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UConn and the New York Market

dayooper said:
Taken from the thread that @huskymedic linked to, in case you didn't click the link:

Shawn Eichorst ‏@BigRedAD 23m23 minutes ago
Proud & privileged to be member of the Big Ten-the oldest & best power 5 athletic conference. Excellence = academics, athletics & life. GBR!
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Didn't have to, I remember that thread from last fall. Yes, it's probably unlikely that Nebraska would want to pass up that huge annual dividend they get from the Big Ten. The flip side bothers me though, that everyone and his mother is so quick to discount what this guy tweeted, add to that a ton of Nebraska fans and alums who don't like being in the Big Ten. The question is are Montemayor's tweets legit or did he just make them up? You would think a guy like him would be dialed in to the fan base and the program. Just saying.
 
huskyrob1 said:
Didn't have to, I remember that thread from last fall. Yes, it's probably unlikely that Nebraska would want to pass up that huge annual dividend they get from the Big Ten. The flip side bothers me though, that everyone and his mother is so quick to discount what this guy tweeted, add to that a ton of Nebraska fans and alums who don't like being in the Big Ten. The question is are Montemayor's tweets legit or did he just make them up? You would think a guy like him would be dialed in to the fan base and the program. Just saying.
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Oh, there are Nebraska fans that want to be in the Big12 again. The problem is the Big12 they remember is dead and will never the same again. The Nebraska admin knows this. That's why the Nebraska AD was so quick to shut the rumor down.
 
Getting back to Dayoopers timeline of Nebraska, I'd love to hear some day how close UConn was to joining.
Two months before Nebraska joins, Cowberd went on air and said three teams were moving to another conference.
He hit on two of the three with UConn being the miss.
Was it simply that Nebraska stepped up out of nowhere and surprised the Big10 with the decision to leave their football rivals, thus leaving UConn in the dust?
I'd imagine an out of left field declaration that UConn was going to the Big 10 had to have come from Cowherd being supremely confident in his sources and he did work for ESPN. He did get the other two right before anyone else had the scoop.
 
The Viking said:
Getting back to Dayoopers timeline of Nebraska, I'd love to hear some day how close UConn was to joining.
Two months before Nebraska joins, Cowberd went on air and said three teams were moving to another conference.
He hit on two of the three with UConn being the miss.
Was it simply that Nebraska stepped up out of nowhere and surprised the Big10 with the decision to leave their football rivals, thus leaving UConn in the dust?
I'd imagine an out of left field declaration that UConn was going to the Big 10 had to have come from Cowherd being supremely confident in his sources and he did work for ESPN. He did get the other two right before anyone else had the scoop.
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I have some thoughts pieced together from various places ( all public knowledge). When I get time in a couple of days, I'll write something up
 
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Saying you're unhappy with being part of the Big Ten is comparable to Brown or Columbia saying they are unhappy with being part of the Ivy League.
 
whaler11 said:
It's adorable that people are still posting about the Big Ten inviting UConn.
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My only thought to all this analysis and optimism is that if anyone influential on the inside regarding conference realignment, even just one single person, felt like many do regarding UConn's potential in the NYC market and the Big 10, then simply put we would be in the Big 10 today and not Rutgers.

The Big 10 taking Rutgers for all the reasons that are supposed to be UConn's strength tells me the Big 10 shut the door on us back in 2011. If that move wasn't a bucket of ice water splashing you in the face then I don't know what to say.
 
dayooper said:
I know that was seven years ago, but it shows that the Big10 was at one time, interested in the plains schools.
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Nebraska was assumed to be a front runner ahead of Michigan State when Michigan State was eventually selected as #10 (after Chicago withdrew).

So there's been interest in the Plains, but my thought there was on Michigan State. Michigan State College did a remarkable job in improving their academic stature to catch the eye of the Big Ten. Obviously not AAU at the time. Reminds me a little of someone else...
 
