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[nelsonmuntz]

Waylon or Spackler. I'd love to get a dozen posts from you right now on how great the NBC deal and multiple time zones are. Come on, for old times sake let's hear how great it's going to be....

Please provide a link where you predicted Rutgers and Maryland were going to the Big 10. Thanks in advance.

 

[whaler11]

Please provide a link where you predicted Rutgers and Maryland were going to the Big 10. Thanks in advance.

I am happy to be honest and admit I didn't see Maryland and Rutgers to the Big 10. You should try admitting when wrong - it's a good feeling.

 

[upstater]

A. I've always been a bad poster. I am an balloon knot

B. You are in the tank for Penn State and no one can take you seriously.

C. If you read Blauds blog you would never defend a thing he says. I would get banned if I described him correctly.

I understand it's Thanksgiving. I've had a few too! Some Prosecco first, then some Rosee because someone told someone it's good with turkey, then we said it and just popped open a bottle of red, sat down and had several beers. N0w we're sitting sipping scotch. I understand.

 

[Dann]

Tarzan confused. Tarzan had too much bourbon this afternoon. Tarzan go to sleep because BY posters are no longer funny to him. Tarzan gets beating from Jane. Random noises and yelling! ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz....

helo, dis is petrazan

 

[Adios]

Tarzan confused. Tarzan had too much bourbon this afternoon. Tarzan go to sleep because BY posters are no longer funny to him. Tarzan gets beating from Jane. Random noises and yelling! ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz....

Why does Tarzan shave?

 

[Fishy]

Waylon or Spackler. I'd love to get a dozen posts from you right now on how great the NBC deal and multiple time zones are. Come on, for old times sake let's hear how great it's going to be....

Boom.

 

[jdb50]

Tarzan confused. Tarzan had too much bourbon this afternoon. Tarzan go to sleep because BY posters are no longer funny to him. Tarzan gets beating from Jane. Random noises and yelling! ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz....

Until tomorrow...Kowabunga!

 

[SAMCRO]

Waylon or Spackler. I'd love to get a dozen posts from you right now on how great the NBC deal and multiple time zones are. Come on, for old times sake let's hear how great it's going to be....

Crickets.....

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I am happy to be honest and admit I didn't see Maryland and Rutgers to the Big 10. You should try admitting when wrong - it's a good feeling.

I don't claim to have inside sources, I just like to talk about expansion. You like to come here and attack posters. Look at some of your posts in this thread. You have a problem.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Waylon or Spackler. I'd love to get a dozen posts from you right now on how great the NBC deal and multiple time zones are. Come on, for old times sake let's hear how great it's going to be....

I will say that one of two things is going to happen:

1) Several more ACC schools are going to leave, or

2) ESPN is going to significant increase its rights fees because it is about to lose a lot of schools.

Which will mean that...I was right back in the spring, and you were wrong all along. Without any inside sources, I reached the conclusion that the ACC's TV agreement was causing major instability in that league, while you were saying the ACC would never split up.

We will know the NBC deal once all the other leagues are done. Whatever it is, it will be a lot more than that league deserves.

 

[BobbyPs Ghost]

Umm, it's not only Louisville fans that think that UofL should be added to the ACC before uconn, it's literally everyone expressing an opinion outside of uconn fans. You need to talk about graduation rates, anything to create a smokescreen that covers up the festering turd that is uconn football. If you think that graduation rates are driving the realignment bus, or even have a seat on the bus, you are delusional. From an athletic department standpoint, there is simply no comparison between the two - Louisville is head and shoulders above uconn. And any talk of bringing the Hartford or any other TV market is dubious at best. When your fan base struggles to take 3500 to your BCS moment (an utter and complete beatdown) - that seems to be a pretty good indicator as to the support of uconn football. In comparison, Louisville brought 10 times that amount to its Orange Bowl victory.

Will the addition of Louisville keep FSU and Clemson in the conference? That remains to be seen but, the addition of uconn will signal to them that the ACC isn't serious at all about football and will have them running for the exits. The addition of uconn puts the ACC on the trajectory that the BE finds itself on right now.

As FairfieldCountyFan points out, what kind of signal would the ACC be sending if Louisville and its 22% 4 year graduation rate are invited? Gone forever is the ACC's claim of academic/athletic balance.

WVU was a natural geographic addition, rivalries with Pitt and VaTech, plus battling (at the time) Maryland. WVU was the undisputed football power/fan power of the Big East and was there for the taking. WVU would have solidified the Pitt-WVa-western MD-western Va tv market, adding to the market power already in Pitt, MD and VTech. And the ACC passed. Because of academics.

Desperate times call for desperate measures. The problem is that Louisville is a very poor man's WVU. So taking Louisville will come across just like the Big East adding Houston and SDSU. A survival, purely reactionary measure. A desperate measure for a desperate time.

