Be more specific next time, Yawkboy. And don't use false equivalences such as BC voting for WVU to join the league as a brand new all-sports member and BC voting for UConn, already a member of the league in all sports but one, to become a football member. The comparison is not the same.
The Umass fans that attend the BC- Umass games for the most part are very well behaved. Even the ' Neers fans in Morgantoown are not as drunk at their games than the Bulldogs and the Crimson Faced are in their annual " Event ". Again... if you or others here have been to a Harvard- Yale game, you know this to be true.
Ok... will do. And as a helpful suggestion to you moving forward, understand that you initial criticism reply to me that Uconn football did not have to apply for a much later admittance via BE vote, ( despite Uconn already in the BE for other sports, years earlier ) was an inaccurate comment from you.... and thus prompted my follow up reply to correct that clearly incorrect info on here that you had utilized in your initial reply to me above.
I did not imply that at all, I interpreted your comment as pertaining UConn's admittance to the Big East as a whole (based on the WVU example) in 1979, not as a football member in 2004.
A good job by BC would be to boycott the game. Of course, not only did they side with the southern racists, they also decided to join them 65 years later.
You almost have it right. The Big East had an open invitation to both UConn & Villanova as schools with 1-AA football teams to make the upgrade to 1-A status & then they would be auto-invited to join the Big East Football Conference, but there was a time limit. The invitation was extended just before Skip Holtz was hired as head coach. Skippie even mentioned it as an enticement for his employment. The problem for UConn was the austerity issues in-state (this was way before UConn-2000). When Lew Perkins committed UConn to the upgrade, the State promised the ill fated UConn Dome at Adrien's Landing. This was screwed up royally by Bob Kraft's shenanigans promising to relocate the Patriots if the blue prints were altered to an NFL style outdoor facility.. Once the Patriots backed out, Pratt & Whitney came through with the Rentschler Field land donation. There was great tension between the Patriots backing out & the time of P & WA's donation because time was running out on the Big East's invitation.
Speaking of former Uconn AD, Lew Perkins, we'll never see Blumenthal and Perkins on each others Christmas Card send list.As most here are probably aware Blumy's lawsuit was severely compromised in depos of both Swofford and Perkins that Perkins phone records show dates and times that Perkins was privately petitioning the ACC to get Uconn at invite. Nothing wrong with that.... except the timing. Blumy was completely unaware of Perkins doing this at the launch of his ACC, Swofford, et al lawsuit. I personally mentioned this to Blumy at a wedding reception we mutually attended in Connecticut a few years back and he acknowledged that he was unaware of Perkins private contacts with Swofford at the time. Blumy then said..... " Mr. Perkins moved far, far away from Connecticut after this time period, and that fact is probably celebrated by both he and hundreds of others". He smiled. I did too. And it was clear there is no love lost between Blumy and Perkins.
So you won't ackowledge that they shouldn't have played the game if they really cared about their african american teammate?
How did you get this alleged information?
While that may be the case, there was a 0% chance UConn would've gained admission to the ACC at the time Perkins would've been lobbying, presumably 02-03. We weren't even a full 1A member at that time, so any lobbying would've had to be for some kind of down the road pipe dream. That said, I've always felt that lawsuit was dumb and ridiculous - though it was as much spearheaded by others in the BE, including VT and Pitt, as it was UConn and the state.
