its horrendous AD subsidy paid for mainly by students. Every time they open their mouths we, and others not in CT including in other conferences, are reminded of what happened 23 years ago, and that things have never changed. Same guy in power, past his sell by day date, ready to drop yet another suit. The Big East is not good for women's hoops and several other sports. Marginal for MBB. Staying there cannot be the plan.
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Politicians need to shut up. Football needs to keep winning. Change needs to happen. We'll then find a home.
 
CL82 said:
That includes best positioning UConn for inclusion in a Power Conference like the ACC or Big 12. The easiest, most controllable way to do that is for Blumenthal and his counterpart, Sen. Chris Murphy, to stay off X. Having our state’s U.S. senators opine that ‘UConn belongs in the BIG EAST’ works directly against the university’s best interests.
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They obviously are uninformed about the financial reality of not being in a P-4 conference. Every year, we start out tens of millions of dollars of revenue behind any P-4 conference member because of our affiliation with the BE. In addition, I believe the BE is sliding in both men's and women's hoops. Other than St. Johns, who else plays at the same level as us on the men's side? And there are no other premier programs on the women's side.

In sum, I believe the BE is a problem for UConn both financially and competitively.
 
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CTFAN4LIFE said:
The only thing he's donated to UConn is wildly fabricated posts from his mother's basement.
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will ferrell GIF
 
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