Report: UConn Going To Big East For 2020-2021 Season

[Slasher]

If they can keep football in the AAC somehow that would be huge.

As the AAC, if you get the chance to keep the 130th best FBS school you have to take it, right?

 

[Brochacho]

As the AAC, if you get the chance to keep the 130th best FBS school you have to take it, right?

You never know - we schedule the most P5 teams in the league. Great relationships with a couple of the schools in conference. Aresco is a UConn guy. Its the third most likely option, but not a 0% chance. After all, who can they replace UConn with that moves the needle? BYU and Boise aren't coming. UMass? Southern Miss?

 

[Engineer90]

May as well just join the MAC.

Is that an option?

What if the Big East forms a mega conference structured similarly to the old Big East. Let's say there are two divisions in every sport. In football, it is FBS and FCS. In other sports teams are divided into two divisions, perhaps based on geography. Then say UMass, Temple, Navy and Buffalo join UConn in the new Big East football conference. Perhaps more like Cinci (unlikely) or Stony Brook. If, say, the conference had 16 teams then they could be divided into two 8 team basketball divisions and they could play intradivision teams twice and interdivision teams once.

I get that it is contorted and unlikely but what I am getting at is that there are ways our 1-11 football team can stay FBS.

 

[Guapo]

Y’all it’s real

 

[UconnU]

I don’t think there’s a chance in hell the AAC will keep us in football. The conference is trying to be a poor man’s SEC. They’re probably happy we’re leaving.

 

[8893]

Is that a cigarillo in his mouth?

 

[Slasher]

Is that an option?

What if the Big East forms a mega conference structured similarly to the old Big East. Let's say there are two divisions in every sport. In football, it is FBS and FCS. In other sports teams are divided into two divisions, perhaps based on geography. Then say UMass, Temple, Navy and Buffalo join UConn in the new Big East football conference. Perhaps more like Cinci (unlikely) or Stony Brook. If, say, the conference had 16 teams then they could be divided into two 8 team basketball divisions and they could play intradivision teams twice and interdivision teams once.

I get that it is contorted and unlikely but what I am getting at is that there are ways our 1-11 football team can stay FBS.

I don't think the MAC is an option. They just kicked out UMass for refusing to put their non-football sports in the MAC.

 

[don356]

I don’t think there’s a chance in hell the AAC will keep us in football. The conference is trying to be a poor man’s SEC. They’re probably happy we’re leaving.

I don't think it matters anyway. The chances of being competitive will be slim and none.

 

[huskymedic]

Mike Anthony: UConn on the verge of joining the Big East, football future in the AAC unclear

Mike Anthony @ManthonyCourant 4 minutes ago
Statement from UConn: “It is our responsibility to always be mindful of what is in the best interest of our student athletes, our fans and our future. With that being said, we have been and remain proud members of the American Athletic Conference.”

 

[WrenchFan69]

I don't think the MAC is an option. They just kicked out UMass for refusing to put their non-football sports in the MAC.

Even on our worst days we're at least twice as desirable as UMass

 

[UconnU]

Recruiting just got so much easier!

 

[navery12]

Well, the football board is taking this well...

 

[DefCONNOne]

Well, the football board is taking this well...

Yeah, watching a school commit athletic suicide is so pleasurable to witness first-hand.

 

[3rdbass]

So it is really happening. Great news from my point of view as our football program is a bottom feeder and there is no light at the end of the tunnel there even if the football fans think so.

 

[SubInATub]

Yeah, watching a school commit athletic suicide is so pleasurable to witness first-hand.

This is program saving move. Kudos to UConn for doing this now before it's too late.

 

[JCSuperstar]

Yeah, watching a school commit athletic suicide is so pleasurable to witness first-hand.

They've been watching the football program commit suicide for close to ten years, they should be releived its almost over.

 

[Ha Who]

UConn in denial mode

 

[Chin Diesel]

A couple of things. Remember when Louisville announced their move, they had already filed their intent to leave the AAC; even before they knew where they'd end up. That notification helped reduce their timeline and buyout to the conference.
Secondly, if UConn followed a similar path it could explain lack of tier 3 rights from the new TV deal. UConn was probably the only AAC school looking hard at retaining 3rd tier rights.

 

[navery12]

 

[Towney007]

Well I’ve been following this for a while. My friend at Seton Hall who’s a high up just texted me unsolicited.

We’re going.

 

[noeynox]

How do you let a lame duck president do this?

 

[GetTheFacts]

So, so happy about this.

The football program generates little to no interest and will never be successful on the scale to which the University once hoped. Basketball is the lifeblood of this athletic department and it has been withering away in the AAC.

A return to the Big East will rejuvenate a fan-base that is in desperate need of a kick-start. When do season tickets for the 2020-2021 season go on sale?? LET'S GO!!

 

[DefCONNOne]

This is program saving move. Kudos to UConn for doing this now before it's too late.

If you say so, champ. If you say so.

Narrator: It was not a program saving move. In fact, the University of Connecticut drank a gallon of anti-freeze and convinced the masses all would be fine.

 

[aburks41]

How do you let a lame duck president do this?

Because it is 100% the right move. We were never getting an invite to the Big 10 or ACC, the Big East is where we should have always been

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

Hahaha can you imagine Seton Hall and DePaul being like nah man we don't need UConn, we have... Providence.