UMass signals CUSA

[Kolumbo]

UMass Beat Army and New Mexico State
Army beat Air Force
Air Force leads the MW and beat Navy, Colorado State, Utah State, San Jose State, San Diego State, Wyoming

UConn is not UMass

 

[ZooCougar]

Actually, we are not. Look at UMass football schedules. Tell me how many P4 teams are going to Amherst. If we join the MAC with UMass then we would be them.

I doesn’t matter if they come here. It’s not helping with recruiting and the attendance still isn’t anything to be impressed by.

 

[shizzle787]

LOL, we are them. Would you really be surprised if UMASS beat us this year? How about we join the MAC and become the current Toledo team, do you think that would be doable given we have a much better brand and infrastructure? Why is freaking Toledo outperforming us?

Newsflash: not independence. No it would not be. We would be going 4-8 against a bad schedule with worse recruiting playing in front of 12k announced fans.

 

[shizzle787]

UMass Beat Army and New Mexico State
Army beat Air Force
Air Force leads the MW and beat Navy, Colorado State, Utah State, San Jose State, San Diego State, Wyoming

UConn is not UMass

Transitive property is useless.

 

[shizzle787]

I doesn’t matter if they come here. It’s not helping with recruiting and the attendance still isn’t anything to be impressed by.

We got 36k for NC State and 30k for Duke. The three G5 opponents were around 20-21k each. Our recruiting would be worse in the MAC or CUSA.

 

[Vowelguy]

Until i read this thread I didnt realize that the reason UConn FB is 1-8 is because of the conference/non-conference it's in.
It has nothing to do with coaching, recruiting, skill level, effort.

Who knew?

 

[pepband99]

We got 36k for NC State and 30k for Duke. The three G5 opponents were around 20-21k each. Our recruiting would be worse in the MAC or CUSA.

Facts seem to elude those who are pushing this hardest.

 

[shizzle787]

Facts seem to elude those who are pushing this hardest.

They know the facts. They don’t care. They are giving up freedom for a little more security.

 

[ZooCougar]

We got 36k for NC State and 30k for Duke. The three G5 opponents were around 20-21k each. Our recruiting would be worse in the MAC or CUSA.

*tickets distributed

The stadium seats 38,000. You can’t tell me with a straight face that there were more only 2000 empty seats.

 

[ZooCougar]

Facts seem to elude those who are pushing this hardest.

Except when they aren’t facts but essentially pencil whipped figures.

 

[ZooCougar]

They know the facts. They don’t care. They are giving up freedom for a little more security.

You’re giving up reality to chase windmills Don Quixote.

I don’t expect you to know who that is.

 

[billybud]

Transitive property is useless.

Huh ?

Well UConn beat Rice, who beat Houston, who beat Cincinnati, who beat Pitt, who beat #14 Louisville, who beat Notre Dame...

 

[shizzle787]

*tickets distributed

The stadium seats 38,000. You can’t tell me with a straight face that there were more only 2000 empty seats.

When we get an announced attendance of 12k for MAC games and actual 7k in the seats….

 

[shizzle787]

You’re giving up reality to chase windmills Don Quixote.

I don’t expect you to know who that is.

I do. Reality is perception. Playing in the MAC is perceived worse than playing an indie schedule with 4-5 P4 opponents. People hated AAC opponents. Now you think they are going ti like MAC opponents.

 

[GoConn]

People hated AAC opponents. Now you think they are going ti like MAC opponents.

People care about winning. If were winning, opponent does not really matter and its much easier to win in MAC/CUSA

 

[shizzle787]

People care about winning. If were winning, opponent does not really matter and its much easier to win in MAC/CUSA

I don't know why people assume we are just going to run through those leagues.

 

[kemba]

Everyone is conveniently forgetting we are favored in our last two games. 3-9 as an indie is better than 5-7 in the MAC. It’s no different than a 26-win Missouri Valley team needing to win Arch Madness because their schedule is weaker.

This is insane.

Winning 3 games against rice umass and sacred heart is not better than 5-7 in the mac. You don’t get credit for having good teams on your schedule if you can’t beat them or in most cases come close

 

[shizzle787]

This is insane.

Winning 3 games against rice umass and sacred heart is not better than 5-7 in the mac. You don’t get credit for having good teams on your schedule if you can’t beat them or in most cases come close

Does a 3-9 UConn beat a 5-7 MAC team? The answer is yes.

 

[Vowelguy]

Does a 3-9 UConn beat a 5-7 MAC team? The answer is yes.

Uhhh

 

[shizzle787]

Uhhh

UMass took Miami (OH) to overtime. Miami (OH) is the 2nd best team in the MAC so yes I think we would beat a 5-7 MAC team. For as bad as we have been this year, the bottom half of the MAC is a sewer.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Until i read this thread I didnt realize that the reason UConn FB is 1-8 is because of the conference/non-conference it's in.
It has nothing to do with coaching, recruiting, skill level, effort.

Who knew?

Looking outward for blame is always easier than looking inward
You can’t win without players and you can’t get players I don’t care who the head coach is , without an expanded effort at recruiting which requires a team of professionals to identify and evaluate which requires an investment In a competent staff. .

 

[Alum86]

Shizz

Not true. We are almost done scheduling out to 2027.

Shizz - we are not a priority to scheduling if those teams suddenly say, “we need to play another conference game the week we are supposed to go to East Hartford”. - we are screwed.

 

[Vowelguy]

UMass took Miami (OH) to overtime. Miami (OH) is the 2nd best team in the MAC so yes I think we would beat a 5-7 MAC team. For as bad as we have been this year, the bottom half of the MAC is a sewer.

Yeah and UMass also beat Army. And UConn beat Rice.

Buffalo & W Michigan are about 5-7 teams.
Of the 83 ratings in the Massey composite, only 1 or 2 have UConn ranked above either.

 

[KryHavok]

Shizz

Shizz - we are not a priority to scheduling if those teams suddenly say, “we need to play another conference game the week we are supposed to go to East Hartford”. - we are screwed.

Exactly right! We may have schedules for the next several years, but with conference expansion, and UConn on the outside looking in, I expect multiple games on our schedule to be withdrawn. The argument of who we're playing isn't as strong as others would like to make it.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I see absolutely nothing wrong with the MAC if they’ll have us. We can play the weeknight games on the new soccer field or EO Smith for students only if “no one would go” No one has gone to a game since NC State