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sportsart said:
Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you deal with it. While I think Jimmy was being sarcastic I for one could care less if CCSU joins the Big East.

All our guys can do is line up and play. Just win baby.

When Temple, Boise, SMU, SDSU, Houston and Navy comes to town I will be excited, hoarse from yelling and hopefully celebrating a win.

You see.....I can't do a damn thing about who we play. Why would I moan about it and ruin the greatest time I've ever had....every UConn football game I've ever attended.

Except the 2009 loss in the last seconds to RU when we were remembering Jazz. Still hurts.
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Source: Temple will join Big East for 2012 football season

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/03/07/big-east-temple.ap/index.html#ixzz1oSFcttxt

+1 to sportsart. However, my most painful memory of a UConn loss occured the week after Jazz was killed. With a win for Jazz so close in hand, it was just heart wrenching to be in Morgantown and watch WVU's Noel Devine run 56 yards for a touchdown in the closing minutes to the end of the game. The fans were sympathetic to UConn, but the feelings of loss after everything the team had been through were overwhelming.
 
gioff23 said:
Do you believe losing storied programs like SU and Pitt are a loss for other than historical reasons? Losing WVU hurts, but there is a reason you deftly chose to ignore Boise, so we'll consider that a push. Line up Pitt or SU against any of those programs, and I like the new conference mates chances. Do I wish we could go back in time and keep the good old boys together, sure; but I choose to not drive down the highway staring at my rearview mirror. We need to look forward. We need to make the best of this. We need to stop fighting reality and just accept it.
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I was responding to his quote about the basketball league, not the football league
 
Now how long will it take to make the schedule?? Hopefully it will be released by the time spring ball is over!
 
UConnDan97 said:
If your comment wasn't directed to me, I will apologize in advance. If it was directed at me, take a look at the message I was responding to. I was responding to the question of which is more stable, ACC vs Big12, NOT the ACC vs Big East. Let's hope you were commenting on someone else's post...
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OR . . . . ?????? For the record though, it was not directed at you. No apology necessary. We are all free here to dissent in our opinions if I'm not mistaken.
 
Hearing the Big East is spending 7 mil to bring Temple back after 8 years. awesome. Strategy.
 
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ZooCougar said:
Hearing the Big East is spending 7 mil to bring Temple back after 8 years. awesome. Strategy.
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http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...ootball-play-big-east-2012-season-source-says

"Temple will pay the MAC a $6 million exit fee, a source told Schad, but the school believes it will quickly recoup that money with increased revenue from Big East affiliation."

This article makes it seem like the BE is not giving temple anything to join the BE. Just more money than they would make in the MAC.
 
Johnbuoy said:
Source: Temple will join Big East for 2012 football season

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/03/07/big-east-temple.ap/index.html#ixzz1oSFcttxt

+1 to sportsart. However, my most painful memory of a UConn loss occured the week after Jazz was killed. With a win for Jazz so close in hand, it was just heart wrenching to be in Morgantown and watch WVU's Noel Devine run 56 yards for a touchdown in the closing minutes to the end of the game. The fans were sympathetic to UConn, but the feelings of loss after everything the team had been through were overwhelming.
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It's funny that you're disagreeing. As someone who was at both those games, the point was that they were back to back -- the team had to not get it done for Jazz at the end in M'Town, and then come back to the Rent and not get it done again. Those two were followed by the 2 point loss at Cincy, and then, after a week off, finally, a month after the tragedy, the win at ND that let everyone feel like they had won for their brother.
 
That's good to hear. If we really paid 7 mil to buy back a school we gave the boot then that would have been abysmally pathetic.

husky10 said:
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...ootball-play-big-east-2012-season-source-says

"Temple will pay the MAC a $6 million exit fee, a source told Schad, but the school believes it will quickly recoup that money with increased revenue from Big East affiliation."