And in the end let's just say it, if ANYONE in their right mind thinks that Louisville will prevent any ACC team from leaving, that person is just plain ignorant. FSU can give a rats ass about Louisville. Clemson wants Louisville? Huh? A Kentucky based school that isn't even the
dominant school in its own state.

The delusions of Louisville fans are riped to be mocked. It is an afterthought program in an afterthought market. Attach that to a university from whom only 22% of its students graduate from in four years, with an open admissions process, and if the ACC is NOT desperate Louisville will be rejected again.

So look at Louisville as the canary in the ACC mine. Notwithstanding the nonsense spouted by bloggers and any dolt with an internet connection, if Louisville goes ACC, ACC goes new new big east in a few months, guaranteed.

 

[SubbaBub]

Umm, it's not only Louisville fans that think that UofL should be added to the ACC before uconn, it's literally everyone expressing an opinion outside of uconn fans. You need to talk about graduation rates, anything to create a smokescreen that covers up the festering turd that is uconn football. If you think that graduation rates are driving the realignment bus, or even have a seat on the bus, you are delusional. From an athletic department standpoint, there is simply no comparison between the two - Louisville is head and shoulders above uconn. And any talk of bringing the Hartford or any other TV market is dubious at best. When your fan base struggles to take 3500 to your BCS moment (an utter and complete beatdown) - that seems to be a pretty good indicator as to the support of uconn football. In comparison, Louisville brought 10 times that amount to its Orange Bowl victory.

Will the addition of Louisville keep FSU and Clemson in the conference? That remains to be seen but, the addition of uconn will signal to them that the ACC isn't serious at all about football and will have them running for the exits. The addition of uconn puts the ACC on the trajectory that the BE finds itself on right now.

The bigger TV market isn't a smoke screen, neither is our 50% larger fan base. Our higher academic ranking isn't a smoke screen either. As for FB, in our worst season to date as an FBS program we are still better than ULs Kragthorpe years.

You have a nice new stadium and a good coach as long as he stays. We'll see how empty it is once he's gone.

Btw, we are better in BB, too. I'll bet half of today's CBB fans couldn't name Denny Crum as the coach of your two titles.

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[NutmegState]

Take a look at the right sideline...that look like 3500 people ?

 

[specialisthusky]

Umm, it's not only Louisville fans that think that UofL should be added to the ACC before uconn, it's literally everyone expressing an opinion outside of uconn fans. You need to talk about graduation rates, anything to create a smokescreen that covers up the festering turd that is uconn football. If you think that graduation rates are driving the realignment bus, or even have a seat on the bus, you are delusional. From an athletic department standpoint, there is simply no comparison between the two - Louisville is head and shoulders above uconn. And any talk of bringing the Hartford or any other TV market is dubious at best. When your fan base struggles to take 3500 to your BCS moment (an utter and complete beatdown) - that seems to be a pretty good indicator as to the support of uconn football. In comparison, Louisville brought 10 times that amount to its Orange Bowl victory.

Will the addition of Louisville keep FSU and Clemson in the conference? That remains to be seen but, the addition of uconn will signal to them that the ACC isn't serious at all about football and will have them running for the exits. The addition of uconn puts the ACC on the trajectory that the BE finds itself on right now.

oh good you're here! We needed someone to come in and tell us we're doomed.

 

[noeynox]

Louisville's entire school is a turd and you're the biggest cockblockers going in the expansion game. "Don't take WVU take us, Don't take UConn take us, pretty please". Losers go back to conference USA thats where your football and basketball belong.

 

[BobbyPs Ghost]

The bigger TV market isn't a smoke screen, neither is our 50% larger fan base. Our higher academic ranking isn't a smoke screen either. As for FB, in our worst season to date as an FBS program we are still better than ULs Kragthorpe years.

You have a nice new stadium and a good coach as long as he stays. We'll see how empty it is once he's gone.

Btw, we are better in BB, too. I'll bet half of today's CBB fans couldn't name Denny Crum as the coach of your two titles.

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1. The claim that uconn DELIVERS that TV market is highly questionable bordering on ridiculous.
2. Fan base doesn't translate into actual fans. Check / compare the attendance numbers from football / basketball games between the two schools.
3. Academic ranking means almost nothing in the world of realignment - but feel free to continue to puff out your chest about it.
4. Since 1999 - uconn is 79-79 in football - Louisville is 113-58 - even including the Kragjoke era, this is not even close.
5. If Strong does leave, the Paul Pasqualoni's of the world will not be on our radar screen. Jurich will hire another good coach and we'll continue to be better than uconn.
6. Btw, you're not better in basketball - not historically and certainly not now. You do have three titles to our two, but in every other measurable way, NCAA wins, appearances, attendance - you name it, uconn is behind UofL. And Btw, we're not on probation either.
7. I'll bet half of CBB fans can't name that Kevin Ollie is your current coach.

