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cellocgg said:
All the BYers that are asking for a P5 Bowl after we have beaten 0/4 this year is hilarious. I'd hate to ruin the season with a Bowl loss like 2022

We'll be at a point where we can win those games but we aren't there yet

Winning a Bowl game > a cool matchup
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I'm more in the mindset where I hope they go somewhere warm or tropical. But I would love a win. Hopefully a 9-4 season that would be amazing.
 
BlueWolf25 said:
I hear you, but at the same time this team had to rise to the challenge just to beat Temple and UAB. In my opinion, this year a bowl win is what’s most important for us, it doesn’t matter much to me whether that’s over a P4 team or someone like North Texas. 9-4 with a bowl win over a random G5 school would go further than an 8-5 season with a “well we only lost to Rutgers by 8” bowl loss
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The extra practice time certainly helps the team too.
 
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Husky92 said:
This is ridiculous. You’d rather lose to a P5 team than beat a G5?
I just don’t get it…
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If you want to improve you have to play good competition. I am not looking for meaningless warm and fuzzies. Don't have a need for them. Playing the long game.
 
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huskyblooz said:
Good chance that we're staying home.
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This topic came up two years ago and someone said that ESPN would create a bowl for a team like UConn if that happened. I would not worry just yet.

What I would worry about is beating UMass. I think all the fans and possibly a lot of the players are overlooking them. 8-4 looks so so so much better than 7-5 when you are begging for a bowl, and especially for a good matchup.
 
RSTuthill said:
This topic came up two years ago and someone said that ESPN would create a bowl for a team like UConn if that happened. I would not worry just yet.

What I would worry about is beating UMass. I think all the fans and possibly a lot of the players are overlooking them. 8-4 looks so so so much better than 7-5 when you are begging for a bowl, and especially for a good matchup.
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If there's no guarantee that we get a bowl, then there's no reason the players would/should be overlooking them if it's our final regular season game and 8-4 would look better for bowl consideration than 7-5.
 
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freescooter said:
Hogwash. A couple of years ago ESPN created a game for a team that qualified with no space.
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WORCESTER IS GETTING IN BOWL SEASON EVERYBODY!!!

LIVE FROM HOLY CROSS!!! ITS THE CONNECTICUT HUSKIES VERSUS THE 5-7 OLD DOMINION BIG BLUE!!!
 
businesslawyer said:
Like the two losses to Marshall? Because those were clearly great program builders.
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Biz, you are a little dark lately. You aren't wrong here though. Still, we've got our first winning season in over a decade. Reasons to feel good about this program have been hard to come by since the fiesta bowl game. Enjoy them when they happen.

Like all of us, I pretty desperately want a bowl win, but our lack of success hasn't broken me to the point that I'm wishing for a crappy opponent.
 
CL82 said:
Biz, you are a little dark lately. You aren't wrong here though. Still, we've got our first winning season in over a decade. Reasons to feel good about this program have been hard to come by since the fiesta bowl game. Enjoy them when they happen.

Like all of us, I pretty desperately want a bowl win, but our lack of success hasn't broken me to the point that I'm wishing for a crappy opponent.
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I’m not dark. I’m there week after week celebrating our wins and ready to celebrate #8 on Saturday. That having been said, I want us to get in a bowl and enjoy it. The thought that the future of the program will depend not on how we play but who we play strikes me as silly. We will be playing in a bowl game at a level where no one but betters and our fan base will care or remember.
 
businesslawyer said:
I’m not dark. I’m there week after week celebrating our wins and ready to celebrate #8 on Saturday. That having been said, I want us to get in a bowl and enjoy it. The thought that the future of the program will depend not on how we play but who we play strikes me as silly. We will be playing in a bowl game at a level where no one but betters and our fan base will care or remember.
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Absolutely not questioning your fandom in the least!

I think we're in agreement that the best mindset right now is go out and support the team every game and enjoy the success we're having. The sad truth of conference realignment is that our fate really isn't in our hands. Someone will either decide we have value or not. Like you, I'm not going worry about it in the term. I am enjoying not being the worst team in college football. Let's win this weekend and see where we end up for a bowl.
 
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CL82 said:
Absolutely not questioning your fandom in the least!

I think we're in agreement that the best mindset right now is go out and support the team every game and enjoy the success we're having. The sad truth of conference realignment is that our fate really isn't in our hands. Someone will either decide we have value or not. Like you, I'm not going worry about it in the term. I am enjoying not being the worst team in college football. Let's win this weekend and see where we end up for a bowl.
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Our chance for a P-4 conference to want us does not rise and fall in any appreciable amount in any game. Mostly, our chances depend on how much the market values men's and women's hoops in comparison to football, and there's nothing anyone can do about that. Second on the list is fan support -- filling seats, funding NIL collectives, traveling to bowl games shows financial support, and no one doubts that any school with sufficient financial support can compete if they make good coaching decisions. Winning doesn't hurt, and losing doesn't help, but it's a distant third on the list. We were winning when we got left in the dust in the early teens. It had no effect whatsoever.

It's all about the money.
 
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businesslawyer said:
Our chance for a P-4 conference to want us does not rise and fall in any appreciable amount in any game. Mostly, our chances depend on how much the market values men's and women's hoops in comparison to football, and there's nothing anyone can do about that. Second on the list if fan support -- filling seats, funding NIL collectives, traveling to bowl games shows financial support, and no one doubts that any school with sufficient financial support can compete if they make good coaching decisions. Winning doesn't hurt, and losing doesn't help, but it's a distant third on the list. We were winning when we got left in the dust in the early teens. It had no effect whatsoever.

It's all about the money.
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Conference realignment is mostly about the market's perception of our value, but there are other elements as well such as protectionism and regionalism and play as well. I view criteria like crowd, size and "financial support" as being largely potential false objection rather than actual criteria. The bottom line is simply will a media partner pay sufficient funds for us to join a conference so that our shares paid for and the rest of the conference gets some type of meaningful increase. With every round of conference realignment that dollar figure has gone up and accordingly is more difficult to achieve

Here's the thing, if ESPN had decided that the big east was the conference it wanted to promote, instead of the ACC, then Connecticut would be inside the club and sitting pretty. As things stand now, we are outside the club in a world where it is increasingly more difficult to join a P4 conference. Like you, I have a healthy skepticism about our getting an invite. It's certainly not impossible, but it is certainly not "imminent" either.

Given that it is entirely out of our control, I don't worry about it. To paraphrase the immortal Doris Day, "What will be will be."
 
Unless you can magically triple the amount of eyeballs in CT, I'm not ever sure you fix the math problem when it comes to TV money.
 
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