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skies88 said:
Gotta be pumped for those creighton, marquette, and depaul trips huh
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About as much as I was pumped for trips to Houston, Tulsa, Tulane, ECU, SMU, Wichita... But seeing as you missed the point Ill explain. There are more close games for me now to go to and the conference tournament back in MSG is close-by and a better atmosphere.
 
21 pages and not one person has brought this up...

Please tell me Bill Raftery and Gus Johnson are still calling games for Fox. Going from that crazy color commentator that always droned on about sled dogs to those two legends would make the move worth it right there.
 
Guapo said:
Dooley, I disagree with you on this, but I think I speak for most UConn fans when I say I’ll miss you.

I’m sorry that it came to this for you.
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I know many people disagree with me. That's okay. I do hope that the remaining UConn fans will be happy. It was a fun ride while it was here. We almost made it to the P5 and athletic relevance. Heckuva shot.
 
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Dooley said:
Shame we could never figure out the whole athletic department thing. Had some real potential to being a major P5 player. Instead, too many bad decisions were made and here we are. Too bad.
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This is a really good take for the football fanbase. There were numerous mistakes made between 2010 and now across the board in the AD which put UConn in the position where moving back to the BE was the only realistic way to save a bit of face.
 
This will help Hartford and Storrs. I have never seen more then a few dozen Tulsa, SMU, Houston, Tulane or ECU fans for the games or the AAC tournement. I know the attendance from old BE teams will be in the hundreds if not thousands. This will automatically bump the home attendance for Basketball n the olympics sports. The money save in travel will be millions. This is long overdue
 
McLovin said:
Right. So now everyone will need the mega expensive cable package to watch UConn rather than a $5 per month subscription. Great.
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:rolleyes:
 
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Waquoit said:
True. And in UConn's case it drove the athletic department into a ditch.
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Not true - and actually, ridiculously dumb.

Football did not hurt our athletic department - the head in the sand attitude people had about the reality of football driving the bus caused us to upgrade a decade later than we should have.

Our current situation is a lot different if people had thought like a flagship university should have been thinking. But instead, we pretended we were Maine or New Hampshire and now here we are - likely on the path to eventual oblivion.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
This is a really good take for the football fanbase. There were numerous mistakes made between 2010 and now across the board in the AD which put UConn in the position where moving back to the BE was the only realistic way to save a bit of face.
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Way too many mistakes. From hiring bad ahtletic directors to hiring bad coaches to APR to paying waaaay too much attention to APR to being slow to add football to begin with...just a loooong line of bad decisions.

In a way, I hope today's news will spark a bigger national debate about the demise of college athletics and the direction it is headed. The name UConn is a huge name and nationally recognized. That hasn't and wont' change. But the P5 split has very real consequences to the NCAA and college athletics in general. Maybe UConn dropping down to second tier will open enough eyes that a real long hard look will take place into the scamshow of the NCAA. I hope so. It'll help me feel better that UConn has fallen on its sword here.
 
Fishy said:
Not true - and actually, ridiculously dumb.

Football did not hurt our athletic department - the head in the sand attitude people had about the reality of football driving the bus caused us to upgrade a decade later than we should have.

Our current situation is a lot different if people had thought like a flagship university should have been thinking. But instead, we pretended we were Maine or New Hampshire and now here we are - likely on the path to eventual oblivion.
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Well said. I've always enjoyed your posts Fishy.

Can you please deactivate my Dooley Boneyard account? I'm going back to casual lurking for the interim and eventual disconnect from all things UConn. Thanks!
 
P5'ers must know that college basketball as understood from an NCAA amateurism perspective has gone the way of the dodo. Just look at the same few schools consistently dominating the draft w/ a convenient smoketrail, but never quite a fire of violations.Getting caught is the cost of doing business big, final fours, draft choices, rinse repeat.

So, what I'm saying is don't hang your hat on the P5. Those guys in 5-10 years will no longer waste their time feigning amateurism and the cost of P5 admission will be more than a notion. Just watch Houston. Big time booster/owner, they draw, keep expenses low and they beat in-state P5 in football and basketball. They will be P5 players down the road.
 
