Warde manuel on wtic in a minute

[ctchamps]

TRest, he may be a putz. I'll be honest, I didn't listen to the interview, so I can't comment. I have no interest in listening to BS. You and me listen to that all day long. But there's not a lot to say right now if there's not a lot to say. To me, "avoiding the new reality" is staying positive. The new reality is the new reality. You have to approach it in a positive manner, because you just can't live life being negative. You have to get up in the morning and try to be positive, no matter what. The alternative is to just be a miserable duck. How does that help?

It sounds like someone who has picked up the 3 AM chick.

 

[Bootsthemonkey]

Louisville got into the ACC to appease FSU and Clemson, plain and simple. Say all you want about Jurich and the money they poured into their program. The Noles didn't want another northern school coming into the conference and the ACC was scared sh!tless of losing them. I doubt FSU liked the addition of BC and I'm sure they weren't jacked about Cuse or Pitt. Manuel is not why UConn got passed over.
Manuel also doesn't have any leverage to get UConn into another conference now, or to stop the Catholics from leaving. UConn's present home is the NBE. I'm sure he likes it about as much as anyone here does but what is he gonna do? Publicly pop a squat and drop a deuce all over UConn's present home with no guarantees of going elsewhere? That might make some people here happy to state the obvious all over the radio but it would be an idiotic move.
Sometimes there needs to be a vast difference between what is said publicly and what is said over the phone or behind closed doors.

 

[TRest]

TRest, he may be a putz. I'll be honest, I didn't listen to the interview, so I can't comment. I have no interest in listening to BS. You and me listen to that all day long. But there's not a lot to say right now if there's not a lot to say. To me, "avoiding the new reality" is staying positive. The new reality is the new reality. You have to approach it in a positive manner, because you just can't live life being negative. You have to get up in the morning and try to be positive, no matter what. The alternative is to just be a miserable duck. How does that help?

I am a miserable f--ck, so that does make sense. But he wasn't being positive, he was reading platitudes from note cards.

 

[TRest]

Louisville got into the ACC to appease FSU and Clemson, plain and simple. Say all you want about Jurich and the money they poured into their program. The Noles didn't want another northern school coming into the conference and the ACC was scared sh!tless of losing them. I doubt FSU liked the addition of BC and I'm sure they weren't jacked about Cuse or Pitt. Manuel is not why UConn got passed over.
Manuel also doesn't have any leverage to get UConn into another conference now, or to stop the Catholics from leaving. UConn's present home is the NBE. I'm sure he likes it about as much as anyone here does but what is he gonna do? Publicly pop a squat and drop a deuce all over UConn's present home with no guarantees of going elsewhere? That might make some people here happy to state the obvious all over the radio but it would be an idiotic move.
Sometimes there needs to be a vast difference between what is said publicly and what is said over the phone or behind closed doors.

FSU athletic director made plans with Defilippo way back when to start the process. FSU was always on board with the original plan of adding Cuse, BC and Miami, even if it was only to get Miami.

 

[ctchamps]

Reading Thamel article and one comes away believing the three remaining BE football schools can make a lot of $$ from the NCAA and exit fees. This is not over by a long shot.

 

[junglehusky]

What do you want him to say? "These schools are leaving and Uconn is screwed." Reallignment is a very fluid situation and right now some of that fluid is running down Manuel's leg. Uconn fans are dilusional to blame this on Manuel. FSU didn't want us in the ACC. FSU had leverage and Louisville got in.End of story. But if you have a need to blame somone for the decision of others, well I guess Manuel will do. The truth is nobody on this board has a clue what Manuel did or didn't do.

Truth is most of the blame can be laid at Jeff Hathaway's feet. But if Manuel were to come out and say that, he'd get ridiculed (and rightfuly so).

 

[Dove]

Dove, I'll bet you picked up a few around quarter to 2?

If I was out that late scopin' usually I was approached by some young latina with four kids by four fathers. My Ramses kept me from being #5.

 

[gars44]

I am a miserable f--ck, so that does make sense. But he wasn't being positive, he was reading platitudes from note cards.

Yeah, I get it. But sometimes you have to do that.