This article makes it seem like the BE is not giving temple anything to join the BE. Just more money than they would make in the MAC.
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businesslawyer said:
It's funny that you're disagreeing. As someone who was at both those games, the point was that they were back to back -- the team had to not get it done for Jazz at the end in M'Town, and then come back to the Rent and not get it done again. Those two were followed by the 2 point loss at Cincy, and then, after a week off, finally, a month after the tragedy, the win at ND that let everyone feel like they had won for their brother.
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I think most people would understand that I agreed with what sportsarts had to say about not really giving a damn who we play as long as UConn wins, and separate that from my comment on what I thought was a more painful memory of losing. Just so you're clear, the point I was trying to make was that IMO, the loss to WVU left more of an impression on me than the losses that followed. And I was at all those games you mentioned too. Next.
 
No, what's abysmally pathetic is reconfiguring the league by replacing the three members that left, and then booting out Temple football to remain at 8 teams for football, and adding DePaul And Marquette basketball 8 years ago.

Let's keep to what's real here. The big east is what it is, we need to go out on the playing fields and line up and kick ass no matter who we're playing. That's all.

I'm very happy to gain back at least one natural rival in this ship called the Big East that needs to get righted and frigging squared away and moving in the right direction.
 
gioff23 said:
Do you believe losing storied programs like SU and Pitt are a loss for other than historical reasons? Losing WVU hurts, but there is a reason you deftly chose to ignore Boise, so we'll consider that a push. Line up Pitt or SU against any of those programs, and I like the new conference mates chances. Do I wish we could go back in time and keep the good old boys together, sure; but I choose to not drive down the highway staring at my rearview mirror. We need to look forward. We need to make the best of this. We need to stop fighting reality and just accept it.
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Actually, they just did line up SMU vs. Pitt, and SMU flattened Pitt. Pitt and Syracuse will leave for the ACC having finished 7th and 8th in the Big East football conference. Pitt is now struggling in hoops, and Boeheim may not survive his dual scandals.

Karma mofo.
 
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TouchdownHusky said:
The ACC's future is a lot brighter than the Big East's. What part of that is difficult to understand?
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All of it. We pick up Memphis, Temple, Navy and Boise St. I am happy with that. Can't see why anybody is so enamored with the ACC.

BC is the example of what happens when you join the ACC.
 
Edsall would be freaking out with this news if he was still UConn's coach.
 
TouchdownHusky said:
OR . . . . ?????? For the record though, it was not directed at you. No apology necessary. We are all free here to dissent in our opinions if I'm not mistaken.
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Okay, good. And as for being "free here to dissent in our opinions", it was hard to make that out when you posted "What part of that is difficult to understand?" It was almost as if you felt someone wasn't "free here to dissent in our opinions".....OR......???? ;)
 
nelsonmuntz said: "Edsall would be freaking out with this news if he was still UConn's coach."​
BNich said: "And he isn't the head coach. So get over it."

Thanks BNich you beat me to it. Now, look guys, going to the ACC is a mistake. Look what happened to BC. No natural rivals. their closest conference opponent is like 7 hours away driving wise. You don't gain anything basketball wise, actually you lose because instead of a 2 1/2 hr drive to NYC for the conference tourney you'll be traveling halfway down the Eastern seaboard. Don't think for a minute that fans of UNC, NC St, Wake and the ones even farther south are gonna want to go through the madness that is NYC more than once to see their tourney. Football wise the conference will be much stronger than the ACC once the dust settles. Coach P has the program moving in the right direction so lets just suit up, strap up, find your seat before the game starts and enjoy yourself no matter who's lined up on the other side of the ball. Screw the ACC. Why trade one basketball conference for another when the football will be better here? The TV money is going to be there. Lets just get UConn football ranked every year and everything else will take care of itself. Within a decade Syracuse will be begging to come back, mark my words.
 
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Just to play devils advocate...

UConn to the ACC reunites UConn to BC, Cuse, and Pitt as regional rivals....
The Nets are building a state of the art arena in Brooklyn...
Now maybe the ACC keeps the status quo with their bball tournament in NC, but it would be pretty bold to have their future hoops tournaments at the new arena in Brooklyn and take things to the Big East's backyard.

Otherwise, agree with all the "just win" stuff.
 
