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Well we know for a fact CUSA called UCONN last year and invited them don't we? They weren't calling to talk about academics. The decision would be up to their TV network, CBS if I remember correctly, who happens to be our TV network. I doubt it would take much lobbying.
Why would we join CUSA for football? It doesn’t even pay its members near 500k per year for ALL SPORTS. We get that just for football and if we win games we will get a lot more.
 
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I can’t believe you are making me out to be the blind one at this point. If your argument is that CUSA membership will help get us into the playoff over going 12-0 with our Indy schedule and our brand, you aren’t dealing in reality. Being in CUSA will likely make it harder for us to get respect. It is awful.
 
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I can’t believe you are making me out to be the dumb one at this point. If your argument is that CUSA membership will help get us into the playoff over going 12-0 with our Indy schedule and our brand, you aren’t dealing in reality. Being in CUSA will likely make it harder for us

Man will have colonies on Mars before we go 12-0 and secure an at large bid to the the tournament. Western Michigan recently provided the template for how it could happen out of a G5 conference. Their schedule was nothing special.
 

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We absolutely should not join C-USA. It is the worst FBS league whose champ is extremely unlikely to finish as one of the top 6. In fact, since the CFP/NY6 setup started, C-USA has gone to 0 NY6 bowl games (aka best G5 champ/aka top 6 champ).

We have a better chance of getting into a 12-team playoff as an independent than in C-USA going 13-0 against a much weaker schedule.

These are the members of the future C-USA:
Liberty (currently indie)
LaTech
NMSU (currently indie)
FIU
UTEP
MTSU
WKU
Jacksonville State (currently FCS)
Sam Houston State (currently FCS)

Prestige-wise it is much better to be an independent than in C-USA. The only exception is UMass whose schedules are on par with a C-USA schedule.

You had mentioned earlier that we could just play 4 P5 home and homes and 8 C-USA games, but we both know that won't happen. We will schedule 1 FCS game. It is unlikely that we would schedule 3 P5 home and homes every year. Most years it would be two. Also, would an ACC team want to schedule a home and home against a C-USA team on the regular?

But I will give you a thought experiment:
I will compare our 2023 schedule (as the following years are not complete) vs. a prospective C-USA schedule with 3 P5 home and homes:

2023: NC State, @Georgia State, FIU, Duke, Utah State, @Rice, USF, @Boston College, @Tennessee, @James Madison, Sacred Heart, @UMass

C-USA: Sacred Heart, NC State, @Duke, Boston College, @FIU, LaTech, SHSU, @JSU, @WKU, Liberty, NMSU, @MTSU

Which schedule looks better to you?

To me, 2023 has 8 games of interest (all but Georgia State, FIU, James Madison, and UMass).

The C-USA schedule has only 3 games of interest (NC State, Duke, BC- the three games that have nothing to do with C-USA).
 

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Man will have colonies on Mars before we go 12-0 and secure an at large bid to the the tournament. Western Michigan recently provided the template for how it could happen out of a G5 conference.
Even furthering the argument to stay independent and play a schedule of schools that we have interest in.
 
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I can’t believe you are making me out to be the blind one at this point. If your argument is that CUSA membership will help get us into the playoff over going 12-0 with our Indy schedule and our brand, you aren’t dealing in reality. Being in CUSA will likely make it harder for us to get respect. It is awful.
12-0?!! Reality? Come on man!
 
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12-0?!! Reality? Come on man!
So now you want to pretend that a CUSA team with losses will get into the playoff? No chance. the Mountain West and American will take those spots.

We will have to go unbeaten to get into the playoff as an Independent. If we ever get a football only offer from the American and go with it, maybe one loss will get us in. We are still a year or two from needing to even think about that.
 
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Man will have colonies on Mars before we go 12-0 and secure an at large bid to the the tournament. Western Michigan recently provided the template for how it could happen out of a G5 conference. Their schedule was nothing special.
The Western Michigan template you cite was to go 12-0 and have every other G5 champion end up with at least 3 losses (the only other one ranked that year was a 3 loss Temple at #25). So yes, in that wildly unlikely scenario C-USA may just get a team in.

If you assign 1% odds to the chances of UConn making the playoff by going 12-0 and getting an at large, it's about 5% for UConn to reach it as the C-USA champion. That's not to say UConn can't win C-USA... but C-USA is that terrible, the unquestioned worst conference in FBS (one that multiple FCS schools declined the opportunity to upgrade their program and join), that their champions only path (the Western Michigan template) to being the 6th best conference is for every other contending conference champion to lose 3 or more games.
 
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If you assign 1% odds to the chances of UConn making the playoff by going 12-0 and getting an at large, it's about 5% for UConn to reach it as the C-USA champion.
It's more like .1% for an at large bid.

