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CL82 said:
My understanding is his big beef was that Jeff Calhoun, when he was playing, looked at Jacobs and laughed and Jeff was offended by that. Seriously.

But it is more than Calhoun. He's had other instances whining about access and other things. His tendency toward paranoia and sensitivity and the need to write to about it to validate his victimhood is his tragic flaw.
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I think if you work at the Courant, paranoia is a job requirement. Dez Conner is as paranoid as anyone. Some of his private e-mails to blog posters were epic in their degree of paranoia.
 
06029 said:
Its call horrible coaching hires. Exhibit 29 (a) in the how to ruin a good thing manual is this guy -
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I see your point on the above but there has to be more to it in UCF's case. Two different coaches built the football team from basically nothing to something very strong only to see it go over the cliff in the matter of minutes. The guy you referenced steadily drove a program into the abyss.
 
CL82 said:
My understanding is his big beef was that Jeff Calhoun, when he was playing, looked at Jacobs and laughed and Jeff was offended by that. Seriously.

But it is more than Calhoun. He's had other instances whining about access and other things. His tendency toward paranoia and sensitivity and the need to write to about it to validate his victimhood is his tragic flaw.
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I remember he wrote he felt physically threatened by Calhoun's ire when Jacobs was recovering from a heart attack. Which may have lead to the questioning of his manhood. Anyway, Jeff owes us his big conference realignment opus. It's April now.
 
Fishy said:
When the Big East was reformulating for the first time, reps from UCF were calling everyone under the sun to try to get into the Big East....including people who owned message boards pertaining to current Big East teams.

It was a very, very odd conversation.
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What did you get from DePaul?!?!
 
Call me when Bianci is cornered on a city street by an NHL team after they have their goalie die. Once Jacobs went down that road with the Flyers - everything that happens after is nothing.
 
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I love how he drops the line "UCF should easily be the Big 12's top choice – geographically, demographically, athletically and academically", but fails to mention how the football team went 0-12 and fired it's head coach, while the basketball team went 12-18 and fired it's head coach.
 
TRest said:
I remember he wrote he felt physically threatened by Calhoun's ire when Jacobs was recovering from a heart attack. Which may have lead to the questioning of his manhood. Anyway, Jeff owes us his big conference realignment opus. It's April now.
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The question is will it materialize? He had his big "I Jeff Jacobs, will save ol' State U moment." The self - aggrandizement moment has passed. Frankly, I wonder if he would have written anything if @Dooley hadn't made it easy.

Keep in mind that the UConn could have told Jeff and other members of the press, we're close, don't screw this up for us and will give you access to the details after the fact.
 
CL82 said:
The question is will it materialize? He had his big "I Jeff Jacobs, will save ol' State U moment." The self - aggrandizement moment has passed. Frankly, I wonder if he would have written anything if @Dooley hadn't made it easy.

Keep in mind that the UConn could have told Jeff and other members of the press, we're close, don't screw this up for us and will give you access to the details after the fact.
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I think there is something to your second point...but don't kid yourself either, if there is a deal Jacobs would step over his mother to break that story.
 
In a recent Hartford Current article about the football team, our new AD said that (to paraphrase him)..if we dominate the conference, "the other thing (CR) will take care of itself, if it is meant to be." I am not sure if the "if it is meant to be" line means we are back to monitoring. Therefore, according to him begging and pleading by any source is not going to help, although he did admit that he cannot read the minds of university presidents.
 
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We make a mistake not reaching, BRANDING this Program broader than Hartford and greater Hartford County. There's no one else that matters in College Sports in NE. And you absolutely can get folks to travel. I think marketing has always been scant.
 
Pudge said:
We make a mistake not reaching, BRANDING this Program broader than Hartford and greater Hartford County. There's no one else that matters in College Sports in NE. And you absolutely can get folks to travel. I think marketing has always been scant.
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A perfect example of this is the Dunkin Donuts marketing deal. You go into a Dunkin Donuts in Fairfield County the UConn marketing campaign is no where to be found...go injto another one right over the border in New Haven County and it is front and center.
 
Honestly.

I would push Dunkin Donuts,People's United, Webster Bank ... to market us in their stuff throughout NE. Particularly give the excellence of our Hoop teams. It's NEW ENGLAND excellence.
 
Pudge said:
Honestly.

I would push Dunkin Donuts,People's United, Webster Bank ... to market us in their stuff throughout NE. Particularly give the excellence of our Hoop teams. It's NEW ENGLAND excellence.
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Agree 100% Pudge. As an aside, maybe Dunkin Donuts needs lass prodding than the others. I went into one next door to where I work this morning & saw DD-N.Y. Mets schedules at the counter. (no Yanks or Red Sox) I know that they have advertising contracts with all 3 teams, but to actually see a Mets schedule in Southington was an eye opener as they are generally an afterthought in this region.
 
Pudge said:
Honestly.

