This can't be true?!

[Kolumbo]

Utah had little beyond "one or two years" (Urban Meyer) before their Pac-12 invitation from my perspective/recollection. To lesser degrees, "great improvement recently" also helped TCU, Louisville, and Rutgers.

EDIT: ALL of those schools also had "unique" geographic appeal to their new conferences.

Did you just use "great improvement" and "Rutgers" in the same sentence? Rutgers got in for several reasons, and football was not even close to being one of them.

 

[Kolumbo]

This rumor is pure BS. But for argument's sake, if CR were to start up, anything could happen. Two schools moving change the dynamics and could motivate other moves. Cinci and Memphis moving be huge blasts in our already shoddy basketball wall and this is no wall for our program. None. But again, this is pure BS.

 

[zls44]

NESN doesn't give one third of a flip about covering a UConn-UMass football game. As it is, NESN has a history of acting like CT doesn't exist.

 

[Fishy]

Utah had little beyond "one or two years" (Urban Meyer) before their Pac-12 invitation from my perspective/recollection. To lesser degrees, "great improvement recently" also helped TCU, Louisville, and Rutgers.

EDIT: ALL of those schools also had "unique" geographic appeal to their new conferences.

Louisville didn't improve - they are what they were.

TCU needed to win a Rose Bowl to get a Big 12 invite, but yes - basketball is much better than it has been, too.

And I'm not sure you're familiar with Rutgers.

 

[Yawkey Way]

NESN doesn't give one third of a flip about covering a UConn-UMass football game. As it is, NESN has a history of acting like CT doesn't exist.

I agree. But NESN would take interest in Uconn football if its matchup was with UMASS. NESN is more interested in a potential annual Uconn- Umass football game, than one between Uconn- Tulane or some such. So a Umass- Uconn game would get Uconn more football exposure in the Greater Boston region... and the ability to secure better N.E. football exposure is a positive... not a negative, of course. My guess, a Umass- Uconn annual football game on NESN would have more viewers than an annual BC - Wake Forest annual football game. And tell me what Uconn and Umass football fans wouldn't want better and larger football viewership in New England than BC currently receives.

 

[whaler11]

If this sheet happens I'm buying a fugging Subaru, finding where whaler lives and driving 20 fugging mph every where I go!

Good luck averaging 20 behind the other subarus. And why is it my fault?

 

[MASSconn]

Did the thread creator really just try to spin this positive? Are you insane...




If this is true we are so screwed.

 

[CTMike]

I agree. But NESN would take interest in Uconn football if its matchup was with UMASS. NESN is more interested in a potential annual Uconn- Umass football game, than one between Uconn- Tulane or some such. So a Umass- Uconn game would get Uconn more football exposure in the Greater Boston region... and the ability to secure better N.E. football exposure is a positive... not a negative, of course. My guess, a Umass- Uconn annual football game on NESN would have more viewers than an annual BC - Wake Forest annual football game. And tell me what Uconn and Umass football fans wouldn't want better and larger football viewership in New England than BC currently receives.

Dude ENOUGH. Jesus H. Christ on a stick how obtuse can you be. We've been to the top level of college football, even had some modicum of success while there. Now we've been demoted, lost all the teams we cared to play, it naturally upsets us, and all you can do wonder why we don't see the silver lining in playing gddamn UMASS? YOU play UMass. Oh...no? You won't? I wonder why. Go play in traffic.

 

[Marty Jackson]

It is an interesting rumor - it would surprise me, but not completely shock me. It's at least in the plausible category (unlike those old rumors of the Big 12 going after Florida State). The threshold question for me is whether the Big 12 wants to expand at all in the first place.

To be sure, football still does matter here. You have to look at the whole football-related picture just like Rutgers. Rutgers certainly doesn't have a great on-the-field football history. However, the state of New Jersey was the largest non-Sun Belt/Southern football recruiting base (which, along with TV markets, is what commissioners like Jim Delany is really referring to when they talk about "demographics") that wasn't already in the Big Ten. #2 on that list was the state of Maryland. Those certainly weren't the ONLY factors involved (as the TV markets were the number one consideration for the B1G), but they were big ones that university presidents and ADs have actually been very open about. So, it was still a football-driven expansion for the Big Ten even if marquee football programs weren't necessarily added.

In the same vein, the Memphis area is also one of the strongest per capita football recruiting regions in the country. In fact, both Memphis and Cincinnati would instantly be the two best football recruiting areas in the Big 12 outside of the state of Texas.

At the same time, Memphis has shown to be at least football *competent* this year. Any school with a great hoops fan base (which includes UConn, Memphis, UNLV, New Mexico, San Diego State, etc.) combined with competent football becomes more intriguing in conference realignment. The football program just can't be down in the dumps horrific or else even the greatest basketball in the world can't compensate for that. Too many schools that I've listed above have the great hoops fan base, but not the competent football.

is that the measure now? have a good season and you're instantly fodder for P5 CR rumors?

