Sure they did. Publically, Uconn was stating fidelity and loyalty for the BE, while its AD ( Perkins ) was in contact with the ACC office immediately after Miami left to determine the ACC's interest in Uconn. Then as recently as 2 years ago, once again, UCONN was pledging fidelity to the reconstituted BE, while its President was on the phone to both the ACC ( again ) to determine the ACC's interest in Uconn. I assume you know this. If not, I don't know why. Its certainly known up in Boston and down in ACC headquarters,.... and is all part of the public record via court records in the Blumenthal lawsuit. But thats beside the point, The point is that it would be a failure of UCONN''S former AD Perkins to his school NOT to have pushed for Uconn's consideration by the ACC after Miami left. So of course he did, irrespective of his public posturing to the contrary..... finally, if you as a loyal and good worker leave your firm for another because you believe it is your future best interests, and the loss of your value to your former firm becomes evident, the fact that your former firm is " damaged " is a true statement. But did you really set out to " damage or destroy the firm " ? Or was that really incidental to your primary motive for moving to the new firm ? And remember, in this scenario, the firm ( BE ) was already " damaged " by the loss of its key employee ( Miami ) before you ( BC ) had a chance to move on. The fact that Harry ( Uconn ) is left in a " damaged" ( BE ) firm is most unfortunate for Harry ( Uconn ), but to blame the departed employee ( BC ) for this circumstance does not primarily rest with the departed employee. It rests primarily with the crappy, dysfunctional company ( BE ) that both Harry ( UCONN ) and the departed ( BC ) once inhabited.
I'm not getting involved in this UConn-BC matter, but, when you use your handle after a street named after Tom Yawkey, you are putting one of sports biggest losers within your handle.
Fair enough,... you won't get involved in this BC- Uconn matter. I'll respect that, and I won't get involved in this matter of my handle/ Red Sox, etc.
You have your perception of events but you are incorrect in absolving BC. Furthermore, you have regressed to UConn winning in the AAC will help. Winning or losing doesn't matter. Look at BC for heaven's sake. They suck in everything(except hockey for now.) Look at Rutgers, another example where winning makes no difference. Academics make no difference (Louisville). Politics and money make a difference. Nothing else.
Of course its not borne out by the facts. BC is ranked #28 of all the college football programs during the BCS era. So this comment of " BC sucking at everything, except hockey " is just silly and borne out out of bitterness and frustration, and you need to understand that such feelings can indeed understandably obscure reality when such emotion based thinking its allowed to take hold of a person's more rational, fact based, thought processes. So if you view such comments from this perspective you can understand the emotion behind such faulty observation skills, if nothing else. The facts are that BC went to a Bowl Game last year but were not very competitive in that Bowl Game against a PAC- 12 opponent and frankly they do have a ways to go to get back to being one of the top 25 or so football programs in the Country. BC has not been to the ACC Football Championship Game in 5 years ( since doing it back to back in 2007, 2008 ), and has not been back to the ACC Championship Game in Basketball since 2006 ( losing to Duke 78-76 ). These are just the the facts as well. It seems that most Uconn fans on this site apparently believe BC won't be competitive again. They could be right.... (or they could be wrong). Similarly, Uconn football is looking to get back to having a winning season football team after sharing the BE regular season reconstituted title with Pitt and WVU in 2010..Uconn football might turn it around quickly. Many here seem to believe they will. Who knows if this assessment is accurate or not. Their optimism may very well be merited in this regard, and I see nothing inappropriate for a football fan base with a new head coach not to a have an optimistic sense that a return to a winning season football team... and who knows, perhaps something much, much more substantial in national stature and accomplishments possibly as well... is right around the corner. Thats how I assess this anyway.
Thats a bit of a snarky response. I'm more interested in providing information to people that regrettably apparently were under the misconception that Lew Perkins, the Uconn AD did not attempt to privately get UCONN into the ACC in 2003, while publically taking the position of loyalty and fidelity to the BE at the time. John Swofford publically stated that he did not take kindly to being a defendant in a lawsuit coming out of Connecticut AD's office when UCONN itself sought entry into his ACC league prior the launch of the lawsuit. Is it possible that Blumenthal himself was not aware of the private actions of Perkins at UCONN ?, or was Blumenthal aware but pro0ceeded with the lawsuit anyway ? Who knows. But its clear to all ( or should be by now ) that UCONN was attempting to privately secure entry into the ACC in 2003 after Miami left ( and something BC was attempting to do as well, but was being excoriated by the BE because their efforts to secure entry looked like a go for them in 2003 ). Its not my fault that I'm I'm reading for the first time that apparently a lot of UCONN football fans were not aware of UCONN's private contacts in 2003 to get into the ACC... As such, it does help me understand for the first time that many UCONN fans are bitter toward BC but its probably not their fault. Many are somehow unfamilar with what both the ACC AND the BE top officials have acknowledged, but that many Uconn fans were not made aware of for one reason or another...... until now ,it appears. This attempt at educating some UCONN fans with what appears to me to be new info for the vast majority of them on here is more satisfying for me than watching a BC lame duck basketball coach about to takes his charges out on a court to be smoked at home by Duke. But you're right, this is my personal choice.
I just cited for you above ( his direct words quoted and sourced for you ) that Ass't BE Commish McElroy is on record stating that UCONN'S quest to get into the ACC was blocked in 2003. So I don't know what else to tell you, noeynox.... As for Tranghese, he contacted the ACC and he and the ACC met in a hotel outside D..C. airport in 2000 with a pitch for the ACC to take Miami, BC, Syracuse into the ACC in return for money and assurances not to future intrude on his coveted BE Basketball league side of the BE. Thats all been cited in the newspapers as well as Defendant court document testimony as well.I'm sure its clear to all by now that Tranghese was never the best guy to advance the BE Football " to stick together ", and any of that public posturing nonsense from him. Tranghese from day one was totally immersed and marinated in the basketball side of the BE... not football.
Love it when posters say "just win..." If winning mattered, UConn wouldn't be in the situation they're in (Syracuse would). If academics mattered UConn wouldn't be in the situation they are in (Louisville would). Lucy keeps pulling the ball away right before it's about to be kicked. UConn is the Charlie Brown of Conference Realignment