The best way to position Uconn for realignment

[caw]

Have a fact sheet available for disemination is helpful. The press, for example is inherently lazy. Puttting favorable factoids in their hands shapes their coverage which in turn shapes public opinion. It's the path of least resistance. You want to make it as easy as possible for schools to support us.

Yes, but someone at UConn should be able to do this. It's not hard. Just need to decode HFD posts.

 

[huskymedic]

Not sure why anyone thinks they know what is/is not going on behind the scenes. Could be something. Could be nothing. But what absolutely should be going on is making Uconn a top flight academic institution with better professors, better facilities, better research, better students, better reputation. That is being done - and it should have been done long ago. As to our comittment to excellence in athletics, we had better keep doing that with or without ESPN money, just like TCU did, just like Louisville did, just like UCF, USF - every other school doing its 40 year pennance in the desert. Better keep strack. That means fan support. Don't ever give that up.

UConn already has a consulting contract in place w/ McKinsey for a large scope of projects - not all unveiled as of yet I imagine.

 

[mattp]

The next steps are already in place. Our invite to the B1G is in the works. Due diligence is in the process of being wrapped up. The lawyers are finalizing the language. The roll out of the announcement is finalized.

Why do you think Maryland voted against the $50MM exit fee? They knew they were going elsewhere. How long do you think Rutgers knew? Louisville didn't get the ACC invite because they connected on some last minute Hail Mary pass. They got it because UConn wasn't available, simple as that.

The Maryland/Rutgers move seemed to me like it'd been in the works for a while between UMD nixing the fee and Schiano telling recruits they'd be in the B1G last year. Two schools that seemingly had no business thinking they'd go there did, and they were right. I think we're a good fit for the B1G, so I'll go ahead with your optimism that we told the ACC to shove it.

 

[mattp]

BC has truly poisoned the well for UConn and it wouldn't shock me if UConn were bypassed in the future.

I think you give BC a lot more credit than they deserve in terms of killing us to the ACC. They have one vote, but I can't imagine they have too much sway over all of the other schools in the ACC. They have about as much pull in the ACC as Tulane will have in the Big East in a few years

 

[upstater]

I think you give BC a lot more credit than they deserve in terms of killing us to the ACC. They have one vote, but I can't imagine they have too much sway over all of the other schools in the ACC. They have about as much pull in the ACC as Tulane will have in the Big East in a few years

This flies in the face, however, of what DeFilippo claimed.

 

[4UConn]

It boggles the mind that people think the cards are in because they begged harder. They are in because FSU and Clemson threw a hissy fit and threatened to leave. They don't want us. End of story

Sent from my XT907 using Tapatalk 2

AND the disgusting gnome down in Miami.

 

[sportsart]

WM is committed to expanding the Rent and has stated so recently (I posted this in another thread so I just re-copied it)

From Sunday... Not everything is in the Courant (thank God).

Of course, winning breeds success and success means selling tickets. And the more tickets you sell, the bigger the stadium you need. When Rentschler Field was constructed, it was done with expansion in mind. Don't think Manuel isn't excited about seeing those blueprints. He is.

"The more games we win, the more tickets that we can sell, the quicker I'll expand it," Manuel said. "When we're at the point where we're having consistent sellouts in the next couple of years, then it'll increase the talk of expanding because of demand. I'm not looking to wait 10 years before we do it. It's all about ... we have to improve the team, we want to find ways to encourage people to come out and watch us play, we know we have to do better on the field.

"We want people from Bridgeport, people in New Haven and Stamford to buy season tickets and to come up, support the team and see us play great competition. If we can expand the number of fans and the demand to see us play, we'll look to expand the stadium, because it'll make economic sense for us to do so."

Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/uconn/article/UConn-football-program-fighting-recent-losing-4101018.php#ixzz2EmSgAZ31​

Extend the busway from Stamford to East Hartford. Build it and they will come.

 

[caw]

I think you give BC a lot more credit than they deserve in terms of killing us to the ACC. They have one vote, but I can't imagine they have too much sway over all of the other schools in the ACC. They have about as much pull in the ACC as Tulane will have in the Big East in a few years

No you are right, but starting one down when 3 kills you is a huge hole.