 

[Marty Jackson]

It would be depressing but honestly, things really are already terrible from a conference perspective for UConn. Losing Cincy and Memphis would make it worse but things are already so bad, I'm not sure it really matters all that much. Getting leapfrogged by Memphis would be the worst part of it all.

if Memphis and Cincy move, you really have to wonder who is blatantly got a hard - on for killing uconn. that move would essentially kill bb.

 

[NEforceUConn]

I honestly can't stomach any more kicks to my CR nuts.

Neither can your wife.

 

[ASweet3781]

If UConn can't even argue it's way in over Memphis than we are run by .

I don't believe it. It is incomprehensible.

 

[TigerJ]

You guys ok over here?

 

[John]

If UConn can't even argue it's way in over Memphis than we are run by .

I don't believe it. It is incomprehensible.

Memphis would be dangerously similar to Tunxis getting picked over us.

 

[businesslawyer]

The worst part about that rumor is that it makes sense.

It makes sense that no one in the XII ever thought it possible that teams playing a 9 game round robin schedule would end up tied? I think not.

 

[Yawkey Way]

Dude ENOUGH. Jesus H. Christ on a stick how obtuse can you be. We've been to the top level of college football, even had some modicum of success while there. Now we've been demoted, lost all the teams we cared to play, it naturally upsets us, and all you can do wonder why we don't see the silver lining in playing gddamn UMASS? YOU play UMass. Oh...no? You won't? I wonder why. Go play in traffic.

I understand the depths that Uconn football has sunk since Hathaway hired PP. I can look at an AAC league Football standings and see where Uconn football currently is. I get that. But thats a separate issue than the consideration of Umass as a league replacement than say... FIU, or Georgia State, or some such.

Name me a non P5 school conference team that would be a more attractive football program for Uconn football to play in the AAC than Umass. I can't think of a single one. BC plays Umass... played them this year as a matter of fact. So why is Uconn playing Umass each year such a hostile thought of their possible replacement of Memphis and Cincinnati instead of going with some backwater southern school in the Southwest, or some other distant locale school ? Thats my question raised... not the current football standings in the ACC discussion, or why the teams are where they are this season.

 

[Vuce]

I understand the depths that Uconn football has sunk since Hathaway hired PP. I can look at an ACC league Football standings and see where Uconn football currently is. I get that. But thats a separate issue than the consideration of Umass as a league replacement than say... FIU, or Georgia State, or some such. Name me a non P5 school conference team that would be a more attractive football program for Uconn football to play in the AAC than Umass. I can't think of a single one. BC plays Umass... played them this year as a matter of fact. So why is Uconn playing Umass each year such a hostile thought given the current situation ?

You are simply trolling now.
You surely know that if this comes to pass we can play umass, ccsu, or E O Smih. Most people won't care. It will be the final kick in the nuts.

 

[BlueHen]

You are simply trolling now.
You surely know that if this comes to pass we can play umass, ccsu, or E O Smih. Most people won't care. It will be the final kick in the nuts.

Agreed. He is a troll. I suspected as much a few days ago. All he is doing now is building his resume.

 

[Stinger92860]

Are you implying that Memphis Football is competent and UCONN Football is not? If so, then you must believe one or two years defines a program.

We are in no position to question the quality of Memphis football.

 

[Stinger92860]

If UConn can't even argue it's way in over Memphis than we are run by .

I don't believe it. It is incomprehensible.

Have you looked at a map of the US recently?

 

[CTMike]

I understand the depths that Uconn football has sunk since Hathaway hired PP. I can look at an AAC league Football standings and see where Uconn football currently is. I get that. But thats a separate issue than the consideration of Umass as a league replacement than say... FIU, or Georgia State, or some such.

Name me a non P5 school conference team that would be a more attractive football program for Uconn football to play in the AAC than Umass. I can't think of a single one. BC plays Umass... played them this year as a matter of fact. So why is Uconn playing Umass each year such a hostile thought of their possible replacement of Memphis and Cincinnati instead of going with some backwater southern school in the Southwest, or some other distant locale school ? Thats my question raised... not the current football standings in the ACC discussion, or why the teams are where they are this season.

We've got a hot date with Stony Brook.

 

[ASweet3781]

Have you looked at a map of the US recently?

Ummm yeah. Your point?

You do realize that all the conferences from the AAC to ACC to Big 12 to Big Ten have schools outside the main geographic footprint right?

 

[Stinger92860]

Ummm yeah. Your point?

