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so the millions from the Big East exodus will need to be used to pay new football coaches and players. It all makes sense now!
 
Fishy said:
UConn's position: We will leave right freaking now if anyone calls us.

I know it will never happen, but holy crap, I would be terrified at the prospects of our first few years of football in the SEC. Our injured list would be longer than the active roster.
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We could go to the SEC. Get our asses kicked. Finish near the bottom of the conference every year. Then after several years we could claim that Alabama is fading into obscurity and we are a team on the rise. Then we could change our mascot to a Friar.
 
ShakyTheMohel said:
It makes you realize how ridiculous these "rumors" are. It wasn't a rumor..it was a hypothetical statement!
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Your right but it also puts our name out there. We need to be talked about more as an option for every league.

When Louisville got picked over us the storyline was "UConn would always be there later because they can't go to any other conference." We need our AD and any surrogates we can get to say . We are a top 25 school in everything in a top market that brings numbers in NYC and Boston. We are desirable to numerous conferences.
 
fleudslipcon said:
They would arrange it for UConn to play Vanderbilt all season long with each school taking a quarter share of the SEC numbers and both UConn and Vanderbilt would say yes!
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Actually UConn/Vandy considerations are part of the talk, just in a slightly different way. Vandy insists on UConn as their homecoming opponent every year and to get the rest of the conference to go along is threatening to leak the "student athlete" payrolls of Bama, LSU, FL, & GA to Wikileaks.
 
33 posts and Dan hasn't even offered his theories/slashes...this vow of silence is killing me.
 
So what did the insider article actually say? Is it just taken from the times article?


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UConn Dan said:
Haha. ESPN insider rumors picked up on UConn to SEC.
http://es.pn/15Ir3BW
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Lol! The writer could have swapped out Southeastern Conference for Pac-12 or MAC. He just decided to put in the SEC for the heck of it. Now it's a "rumor"? Lol!!!! That's just funny. The fact that there's another page of BYers talking about this as a possibility makes me stop and take another look at how seriously I can take all of this. However, I just can't stay away either!
 
ScottBonz said:
So what did the insider article actually say? Is it just taken from the times article?


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They basically pulled this quote from the article:
Araton added, "Speculative translation: if the Southeastern Conference should seek to expand its footprint to the northeast, perhaps book a couple of its gridiron Goliaths into MetLife stadium, Manuel and Connecticut would not play hard to get," Araton added. "If the Big 12 should raid the A.C.C. -- as some have speculated it might -- then he would keep a night light in the window to help the A.C.C. folks locate him in countrified Storrs."
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They then decided to title the headline rumor "Could SEC consider UConn as member?"
 
ScottBonz said:
So what did the insider article actually say? Is it just taken from the times article?


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Just regurgitated the article (see below). But the headline and their tweet UConn to the SEC? could turn some heads.


Could SEC consider UConn as member?

By Brent Sobleski | Mar 11, 2013 5:19 PM

Connecticut desperately wants to flee the new incarnation of the Big East -- or Atlantic 12 -- Conference. The Huskies have been unable to find a conference dance partner in recent years. The school is resigned to its fate, but it's still available for anyone interested.

“We feel settled in the new league, we’re moving forward, but if at some time someone wants to reach out to us, we’ll have that conversation,” Connecticut athletic director Warde Manuel told Harvey Araton of the New York Times.

Araton added, "Speculative translation: if the Southeastern Conference should seek to expand its footprint to the northeast, perhaps book a couple of its gridiron Goliaths into MetLife stadium, Manuel and Connecticut would not play hard to get," Araton added. "If the Big 12 should raid the A.C.C. -- as some have speculated it might -- then he would keep a night light in the window to help the A.C.C. folks locate him in countrified Storrs."

An ACC raid by the Big Ten conference would serve the same purpose. Either way, UConn is clearly in reactionary mode without any options at the moment.
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The SEC already conquered football, maybe they want to increase their basketball viability and maybe their big bad football programs don't want anymore big time football schools in their league, they might prefer to add a cupcake game to their league, plus they can get UCONN on the cheap, they don't have to give us a full share.

Now with the extra money from the SEC we get a big time football coach like a Petrino, expand the Rent and dominate Northeast recruiting, Cuse and BC would wither and die.
 
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metsfan2323 said:
The SEC already conquered football, maybe they want to increase their basketball viability and maybe their big bad football programs don't want anymore big time football schools in their league, they might prefer to add a cupcake game to their league, plus they can get UCONN on the cheap, they don't have to give us a full share.

Now with the extra money from the SEC we get a big time football coach like a Petrino expand the Rent and dominate Northeast recruiting, Cuse and BC would wither and die.
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I mean, it would be stupid, but I'd be happy.

For ts and giggles, who would they add with us?
 
There is literally not one current SEC team that would agree to play a football game north of Virginia after September.
 
Hyberbole people.

The SEC question was asked to get Warde to say UConn would leave the Big Atlantic if asked. Something everyone, everywhere already knew. We've all had a rough year, but for heaven's sake, snap out of it.
 
auggie22 said:
There is literally not one current SEC team that would agree to play a football game north of Virginia after September.
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Obviosly we need to convert gampel not to a puck barn but a football dome.
 
