OT: UConn football and hockey

[UCOnions]

Looking at the UConn Hockey roster, they look young too. Should be good well into the future.

 

[Umami Zen]

It was a huge win for many reasons. Not the least of which is it showed we can compete with P5 teams even if they are the dregs of P5. In particular beating BC an ACC team gives us cred with the ACC which is where we need to be trying to go. We would be a very good fit academically athletically and in every other way.

Simply stating the obvious that it was big .. At this point.. There is tremendous inertia and momentum in both programs.. It's good to see the hard work paying off.

Sometimes a casual fan can get really bummed out by the lack of optimism on the Yard

 

[ibleedhuskyblue]

No, just a UConn hoops fan that hates college football and could care less about hockey.

Sir, the title of this thread is:

"UConn football and hockey"

 

[AZHuskiePop]

We get it. It's not a good point though, we're all in this together.

Football , whether you like it or not is the big mover and money maker In college athletics.
Each Big East team gets approximately 4 million per team .
No other BB only even gets a million per team. I agree BB is undervalued plus the sport finances the NCAA. However, that’s the way it is until reformed. There are ways to get more money from BB but that’s another story.
The Big 12 which was written off by many on this board is getting $30,000,000 plus a huge playoff payout as football schools get to keep the revenue from their playoffs.
They’re getting almost 10 times the revenue of the only basketball league making any money. That’s just cold hard facts.
I think you agree the more revenue the school producers all sports benefit .
So success in football is important and a worthy topic on any of these boards
Even the taxpayers will be happy

 

[ct06111]

If you got nothing to do, head to XL this afternoon against Maine @ 4:05

 

[UConniki]

No, just a UConn hoops fan that hates college football and could care less about hockey.

All of the sports teams matter, they are all representative of our school and puts UConn in the news ( ESPN, Fox, ) in a positive way and together ( especially football) they could make UConn a more attractive candidate for expansion. Great sports, nice school and no scandalous headlines will hopefully get us a ticket out of the BIG EAST before they athletic department runs out of money and they get left behind when expansion is finally finished.

 

[donyell34]

We're finally feeling good about our football team and getting some respect after 5 suffering years so don't bring us down is all.

 

[JetsUC93]

Are you talking about Memorial Stadium that had a Capacity of 16,000? I went to many games there in the 90’s and it may not have been at capacity but I remember most games I was at being fairly well attended.