You do realize that all the conferences from the AAC to ACC to Big 12 to Big Ten have schools outside the main geographic footprint right?

My point is that we are no where near the big 12 geographic footprint, not sure why it's hard for you to comprehend?

 

[Yawkey Way]

You are simply trolling now.
You surely know that if this comes to pass we can play umass, ccsu, or E O Smih. Most people won't care. It will be the final kick in the nuts.

Maybe that might be true in Connecticut, but they'll be interest in Massachusetts if Umass is the next school in to replace Memphis and Cincinnati in the AAC. This would be an upgrade for Umass to get to the AAC... and play Uconn as their New England School rival in the AAC.

That said, I do " get " that such a deal would be unthinkable to Uconn football fans, and for that reason alone, I do hope that for Uconn's football and fans sake this is just one of those hundreds of unfounded crazyass rumors and BS where people put all sorts of nonsense out there and then it seems to take on a life of its own as if it was the Gospel Truth.

 

[ASweet3781]

My point is that we are no where near the big 12 geographic footprint, not sure why it's hard for you to comprehend?

Conference realignment is about geographic footprint?

Tell me how Louisville fit in geographically to the Atlantic COAST Conference. Or how Minnesota fits with Rutgers. Or how we currently fit with Tulsa and Tulane.

Geography is not an excuse to get passed by Memphis for christ sakes.

 

[NEforceUConn]

You guys ok over here?

How can we be, this is the BY and our school has been passed over three times? What's infuriating to me is that UConn is a very strong state college, with total support from the state. Our athletic philosophy and performance (sans the last 5 years in fb) has been of championship caliber.

Yet other schools get tapped because of geography, market potential, cable subscribers, or short term isolated athletic achievement. If Warren Buffet ran college sports UConn would certainly have a preferred seat at the table. I just don't understand, for the life of me, why the heads treat UConn like a piriah.

If and when UConn gets a P5 seat you will see amazing things within 5 years, amazing. This is so clear to BYers, yet we have been manhandled so many times by CR. To think that Cincy, UCF, Temple, or Memphis are thought of as better candidates is lunacy.

Yes my avatar has a bag over the head, it use to be my favorite UConn LB DL, well before he began showing the NFL that he can play. IF HCBD shows some decent play calling this weekend, and gives us fans a ray of hope I will change back to my beloved DL.

"Is your ankle hurt badly Danny? No, I'm from Pennsylvania." just awesome

 

[ASweet3781]

How can we be, this is the BY and our school has been passed over three times? What's infuriating to me is that UConn is a very strong state college, with total support from the state. Our athletic philosophy and performance (sans the last 5 years in fb) has been of championship caliber.

Yet other schools get tapped because of geography, market potential, cable subscribers, or short term isolated athletic achievement. If Warren Buffet ran college sports UConn would certainly have a preferred seat at the table. I just don't understand, for the life of me, why the heads treat UConn like a piriah.

If and when UConn gets a P5 seat you will see amazing things within 5 years, amazing. This is so clear to BYers, yet we have been manhandled so many times by CR. To think that Cincy, UCF, Temple, or Memphis are thought of as better candidates is lunacy.

The only excuse I can think of if Memphis would ever be invited over us is we are still paying the price for the Civil War. We are a Yankee school from the northeast, (gasp NEW ENGLAND), that actually wins trophies.

 

[Stinger92860]

Conference realignment is about geographic footprint?

Tell me how Louisville fit in geographically to the Atlantic COAST Conference. Or how Minnesota fits with Rutgers. Or how we currently fit with Tulsa and Tulane.

Geography is not an excuse to get passed by Memphis for christ sakes.

I don't know what to tell you if you do not understand the difference between Louisville to the AAC and us to the b12. Listen, I want to be wrong, we are on the same side, but we are not geo positive to the b12.

 

[Yawkey Way]

People perhaps may not want to hear this here, but the perception of Uconn outside of New England, especially outside of Connecticut, may not be the same perception as Uconn has of itself within the region.

This might mean that Uconn officials have to do a better job trumpeting how great Uconn is, or the school and its fans have to reevaluate and alter perhaps their own perceptions of Uconn itself. Or it could be a bit of both required here... who knows. Just a non threatening thought, anyway.

 

[ASweet3781]

People perhaps may not want to hear this here, but the perception of Uconn outside of New England, especially outside of Connecticut, may not be how those outside New England view Uconn.

This might mean that Uconn officials have to do a better job trumpeting how great Uconn is, or the school and its fans have to reevaluate and alter perhaps their own perceptions of Uconn itself. Or it could be a bit of both required here... who knows. Just a thought, anyway.

Oh ok. So results and facts mean nothing and ill informed perception drives it.

Now I know why I don't follow this crap full time.