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Storrs South said:
It's been a couple years now, but I believe it was 7 years ago both basketball programs played a game a season in Bridgeport. It was always a weaker opponent on the schedule and they were well attended. Plus the venue has been used before for the NCAAW tournament and Hockey usually plays a game or two in that corner of the state.

I wouldn't mind if they pushed another OOC game during winter break down there for both basketball programs.

UConn Basketball To Play At Webster Bank Arena - UConn Today
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That's good to know.

I've wondered since moving to Connecticut in 2017 why UConn athletics isn't more active/present in Fairfield County. Glad past leadership saw an opportunity there, and like you, hope the current leaders get back to it. (Do wish that venue was in/a bit closer to Stamford/Darien, but...)
 
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Eavesdrop said:
That's good to know.

I've wondered since moving to Connecticut in 2017 why UConn athletics isn't more active/present in Fairfield County. Glad past leadership saw an opportunity there, and like you, hope the current leaders gets back to it. (Do wish that venue was in/a bit closer to Stamford/Darien, but...)
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Unfortunately there are no adequate venues further south than Bridgeport so makes sense why they chose there as it was about as south as they could reasonably go. The next closest venue is Mohegan since there's nothing in New Haven anymore.

And as @CL82 notes, getting back to the Big East and playing in MSG every March + games at St. John's, Seton Hall, plus the usual OOC games at MSG help too given accessible Metro North makes MSG to Fairfield County.

But hopefully they do experiment with more games there at some point. Even try and play someone locally instead of Eastern Washington like Fairfield, Sacred Heart, or even Columbia/Yale/Princeton.
 
CL82 said:
Interesting Texas and A&M are in different pods when the rest seem geographicaly based. Maybe to give more teams a Texas presence? (Or more likely acknowledging that the two schools don't like each other?) Otherwise flip A&M and Missouri?
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There are clearly two alpha dogs in each pod. Pure SEC, win one or two big games and coast on the reputation of the league even though the middle/bottom are no better than any other P5 conference.
 
JohnFSilver said:
The AAC hammered men's hoops, soccer etc. Baseball prospered and the Olympics and non-low revenue sports spent a fortune.

But, there was no interest in UConn playing any of the AAC schools in football or basketball. Maybe Wichita State had a little juice, but mainly nothing. Fans didn't even come out to watch top 20 Houston program or UCF. They seriously didn't care in football.

For football, AAC's biggest issue is it is a good football league with absolutely zero appeal. For basketball, it was half decent teams and 6 abominable teams.

It absolutely annihilated UConn as a brand to be in there, much worse than I thought initially.

How nice is it to not worry. We don't have to get the let's get the table scraps. No one at UConn wants to get into a BIg 12 with Texas and Oklahoma. And TBH, fans would probably prefer current situation than even an invite to Big 12.
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You can’t place all of the blame on the AAC. Some of the blame has to fall on a few coaches who dragged the program down.
 
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JohnFSilver said:
The AAC hammered men's hoops, soccer etc.
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Women's hoops deserves more than just an etc. I think Geno coming up empty on the recruiting trail for 2 cycles played a part in the jump.
 
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Eavesdrop said:
That's good to know.

I've wondered since moving to Connecticut in 2017 why UConn athletics isn't more active/present in Fairfield County. Glad past leadership saw an opportunity there, and like you, hope the current leaders get back to it. (Do wish that venue was in/a bit closer to Stamford/Darien, but...
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Fairfield County is, at best, an appendage of Connecticut. It is....... culturally, economically and demographically.... a suburb of New York City. New York is not a college town. It is a pro sports town. Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Devils, Islanders Giants, Jets, Yankees, Mets, et al, rule. Columbia, NYU, St. John's, Manhattan, LIU................poor stepsisters.

Yes, Manhattan elites will spend big bucks to attend the Big East basketball tourney at The Garden. Because they identify with UConn or Syracuse? Perhaps. Maybe because it is an opportunity to be seen, to put a notch in one's holster.

Connecticut has eight counties............six and one half that identify with Connecticut..............one (Fairfield) and one half (Litchfield) that are pure New Yawk.
 
