Decades of work spent building a major AD down the drain.
If people have such a hard on to play St Johns, Providence or Villanova in basketball then just schedule them out of conference. Its flipping basketball. You play 768,987 games a year. If it is important to both parties to play then there should be nothing significant stopping you from setting it up. This nostalgia to scrap everything and go back "home" is so short sighted. Its like the kid who busted his a** to get into college dropping out because he's homesick and misses hanging out with his old buddies on the weekend.
The problem is that his friends are all stuck there for a reason and collectively they're going nowhere in life. This kid goes home and quickly realizes why he left in the first place. Life changes and you can't live in the past. Giving up football is a public statement that the university is willing to accept second class citizen status in athletics for the rest of time. Uconn Athletics might start being viewed no different than other NE State Schools such as RI, Maine or Vermont.
A major state university joining a conference of all private schools? Stop. All because some fans want to relive the glory days of playing in a conference that no longer exists? Major investments have been made in football. I understand that The AD is hemorrhaging money, but don't you owe it to yourselves to try to see this thing through?
Bad hires leading to really bad football have brought some people to the breaking point. I get that. However if you correct #1 then #2 will improve. Do this and even casual fans will come back. Football will be fun again even if its stuck in The AAC for the foreseeable future. Win, go to bowl games again, and maybe even get back to a NY6 Game. Its not impossible. Unless...
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If people have such a hard on to play St Johns, Providence or Villanova in basketball then just schedule them out of conference. Its flipping basketball. You play 768,987 games a year. If it is important to both parties to play then there should be nothing significant stopping you from setting it up. This nostalgia to scrap everything and go back "home" is so short sighted. Its like the kid who busted his a** to get into college dropping out because he's homesick and misses hanging out with his old buddies on the weekend.
The problem is that his friends are all stuck there for a reason and collectively they're going nowhere in life. This kid goes home and quickly realizes why he left in the first place. Life changes and you can't live in the past. Giving up football is a public statement that the university is willing to accept second class citizen status in athletics for the rest of time. Uconn Athletics might start being viewed no different than other NE State Schools such as RI, Maine or Vermont.
A major state university joining a conference of all private schools? Stop. All because some fans want to relive the glory days of playing in a conference that no longer exists? Major investments have been made in football. I understand that The AD is hemorrhaging money, but don't you owe it to yourselves to try to see this thing through?
Bad hires leading to really bad football have brought some people to the breaking point. I get that. However if you correct #1 then #2 will improve. Do this and even casual fans will come back. Football will be fun again even if its stuck in The AAC for the foreseeable future. Win, go to bowl games again, and maybe even get back to a NY6 Game. Its not impossible. Unless...
If people have such a hard on to play St Johns, Providence or Villanova in basketball then just schedule them out of conference. Its flipping basketball. You play 768,987 games a year. If it is important to both parties to play then there should be nothing significant stopping you from setting it up. This nostalgia to scrap everything and go back "home" is so short sighted. Its like the kid who busted his a** to get into college dropping out because he's homesick and misses hanging out with his old buddies on the weekend.
The problem is that his friends are all stuck there for a reason and collectively they're going nowhere in life. This kid goes home and quickly realizes why he left in the first place. Life changes and you can't live in the past. Giving up football is a public statement that the university is willing to accept second class citizen status in athletics for the rest of time. Uconn Athletics might start being viewed no different than other NE State Schools such as RI, Maine or Vermont.
A major state university joining a conference of all private schools? Stop. All because some fans want to relive the glory days of playing in a conference that no longer exists? Major investments have been made in football. I understand that The AD is hemorrhaging money, but don't you owe it to yourselves to try to see this thing through?
Bad hires leading to really bad football have brought some people to the breaking point. I get that. However if you correct #1 then #2 will improve. Do this and even casual fans will come back. Football will be fun again even if its stuck in The AAC for the foreseeable future. Win, go to bowl games again, and maybe even get back to a NY6 Game. Its not impossible. Unless...
We've struggled to beat the FCS teams on our schedule since then. Losing once.
