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This Article Sums up the stupidity of it all!

SubbaBub said:
This is about more games in all sports closer to NYC/CT and deficit reduction.

Trading Tulsa for Creighton isn't the point, trading Houston, SMU, ECU, for St. Johns, Seton Hall. and Providence is.
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So were becoming a regional school? Great.
 
BY06518 said:
This article is trash...the Football program had to go the way of old yeller and it is finally happening. It was anchor on the program and without the weight of our crappy conference basketball recruiting is going to be in overdrive. We are going to win and win big. The football team will never be a winner. All 5 of you football fans can cry about this but the fact is this is an out standing move for Basketball and a great move for the university.


UConn Basketball forever UConn Football never.
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If you are like this when you get your way, what are you like when you don't?

You can go back to counting your unhatched chickens, now
 
BY06518 said:
What alias...I know it's hard for all 5 football fans to imagine other people despising the Football team and seeing it for what it is and that's a cancer on the University that I love. The Football team brought 1 win a year and lots of revenue loss to the University, we had to save the Basketball program first,last, always.
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The problem with UConn athletics succinctly captured above...
 
I just don't believe that DePaul, Butler, Xavier, Creighton, and even St John's and Seton Hall will pull sell out crowds after year one or two passes by. Maybe I'll be wrong but we'll see. I just don't see the financial benefits of doing this and it really kills me to see us do this to the football team. If it was the old BE I'd be a little more positive about it.
 
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BY06518 said:
What alias...I know it's hard for all 5 football fans to imagine other people despising the Football team and seeing it for what it is and that's a cancer on the University that I love. The Football team brought 1 win a year and lots of revenue loss to the University, we had to save the Basketball program first,last, always.
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I guess you’re serious. There are a few more than 5 FB fans and some of us support all the sports. You live for big time hoops . Hooray for you.

And I’m not against the move.
 
BY06518 said:
What alias...I know it's hard for all 5 football fans to imagine other people despising the Football team and seeing it for what it is and that's a cancer on the University that I love. The Football team brought 1 win a year and lots of revenue loss to the University, we had to save the Basketball program first,last, always.
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13,000 "likes" on FB.
 
If you're an alum of UConn why can't you just support all of its programs? Why the hell do you have to identify as a men's basketball, women's basketball, or football only fan? I'm not sure this dynamic exists anywhere else in all of college athletics. I have teams that I actively follow for my university, but I don't hope for the destruction of the ones in which I only have a passing interest. Bizarre to the point of being sad.
 
ZooCougar said:
Well, Herbst finally figured out a way to leave behind a legacy.... what a joke that lady is.

She couldn’t even get Shalala to take her phone call in 2012 when the ACC took Louisville.

Rock Star Warde.., AAU LOL. Please go away forever.
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Well to be fair phone service in the Caribbean can be a little spotty.
 
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I'd like to see us continue to try and do home and home with teams like Memphis, Cincy and Wichita. Not sure what the climate will be like, but good matchups.
 
cohenzone said:
I’m not against the move.
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This is kind of where I'm at. I'm not against it. It will be good for men's basketball and will reduce travel costs and give fans more driveable games. it will let us keep SNY games which matters to me since I'm out of state. I think it is going to result in more money to us, particularly on a net basis.

But I know what this means for football and and I'm not particularly happy about it.
 
CL82 said:
This is kind of where I'm at. I'm not against it. It will be good for men's basketball and will reduce travel costs and give fans more driveable games. it will let us keep SNY games which matters to me since I'm out of state. I think it is going to result in more money to us, particularly on a net basis.

But I know what this means for football and and I'm not particularly happy about it.
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Yeah. But the AAC didn’t do anything for our football in a competitive sense. I know the coaching issues, but given where we are now, I don’t know when football would turn around. And the closest thing to a regional rivalry to stoke interest was Temple. I wasn’t enthused by the RE hire, kind of meh, but I know I can say I watched a record breaking team last year and stayed to the end of every game. Okay, it was to beat the traffic which got real heavy by mid 3rd quarter.

I like natural rivalries in sports. I’d wager Trinity fans get more stoked about playing Wesleyan or Amherst than UConn fans do about Tulsa and Houston.
 
ZooCougar said:
Well, Herbst finally figured out a way to leave behind a legacy.... what a joke that lady is.
She couldn’t even get Shalala to take her phone call in 2012 when the ACC took Louisville.
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Shalala was sued individually by headline grabbing Blumenthal. I wouldn't have taken the call from UConn either.
 
Nostical said:
Shalala was sued individually by headline grabbing Blumenthal. I wouldn't have taken the call from UConn either.
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A real rock star would have had the influence to at least have a conversation.
 
Fun fact: Creighton has 5 NCAA tournament appearances in the last 8 years. More than UConn. Also two 1st round NBA draft picks in that time, one 2nd rounder. Maybe we should be worried about whether we can beat them rather than whether we are too good for them?
 
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RyanFoul said:
Fun fact: Creighton has 5 NCAA tournament appearances in the last 8 years. More than UConn. 2 1st round NBA draft picks in that time, 1 2nd rounder. Maybe we should be worried about whether we can beat them rather than whether we are too good for them?
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They couldn't compete in the AAC so hopefully things improve quickly
 
RyanFoul said:
Fun fact: Creighton has 5 NCAA tournament appearances in the last 8 years. More than UConn. Also two 1st round NBA draft picks in that time, one 2nd rounder. Maybe we should be worried about whether we can beat them rather than whether we are too good for them?
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I agree, Creighton is a good program. Not great, but McDermott has done a nice job there. Winning in Omaha is not that easy.
 
Redding Husky said:
So were becoming a regional school? Great.
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Unless it's championship time or Zion most schools are "regional" Look at the ratings for college football championship game when two teams from the south play... they are awful. Very few schools are national in terms of fanbase and following.
 
Bubba1957 said:
In Ulysses Grant's autobiography, he used the term "You don't have to be a Connecticut man to understand this", much like we currently use phrase "you don't have to be a genius". At that time Genius = Connecticut man. How did that change to this bumbling ineptitude? What happened?
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A good point.
 
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