 

[BobbyPs Ghost]

Take a look at the right sideline...that look like 3500 people ?

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Were those your seats? Man, no wonder uconn lost millions of dollars on the game - it's fans are cheapskates...

 

[UCFBfan]

And this thread has now become worthless....hey UL fan, can you stop by a couple other of these threads and spout your garbage so we can all focus on a few threads instead of needing to check 15 of them on a regular basis?

 

[BobbyPs Ghost]

Louisville's entire school is a turd and you're the biggest cockblockers going in the expansion game. "Don't take WVU take us, Don't take UConn take us, pretty please". Losers go back to conference USA thats where your football and basketball belong.

Temper, temper. You are funny. Programs in glass houses shouldn't throw stones - particularly since you haven't closed your mouths or gotten off of your knees since you were bypassed by the ACC last time.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Steve Kragthorpe says hi.

 

[storrsroars]

6. Btw, you're not better in basketball - not historically and certainly not now. You do have three titles to our two, but in every other measurable way, NCAA wins, appearances, attendance - you name it, uconn is behind UofL. And Btw, we're not on probation either.

Really, you're bringing up two championships from 1980 and 1986? Indiana, NC State and Villanova were relevant in the 80s too.

 

[BobbyPs Ghost]

And this thread has now become worthless....hey UL fan, can you stop by a couple other of these threads and spout your garbage so we can all focus on a few threads instead of needing to check 15 of them on a regular basis?

Having a different opinion has made the thread "worthless"? I had no idea you were so fragile. I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

 

[specialisthusky]

1. The claim that uconn DELIVERS that TV market is highly questionable bordering on ridiculous.
2. Fan base doesn't translate into actual fans. Check / compare the attendance numbers from football / basketball games between the two schools.
3. Academic ranking means almost nothing in the world of realignment - but feel free to continue toff out your chest about it.
4. Since 1999 - uconn is 79-79 in football - Louisville is 113-58 - even including the Kragjoke era, this is not even close.
5. If Strong does leave, the Paul Pasqualoni's of the world will not be on our radar screen. Jurich will hire another good coach and we'll continue to be better than uconn.
6. Btw, you're not better in basketball - not historically and certainly not now. You do have three titles to our two, but in every other measurable way, NCAA wins, appearances, attendance - you name it, uconn is behind UofL. And Btw, we're not on probation either.
7. I'll bet half of CBB fans can't name that Kevin Ollie is your current coach.

1) UConn dominates the largest market in the nation that does not have a pro sports team. We are a flagship university that penetrates into NYC DMA Boston DMA and Springfield DMA .
2) Fanbases are likely proportionate to the number of years of team existence. We regularly sold out games when good and still average near capacity attendance in 10 years of D1 Football. Congrats on your decades of a headstart.
3) Academic rankings don't matter to schools that rank 160th. To conferences like the B1G and ACC academics matter very much.
4) You played most of those games in the CUSA..congrats. Since both teams were in the conference Ville has a 1 game advantage over UConn. Including this year UConn has finished above Louville 4 times and below UCOnn 4 times. What a powerhouse program you have.
5) Cool. We will have a new coach next year as well. The PP's of the world will not be hired this time.
6) 3>2. Congrats on having a good squad this year. We will have one next year.
7) I'll bet nearly all of CBB fans can name Kevin Ollie is the current coach by the end of the year. Not sure what that has to do with anything though.

 

[BobbyPs Ghost]

Steve Kragthorpe says hi.

I have no doubt - he still misses us...

 

[BobbyPs Ghost]

Really, you're bringing up two championships from 1980 and 1986? Indiana, NC State and Villanova were relevant in the 80s too.

I brought up some other things too. I can understand why you want to focus on the championships though.

 

[UCFBfan]

Having a different opinion has made the thread "worthless"? I had no idea you were so fragile. I apologize from the bottom of my heart.

It's not having a different opinion. Did you reread your first post? Last I checked people who want to have an actual conversation with differing opinions don't include calling UConn football a worthless piece of turd or some of the other provoking things you added. Clearly you're bored or angry that Louisville may be left in the cold like UConn could be if roles get reversed, which is possible, so you came here to troll. I don't have patience for that, so yeah, you've ended my interest in this thread.