Viet Vet said:
Fairfield County is, at best, an appendage of Connecticut. It is....... culturally, economically and demographically.... a suburb of New York City. New York is not a college town. It is a pro sports town. Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Devils, Islanders Giants, Jets, Yankees, Mets, et al, rule. Columbia, NYU, St. John's, Manhattan, LIU................poor stepsisters.

Yes, Manhattan elites will spend big bucks to attend the Big East basketball tourney at The Garden. Because they identify with UConn or Syracuse? Perhaps. Maybe because it is an opportunity to be seen, to put a notch in one's holster.

Connecticut has eight counties............six and one half that identify with Connecticut..............one (Fairfield) and one half (Litchfield) that are pure New Yawk.
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I don’t know that I fully agree with this. Lower Fairfield County certainly is more New York, but the Danbury, New Fairfield, Brookfield, Bethel, Newtown, Monroe, Shelton areas I would say more identify with Connecticut
 
Platt81 said:
I don’t know that I fully agree with this. Lower Fairfield County certainly is more New York, but the Danbury, New Fairfield, Brookfield, Bethel, Newtown, Monroe, Shelton areas I would say more identify with Connecticut
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Yeah i was wondering what part of northern Fairfield County let alone Litchfield identifies with NYC. I would say it's really just the towns along and south of the parkway.
 
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One misconception about media revenues. College basketball actually produces more media revenues than college football, BUT, football revenues go to the conferences directly and the NCAA tournament money goes towards paying for NCAA costs such as non revenue sports championships, NCAA overhead,…

If there was no NCAA, college basketball would be a much more important revenue source for schools if a tournament still existed. My point is don’t dismiss the importance of college basketball.
 
Pure academia - let's put together a committee to explore why Texas and Oklahoma want out and what are the reasons. Head bang
 
Fairfield county product here, who spent 10 years in Hartford and Tolland counties, and I beg to differ that people here think we're in NYC. We consider ourselves part of Connecticut. Sorry our courthouses are a little bigger than Rockville.
 
Butch said:
Fairfield county product here, who spent 10 years in Hartford and Tolland counties, and I beg to differ that people here think we're in NYC. We consider ourselves part of Connecticut. Sorry our courthouses are a little bigger than Rockville.
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So, I don’t know why this is relevant to the current conversation but I too am a Fairfield County product and I never felt connected with CT. My TV channels growing up were all NYC and NJ. Never got a CT channel and felt more connected with NY than Hartford or New Haven or whatever. Wasn’t until I attended UCONN that realized CT had TV or an identity. Perhaps it’s a generational or geographical thing?
 
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Husky92 said:
So, I don’t know why this is relevant to the current conversation but I too am a Fairfield County product and I never felt connected with CT. My TV channels growing up were all NYC and NJ. Never got a CT channel and felt more connected with NY than Hartford or New Haven or whatever. Wasn’t until I attended UCONN that realized CT had TV or an identity. Perhaps it’s a generational or geographical thing?
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Same. After exit 11 that might as well be where dragons live.
 
Viet Vet said:
Fairfield County is, at best, an appendage of Connecticut. It is....... culturally, economically and demographically.... a suburb of New York City. New York is not a college town. It is a pro sports town. Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Devils, Islanders Giants, Jets, Yankees, Mets, et al, rule. Columbia, NYU, St. John's, Manhattan, LIU................poor stepsisters.

Yes, Manhattan elites will spend big bucks to attend the Big East basketball tourney at The Garden. Because they identify with UConn or Syracuse? Perhaps. Maybe because it is an opportunity to be seen, to put a notch in one's holster.

Connecticut has eight counties............six and one half that identify with Connecticut..............one (Fairfield) and one half (Litchfield) that are pure New Yawk.
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I don’t know about Fairfield. Disagree completely on Litchfield County.
 
Husky92 said:
So, I don’t know why this is relevant to the current conversation but I too am a Fairfield County product and I never felt connected with CT. My TV channels growing up were all NYC and NJ. Never got a CT channel and felt more connected with NY than Hartford or New Haven or whatever. Wasn’t until I attended UCONN that realized CT had TV or an identity. Perhaps it’s a generational or geographical thing?
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I don't have a TV so maybe that makes a difference. We get CT channels around the Bridgeport area.
 
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