I would push Dunkin Donuts,People's United, Webster Bank ... to market us in their stuff throughout NE. Particularly give the excellence of our Hoop teams. It's NEW ENGLAND excellence.
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Agree 100% Pudge. As an aside, maybe Dunkin Donuts needs less prodding than the others. I went into one next door to where I work this morning & saw DD-N.Y. Mets schedules at the counter. (no Yanks or Red Sox) I know that they have advertising contracts with all 3 teams, but to actually see a Mets schedule in Southington was an eye opener as they are generally an afterthought in this region.
 
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CallMeBruce said:
How so?
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Because it ignores just under a million CT residents who live in Fairfield County, the wealthiest and most densely populated part of the state. Fairfield County is a part of the NYC DMA.
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When other fan bases say "UConn has no (TV) impact in NYC," they are spot on wrong because of that fact. They also have probably never seen us play in MSG, aka Gampel South.
 
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ZooCougar said:
Because UConn covers more than just the Hartford market. Duh.
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OK, I thought maybe you had something new to say, rather than repeating the same points already made 50 times in this thread.
 
Florida already saturated with SEC-FL, ACC-FSU / MIAMI , AAC- USF / UCF. Throw in FLA. Atlantic + FLA International. 3 NFL teams .Not sure BIG-12 would make that big an impact. Plus no natural southern rivalries.
 
tiger paw said:
Florida already saturated with SEC-FL, ACC-FSU / MIAMI , AAC- USF / UCF. Throw in FLA. Atlantic + FLA International. 3 NFL teams .Not sure BIG-12 would make that big an impact. Plus no natural southern rivalries.
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There are plenty of Texans living or working in Florida. If Big12 can get 1/2 of SEC carriage fee that's a bunch.
 
CallMeBruce said:
OK, I thought maybe you had something new to say, rather than repeating the same points already made 50 times in this thread.
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It's been said once. By him. Ease down on the drinking. Or whatever it is.
 
buddy said:
In a recent Hartford Current article about the football team, our new AD said that (to paraphrase him)..if we dominate the conference, "the other thing (CR) will take care of itself, if it is meant to be." I am not sure if the "if it is meant to be" line means we are back to monitoring. Therefore, according to him begging and pleading by any source is not going to help, although he did admit that he cannot read the minds of university presidents.
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When we got spurned in 2011 (which started us on this road to hell), we had just finished a four year stretch in Big East football where we were 33-19, went to 4 straight bowl games and tied for the BE title twice. Oh BTW, we also won the NCAA BB title and made it to the Super Regionals in baseball, sweeping Clemson before losing to SC in SC.

Unfortunately, at that time other factors worked against us for admission in the ACC. That first big shake up in 2011 is what consigned us to the gulag and elevated Pitt and Syracuse to P5 status. Plain and simple, if achievement was the big factor in 2011, we would have made it. We had much support, but a combination of bitterness, revenge, jealousy and whatever other human emotion you can imagine prevailed to keep us out and got Pitt in. 51/2 years later (which has seemed like 50), we still wait.
 
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Butch said:
It's been said once. By him. Ease down on the drinking. Or whatever it is.
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You think that's the first time someone has pointed out that Fairfield County is part of the NYC DMA on this board? Surely you must be joking.
 
DD's marketing is done by region, so if you want DD to promote UConn in Fairfield county you'll have to convince DD's NY office to sign a promotional agreement. All of the UConn/DD cross promo comes via their @DDinCT twitter account. Every one of their promos, not just the UConn related ones, always say "excludes Fairfield county".

So yeah...either get the NY region to do a UConn deal, or just convince them to restructure their corporate organization, no biggie. We can get Donald to negotiate it, he's very very good at this stuff. Amazing deals. Win, win win until you're tired of winning.
 
junglehusky said:
So yeah...either get the NY region to do a UConn deal, or just convince them to restructure their corporate organization, no biggie. We can get Donald to negotiate it, he's very very good at this stuff. Amazing deals. Win, win win until you're tired of winning.
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Damn, too bad we already filled the AD job.
 
junglehusky said:
DD's marketing is done by region, so if you want DD to promote UConn in Fairfield county you'll have to convince DD's NY office to sign a promotional agreement. All of the UConn/DD cross promo comes via their @DDinCT twitter account. Every one of their promos, not just the UConn related ones, always say "excludes Fairfield county".

So yeah...either get the NY region to do a UConn deal, or just convince them to restructure their corporate organization, no biggie. We can get Donald to negotiate it, he's very very good at this stuff. Amazing deals. Win, win win until you're tired of winning.
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Correct about the regions but we are #UConn6thBorough after all - if we can get SNY tv deals, I imagine IMG can negotiate a deal to get DD in NY to promote us as well - at least in Fairfield County.
 
Is BTN on basic cable in Fairfield County, CT? Or did the basic cable deal stop at the NYC city limits?
 
B1GOSU said:
Is BTN on basic cable in Fairfield County, CT? Or did the basic cable deal stop at the NYC city limits?
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In lower Fairfield County (where the money resides) it is a premium channel.
 
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