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StunningSteve said:
But, it’s just... it wasn’t the BY...

It was the Lyons kid from St John’s. Lmao..

(And I get it.. The NBE got destroyed this year by Wofford and Kent State.) In it’s current state, it is reverting back to A10 status.

UConn can’t “rejoin” a league it never left.
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Wofford was good.
 
KOFanClub said:
He could be sourced on the Big East side, which is why no CT guys have it. But there is nothing of substance in that report whatsoever. Weird timing too, did he meet someone at the bar or something?
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Urinal. That's where all the bball news is acquired this year. Car wash is being phased out. Pizza place is dead. No-one exchanges info at the pizza place any more. Bar? only in the men's room at the bar.
This s why there's no info LEAKED on women's basketball. No unrinals.
 
Chief00 said:
I don’t have as good a handle on football at the moment - this would have all been better if it stayed private - I don’t know the impact now of it going public prematurely.
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Only it didn’t really go public prematurely...

A St John’s fan with a “news” twitter hit send.

If you’re that worried about it Chief, why even give the guy the time of day.
 
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I have been against this move back for a while (I was a student post big East so maybe I was missing the nostalgia element) but it is now hitting me how accessible games will be living in NYC. St John's and Seton Hall road games and the big East tournament should be pretty fun.
 
Chief00 said:
Yes, unless this premature announcement screws things up. Don’t forget people have until 6/28 to keep their MBB seats. The plan was to announce in July and roid up new seat donations.
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Well this is Chief's out to save his credibility FYI everyone. Man certainly is a politician, I'll give him credit there.
 
HuskyFich said:
Yeah but he also puts his reputation on the line by sourcing that website...lots of smoke...
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Nah... go back to the beginning of the thread (see the College Baseball Daily tweet)... anyone that is referencing this "story" is attaching the link so they have plausible deniability if it falls apart or inaccurate.
 
I'd imagine this boils down to a bargaining chip to keep SNY in the picture. But holy hell would this be a great move for the university.
 
UConnNick said:
It has to be if the Big Least is allowing us to join. A couple of years ago they interviewed NBE commish Val Ackerman and asked her about us joining her league. She said we'd have to decide what to do with football, meaning shut it down or downgrade it so there's no chance we'd leave the NBE. She wants to wear a hard hat and swing the wrecking ball at PAWS-ARF.
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True, but the rumor specifically suggests that plans have to be made about football. Until I hear otherwise, I am going to assume that we are staying an FBS team. Worst case scenario, and it is pretty bad, is that we will become an independent.
 
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goskis2018 said:
I have been against this move back for a while (I was a student post big East so maybe I was missing the nostalgia element) but it is now hitting me how accessible games will be living in NYC. St John's and Seton Hall road games and the big East tournament should be pretty fun.
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Right now I can say that I am neutral on this topic because there are still many unanswered questions, but one of the cornerstones of college sports is having some kind of regional rivalry, Michigan/Ohio St, Duke/UNC, Alabama/Auburn. We had that in the early days of the original Big East but expansion made things like that a little crazy. But one thing about The American that nobody can deny whether you are pro or anti AAC is that we have zero regional schools, and that stinks. The closest conference school is in Philadelphia with a majority of the schools in southern/southwestern states (Florida, N Carolina, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Texas, Kansas). Also, after playing our conference tournament one state away at MSG for over 30 years, then all of a sudden playing our conference tournament in Memphis and Florida is a huge downgrade. One of the most exciting things about being a UConn fan was the Big East Tournament and having the luxury of getting from your home to your seat at Madison Square Garden for the BET, within 2-3 hours with a train ride depending on what part of the state you live.
 
I was hopeful for a P-5 invite but that faded and crashed when we rehired Edsall to save the football program. The best we could hope for with Edsall was to bring UConn back to mediocrity. Short of the unlikely prospect of convincing a big name football coach to take the UConn job the NBE probably makes more sense.
 
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CL82 said:
True, but the rumor specifically suggests that plans have to be made about football. Until I hear otherwise, I am going to assume that we are staying an FBS team. Worst case scenario, and it is pretty bad, is that we will become an independent.
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That was written that way because the author knows the NBE won't take us if we still have an FBS football team. It also gives the author an out if it never happens.

The only way football as an FBS independent could work is if some insane TV network pays us a bloody fortune for the rights to our games, as if we were ND. That might make up for no bowls, no shared conference bowl revenue, and a horrible schedule. That also will not happen.
 
I heard last Saturday from an alumn that we were heading back to the BE. His source was from a St Johns coach. I downplayed it as the latest rumor and brushed it off. But after last nights leak maybe this story does have legs.
 
businesslawyer said:
We know that the Big East side doesn't care about football numbnuts. The point you are responding to is that the thought that UConn would definitively have determined it's going to the Big EAst before -- and not after -- it has made a decision on what it's doing with football is beyond idiotic.

I'm not even saying this will never happen any more. Our sports have become such a disaster I don't take anything for granted. But if we go it.won't be BEFORE there is a plan for football, whatever that plan is.
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Meh, leaks can be asymmetrical, especially in a three corner deal. Someone on the NBE side could have gotten chatty. They'd have no knowledge of the plan for football. It is entirely possible that conversations with NBE finished before a football deal is finalized or at least known to the leakers. That doesn't mean a plan is not in place.

I have no idea if this real, but there's been smoke for a while now.
 
Could a new football conference be formed? UConn, UMass plus a few upgrades from existing Big East teams? Just throwing it out there.
 
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