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

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ASweet3781 said:
And what did we give them? The worst football program in the country? A 9th place men’s basketball program?
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How many titles do they have, Skeezix? How many are UConn?
 
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.

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To make this easier for you, UConn is Scuffy and the BE is the bathtub.
 
uconnfan68 said:
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.
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Conference realignment as we have just seen today - is exclusively a game played in the Presidential Club.
 
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
 
husky429 said:
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?
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This is very bad for baseball. But doesn't change how happy I am that this is happening
 
Fishy said:
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.
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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?
 
navery12 said:
This is very bad for baseball. But doesn't change how happy I am that this is happening
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You're right. A couple other teams too.

Baseball isn't bringing in basketball money no matter what they do anyways.
 
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.
 
4xChamps said:
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 >>>>>
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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.
 
UcannUconn said:
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.
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Agree that Hurley is a big part of this.
 
Irish Loop said:
Hahaha can you imagine Seton Hall and DePaul being like nah man we don't need UConn, we have... Providence.
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Well, I’m certain PC’s staff and admin as well as most fans are happy this is happening, it helps the conference become stronger, and we have been together for 40 years wether you like it or not. And for you dim bulbs who would rather stay playing every damn directional school in the south, get back to me when you are walking into MSG in March of 21.
 
Waquoit said:
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?
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I meant getting out of the AAC that fast. Soccer starts in 14 months. We’ve always heard 27 months or whatever.
 
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.

www.nhregister.com

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 www.nhregister.com
 
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
 
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