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superjohn said:
Were you juiced to play ECU?
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No, but people are acting like we’ve hit the lottery because we’re playing a bunch of leftovers. Like I get why people think it’s better, but it’s hilarious that folks are this worked up to play the teams we’d give away from our season ticket haul in the past.
 
uconnphil2016 said:
No, but people are acting like we’ve hit the lottery because we’re playing a bunch of leftovers. Like I get why people think it’s better, but it’s hilarious that folks are this worked up to play the teams we’d give away from our season ticket haul in the past.
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I agree with you, but even once the initial over the top euphoria wears off, its still an improvement for basketball. If nothing else, less of the absolutely atrocious road games in empty arenas.
 
Playing PC totally gets the juice flowing. Let me circle that date on the calendar. Can't wait to play Seton Hall, too. Oh, and DePaul. Gotta revive the 80s and 90s.

Can we add Merchant Marine Academy and Coast Guard to the schedule? Gets my juice flowing.
 
Austin316 said:
Well yeah... I can drive there and watch us get a road dub and a potential fight between Eddy and Danny. It’s a win-win. You can dive to Tulane or Tulsa if u want, but not Stone Cold.
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If we were in the ACC, closest drive would be BC, everywhere else is a distance.
 
I’m excited about this move. It’s definitely worth it, especially for a lot of our sports. For those who think that the NBE is nothing like the old Big East, just know they still have 7 of the members before the BE/AAC alignment in 2013. I am worried about football and baseball, but many of our bowls are from Independent if I remember correctly and baseball won’t matter as much as football and basketball. I’m excited for new competition, this was well overdue. Do we have any rivalries in the AAC? Not one I can name besides UC. The NBE is much more fitting for UConn, as the conference has 7 members from pre-2013, and this will renew rivalries with teams such as Georgetown, Villanova, and even PC (They also hate Hurley thanks to the URI and PC rivalry, so that’s a plus). I did some calculations earlier and the average distance from UConn/Bradley Intl. to teams in the Big East is 496.8 miles. The average for AAC teams is approximately 1204.73 miles. This shows we can take buses much more thanks to many NBE teams being in the north east. For the farther places, I’d rather go to Depaul or Marquette than Tulane, as both places are shorter in distance. Shorter distance, less money to spend. These arenas will be packed when UConn enters the building, as 70% of our opponents in the NBE played against us in the Old Big East. I am super excited about this, and for those who aren’t, just trust the university. You guys don’t run any universities and they do. They are doing what they think is best for UConn.
 
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Butch said:
Playing PC totally gets the juice flowing. Let me circle that date on the calendar. Can't wait to play Seton Hall, too. Oh, and DePaul. Gotta revive the 80s and 90s.

Can we add Merchant Marine Academy and Coast Guard to the schedule? Gets my juice flowing.
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You're the same guy who gets it up for NESCAC and Yale-Penn football.
 
Rico444 said:
I can understand the anger from the football fans. They got the news this weekend that their program is likely going to die in the near future. As awful as getting relegated to the AAC was, and as awful as the nut kicks of Louisville jumping us in realignment and the Big 12 passing were, this is a worse situation, and you can be damn sure us basketball fans would be just as livid if this were happening to our program.

My one issue is with the posters that complain about the men's basketball fans not supporting all of UConn's teams when I've never seen the vast majority of them post on the men's basketball board. I didn't make UConn football appointment watching, but if I was near a TV I would put the game on and root for a victory. That's about the same level of support that I would expect many of these football-only fans had for the hoops program...and that's fine by me. I don't think anyone should be forced to like a certain sport more than another. But don't complain about the basketball only people not caring about football in the same breath.
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Are you Telling me @Butch is only here to act like a baby because he knows its the only place he can whine and people will respond?
 
uconnphil2016 said:
Are we really that excited to play Providence College? That’s kind of embarrassing
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But not any less true. The NBE is for the most part 1) Nova, 2) a depleted Georgetown; 3)the teams we didn't really care about in the Big East; and 4) some additional teams that we don't really care about. Still it is an upgrade.
 
Anyone know when people can talk about the move? After the big east vote(just happened)? Uconn board vote? After the divorce is finalized?
 
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CL82 said:
But not any less true. The NBE is for the most part 1) Nova, 2) a depleted Georgetown; 3)the teams we didn't really care about in the Big East; and 4) some additional teams that we don't really care about. Still it is an upgrade.
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Oh so it’s not like Georgetown have James Akinjo or Mac McClung and a new coach in HOF Patrick Ewing.
 
Regarding rivalries, there is Temple, Cincinnati, USF, Navy, at least, whether basketball or football. We could have formed rivalries with Houston, Memphis, UCF, SMU and Wichita State in time.

Thats 9 out of 12 schools. Tulane, ECU, and Tulsa were hard to develop rivalries with but could have happened with those schools in time, too.
 
Irish Loop said:
Dear Basketball-Only Fans,

The football team averaged an attendance of about 21,000 last year. For an abysmal team. After years of toiling away.

These people Bleed Blue. They are loyal to UConn. They are alumni, they are Connecticut residents, they are boosters, they are fans.

They want what is best for UConn. For football and almost certainly for basketball as well. I don't know any football fans who don't also root for the basketball team.

For us, it's tough, because it feels like this is probably the death of the program. A program that beat WVU on a cold November night in overtime. The team that went to Notre Dame and beat them. The team that beat Pitt on a rocking night by going for it on a 4th down knowing they'd get those few yards. The team that beat South Carolina in a bowl game.

