UCONN brand

[HailUConn]

 

[Rocktheworld]

There just aren’t many schools like UConn

 

[Palatine]

There is a top 10 hockey team and top 20 baseball team at one of those schools as well.

 

[storrsroars]

Will UNC men be there next week?

 

[storrsroars]

There just aren’t many schools like UConn

Penn State is a large land grant U in the middle of nowhere with a great dairy bar, many successful sports teams, and a long tradition of cow-tipping. They just need good hoops.

 

[SCNCHuskie]

There is a top 10 hockey team and top 20 baseball team at one of those schools as well.

Two top 10 hockey teams.

 

[SCNCHuskie]

Will UNC men be there next week?

Probably, but Texas will not be. Their women lost tonight to South Florida and they were at the bottom of the top 25.

 

[Platt81]

But how many are bowl eligible and both in Top 10 in MBB and WBB?

 

[Waquoit]

Penn State ... They just need good hoops.

They've been needing good hoops for 50 years.

 

[storrsroars]

They've been needing good hoops for 50 years.

Their women's team was pretty decent for a long time. Really fell off last 8 years. Thought the men's team started to turn it around when they won NIT five years ago with Tony Carr, but nothing came of that.

 

[Scoe]

Penn State is a large land grant U in the middle of nowhere with a great dairy bar, many successful sports teams, and a long tradition of cow-tipping. They just need good hoops.

They have a wrestling dynasty.

 

[LIuconn]

The same amount of states care about wrestling as water polo

 

[444JR]

The Brand Is Strong.

 

[CL82]

They have a wrestling dynasty.

Then again, so does Vince McMahon.

 

[willie99]

Nice to be part of these conversations again. I missed them

 

[Waquoit]

Their women's team was pretty decent for a long time.

They stopped winning when they stopped their no lesbian policy. Seriously.

 

[storrsroars]

They stopped winning when they stopped their no lesbian policy. Seriously.

I vaguely remember that. Silly policy. Everyone loves lesbians.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[karstenkibbe]

I get a good hyper-local measure of the brand strength here in lower Fairfield County when I am simply out doing errands or at social events. Five years ago, no one in Stop & Shop or Trader Joe’s wore UConn gear. Friends didn’t have any interest in talking UConn hoops at gatherings. The racks at Bob’s in Norwalk were full of marked down UConn and Jets gear. I am already seeing signs of a reversal. And I love it.

 

[Scoe]

The same amount of states care about wrestling as water polo

Not true at all, Wrestling is big in the Midwest and on the east coast in states like New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Sure it will never be a popular sport and it’s unwatchable to the general sports fan, it’s one of those sports where you had to have wrestled or at least been around it to watch it.