With disrespect intended to Mr.Tranghese your lack of vision and pathetic leadership eventually lead to the demise of the Big East so why should anyone take what you say seriously? This is Tranghese prediction on whether Rutgers would be invited to the Big 10
"I don't think so. ... Before the Big Ten took Nebraska, knowing Jim Delany as well as I do ... Jim did a lot of work. He did a lot of analysis, and I believe that Rutgers was looked at, and Pittsburgh was looked at, and Syracuse was looked at, and Connecticut was looked at. And a lot of schools were looked at. And I think the Big Ten came to the conclusion that the addition of any one of those schools wasn't going to deliver them the New York market. ... So that's why I think that ultimately led them to Nebraska. Now they sit there and they ask themselves the same question: Can they get the New York market with Rutgers or Connecticut? You can do it with Notre Dame."
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Great prediction Mike.


http://content.usatoday.com/communi...opular-in-new-york-city-market/1#.UT50iBz_mSo

A New York Times study of the 210 television markets found New York has about 3 million college football fans, and 20.9% of those chose Rutgers as their favorite team. That's almost equal to those naming Notre Dame (9.2%), Penn State (6.4) and Connecticut (5.2) combined.
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specialisthusky said:
Obviosly we need to convert gampel not to a puck barn but a football dome.
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Yep, i think this would work. I read somewhere that we just need to pop the roof off and raise the ceilings - football in the fall, basketball in the winter. If we can have warde move our hockey games to the spring, this might just work.
 
John Greene said:
Actually UConn/Vandy considerations are part of the talk, just in a slightly different way. Vandy insists on UConn as their homecoming opponent every year and to get the rest of the conference to go along is threatening to leak the "student athlete" payrolls of Bama, LSU, FL, & GA to Wikileaks.
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I'd play Vandy on Homecoming every year if they all turned out like this Homecoming game:

http://espn.go.com/ncf/recap?id=302750041
 
auggie22 said:
There is literally not one current SEC team that would agree to play a football game north of Virginia after September.
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Awwww crap....that mean Syracuse is going to get the invite to the SEC over us because of the Dome??? :confused:
 
Please guys get with the program.
One of the reasons Louisville was picked by the ACC over us was the probability Louisville would go to the Big 12.
The ACC pretty much said they had UConn in their back pocket if they needed us.
Its a little late now but UConn did a lousy job of self promotion. I know from years of experence that to get a person or group to arrive a favorable outcome, creating a fear that another outcome would be detrimental to them will influence that outcome.
It believe you call this cognitive dissonance. If we wanted to get into the ACC we should have been floating all kind of scenerios were we going to the any other conference but them.
The ACC actually would be damaged if we went to the B1G, not as much if we went to thee SEC or B12.
Connecticut from a logistic and destination sense is an incredible pickup.
Being compact and surrounded by major markets is what we should be selling.
Past athletic success is fine but its not the chief commodity to sell.
It more about future than past.
So don't be negative about any story were UConn goes to a major conference.
PS I think the PAC12 would be a great fit but I live in AZ.
Also remember the 2014 NCAA tourney is in Dallas.
Wouldn't that be home turf for us. Just saying.
 
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I believe the 1982-1983 team beat Georgetown on their home court.
PE freashman year.
I also want to correct the belief that UConn was somekind of doormat prior to the Big East
We had a great basketball tradition. Many Yankee conference titles (beating some good Rhody and Dr J Umass teams on the way )
We had a final 8 and a sweet sixteen. We actually were in the 1979 NCAA tourney losing to Cuse by 3 or 4 points.

BC,Providence, Syracuse, and Georgetown were all in the ECAC conference for a few years with us.
I believe Tony Hansons team actually won the New England Division in 1977.
That team beat Cuse at Manley Field House stopping a 50+ game home winning streak there.
I have been following UConn basketball since Worthy Pattersons days
His team actually beat the only New England superpower Holy Cross.(they were National Champs in the late 40's)
PC wasn't on the map until a kid from Hartford Weaver put them their in the late 50's.
All the Big East teams had some basketball history but there were no superpowers.
 
tzznandrew said:
I mean, it would be stupid, but I'd be happy.

For ts and giggles, who would they add with us?
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I saw on ESPN that the Vermont Catamounts would be UConn's likely partner to join the SEC. Why go after just the Boston/NYC markets when you can get NYC, Boston AND Montpelier!!
 
Hmmm, I dont really get in on this realignment stuff but hear me out on this. Yes, this whole SEC thing is really random but I think it would be a huge help to our football program. If...and thats a big if, we ever got invited to the SEC its pretty much a fact we would finish at the bottom of the league in football for the first 5 yrs or so. But at the same time I could see the UConn football program pulling a UConn basketball and climbing to the top over the next 25 years.

If we had Alabama, LSU, Florida, Georgia coming into the rent, that would inject a lot of life and interest into our program. I guarantee every home game would be a sellout. Playing our football games on CBS would give us a lot of exposure especially in SEC country where all the top recruits are. Jim Calhoun sold the program to recruits with the Big East and the teams they would play. With the right football coach, he could basically do the same thing. All of this would absolutely help getting better recruits into the program.

I give us a 5% chance of actually getting an invite but if we have learned anything from realignment, there is a 100% chance anything can happen.
 
Maybe shot across the bow of big. Who knows what is going on behind scenes. Why espn, never did us any favors. Still love hearing us in the conversation
 
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