The question is moot. Reason being football doesn't require the skill of other sports. Name another sport where you go from playing pick-up basketball in college to the pros. Players don't need high school football for colleges to present an acceptable product. They can get coached up when they get there. As long as there is money to be made playing football, people will play football.
I see where you're going but in UConn's case, one should argue the exact opposite. Field Hockey would probably stay in the Big East. Baseball would benefit hugely by playing the southern boys regularly. Hockey is in Hockey East. Soccer would find a different home.
It's pretty close though. 970k football players, 850k soccer players.
Small part? This is UConn. 16 NCs, thank you.
Blame the politicians for the off-campus stadium.
More and more high schools are dropping football or merging teams with other schools due to declining youth football participation due to concerns over CTE, gets getting lazy and preferring playing Madden on PS5 to real football.
And zero northeastern teams in the BE tournament finals. I like cherry pie too.
The point could not be made more succinctly and clearly than this. We pursue the P5 or we should drop football and pray that the football schools don’t pull their basketball from the NCAA. It’s that simple, and neither choice is irrational. Or easy
Deciding to put yourself into a position where your only strategy is praying that others don't take advantage of you isn't irrational?
We were very good in multiple sports as a BCS program. including basketball.
It would not be my path, but in life there are always things other can do that will adversely affect you. In deciding whether to act, you have to determine, among other things, what the odds are that they will take that action. I haven’t trained myself in firearms and bought a handful of guns. In doing so, I’m making a calculation that I don’t have to act because others could buy guns and break into my house.
Kind of hard to run it it when you have a brick wall (ESPN) keeping you from getting in
I need a bit of clarification on this statement. Do you view the B-12 (what it will be after all announced schools move in and out) as midmajor?
sadly this is very true... we either strive to be like Virginia, Maryland or even UNC. Or we cut the AD in half, drop football, and become more in line with the BE profile...
Going back to your salient points, instead of your tired CTE soapbox.
This is the internal battle that we are fighting. If you're a field mouse, all you can really do is hope that you can hide well enough that a predator won't find you. It would be irrational for many schools (including basically any other BE member) to believe they could become a predator (P-5 all sports member). The only thing they can do is hope the predators (P-5 conferences) never find and kill them (cut them out of the bulk of media revenues).
LOL. I appreciate your effort to help me. But I was just making the point that saying you can’t leave your fate in someone else’s hands isn’t a real argument. We all do that in hundreds of ways every day. You have to actually evaluate how likely it is that such a strategy will harm instead of benefit you.
Nope, I was responding to someone else calling the Big East a borderline mid-major, I wasn’t calling the Big 12 a mid major. And literally at no point did I say the Big East was the best basketball conference. I called it “consistently competitive” and “not a midmajor”. The Big 12 is a great basketball conference and possibly the best right now.
There are plenty of instructional places here in the Boston area, too, as well as shooting ranges. I can tell people from experience they are solid.
So are you saying that you believe that Connecticut continuing to make $.10 on the dollar, or less than the major conferences is an optimized strategy? Are you saying that you think the odds are equivalent of someone breaking into your house "with guns" is roughly the same likelihood as UConn being priced out of competing at a high major level by ever more profitable competing schools?
You mean thank the politicians. The choice was The Rent or nothing.
Still, not snapping the ball guarantees you won't get across the goal line. (I was at the Navy game. It was a stunningly incompetent finish by the coaching staff.)