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

[UConnJim]

Will be good to play Syracuse, Boston College, Pitt, and Louisville in basketball again. Oh, wait, the NBE now includes Creighton, Butler, and Xavier.

When the college athletics split comes and the "P5 basketball tournament" includes the AAC, MWC, and maybe 1 or 2 other G5 conferences, we will all point back to this move and wonder what UConn's leaders were thinking.

I am on the record. I oppose this move.

 

[MTHusky]

I haven't read all 15 pages so this might have been mentioned but I wonder if this isn't a play to force ESPN to allow SNY to broadcast the BB games and therefore increase our bottom line income. If ESPN won't allow this, UConn walks over to Fox.

 

[HooperScooper]

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

 

[Engineer90]

Is that code for telling the truth?

Yeah because teenage girls are always drowning in truth and reality when they act like this.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Lefty2one]

Will be good to play Syracuse, Boston College, Pitt, and Louisville in basketball again. Oh, wait, the NBE now includes Creighton, Butler, and Xavier.

When the college athletics split comes and the "P5 basketball tournament" includes the AAC, MWC, and maybe 1 or 2 other G5 conferences, we will all point back to this move and wonder what UConn's leaders were thinking.

I am on the record. I oppose this move.

College basketball will die due to a true NBA development league/college replacement where players can be paid long before a P5-only tournament will happen.

 

[uchusky32]

Well, I got punished for going to sleep early last night. Took forever catching to in this thread!

 

[8893]

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.

 

[UconnU]

The football fanbase is the groom-to-be still standing at the altar five hours after the ceremony was supposed to start, telling himself his bride will be walking through the church doors any minute now.

Our hardcore football fanbase consists of like 100 people. We had one of the worst teams in the history of the sport last year. Big East move was inevitable. Big East wants 11 teams for round robin they had 10, we needed to jump on the opportunity before anyone else did.

 

[Engineer90]

Seems to me Hurley was recruiting just fine in the aac.

Fine isn't great and it isn't good enough. Supposedly the conference was an anchor. I am not saying I agree with that. We will see.

 

[Ts5034]

And what did we give them? The worst football program in the country? A 9th place men’s basketball program?

We gave them a National Championship in mens basketball and multiple National Championships in womens basketball. Maybe Mohegan Sun can be the new home of the Big East WBB tournament.

 

[mdkhusky]

Good news for the basketball team, death blow for football. But glad some of you are giddy about that.

Yeah because football is on the right track in the AAC!

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

Fine isn't great and it isn't good enough. Supposedly the conference was an anchor. I am not saying I agree with that. We will see.

Didn't seem to hurt Memphis too badly.

 

[Engineer90]

College basketball will die due to a true NBA development league/college replacement where players can be paid long before a P5-only tournament will happen.

Excellent point. And hopefully football will catch up with baseball, hockey and basketball soon.

 

[socal613ws]

so football is independent or stay in aac?

 

[bendm]

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.

semantics

 

[swami7774]

It's a rarity but spot on from Gottlieb here

Broken clock.

 

[UconnU]

Didn't seem to hurt Memphis too badly.

Come on. Memphis is coached by the man who ran the AAU circuit...

 

[DefCONNOne]

Yeah because teenage girls are always drowning in truth and reality when they act like this.

You're a teenage girl? That certainly explains a lot.

 

[Engineer90]

Didn't seem to hurt Memphis too badly.

Like I said, I never fully agreed with that opinion. The people who fully bought in would argue that Penny has AAU ties and some sort of shine about him and that is why he is killing us in recruiting. Again, we will see.

 

[selles]

Will be good to play Syracuse, Boston College, Pitt, and Louisville in basketball again. Oh, wait, the NBE now includes Creighton, Butler, and Xavier.

When the college athletics split comes and the "P5 basketball tournament" includes the AAC, MWC, and maybe 1 or 2 other G5 conferences, we will all point back to this move and wonder what UConn's leaders were thinking.

I am on the record. I oppose this move.

Me too, but in the interim before it all falls apart I'm really looking forward to the basketball.

 

[Engineer90]

You're a teenage girl? That certainly explains a lot.

"I know you are but what am I"

Holy mother of God, are you 10 years old?

Wait...die hard UConn football fan...there is another explanation....

 

[BugsyCT]

Yeah because football is on the right track in the AAC!

You're right. Better to destroy the program entirely then so the hoops fans can have their annual nostalgia tour at MSG.

 

[huskysupporter]

What an embarrassment.

Short sighted dumb move. Football drives the bus for schools.

UCONN chooses to join a conference that looks nothing like the original big east and casts football aside.

Fire Benedict.

 

[BlueDogs]

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

 

[huskysupporter]

The fact some are happy about this move is horrifying.

 

[UConnMike04]

Very excited about this! Of course I’m worried a little bit about the $, but I’m sure the NBE will be getting a bigger contract with UConn. At the end of the day - I’m an alumni but also a fan. I had little to no interest in the teams, outside of Cincy, Memphis and maybe Houston. I’m pumped to be able to see Nova, GTown, St. John’s, PC, etc back on the schedule. Also, Hurley is going to KILL IT recruiting now. Overall, they couldn’t let football continue to kill basketball.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Once again Jim Calhoun hits the nail squarely on the head.

 

[swami7774]

Googling recipes now.

Humility is good.

 

[huskysupporter]

Very excited about this! Of course I’m worried a little bit about the $, but I’m sure the NBE will be getting a bigger contract with UConn. At the end of the day - I’m an alumni but also a fan. I had little to no interest in the teams, outside of Cincy, Memphis and maybe Houston. I’m pumped to be able to see Nova, GTown, St. John’s, PC, etc back on the schedule. Also, Hurley is going to KILL IT recruiting now. Overall, they couldn’t let football continue to kill basketball.

Why would they get a better contract. UCONN basketball is a bottom feeder in the AAC.

People need to stop living in the past.