Also can't be overlooked that this move is as much an indictment on the AAC for failing to build the conference in a sustainable way to position itself as a true power conference. While some additions were stong net positives (Houston, Memphis, UCF), the additions at the bottom of the league were so catastrophic and shortsighted (Tulane, ECU, Tulsa) that no one could take the league seriously as a power conference.

It also hamstrung the TV deal, added unnecessary travel for everyone, and watered down the overall product. The fact that removing those three schools from the conference would be seen as a HUGE step up for the league is all you need to know about how bad of an idea they were.
 
SubInATub said:
This is program saving move. Kudos to UConn for doing this now before it's too late.
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Depends what happens to football. It may be surrender. That doesn't help any of our programs long term.
 
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Chief00 said:
The points he made are valid ones but the more I think about it - this sets us up to be a basketball powerhouse again !
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Not so sure I agree w that. When I passed on what I heard from the Prov guy, who is very real and very connected, he damn near called me a fool.

Who’s the fool now?
 
shrug … no one is going to walk away from the 100's of millions invested in Football.

If you find yourself wishing that … you are an idiot. Though, many of us have been reading that for a decade now from you.
 
I do not see this as a great day, see it more as the culmination of 15 years of poor leadership. In that time, Louisville went from C-USA to the ACC. UConn, with a better hand, went from the Big East to the A10.

Wish I could see it differently, but I cannot.
 
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8893 said:
Start buying up UConn/AAC gear; soon to be retro like UConn/Big East gear was.
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Ya know.... I'm not so sure. You don't see people buying "Call of the Wild" helmets. Some things are better off forgotten.
 
GREAT move for the program.

The P5 invite was never coming with the state of our football program. Houston, Cincy, and maybe even UCF were all getting the invite before us. Football rules all and we don’t have it.

I’m as big a fan as any and while I still attended every game, I couldn’t get excited for just about any matchup other than Cincy. It just wasn’t the same. Now I’ll be looking forward to every game, yes even Creighton, Butler, and DePaul. UConn is a basketball school and now we’re back in the conference we belong in.
 
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CL82 said:
Depends what happens to football. It may be surrender. That doesn't help any of our programs long term.
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Sadly, college hoops (in general) is toast. Top recruits go play for whatever schools pay them. Only P5 schools have money. You can see the shift in top recruits already...garbage SEC programs sitting on mountains of cash are pulling in 5-stars that they never dreamed of a few years ago. Memphis has booster backing. UConn does not. And now that we're officially mid-major, we will never be able to recruit the top players. Also, now that we play on channels that nobody watches, we have far less recruiting exposure to those 3-star kids that don't hand their recruiting coaches a bill for their services.

And all that is before the NBA figures out what to do with one-and-done nonsense.
 
I'm sorry, but do we all forget how UConn went from a small regional school to a nationally recognized athletic powerhouse?.....Basketball.

We are not a top football school and probably never will be. Call it short-sighted if you want, but this move to the NBE Is enormous for basketball, and thus UConn Athletics as a whole. The timing is perfect with Hurley's early tenure.

Besides Football I doubt any other sports will be effected in a major way.
 
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brasssbonanzaa said:
Also can't be overlooked that this move is as much an indictment on the AAC for failing to build the conference in a sustainable way to position itself as a true power conference. While some additions were stong net positives (Houston, Memphis, UCF), the additions at the bottom of the league were so catastrophic and shortsighted (Tulane, ECU, Tulsa) that no one could take the league seriously as a power conference.

It also hamstrung the TV deal, added unnecessary travel for everyone, and watered down the overall product. The fact that removing those three schools from the conference would be seen as a HUGE step up for the league is all you need to know about how bad of an idea they were.
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Football should be regional. WE should be able to bump into our conference opponents. Not internet anger.

Buffalo & UMASS & TEMPLE & ARMY & NAVY & even Old Dominion … sound better than flying over a lot of stuff to Play Tulsa or Tulane or SMU. Florida always makes sense for Northeast people.

This, ultimately, is about the poor reception of the new AAC TV contract.
 
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