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Purple Stein said:
Can we pump the breaks? As I said in the other thread, we have two sources -- a "sports marketer" whose Twitter bio says he is an "entrepreneur." And @Chief00.

God bless chief and his briefs, but I'm gonna need more than these two jabronis...
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Incorrect. @uconngb broke this first

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UConn to the NBE?

I know I'll get crucified for this thread, but just passing along something I heard today, because it came from a very credible source. Largest private donor at Providence, directly involved in their athletic department and knows Tranghese well (who he says UConn hired as a consultant at some...
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Fishy said:
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.
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I don't think even that was that big of a deal. The football program made amazing strides in its first decade in D1. We were a fringe Top 25 program and made a BCS bowl and were putting a healthy amount of guys into the NFL. We were a respectable program; we just botched the ever living shit out of realignment. Someone had to get left out when the music stopped and it was us.

I still think it all boils down to the 2005 mess and Boston College blocking us. If we played nice back then, we'd be in the ACC right now. Hell, it was written by several outlets that during the 2013 alignment there wasn't a "more ACC school out there" than UConn.
 
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.
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You mean football isn't the reason we're in a silly conference?
 
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brasssbonanzaa said:
Yeah, because going to Greenville, Tulsa, and Texas twice is a lot better.
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So you're rebutting 3 far away mediocre programs with 3 different mediocre programs - 1 being driving distance in greenville, 1 being an smu team that beats us every year, 1 being a tulsa team we've beaten twice in 5 years, and 1 being houston. I love this program and want to see progress, not a lateral move to satisfy nostalgia.
 
Fishy said:
The American definitely hurt basketball. It didn't have the ability to hurt it as badly as Kevin Ollie did, but it definitely hurt.

But this is bad for football and baseball - really bad.

It also slams the door on ever joining a revenue conference. I think we will live to regret this.
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This is my great fear. Let's see if they can pull a rabbit out of the hat for football. If Fox gives us some broadcast games and maybe encourages scheduling alliances, and SNY pick up the broadcast rights to everything not on one of the Fox networks and does so for a decent nut... maybe we position ourselves as a unique brand different than the rest of of the G5. There's a whole lot of ifs in there. I know that.
 
Dooley said:
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.
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If you really think our recruiting won’t improve you’re wrong. Enjoying the pity party though.
 
UcannUconn said:
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.
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Now you're just trolling.
 
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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.
 
Lefty2one said:
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?
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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.
 
Waquoit said:
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?
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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.
 
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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.
 
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Jaker said:
Does Rentschler become an MLS stadium??
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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.
 
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
 
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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.
 
HooperScooper said:
Was just on ESPN Sportscenter. Everyone reporting it.

www.espn.com

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 www.espn.com
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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.
 
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.
 
CL82 said:
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.
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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.
 
8893 said:
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.
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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?
 
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