UConn to open season at Barclays Center

[Waquoit]

Nice sidestep of my point. I don't read the FB board so maybe getting loose with one's keyboard and calling someone a pu**y is common place over there, I just don't get down with the internet big boy routine.

Sidestep? I addressed your question head-on.

And I know from experience that you are pretty quick with the personal attacks on those who don't share your views so pardon me if I take your umbrage at the word "pu**y" with a grain of salt.

 

[sammydabiz]

Personally, I played for the United States Air Force Academy in football, that's my team through & through. I'll cheer on the Huskies if I happen to scroll by a game on TV, but my team for college football is Air Force, hands down.

Does that make me a bad (or fake) UConn Bball fan?.......No it does not
So ease off the posters here, who get bored at the sight of UConn football & choose not to spend a Sat. at the Rent, or stay in the football forum, we talk bball here

 

[Hoophound]

A few comments on some stuff in this thread:

1. Style of play IS alienating casual fans.

2. I know southern school tailgating well. Tailgating at the Rent is good, it is not a weakness and casual fans would like it.

3. Caring about basketball and not football is normal at UConn. Very few people cared about football before the upgrade.

4. Those of you that don't care about football should try to get into it for the sake of the school and the basketball program. It is good for UConn to have a bigtime football program and frankly, football is a great spectator sport. UConn's upgrade is the sole reason that I am now an avid college football fan. I can't say I really liked college football 10 years ago.

 

[whaler11]

Does it similarly annoy you that there are UConn fans who don't follow the women's team, or the track team, or the club lacrosse team? I would hope so because if not your argument is just butt-hurt nonsense.

I'm trying to stay out of this conversation because you and your brethren are clueless but if those other sports mattered in the realm of conference realignment yes it would annoy me.

 

[tzznandrew]

Growing up, there was no UConn football. My dad grew up Catholic, and so he was a Notre Dame fan. By the early 00s, he hated Notre Dame because of how they were screwing the Big East, and he had moved over to being a football fan.

I never particularly loved Notre Dame. I've tried to get into UConn football. I watched them beat USF in 2011 (?) and then watched the Fiesta Bowl. I even watched the Louisville game this year.

But, not growing up in a house fanatical about it (as my dad was about UConn basketball), it's hard to be really invested. Being a fan is a huge investment, and there has to be some emotional connection--and the football team hasn't done it for me yet. They weren't bringing in great teams. They weren't playing well. I'm not sure what it's going to take for me to care more than casually, but hosting good teams and winning some games would probably help. Or at least play an exciting style.

 

[whaler11]

I'm not being hostile towards football. I'm being hostile towards a poster without a clue. I'm not a fan of the football team; have never been into college football, but I truly hope the team does well. I just laugh when someone suggests that the program is going to be the reason we get into a major conference. I said the program hasn't accomplished anything; it's unfair for me to suggest the BCS bid was nothing, because it was a meaningful accomplishment. But it doesn't make the football program desirable. I would compare it to a team making the Sweet 16 in basketball; nothing to sneeze at, but one successful year doesn't do much to change peoples' minds about the school.

I know football will be the main factor in determining where we end up. But UConn's football program isn't the reason for that. So the whole comment that basketball somehow owes football if we get into a good conference is absurd to me.

I'm going to let you in on a little secret. The reason they upgraded the football program was to protect the basketball program.

So laugh at Lew Perkins and everyone else who made the decision, but honestly you are so lost on this topic it's painful.

The best part is that UConn's football fan base has proven to be more resilient than the basketball fan base. Compare the circumstances around the home games against Cincinnati this season -compare the attendance... It's not even an argument. .

 

[Rico444]

When did I laugh at anyone for upgrading football? Football is necessary for getting into a big conference; I never disagreed on that point. You seem to think that just by being football, the program deserves all of the accolades for getting us into a big conference. My point is, the success of the football program will have nothing to do with it, because in the grand scheme of things, the football program has accomplished very little on the national stage. If we get into a great conference, it will be because of where we are, and what other schools leave/are unable to join instead of us. I just don't see any conference looking at our football program and thinking that it would be a tremendous upgrade to the conference, and that leading to an invite. In fact, the lack of success and interest in football in this state is probably what's held us back from getting into a great conference. It sucks, and I hope it gets better, but I don't get this entitlement you have.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

If it's not your "style" or whatever excuse you can say, so be it.

what's more pathetic than calling someone a pu**y on the internet? Maybe you can ask him to meet you somewhere to talk about it face to face.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

what's more pathetic than calling someone a pu**y on the internet? Maybe you can ask him to meet you somewhere to talk about it face to face.

I said, it was a excuse, not that he is a .

I can only gauge that he and you are morons from your posts and comment on that

 

[upstater]

For those of us that love football in general, and not just or not necessarily UConn football, it just doesn't sound right for people to make this style of play argument. You know people hate the way UConn plays basketball, right? So many people I meet hate it. They hate the defense. They hate the toughness. They'd much rather watch Duke.

Personally, I've always loved defense in all sports. I love watching a pitcher like Pedro Martinez light people up. I love it in soccer when an underdog like the 2004 Greek Euro team stymies the best strikers in the world. I loved it when the Patriots shut down the high flying Rams, and if I weren't a Patriots fan, I would have loved the Giants D in 2007.

I'll tell you what makes me sick: Paul Westhead, B12 football, the Patriots D in 2010, and yes, UConn's offense last year. But the latter was because of total ineptness.

 

[freescooter]

I've always been of th opinion that if you want to be big time you really ought to act big time. And taking this game on a Friday night when the football team is playing what could well be a big game is not a big time move. It reeks of mid-majordom, frankly. Oh my gosh, we can't pass up a game against Maryland. They are from the ACc/Big and might actually make the NIT again next year. And as an aside, for decades Friday night basketball was reserved for women and the Ivy League...

 

[Marat]

I'm kinda late replying to this thread, but I will definately attend the Barclays Center game, as it should be alot of fun to watch the '14 Huskies play in an early Nov game in NYC.

 

[bobbygt]

Maryland is in the last four of the NIT and they bring back 6 out of their top 7 players (assuming Len comes back).

Sometimes these NIT runs do wonders for young teams.

I think UM is a tourney team next year, so win or lose, this should be a nice test and good for the rpi.

 

[upstater]

I've always been of th opinion that if you want to be big time you really ought to act big time. And taking this game on a Friday night when the football team is playing what could well be a big game is not a big time move. It reeks of mid-majordom, frankly. Oh my gosh, we can't pass up a game against Maryland. They are from the ACc/Big and might actually make the NIT again next year. And as an aside, for decades Friday night basketball was reserved for women and the Ivy League...

And yet, the Michigan State game this year put UConn on the map to start the season. Everyone watched it.

 

[Waquoit]

And yet, the Michigan State game this year put UConn on the map to start the season. Everyone watched it.

Beating MSU put UConn on the map, not just playing them. Beating Maryland wouldn't be nearly the same. I agree with scoot, we keep beating our chest and saying "We're UConn", yet we jump at this game? We already have several good OOC games on the sked, we didn't have any hand to come up with a better opportuinity down the road than Maryland? Have we sunk so low so fast, just happy to lick up the scraps put in front of us?

 

[mauconnfan]

I'm fine with it. Good program over the years, ex- ACC soon to be B10..........good start!