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I feel awful. I should be excited about this news, but I can't. This year has sucked out all my enthusiasm. I just see: Purdue 66, UConn 3.

Someone tell me to man up and get back in the game. I need smelling salts, or a slap in the face.
 
Redding Husky said:
I feel awful. I should be excited about this news, but I can't. This year has sucked out all my enthusiasm. I just see: Purdue 66, UConn 3.

Someone tell me to man up and get back in the game. I need smelling salts, or a slap in the face.
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We don't play them until 2021. That won't be this year's team (hopefully).
 
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Well, we do play Indiana and Illinois in 2019. Idiot Randy.
 
Butch said:
Well, we do play Indiana and Illinois in 2019. Idiot Randy.
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Not Randy’s fault they are scheduled. Just the rest is. These games we’re supposed to show we can compete and aim for B1G inclusion. Instead they will demonstrate what an utter clown show we have going on.
 
BlueDogs said:
If I recall, the B1G recognizes UConn as a P5 level opponent for conference scheduling commitments. So, im sure they are all lining up for a full credit gimme. By then, I’m hoping we have returned to kick butt status.
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Right :) The phone is probably ringing off the hook - and meanwhile UCF just gets a busy signal when they call to schedule games.
 
I am dying to see the first artist sketches of this PURfeCT trophy. It's gotta be good and gaudy and extra steamy to honour their traditions.
 
UConn has the perfect hook right now to get these series. B1G counts them A major opponents plus they're so bad anyone will schedule them. Its all part of the plan!
 
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I do think it's pretty interesting that Purdue is willing to play in CT but not in Memphis. We were all told that the football recruiting grounds around Memphis is undermined and very fertile. Not to mention, Memphis football is not the dumpster fire that UConn football is at the present moment. I can't imagine Purdue fans are quite as excited about this announcement as UConn fans.
 
Dooley said:
I do think it's pretty interesting that Purdue is willing to play in CT but not in Memphis. We were all told that the football recruiting grounds around Memphis is undermined and very fertile. Not to mention, Memphis football is not the dumpster fire that UConn football is at the present moment. I can't imagine Purdue fans are quite as excited about this announcement as UConn fans.
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The liberty bowl is a dump. Maybe that has something to do with it.
 
Dooley said:
I do think it's pretty interesting that Purdue is willing to play in CT but not in Memphis. We were all told that the football recruiting grounds around Memphis is undermined and very fertile.
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Perhaps they're trying to tap into Michigan and PSU's success in recruiting kids from the Northeast to the B1G.
 
Stainmaster said:
Perhaps they're trying to tap into Michigan and PSU's success in recruiting kids from the Northeast to the B1G.
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By Northeast do you mean New England? As a resident of Pennsylvania we consider PA, NY, and NJ to be Northeast. Penn State has been recruiting New England forever. Michigan's Recent Success is really tied to having Brown on staff.
 
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Ldandy said:
By Northeast do you mean New England? As a resident of Pennsylvania we consider PA, NY, and NJ to be Northeast. Penn State has been recruiting New England forever. Michigan's Recent Success is really tied to having Brown on staff.
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I consider that Mid-Atlantic (and so do the Feds/Census Bureau):
  • Region 1: Northeast
    • Division 1: New England (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont)
    • Division 2: Mid-Atlantic (New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania)
I agree 100% on Don Brown!
 
Ldandy said:
By Northeast do you mean New England? As a resident of Pennsylvania we consider PA, NY, and NJ to be Northeast. Penn State has been recruiting New England forever. Michigan's Recent Success is really tied to having Brown on staff.
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It is likely 100% a function of Brown, but I do think it's also opened up the rest of your conference's eyes to the level of talent in New England. The number of kids from up here that have been going beyond regional P5 programs has increased tremendously in recent years.

I said "Northeast" in addition to New England because this game may give Purdue an opportunity to strengthen its NYC recruiting. One of our current freshman CBs from Queens chose us over Purdue. If their current DC (former UConn DC Anthony Poindexter) sticks around instead of following Brohm to UL, they'll probably want to continue making inroads there.
 
Far more than the Liberty Bowl absolutely being a dump, B1G's special recognition of UConn as a P5 opponent, other B1G program's recent and long term recruiting success in the northeast, and current projections of a reasonably likely win each contribute more to Purdue scheduling the Huskies. However, I'll throw out PU's relationship building and fundraising with affluent Connecticut and northeast alumni Boilermakers as a similarly solid motivation.
 
This is nothing but a good thing. Righting the ship in terms of schedule which is 50% of the problem. Winning is the other 50%.
 
The Big 10 has so much goddam money it's scary. Big 10 afterthought school just out footballed what was supposed to be a new ACC powerhouse football school. Take away Lamar Jackson (and an army of working ladies) and you get an afterthought athletic department with embarrassingly low academics.
 
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Dooley said:
The Big 10 has so much goddam money it's scary. Big 10 afterthought school just out footballed what was supposed to be a new ACC powerhouse football school. Take away Lamar Jackson (and an army of working ladies) and you get an afterthought athletic department with embarrassingly low academics.
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zls44 said:
UConn has the perfect hook right now to get these series. B1G counts them A major opponents plus they're so bad anyone will schedule them. Its all part of the plan!
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If they allow us to join, we could be the official foil for the Big 10.

Oops ... Rutgers already filled that job.
 
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