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

[wheelerdog]

100%. Especially at a time when CFP is going to expand to 8 with a G5 conference champ auto bid that if we're an independent we're ineligible for.

I don't see the football program ever being able to compete at the level required to win an AAC championship.

 

[3rdbass]

This, 100%. Bottom line is, UConn fans/alumni don’t care about SMU/UCF/USF/ECU/Tulane/Wichita...and they never will no matter how good those schools are. This brings back regional rivalries with St Johns, Providence, and Seton Hall within driving distance, and MSG for the conference tournament. With the double round robin, this guarantees at least two games at MSG per year with playing at St Johns, and the Big East Tournament. This is all good for recruiting and something to build on for the New-New Big East starting in 2020.

Yeah and unfortunately we aren't ever going to be a national school as far football brand. It just wasn't going to happen as the shipped past when fat boy was eating donuts and not being proactive about getting us into a better conference.

 

[huskysupporter]

I don't see the football program ever being able to compete at the level required to win an AAC championship.

They absolutely could. UCONN has chosen not to invest $$$ necessary to be competitive. Coaching salaries are sad.

 

[Engineer90]

Well then call up Wyoming, they have a national championship too. The contract will go through the roof with UCONN and Wyoming!!!

Wow! Dude, take a nap or something because you have completely lost touch with reality. When I read that, I thought of this

 

[swami7774]

100% agree. You forgot all of the other teams in the current Big East who were never in the old Big East - like Villanova, Georgetown, Providence, Seton Hall, Marquette, and St. John's. None of them are good either.

Georgetown, PU, Seton Hall and SJ were charter members. Nova joined a year later.

 

[3rdbass]

This could have been done after next wave of realignment - UCONN could have attempted to get into an actual P5 conference and not a fringe conference like the BE.

We weren't going to be in the next wave of realignment with a bottom feeder FBS football program. Like the football guys say that it runs the ship but that is only when we have a decent team. That wasn't going to ever happen in the foreseeable future. Maybe if CT was doing better financially but they couldn't afford to bleed money anymore hoping that football would miraculously turn it around and soon.

 

[8893]

Cincinnati has a good football program. I’d stay and roll the dice on a Big 10 invite if I were Cincy.

To be published next year:

“Both UConn and Cincinnati had been under consideration for a Big Ten invite, but when UConn left for the New Big East it confirmed the concerns about its football program and made Cincinnati the easy choice.”

 

[BugsyCT]

Destroy what? There is nothing left but losses. Games and money! If the team was even mediocre in the AAC, you would have a point. But they aren't. Not even close. Laughingstock...

Don't worry, you won. Take your victory lap today.

 

[UConn Esq]

Strictly from the standpoint of me seeing games I am thrilled. As a person living in NJ, being able to see away games at Seton Hall, at MSG (St.Johns), at Villanova, at Georgetown and Big East Tournament at MSG again is huge.

 

[UconnU]

This move will please the donors/alumni for sure. I bet attendance gets a big boost as well.

 

[huskysupporter]

Wow! Dude, take a nap or something because you have completely lost touch with reality. When I read that, I thought of this
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Why? You sound like a typical basketball fan talking about the past like it Matters today. Can you quantify how much additional money UCONN will get for the NBE in tv contract negotiations?

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

What an insult to the fans. Small minded losers make small minded loser decisions. I’m done with UConn is they go that route.

And going 18-55 while a member of the American was a winner decision?

 

[Chief00]

How do you lose $8 million in football annually and $22 million in Olympic sports.
At least if we lost $22 million in football, I would know we were trying.

 

[bendm]

To be published next year:

“Both UConn and Cincinnati had been under consideration for a Big Ten invite, but when UConn left for the New Big East it confirmed the concerns about its football program and made Cincinnati the easy choice.”

i think you meant to say "Both Uconn and Cincy had been under consideration for a Big Ten invite, but the conference ultimately chose to add ucf and houston." i.e. we weren't even close. it would have been 2013 all over again.

 

[Engineer90]

To be published next year:

“Both UConn and Cincinnati had been under consideration for a Big Ten invite, but when UConn left for the New Big East it confirmed the concerns about its football program and made Cincinnati the easy choice.”

It was going to be Cinci no matter what we did. They took Rutgers over us.

 

[Chief00]

Chief is going to get some much needed sun and sleep now . Be back in awhile.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Georgetown, PU, Seton Hall and SJ were charter members. Nova joined a year later.

WAIT, REALLY?

 

[swami7774]

WAIT, REALLY?

Your post indicated you didn’t know that(unless I misread it).

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Don’t bother checking out the handful of active American Conference boards. They are very triggered.

"Active American Conference boards" is an oxymoron.

 

[UconnU]

It was going to be Cinci no matter what we did. They took Rutgers over us.

We were making BCS bowl games during the realignment talks and they didn’t even think about adding us. As soon as the Big East added us in football teams started leaving.

 

[Ts5034]

Yeah and unfortunately we aren't ever going to be a national school as far football brand. It just wasn't going to happen as the shipped past when fat boy was eating donuts and not being proactive about getting us into a better conference.

I know everything Im about to say is wrong, but UConn Football has been a joke in the college football world over the past 7 years to the point of being one of the worst teams to ever play the sport going back 100 years. Nobody goes to the games anymore, and do you really think to the casual football fans theres really much of a difference between Tulane, ECU, Memphis, or SMU, vs any of the schools we will face in a different conference thats still outside the Power 5? I know the real answer is $$$, and UConn football will lose $$$ not playing in the AAC anymore, but I honestly believe football attendance will rise if the team is more competitive in a lesser league compared to being historically bad in the AAC.

Thats just my opinion that I know will be destroyed, but in all seriousness, what happens to the games we already have scheduled vs Duke and other non conference schools for football? I would assume they are still binding contracts...

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

I know everything Im about to say is wrong, but UConn Football has been a joke in the college football world over the past 7 years to the point of being one of the worst teams to ever play the sport going back 100 years. Nobody goes to the games anymore, and do you really think to the casual football fans theres really much of a difference between Tulane, ECU, Memphis, or SMU, vs any of the schools we will face in a different conference thats still outside the Power 5? I know the real answer is $$$, and UConn football will lose $$$ not playing in the AAC anymore, but I honestly believe football attendance will rise if the team is more competitive in a lesser league compared to being historically bad in the AAC.

Thats just my opinion that I know will be destroyed, but in all seriousness, what happens to the games we already have scheduled vs Duke and other non conference schools for football? I would assume they are still binding contracts...

Emphasis on UConn will not drop football and will not drop to FCS.

 

[SirHypeAlot]

Chief is going to get some much needed sun and sleep now . Be back in awhile.

Unreal performance over the last 30 hours.

He has the time stamps folks. THE TIME STAMPS

 

[kemba]

Both are bottom feeders.

I don't agree with his takes either, but equating the struggles of the football team and the basketball team is an unbelievable amount of hyperbole.

 

[Dooley]

I'm done with UConn athletics.

 

[aburks41]

Crazy to see "Digital Sports Desk" get all of the recognition right now. I imagine this has to be the best day of this guy's career.

seriously, who the hell did this guy talk to?? Talk about having a real connection