Temple turned their football program around under Al Golden by dropping down to the MAC and playing a much easier schedule. Playing an easier schedule can bring huge benefits. Not many benefits to playing body bag games

Part of my preference for CUSA is ESPN owns the rights for the other G5 leagues and I prefer that ESPN need to add us to the ACC in order to be under their umbrella again but if that is deemed not to be an issue I would have no problems with lobbying the other G5 leagues for football entry.

I honestly see little difference between the MAC and the current CUSA. I would want to see UMASS added to CUSA with us and I would want us to stop scheduling an FCS game and continue to schedule 4 P5 games per year with 8 conference games.
 
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So now you want to pretend that a CUSA team with losses will get into the playoff? No chance. the Mountain West and American will take those spots.

We will have to go unbeaten to get into the playoff as an Independent. If we ever get a football only offer from the American and go with it, maybe one loss will get us in. We are still a year or two from needing to even think about that.
I'm not even thinking about playoffs. Playoffs?! That said, with the G5 conferences, anything is possible.

What's the most realistic 5 and 10 year plans for the UCONN Football Huskies:
Independence
ACC GOR is broken and back-fills
Big 12 back-fills
G5 football only invitation - AAC, MAC, Sun Belt, C-USA...

I'm fine with Indie for a few years but 10 years, no. Liberty is joining C-USA and honestly I think it should do better than that.
 
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Would the ACC double down on their eastern aspect...or try to expand westward like the B1G ?

What teams further west are worth picking up? The east coast based conference kind of already has its western expansion with schools like Louisville, ND, and Pitt. When they were picking off the old Big East, the ACC should have grabbed Rutgers and UConn too - two schools that are actually close to the Atlantic Ocean.
 
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The Big 12 is making noise about a "4th time zone"...the B1G carries across time zones to the west coast,,,

The SEC has 11 programs in Central and 3 Eastern...

The ACC may be hobbled somewhat by being the conference with all eastern time zone programs....
 
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The PAC was hurt by being late TV...the ACC might be hurt by being overloaded for early TV slots...
 
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The Big 12 is making noise about a "4th time zone"...the B1G carries across time zones to the west coast,,,

The SEC has 11 programs in Central and 3 Eastern...

The ACC may be hobbled somewhat by being the conference with all eastern time zone programs..
That's not right for the SEC. UK, Georgia, SC, Florida, Tennessee are all eastern. I think the rest are central.
 

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Everyone was p.o.d because UCONN didn't get the ACC invite so yes, remaining in what became the AAC was a very bitter pill. No one was happy about it. But had UCONN won, fans would have been a lot more optimistic about playing the games.

2013 Standings​


SchoolWLPctWLPctOffDefSRSSOSAP PreAP HighAP RankNotes
OverallConferencePoints Per GameSRSPolls
UCF121.923801.00034.621.38.42-2.961010
Louisville121.92371.87535.212.29.99-5.859715
Cincinnati94.69262.75032.121.00.41-6.90
Houston85.61553.62533.221.84.93-1.92
SMU57.41744.50026.833.3-7.44-2.44
Rutgers67.46235.37526.529.8-5.68-3.37
Connecticut39.25035.37520.630.3-11.97-2.97
South Florida210.16726.25013.828.6-13.56-0.47
Memphis39.25017.12519.524.6-7.41-2.66
Temple210.16717.12524.929.8-10
You keep saying this, over and over again. Most others here disagree. Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge the fact that you won’t be changing anyone’s mind and let it go?
 
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You keep saying this, over and over again. Most others here disagree. Perhaps it’s time to acknowledge the fact that you won’t be changing anyone’s mind and let it go?
I keep saying what, that UCONN fans would have been excited had UCONN Football been winning? I'm not trying to change anyones minds. I'm just stating the obvious.
 

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I keep saying what, that UCONN fans would have been excited had UCONN Football been winning? I'm not trying to change anyones minds. I'm just stating the obvious.
Over, and over, and over again. I think everyone understands the point.
 
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That's not right for the SEC. UK, Georgia, SC, Florida, Tennessee are all eastern. I think the rest are central.

Right...Kentucky is split in half...Eastern/Western time zones....Tennessee is..73% Central ...if you are talking about a state as an Eastern or Central state....you'd make a judgement call....
 
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Right...Kentucky is split in half...Eastern/Western time zones....Tennessee is..73% Central ...if you are talking about a state as an Eastern or Central state....you'd make a judgement call....
Yes but the schools themselves are in the eastern time zone. Which was my point.
 
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Yes...but are the fhe fan bases...the map that Zissou posted was of states...

My point is that Tennessee is marginally in the Eastern Time Zone...73% of the state is in Central.

Yes Knoxville is in the Eastern Time Zone...but go 45 miles west and it is Central...
 

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