 

[MattMang23]

1. The claim that uconn DELIVERS that TV market is highly questionable bordering on ridiculous.
2. Fan base doesn't translate into actual fans. Check / compare the attendance numbers from football / basketball games between the two schools.
3. Academic ranking means almost nothing in the world of realignment - but feel free to continue to puff out your chest about it.
4. Since 1999 - uconn is 79-79 in football - Louisville is 113-58 - even including the Kragjoke era, this is not even close.
5. If Strong does leave, the Paul Pasqualoni's of the world will not be on our radar screen. Jurich will hire another good coach and we'll continue to be better than uconn.
6. Btw, you're not better in basketball - not historically and certainly not now. You do have three titles to our two, but in every other measurable way, NCAA wins, appearances, attendance - you name it, uconn is behind UofL. And Btw, we're not on probation either.
7. I'll bet half of CBB fans can't name that Kevin Ollie is your current coach.

It's ridiculous to think UConn carries Hartford? Its own home city? Get your head out of your ass so you can speak clearly.

Football records since 1999 include our upgrade years and your years of playing Marshall, and Tulane. Check the last six years. A bit closer, no?

I'm not even going to discuss basketball other than to say we have you in total titles and have THE MOST NATIONAL TITLES IN THE SPORT SINCE 1999. And that's just the men's team. Purvis Ellison ain't walking through that door, but you should be. Get the fuck out.

 

[junglehusky]

The UL athletic department is "head and shoulders" above UConn's in the mind of Louisville fans and a couple columnists. Believe your own hype all you want, but it's not going to change the fact that UL has failed to make a clear case for itself. Check the Big East records. Really the only thing UL has going for it is it has a better HC at this time, which is fueling perception. I would be worried if the ACC was going on perception or branding alone, I feel comfortable that they'll take a wider view of the whole athletic department and university. What's your four-year graduation rate again?

 

[upstater]

Umm, it's not only Louisville fans that think that UofL should be added to the ACC before uconn, it's literally everyone expressing an opinion outside of uconn fans.

The sign of an athletic program that has actually accomplished a lot and generated lots of jealousy over the two decades that UConn has dominated the BE. Cuse fans and Pitt fans want Ville over UConn. In both cases, these schools have LOSING records against UConn in football. UConn literally held the conference together from falling to nothingness in basketball over two decades. Without UConn, the conference goes through a decade wandering the desert, it loses its mojo. As for Louisville's vast superiority in football, UConn football is 3-2 over Louisville the last 5 years. Ville's upswing comes from a coach on his way out who used one of the most crookedest recruiters known to the NCAA (a guy who will be banned for life soon) and as soon as that exited, your recruit rankings dropped off. Ville has never accomplished anything in football either. UConn is a football turd. Louisville is a CUSA wannabe turd with nothing to show for it either. And FYI, Uconn travels. Just because 3k tix were bought from an athletic department selling packages for 5G, doesn't mean there weren't tens of thousands of UConn fans there. UConn fans travel better than any other member of the conference not based below the Mason-Dixon line. Ville travels to the Orange Bowl? . Ville is 50% closer to southern locales than Storrs is. UConn has brought 20k, 18k, 15k to bowls in recent years.

As for the rest, ACC is a southern conference, and I've heard penty of people down there admit they simply don't want another Yankee school. Because otherwise, in football, UConn has held its own against the ACC schools, against Maryland, UNC, NC State, including a 45-10 whipping of Virginia.

Keep telling yourself academics don't count. Keep on with that fantasy.

Then look at UConn's licensing fees, they dwarf Louisville's. Why? Interest.

What the hell has Louisville ever done in football? Look at your schedule this year. Smoke and mirrors.

 

[BobbyPs Ghost]

1) UConn dominates the largest market in the nation that does not have a pro sports team. We are a flagship university that penetrates into NYC DMA Boston DMA and Springfield DMA .
2) Fanbases are likely proportionate to the number of years of team existence. We regularly sold out games when good and still average near capacity attendance in 10 years of D1 Football. Congrats on your decades of a headstart.
3) Academic rankings don't matter to schools that rank 160th. To conferences like the B1G and ACC academics matter very much.
4) You played most of those games in the CUSA..congrats. Since both teams were in the conference Ville has a 1 game advantage over UConn. Including this year UConn has finished above Louville 4 times and below UCOnn 4 times. What a powerhouse program you have.
5) Cool. We will have a new coach next year as well. The PP's of the world will not be hired this time.
6) 3>2. Congrats on having a good squad this year. We will have one next year.
7) I'll bet nearly all of CBB fans can name Kevin Ollie is the current coach by the end of the year. Not sure what that has to do with anything though.

1. We can agree to disagree about the market - though it seems that the only people agreeing with you are uconn fans and the people that agree with me, is pretty much everyone else.
2. There will always be reasons for greater fanbase numbers and attendance. If our "headstart" makes us better, well then we're still better.
3. Academic records mean more to schools who's athletics don't match up with competitors for conference slots. Who they don't matter to, are the people making the long term decisions for conference survival.
4. It will be a two game advantage after Saturday.
5. I hear Charlie Weis might be available.
6. I hope you do.
7. It had as much relevance as your Denny Crum comment
8. Lists are fun!