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

[Lefty2one]

For those who hate this move, what is your greatest fear over the next few years? That a P5 slot will open and we will not get an offer, but we would have if we stayed in the AAC?

 

[CL82]

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.

Doubt it.

 

[VAHuskyFan]

Having a strong UConn football program in the AAC that routinely sells out the Rent and goes to bowl games was the best path to a possible P5 invite.

That shipped sailed with Bobby Redpants. It would take too much $$$, time, and luck to even get back to being mediocre in the AAC. -$13M a year is the table stakes to keep being terrible, which does us no favors. We’d have to invest even more money to try to be good - but everyone else in the AAC has the same idea and is spending deep into the red in pursuit of the dream of joining a P5. The entire conference is on tilt and the latest media deal was a disaster.

See what Fox + SNY can offer to make a run of it as an independent (on top of the BE basketball revenue share). Otherwise, pull the plug, join the Big East, and put some of the money we would have blown on 3+ years of losing football into a war chest for prospective UConn football “relaunch” in a P5. If another round of realignment arrives, we could commit to spending big immediately on football. If it doesn’t arrive, that money is still there and hasn’t been flushed down the toilet.

 

[pepband99]

For those who hate this move, what is your greatest fear over the next few years? That a P5 slot will open and we will not get an offer, but we would have if we stayed in the AAC?

That, coupled with the upcoming NBE TV contract. Ironically, the NBE's horrid ratings might be what saved this move, as us coming back would help their cause tremendously.

 

[CL82]

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?

Or the lastest effu from Aresco on the media deal was one too many. Curious to see if ESPN cuts it. It's low enough that they may not.

 

[RipCity]

Football was a giant investment. There has to be a better solution than doomsday, so I’m going to wait to see what actually happens.

 

[Nostical]

UConn Football could not exist and I don't think 99% of UConn fans would care[/QUOTE
I don’t buy that, Get us back to respectability and fans would rejoice.

 

[swami7774]

We belong in the Big East. Hell, we WERE the Big East for a long stretch.

 

[DefCONNOne]

Does Rentschler become an MLS stadium??

Only if Hartford Athletic gets an expansion franchise. I don't think they will, because this is their first year in the USL. At least I think it is.

 

[uconngb]

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

Me. He read the Boneyard two weeks when I discussed that this was happening.

 

[LIUCHusky]

This is a positive for every Uconn sport, except football

It could not be more negative for baseball.

 

[Bobol]

Let’s resume our natural geographic rivalries

Count me among the many UConn fans that welcome membership in the Big East.

Can’t wait to play Villanova, Providence, SJU, and the others.

 

[JMick]

I'm not sure how any football fans can be angry yet when we don't know what's happening. This is good for basketball. The AAC would have been fine if we stayed, but this is definitely a bump. Perception is everything people, and recruits + America at large believe the Big East has more cache than the AAC

 

[8893]

We belong in the Big East. Hell, we WERE the Big East for a long stretch.

That conference doesn’t exist.

 

[UconnU]

Will be a big win if we can get football into the MAC or C-USA or some other decent conference that we may actually be able to compete in.

 

[CL82]

Was just on ESPN Sportscenter. Everyone reporting it.

Sources: UConn expected to rejoin Big East

UConn is expected to leave the American Athletic Conference and return to the Big East for basketball and other sports in 2020, sources told ESPN.

www.espn.com

UConn was an original member of the Big East, beginning in 1979, but went to the American during realignment in 2013.

Uh no. You rat bastards funded the gutting of our conference and let us be left behind. Then you tried to take away our T3 deal with SNY, so we either had to bend over and take it again, or move our sports to another conference. All while you guys are enjoying a new development subsidized by Connecticut taxpayers dollars. Go die in a hole.

 

[crewbear742]

Well, at least this explains how UConn has treated the football program. Starve it. Cripple it. Then say "Look, it's starved and crippled. I guess we should prioritize basketball." No wonder the football coach was paid half the salary of the WBB coach.

The NBE is a wasting asset. You aren't going to get what you think you are gojng to get.

 

[JMick]

UConn was an original member of the Big East, beginning in 1979, but went to the American during realignment in 2013.

Uh no. You rat bastards funded the gutting of our conference and let us be left behind. Then you tried to take away our T3 deal with SNY, so we either had to bend over and take it again, or move our sports to another conference. All while you guys are enjoying a new development subsidized by Connecticut taxpayers dollars. Go die in a hole.

yeah it's barely been brought up but this finally gets us away from ESPN and I'm ecstatic about that. They've screwed us too many times to consider them an equitable partner.

 

[Lefty2one]

I love that Boeheim is out there pumping up the move, and the conference. That miserable old fart hates being the ACC.

 

[CL82]

I’m struggling to understand how you can go back to a place you’ve never been. The New Big East is not the Big East. We were never in the New Big East.

As I told @August_West offline, this is like going to Dead & Company and saying you are so happy to be seeing the Dead.

Yep.

I have an ediquette question. When do we have to start pretending that the NBE is the Big East.

Where is Leticia Basketballdrige when you need her?

 

[JMick]

Best news in a long time. Awesome. Just awesome. We never should have sacrificed basketball on the alter of crappy football.

you know it's a big news days when comes out of the pool to comment lol

 

[BugsyCT]

I'm not sure how any football fans can be angry yet when we don't know what's happening.

What exactly do you think are the options left for the football program now? Stay in the AAC as a football-only member? They'd never want us. MAC? CUSA? Indy? Drop to FCS? Or just fold the program? It's one of those options.

So yeah, that's why we're angry. I'm a big UConn hoops fan too and it's good for basketball, but I'm not happy today.

 

[navery12]

It could not be more negative for baseball.

The last place team in the AAC this year would have been 3rd in the Big East. It's a big step down

 

[Dogdeacon]

Yep.

I have an ediquette question. When do we have to start pretending that the NBE is the Big East.

Where is Leticia Basketballdrige when you need her?

Simple, it is the NBE until UConn starts playing games in it. Once we are back, the Big East is back.

 

[DefCONNOne]

Jim Boeheim: UConn Returning To Big East 'Great' For School And League

UConn's return to the Big East for basketball and other sports would be "great" for the school and the league, Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said.

www.forbes.com

Like he gives a crap!! Syracuse is in the ACC, so anything coming out of that garbage school is nothing more than a demeaning pat on the head.