BUConn10 said:
The Big 10 taking Rutgers for all the reasons that are supposed to be UConn's strength tells me the Big 10 shut the door on us back in 2011. If that move wasn't a bucket of ice water splashing you in the face then I don't know what to say.
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To make Connecticut "contiguous", the Big Ten first had to add NJ, then an office in NYC. Patience young grasshopper.

New Jersey has 9 million people (with a lot of high school football talent in the mix), and makes Maryland feel little less of an outlier. We from Michigan like New Jersey, and thank them for lending us some of their talent.
 
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BUConn10 said:
The Big 10 taking Rutgers for all the reasons that are supposed to be UConn's strength tells me the Big 10 shut the door on us back in 2011. If that move wasn't a bucket of ice water splashing you in the face then I don't know what to say.
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Rutgers beat us to the Big Ten when the borders for the original thirteen colonies were drawn up.

Everything they've done since then has been an abject failure, but their 1-0 edge in cartography was all they needed.
 
The Big 10 will claim contiguity matters, until a big enough fish displays interest in joining... If UT called up tomorrow and asked for membership they would act like the rule never existed.
 
Fishy said:
Rutgers beat us to the Big Ten when the borders for the original thirteen colonies were drawn up.

Everything they've done since then has been an abject failure, but their 1-0 edge in cartography was all they needed.
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Yup. The only on field battle that mattered to conference realignment was 300 years ago when the Connecticut settlers in the Wilkes Barre -- Scranton area lost their mini-war and CT lost what is now northern PA to PA. Had we won that game, we would be in the Big Ten today.
 
Seaa Blue said:
To make Connecticut "contiguous", the Big Ten first had to add NJ, then an office in NYC. Patience young grasshopper.

New Jersey has 9 million people (with a lot of high school football talent in the mix), and makes Maryland feel little less of an outlier. We from Michigan like New Jersey, and thank them for lending us some of their talent.
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You from Michigan ought to thank CT for lending some of our talent as well,....

Ben Mason, Tarik Black, Andrew Stueber....All will play there in the Fall.
 
It really was a self inflicted wound when CT ceded the Western Reserve (now northeastern Ohio) back to the US as part of the old Northwest Territory (even after losing the Pennsylvania portion, there was the end in Ohio that was still recognized as part of CT), we could've beaten Penn State to the punch in the 90s!
 
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(Image from Connecticut Western Reserve - Wikipedia)

We got 1.2 million in 1796 for it in 1796. Presumably we put that cash to good use. (Please keep snarky comments about the current CT government spending in the Cesspool :) )

Cleveland CT? Youngstown CT? One can only dream.
 
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huskyrob1 said:
You from Michigan ought to thank CT for lending some of our talent as well,....

Ben Mason, Tarik Black, Andrew Stueber....All will play there in the Fall.
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I realized that shortly after saying it. @dayooper cited Connecticut talent not too long ago. Thank you.

In the first meeting at Rutgers, Michigan had 9 players or recruits from NJ, including Jabrill Peppers and Rashan Gary. I would like to think that we put a dent in Penn State's recruiting there, but somehow Penn State has been loading up anyway.
 
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huskyrob1 said:
Get your facts straight, we do have a volleyball team, they play in the Fall.
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We watched them play at Tulane after the football game. They sold craft beer.
 
Seaa Blue said:
I realized that shortly after saying it. @dayooper cited Connecticut talent not too long ago. Thank you.

In the first meeting at Rutgers, Michigan had 9 players or recruits from NJ, including Jabrill Peppers and Rashan Gary. I would like to think that we put a dent in Penn State's recruiting there, but somehow Penn State has been loading up anyway.
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Actually Michigan alone almost took four kids from CT. They recruited CJ Holmes out of Cheshire really hard but he committed to Notre Dame. Mason also wasn't the only kid from Newtown to get a major college offer, one of his teammates committed to BYU IIRC.
 
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