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According this this article http://www.onthebanks.com/2014/3/27/5554602/your-welcome-rutgers it was for an NIT game at MSG ten years ago. If that is all it takes we should be in by Tuesday.
Rutgers is in NJ and UCONN is in CT. That is the reason Rutgers is in the B1G and UCONN the AAC. If performance and fan support (let alone basketball attendance) mattered all that much, my guess is the university that stacks national championships like cord wood and gets 10,000 at women's hoops games would be in the B1G or ACC.
Agreed, lots of mileage out of one season.Um...no.
If the names 'Schiano, Mulachy, Pernetti, and Ray Rice [maybeeee Brian Leonard]' are not mentioned as the reasons we're in the B1G it's wrong.
Yeah, location is the prime factor, but without the stadium expansion and showing a glimpse of our potential we wouldn't be where we are.
This is true, but it's not just that Rutgers in New Jersey -- it's that Rutgers is in the NYC DMA.
If Storrs were in Stamford and not Mansfield, we wouldn't be having this discussion today.
Which is the thing with UCONN. It's not close enough to NYC to really claim NYC as its home (though Syracuse tries and fails at it), and while close to Boston, Boston won't ever claim UCONN.
So, and please don't hate me for this, I feel a lot of higher ups that pull the strings in conference realignment want to see if UCONN will die on the vine in not just football, but basketball as well.
Um...no.
If the names 'Schiano, Mulachy, Pernetti, and Ray Rice [maybeeee Brian Leonard]' are not mentioned as the reasons we're in the B1G it's wrong.
Yeah, location is the prime factor, but without the stadium expansion and showing a glimpse of our potential we wouldn't be where we are.
We have been in talks with the B1G for a long time, but there is no way the Presidents vote us in unanimously without having that big season that showed that with the right opponents and a good enough team we could spark the interest of the area.
Which is the thing with UCONN. It's not close enough to NYC to really claim NYC as its home.
Pay attention this weekend Jay.
Ok? UCONN travels to the Garden, everyone knows that. I'm sure they pull in a good NYC metro rating as well.
But football drives the bus.
And 9604, of course we got in for markets. But if you really think that showing some glimpses of potential on delivering that market didn't play into the decision then you're just fooling yourself. I don't know why people keep arguing against that. We're in because of our market, but it's a much easier sell when there's some sort of proof of delivering that market. Why is that such a contentious point among UCONN fans and especially Sadexcuse fans?
Jay - dont take this the wrong way - but you keeping talking about "glimpses" which is another way of saying RU never really wins anything. It's market, market, market. Most pundits who dont pay attention to the nuances of conference realignment heard Rutgers was going to the Big Ten and their reaction was "Really?! Seriously?! As in Rutgers in NJ?! Is it April Fools Day?!" It's about location and that's pretty much it.