MSG is the mecca of basketball. If you already hold the Hope Diamond why would you want to trade it for an emerald? besides, it stinks in Brooklyn. That's why the Dodgers left.
 
weyuo said:
nelsonmuntz said: "Edsall would be freaking out with this news if he was still UConn's coach."​
BNich said: "And he isn't the head coach. So get over it."

Thanks BNich you beat me to it. Now, look guys, going to the ACC is a mistake. Look what happened to BC. No natural rivals. their closest conference opponent is like 7 hours away driving wise. You don't gain anything basketball wise, actually you lose because instead of a 2 1/2 hr drive to NYC for the conference tourney you'll be traveling halfway down the Eastern seaboard. Don't think for a minute that fans of UNC, NC St, Wake and the ones even farther south are gonna want to go through the madness that is NYC more than once to see their tourney. Football wise the conference will be much stronger than the ACC once the dust settles. Coach P has the program moving in the right direction so lets just suit up, strap up, find your seat before the game starts and enjoy yourself no matter who's lined up on the other side of the ball. Screw the ACC. Why trade one basketball conference for another when the football will be better here? The TV money is going to be there. Lets just get UConn football ranked every year and everything else will take care of itself. Within a decade Syracuse will be begging to come back, mark my words.
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Insane. ACC a mistake? Begging to come back?
 
Also, the money is most certainly NOT going to come anyway. ACC makes many times more.
 

the part that i really like about adding temple is they bring this to the BE. yes i know they were drexel kids for a hot minute but they are phili reps.
 
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Some of our best natural rivals just went to the ACC.

Thanks BNich you beat me to it. Now, look guys, going to the ACC is a mistake. Look what happened to BC. No natural rivals. their closest conference opponent is like 7 hours away driving wise. You don't gain anything basketball wise, actually you lose because instead of a 2 1/2 hr drive to NYC for the conference tourney you'll be traveling halfway down the Eastern seaboard. Don't think for a minute that fans of UNC, NC St, Wake and the ones even farther south are gonna want to go through the madness that is NYC more than once to see their tourney. Football wise the conference will be much stronger than the ACC once the dust settles. Coach P has the program moving in the right direction so lets just suit up, strap up, find your seat before the game starts and enjoy yourself no matter who's lined up on the other side of the ball. Screw the ACC. Why trade one basketball conference for another when the football will be better here? The TV money is going to be there. Lets just get UConn football ranked every year and everything else will take care of itself. Within a decade Syracuse will be begging to come back, mark my words.[/quote]
 
zls44 said:
Also, the money is most certainly NOT going to come anyway. ACC makes many times more.
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Did you just say "many times more"? Do you understand how multiplication works? So, if the ACC makes $13MM/year/year, you are saying that is "many times" more than the Big East? How much is many? 5x? 10x? 20x? You realize how wrong you are? In your relentless effort to be the Board Downer you make a lot of stuff up.

The reality is the ACC is probably worth a lot more than the Big East, but they are paid about $5MM/year/school below market and they are locked in a 10 year deal and that isn't going to change. Market for the Big East on the next deal is probably still over $10MM/year/school (per Memphis' President, who knows more than you). $13 > $10, but it is not "many times" more.
 
Come in with 9 min to go in the first quarter and miss the exciting pep band so you can finish your beer in the parking lot
 
rich1122 said:
All of it. We pick up Memphis, Temple, Navy and Boise St. I am happy with that. Can't see why anybody is so enamored with the ACC.

BC is the example of what happens when you join the ACC.
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Memphis or Clemson. Temple or Miami. Navy or Virginia Tech. Boise St or Florida State. Yeah that seems like something to get excited about. The Big East is the land of misfit college programs. Maybe Boise State wins their game but otherwise the Big East gets shutout.

BC's problem is they were geographically isolated (not a problem if UConn got an invite and since SU & Pitt are already in). Also, Boston is not a college sport town (unless it's hockey). Harvard might attract more exposure than BC. The Old Town is all about the Red Sox, Bruins, Patriots and Celtics in that order. UConn always would have made more sense for the ACC.
 
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