Makes me wish that Geno 10 rings commercial played on a national network instead of only on SNY. He's done what no one else has, so you can recruit negatively all you want, but the next closest to Geno active coach has what 2 rings while he has 10? That disparity should speak for itself. It is true though. UConn could make their entire OOC schedule WNBA teams and people would still say they have it easy because they play in the AAC. Like I said in a different thread, some people are just obsessed with their conference, and I'll never understand why.
Haters are gonna hate!!! When I was a regular contributor on ESPN's threads, adversarial "
trolls" would frequently drop in and make snide comments that the UConn women were doomed because they played in a weak conference, and that would ultimately be their downfall. They did not believe that UConn could maintain its dominance over the top ranked programs come tournament time, if their conference schedule was weak and non-competitive, being comprised of nothing more than unranked mid-majors.
Bottom line: they don't like UConn because when UConn wins the championship, it means their team didn't. And they know that their team can't beat UConn, now or in the near future. They seriously think UConn's dominance is bad for women's basketball.
Many of them thought the move to the AAC was by choice, and we should
immediately move again to a stronger conference. These jealous know-it-all trolls were constantly bashing Geno and the Huskies. The board lit up like New York's times square on new years eve when UConn lost to Stanford. All of the trolls came out of the woodwork dancing and singing, prophesying our demise.
Several UConn supporters tried to explain to them the dynamics of college sports, and it's not that easy to change conferences whenever the mood strikes you. Obviously they did not understand (or were aware of ) the "politics" of college sports.
It's common knowledge that UConn did not choose to be re-assigned to the
American Athletic Conference after the Big East conference was realigned, and that UConn was the odd man out. They were also unaware (before we enlightened them) that UConn petitioned several other conferences for admission, and all of those petitions were denied.
From Wikipedia: The American Athletic Conference was known as the Big East until the 2013 breakup. While the conference charter and legal entity remain with the American, that conference no longer recognizes the pre-split competitive history of the Big East in any sport—even in football and women's rowing, the two sports that are sponsored by The American but not by the current Big East. The current Big East maintains the competitive history of the original conference in all sports that it sponsors.
Three years (and 3 NC's) later, UConn is still on top riding a
48 game winning streak. It's business as usual for the Geno and his Argonauts in their pursuit of this year's "golden fleece". Being a member of the AAC has done absolutely nothing to diminish UConn's dominance in WCBB.
UConn's strong OOC schedule, and its recent success of winning consecutive national championships, has allowed it to remain the "gold standard" by which other programs are measured, and the pacesetter that all other programs aspire to be. Right now, these are peaceful times in the kingdom. All is well.
Until UConn's football program becomes more attractive and competitive in the eyes of the "power" conferences, UConn will continue to be relegated to the confines of the AAC.
As the French say: "En effet!"
Happy New Year everyone.
