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

[Waquoit]

And what did we give them? The worst football program in the country? A 9th place men’s basketball program?

How many titles do they have, Skeezix? How many are UConn?

 

[Chin Diesel]

For those members of the horde lurking here, this is your plot line for your "investigative" stories you will produce over the next 6 months.

To make this easier for you, UConn is Scuffy and the BE is the bathtub.

 

[Chief00]

You do realize those other conferences had to invite us? Hard to blame administrations for bad teams. AD maybe, coaches yeah, players yeah. School prez, not so much.

Conference realignment as we have just seen today - is exclusively a game played in the Presidential Club.

 

[Waquoit]

It also slams the door on ever joining a revenue conference. I think we will live to regret this.

When do you cut your losses? What scenario can you see in your wildest dreams where that door opens for us?

 

[aburks41]

We were never ever getting the P5 invite. The ACC and Big 10 have made that incredibly clear by now. If there is another round on expansion in a few years, Houston, UCF, and Cincy would be the first to go. This was 100% the correct move. Our football program is beyond dead, the least they could do was save basketball

 

[navery12]

nbe put 4, 6, 7 teams in the tourney the last 3 years, I believe. It's not close basketball-wise.

Baseball is so little of a consideration here it's laughable.

This should be a godsend for every team but football. You think the swim team wants to fly to texas?

This is very bad for baseball. But doesn't change how happy I am that this is happening

 

[Engineer90]

The American definitely hurt basketball. It didn't have the ability to hurt it as badly as Kevin Ollie did, but it definitely hurt.

But this is bad for football and baseball - really bad.

It also slams the door on ever joining a revenue conference. I think we will live to regret this.

Agreed on basketball. No one thinks the AAC hurt us more than Ollie did.

It may hurt baseball but I am not sure it will hurt THAT much and I am not sure it matters that much either. The tail shouldn't wave the dog.

For football, sure, it is initially bad but football is already effectively dead. Maybe we can find a spot where the team can be better than 1-11, even if it is with lower recruits. And, maybe, that actually puts us in a better spot for a P5 invite. Is it better to be a laughingstock in the AAC or a decent team in something like the MAC?

 

[UconnU]

Lol at our buy out for the conference being the exact same amount we owe Kevin Ollie. Maybe the American conference violated some obscure clause in the contract? One can hope.

 

[husky429]

This is very bad for baseball. But doesn't change how happy I am that this is happening

You're right. A couple other teams too.

Baseball isn't bringing in basketball money no matter what they do anyways.

 

[Lefty2one]

This is fantastic news.

I don't see how anyone is holding on to the pipe dream of a P5 invitation at this point. It was never going to happen. The university finally accepted its reality.

We're probably not one of the top choices any more of the remaining non-P5 schools. UConn was in a very different spot at the 2013 realignment; we were coming off a decent stretch for the football program and the basketball program was still great. What exactly do we bring to the table if we stay in the AAC? A basketball program that can hopefully be turned around by Hurley and one of the worst football programs in the country in a region that does not care about college football.

 

[whaler11]

Is that a cigarillo in his mouth?

that picture annoys me for some reason. i think it’s a pretzel.

 

[6xChamps]

The thought of senior Alterique Gilbert leading UConn to a New Big East tournament championship at MSG during UConn’s first year in the conference >>>>>

 

[UconnU]

The thought of senior Alterique Gilbert leading UConn to a New Big East tournament championship at MSG during UConn’s first year in the conference >>>>>

Even RJ Cole a gritty northern jersey kid who played for Hurley Sr. Good story lines early! First time in a while I genuinely feel good about the future of Uconn basketball.

 

[whaler11]

Sounds like we’re just waiting for the vote and invitation. No brainer for both sides as Uconn and Big East are attached at the brand hip.

Side note: I think when the story is written years from now Dan Hurley is the reason we moved back home. His lobbying and salesmanship won the right people over.

Agree that Hurley is a big part of this.

 

[Jbirdp5]

Can we pump the breaks? As I said in the other thread, we have two sources -- a "sports marketer" whose Twitter bio says he is an "entrepreneur." And @Chief00.

God bless chief and his briefs, but I'm gonna need more than these two jabronis...

Looks like u got them bow

 

[HooperScooper]

t also slams the door on ever joining a revenue conference. I think we will live to regret this.

I'm thinking that also. This feels like a short term fix that is going to create a long term problem. Not sure how I feel about this.

 

[Lefty2one]

The icing on the cake will be throwbacks that have "Connecticut" across the chest for the 2020-21 season.

 

[whaler11]

I heard there's been an offer for years. If there's motion it's because they've given up on football. Can you blame them?

I meant getting out of the AAC that fast. Soccer starts in 14 months. We’ve always heard 27 months or whatever.

 

[UconnU]

The icing on the cake will be throwbacks that have "Connecticut" across the chest for the 2020-21 season.

OMG. I can’t wait.

Make Connecticut basketball Great Again!

 

[HooperScooper]

This is all over the place now.

UConn basketball is heading back to the Big East.

An NCAA source has confirmed a report from late Friday night by digitalsportsdesk.com that said UConn officials are making plans to return to the Big East for basketball (and, ostensibly, other sports). The one hold-up is what to do with football, which the UConn athletics office is still trying to figure out. But the school remains completely committed to football, with zero intention of dropping it, according to a source.

UConn appears to be heading back to the Big East for basketball, other sports

UConn is heading back to its old conference home, the Big East.

www.nhregister.com

 

[bendm]

Hurley selling the next recruiting class on playing in the big east? cam thomas, abdur-rahim, and co. no longer just wishful thinking.

 

[aburks41]

If anyone thinks this isn’t the right move, we are the #1 story on ESPN right now. This is absolutely huge for UConn

 

[ASweet3781]

And what’s going to happen if the Power 5 breaks away and forms their own basketball tournament?

 

[LIuconn]

Big if true. Hurley gets the XL center to raise the inside temperature and gets the team to a better conference, all within 15 months on the job. Bravo