Those memories are precious to us, and it hurts to realize that there probably won't be any new memories like that.

We hoped that the AAC would not kill the basketball program. Memphis was there. Cincinnati. Houston. Wichita State came in. We didn't want the basketball team to suffer, of course. But the hope was that, if the football team could become respectable again, then maybe, just maybe, in the next wave of P5 realignment, we might be considered. It was probably never going to happen. But at least we had a tiny shred of hope.

But those dreams now seem dead. And for thousands and thousands of UConn football fans, that hurts.

And you're dancing on their graves? Calling yourself a UConn fan?

I think this was probably the right move. Maybe the only move. I don't know. It seems as if there are no options left.

But if you're a real UConn fan, then perhaps you shouldn't take such glee from the death of a program followed by thousands of your fellow UConn fans and alumni. Perhaps your constant denigration of the football team doesn't make you a better UConn fan. Maybe it just means you a jerk.

Anyway. I've made a ton of great memories following the football team, tailgating with friends, screaming U-C-O-N-N after touchdowns. Enjoying beautiful afternoons with the Hartford cityscape in the background. And I'm sad that the program seems in a death spiral.

I'm happy for the basketball programs. Cause I'm a real UConn fan.

If you're celebrating the slow death of UConn Football, are you?
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we averaged about 10,000 last year/ game.... about 25% of the stadium, yes I bet most of us are alumni, Were the real fans because we know its better to not sacrifice a legitimate sport for football. Football cant recruit anywhere out side of new England, our quarterbacks have been a joke since 2011, are defense is abysmal, 3 hires in a row. Id rather have football keep being football than have them drag down the basketball team with them. Football is good for one thing, and thats drinking outside
 
GoDAWGS said:
Are you Telling me @Butch is only here to act like a baby because he knows its the only place he can whine and people will respond?
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Being a baby is sacrificing the future for immediate gratification. Smart man. I am a graduate, not a football fan.

Were you crying about the AAC? The responses some give are hilarious.
 
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Butch said:
Regarding rivalries, there is Temple, Cincinnati, USF, Navy, at least, whether basketball or football. We could have formed rivalries with Houston, Memphis, UCF, SMU and Wichita State in time.

Thats 9 out of 12 schools. Tulane, ECU, and Tulsa were hard to develop rivalries with but could have happened with those schools in time, too.
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Nah. Not really. Just Cincy and maybe Memphis and Wichita State in time. I’m not down on the AAC, but in terms of potential rivals it was severely lacking. It’s one area where the Big East is a vast upgrade. Fans will respond. I have no doubt.
 
AllAbout5 said:
Oh so it’s not like Georgetown have James Akinjo or Mac McClung and a new coach in HOF Patrick Ewing.
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Fair enough but... only post season play since 2015 has been last years first round loss in the NIT:
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They aren't exactly killing it. Still I agree Ewing has brought energy back to the program, much Hurley is doing for us.
 
uconnphil2016 said:
Are we really that excited to play Providence College? That’s kind of embarrassing
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Yes I am excited they are a regional historical rival that’s a basketball school. You know who I wasn’t excited to play? Eastern Carolina, Tulane, Tulsa, Southern Florida, and who ever else the glorified CUSA was planning on throwing at us.
 
Also the fact people think this conference is weaker than the AAC basketball wise is dumb. Xavier was a 1 seed not too long ago. Nova has won a few championships in the past few years. The list goes on and on.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Nah. Not really. Just Cincy and maybe Memphis and Wichita State in time. I’m not down on the AAC, but in terms of potential rivals it was severely lacking. It’s one area where the Big East is a vast upgrade. Fans will respond. I have no doubt.
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Somehow, they love Catholic schools extending out to Omaha.
 
The prime seats for men's BB games at Gampel have been empty for years. That's the big money donors voting with their feet. I'm thinking this was a factor behind the move.
 
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CL82 said:
Fair enough but... only post season play since 2015 has been last years first round loss in the NIT:
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They aren't exactly killing it. Still I agree Ewing has brought energy back to the program, much Hurley is doing for us.
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I’ll agree with you there. I think people need to have patience and wait it out. GTown isn’t going to go downhill from here.
 
CL82 said:
But not any less true. The NBE is for the most part 1) Nova, 2) a depleted Georgetown; 3)the teams we didn't really care about in the Big East; and 4) some additional teams that we don't really care about. Still it is an upgrade.
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This is the correct take. It’s an upgrade, but none of these teams are interesting outside of Nova, and our history with Nova really wasn’t charged. Georgetown kinda sucks
 
Waquoit said:
The prime seats for men's BB games at Gampel have been empty for years. That's the big money donors voting with their feet. I'm thinking this was a factor behind the move.
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May very well be possible. Oh well.
 
AllAbout5 said:
Also the fact people think this conference is weaker than the AAC basketball wise is dumb. Xavier was a 1 seed not too long ago. Nova has won a few championships in the past few years. The list goes on and on.
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Marquette has been one of the best basketball programs in the country the last 6-7 years. Seton Hall, Providence, even St Johns have improved since realignment. It’s a basketball conference that puts the interests of their basketball programs first. Big time upgrade.
 
UcannUconn said:
Marquette has been one of the best basketball programs in the country the last 6-7 years. Marquette, Seton Hall, Providence, even St Johns have improved since realignment.
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I forgot to mention that thank you. Way-Too-Early Top 25s show Marquette at #2, but they lost some players so they dropped down in rankings.
 
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