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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.
 
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.
 
LoyalFanCT said:
One thing to remember, there are eyeballs in metro NYC and western Mass. as well as Rhode Island, they are part of the UConn fan base too
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Point remains - they know that - and the math still doesn't work because we aren't a real football school in terms of audience. Let's not think for a second that the Rutgers decision was made on quality.
 
LoyalFanCT said:
One thing to remember, there are eyeballs in metro NYC and western Mass. as well as Rhode Island, they are part of the UConn fan base too
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It's been a while since I've looked but I think there's something like 11 million people within 125 miles of Storrs.
 
cellocgg said:
How does Bowl selection even happen? Are they made to be like big name WWE matchups? It seems like the scriptwriters really want us to lose
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Amore asks Mora about what he considers a “good bowl” for UConn @ 5:10.

storrscentral.com

UConn Football Media Availability 11/26

Coach Jim Mora, WR Skyler Bell, LB Jayden McDonald, DB Jordan Wright and OL Chase Lundt spoke to the media following Tuesday's practice.
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per googling w/source date site opp.

Athlon Dec. 14 Montgomery, Ala. South Alabama
BR Dec. 18 Boca Raton Bowling Green
CBS Dec. 18 Boca Raton Rutgers
Athletic Dec. 18 Boca Raton No. Illinois
247 Dec. 20 Orlando Vanderbilt
SpNws Dec. 20 Tampa, Fla. U. of Florida (!)
ESPN1 Dec. 23 Myrtle Beach Bowling Green
ESPN2 Dec. 26 Detroit Miami O.
Action Dec. 26 Mobile, Ala. Texas State
SI Dec. 27 Fort Worth Kansas
 
psilotic said:
per googling w/source date site opp.

Athlon Dec. 14 Montgomery, Ala. South Alabama
BR Dec. 18 Boca Raton Bowling Green
CBS Dec. 18 Boca Raton Rutgers
Athletic Dec. 18 Boca Raton No. Illinois
247 Dec. 20 Orlando Vanderbilt
SpNws Dec. 20 Tampa, Fla. U. of Florida (!)
ESPN1 Dec. 23 Myrtle Beach Bowling Green
ESPN2 Dec. 26 Detroit Miami O.
Action Dec. 26 Mobile, Ala. Texas State
SI Dec. 27 Fort Worth Kansas
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Crazy list -- only opponent that repeats is Bowling Green!

In other words, nobody has a clue.
 
Boca seems to be in the lead in terms of location. Lots of variation in opponents. Looks like Texas Tech doesn’t want to play us. Scared??
 
It's awesome that I am finding solace for my UConn hoops woes on the UConn football page. I am enjoying the season and am psyched for the UMass game and whatever comes next. Let's go!
 


-> What would constitute a “good bowl game” for UConn in 2024? A good playing date? A brand-name opponent? Balmy weather?

“That’s a really hard question, because the bowls are so different than when I was growing up,” Mora said. “We all knew the pecking order of bowls. Now, they have all these different names. I don’t even know beside the five kind of big ones, where they rank. I would love to play a prominent opponent we can measure ourselves against. That’d be great.”<-

-> “I hope it’s somewhere warm,” linebacker Jayden McDonald said. “(But) any time you get to play and compete in an extra game, that’s always a bonus. I’m very competitive and I want to play against the best team we possibly can, that’s why I think handling business (Saturday) will set us up for a challenge like that, but we’ve got to take it one week at a time.” <-

-> “Getting an opportunity just to go out one last time with the team we have here,” receiver Skyler Bell said. “We have a lot of guys on this team that might be playing their last game in a UConn uniform, their last game in a football uniform, period. You can feel it with the guys in the locker room, we care about one another, we lay it on the line for one another, I don’t think you’re going to see too many guys opt out. We’ve put in a lot of work together, so seeing it through to the end is going to be big for this group.” <-
 
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