Glad you made it out. I made it out of an embarrassing town east of the river. There are good and bad but I have seen with my kids choices of friends what brings people up or down. Stand by my analogy
I could have made up fictional towns, but you wouldn’t have cared. I made it out of a crime ridden city thus my natural ability to offend
Make no mistake, if the All Criminals Conference (ACC) had to choose between UMD and Louisville, they would choose UMD. They wouldn't have to think about it. Again you're wrong, Louisville's entire foundation is based on 4 scandals and overall corruption. That is sand!
Yes. It's the same thing. Pitt, Miami, and Georgia Tech too. With all the pro sports competition the schools in those towns have to be having championship type seasons to get any attention, kind of how Miami was rolling this year. When they have awful years like BC a few years ago, no one is watching. It's just the nature of the competition in those markets. The original reason the ACC wanted BC was to have visibility in the Boston area for the rest of the ACC schools, even just a little. Donna Shalala thought Miami got benefit out of it for recruiting high school students to come to Miami, and she sold the rest that it's good to regularly waive the flag in Boston. I thought adding UConn since we already have BC would generate a rivalry and create some interest in New England in that rivalry. I never understood why BC didn't want that other than animosity created when BC left the Big East.
We can only go with Gene DiFillippo said:
True but they are competing with Kentucky.
Regional rivalries are what drives fan interest and attention IMO. It's important to have them and to promote them in both cases. Both sides tune in to follow what the rival side is doing. BC's DeFilippo didn't think that important, but I think he's wrong. I don't think BC can represent all of New England. Louisville does have theirs, and I think they value it and get mileage out of it.
It's not DeFilippo didn't think it was important so much as that he was afraid of it. That had to strike tobacco road as pretty odd.
They've moved onto pro sports with Yale and Harvard no longer being superpowers in athletics. But UConn was able to develop a fanbase due to success. Both Ivy League schools deemphasized athletics to some degree. Except hockey. Affluent fans in hockey. Their hockey programs are way better than ours. College hockey is alive and well. One sport where fans get college sports well. Same with hardcore UConn fans. They do get college sports too.
The Ivy League deemphasized sports starting in the 1950s when it was formed. That should create an opportunity for others to fill the vacuum, as it was a very long time ago. I've seen the time when UConn was selling out its football stadium a decade ago. The coach who did it is back, and hopefully he can bring that back.
A crime spree masquerading as a community college.. That's funny...
Regional rivalries are what drives fan interest and attention. This point is too often missed in CR.
Now brown cow.
If you read the media out there in Minnesota land, they're not seeing that the extra dollars in the check are worth it. They want the Midwest conference they are used to. Not much interest in being in the east at all. In fact more complaints.
or Pitt, Wake Forest, Virginia?
