I am concerned about the first point. I think it's quite possible that, no matter how much money football schools make, they will be spending it on football. But if they stop competing with other conferences, ....
Please, as a UConn Alum it's still not hard to admit that UConn has been dreadful in football for a long time. Just plain horrible, for many years. There hasn't been a single season with a winning record since 2010, and only 6 winning seasons out of the last 25. That's objectively awful.
Recent alum I take it.
What does the TV contract is "going well" mean and how does this differ from what the PAC commissioner was saying this time last year?
You might as well throw Yale and Carlisle football in there as well.
What does when he graduated have to do with it?
I graduated 36 years ago. The football team has had 6 winning seasons out of the past 25 seasons. Is that not dreadful? In the last 6 seasons there have been 3 or less wins in 5 of the 6. Abysmal, dreadful, horrible...pick whatever word you like to describe it...it is what it is.
Gee John, maybe ask him since he mentioned he was an alum.
Exactly John. The point is that things change and there's a recency bias in the modern world.
They've been a laughingstock for over a decade. That's a long time in my book.
Yep, a recency bias. UConn men's basketball has won the most championships in the last 50 years.
Now tell me how the program was perceived in the AAC days. That's recency bias John.
Is a decade and a half of sucking not long enough? They've gone 40 and 106 in that span.
When they won the national championship, pretty damn good. People noticed we were bad for three seasons under Ollie. Now people see us as the best basketball program in the country. Again, most titles out of anyone in the last 50 years.
Actually, it's you who are struggling with the strategic picture.
There is no reason why UConn football couldn’t be just as good as the BC and Syracuses of the world on an equal level playing field with the right coach which I believe Jim Mora is.
Right coach and appropriate investment and conference framework.
Of course its dreadful you replace a geriatric dud, with a dud with pretty blue eyes, you then bring back a guy who had no interest in doing the job. The investment hasn't been there in football so you get the results we got. But i get. Money doesn't grown on trees and we have 2 high profile BB programs at the top of the heap that require maximum resources. Football has been largely treated like an afterthought.
You're having trouble with someone saying UConn football has been dreadful for a long time and you brought up CCNY basketball in regards to UConn basketball.
Keep missing the point on purpose.
Agreed but it wasn't treated like an afterthought until more recently. They built top of the line practice/training facilities at that time but the program was embarrassed when the snake Edsall slipped out in the dark of night and then told everyone Maryland football is his dream job. They spent competitive money on PP and Diaco (actually they were overpaid) but they were awful hires. They totally embarrassed themselves when they were the only program to cancel their entire football season and when they hired back the snake.
What's your point? Your points seem to be that UConn can/will become CCNY in basketball and that UConn football hasn't been dreadful for a long time.
UConn's dominance isn't "luck", and if Hurley didn't believe in the future of the school or that they wouldn't pay him what he's worth he wouldn't have stayed
100%!! In order to make the case that money will guarantee the SEC championships we'd have to ignore the Dan Hurley refusal. This is the scenario many BYers are saying may happen in the future: p4s have so much dough they'll squash us.
I would never argue with you because I learned years ago I’m not going to win. So my non-argumentative thought is that I just don’t think all the best players are going to accumulate on the same rosters just because they’re getting more NIL. These kids want court time, and star time. That means they’re going to have to disburse themselves to different programs. Here’s my question, in a four year period there’s got to be 400 kids circulating out of the top 100 for each year. Isn’t that enough to keep the top 80 schools competitive? Even if there are 20 schools outside the power structure? And Go Huskies. Unbelievable!