 

[gars44]

It sounds like someone who has picked up the 3 AM chick.

Yeah. You're filin' me. It's called whaling. Keep smiling!

 

[RegisteredUconn]

the seconds are feeling like minutes the minutes like hours the hours are feeling like years....how much longer til 2:00 AM I'm drunk and interested.

Is "interested" a euphemism for ?

 

[gars44]

If I was out that late scopin' usually I was approached by some young latina with four kids by four fathers. My Ramses kept me from being #5.

Approached? You mean you tackled her and she didn't report you to the authorities? Would that be the way to put it?

 

[Dove]

Approached? You mean you tackled her and she didn't report you to the authorities? Would that be the way to put it?

I can't lie. That's it.

 

[RMoore1999]

Louisville got into the ACC to appease FSU and Clemson, plain and simple. Say all you want about Jurich and the money they poured into their program. The Noles didn't want another northern school coming into the conference and the ACC was scared sh!tless of losing them. I doubt FSU liked the addition of BC and I'm sure they weren't jacked about Cuse or Pitt. Manuel is not why UConn got passed over.
Manuel also doesn't have any leverage to get UConn into another conference now, or to stop the Catholics from leaving. UConn's present home is the NBE. I'm sure he likes it about as much as anyone here does but what is he gonna do? Publicly pop a squat and drop a deuce all over UConn's present home with no guarantees of going elsewhere? That might make some people here happy to state the obvious all over the radio but it would be an idiotic move.
Sometimes there needs to be a vast difference between what is said publicly and what is said over the phone or behind closed doors.

This is one of about 3 rational posts I've seen here all day. I'm stunned the Fishy/zls/ConnHuskBank kool-aid tastes that sweet that the majority of you got so cocked off it.

Does 97% of the Boneyard really believe that the SEC, B1G and acc stay at 14? The B12 at 10? Wow...

Warde doesnt understand public relations, obviously. But that has little to no impact on FSU jumping to the B12 or the B1G adding 2-6 schools within the next 6 years.

Waiting sucks, but the pessimism here today over an announcement that we all (except perhaps Carl) knew was inevitable, is pretty pathetic.

Patience.

 

[Dann]

i think he did a ok job today. he needs to say big east and stuff right now so we collect the $ like i said earlier in this thread. when we leave, we leave but until then be high on the big east. i still dont understand the suicide watch ppl are on today. not one football game was touched today yet the world blew up. unreal. but i'll just stop myself from ranting in this thread.

 

[jostar1]

Speaking on WTIC "Sports Talk" Thursday night, UConn athletic director Warde Manuel referred to reports of the defections as "rumors" and said he has talked to his counterparts at other Big East schools.
"Talking through it and really trying to do what we can to ensure that as the conference moves forward we move forward together to strengthen the conference and to put us in a very good position," Manuel said. "I've talked to at least one other conference member who's at a basketball institution just to let them know my feelings and hear their thoughts about their concerns and the issues that are going on. But I can't control what they do. I want them, we want them at UConn, to stay a part of the league because we feel they bring the strength on the basketball side and the other Olympic sports and we want them to be a part of the league."

Manuel reiterated Thursday that he is confident the athletic programs will continue to thrive, no matter its conference home.
"My hope is stabilization for UConn and what we're doing going forward," Manuel said on WTIC. "Nobody likes to operate in a rocky environment, an unstable environment. And we're going to be committed and in this conference. So we want to make sure that the conference is stable for us to compete in all of our sports. And so my hope is, this goes away ... if they leave, we have to make sure that we're doing the right things to stabilize this environment that we're in and move forward, and control the things that we can control."

http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-big-east-future-1214-20121213,0,2561546.story

 

[CTMike]

Speaking on WTIC "Sports Talk" Thursday night, UConn athletic director Warde Manuel referred to reports of the defections as "rumors" and said he has talked to his counterparts at other Big East schools.
"Talking through it and really trying to do what we can to ensure that as the conference moves forward we move forward together to strengthen the conference and to put us in a very good position," Manuel said. "I've talked to at least one other conference member who's at a basketball institution just to let them know my feelings and hear their thoughts about their concerns and the issues that are going on. But I can't control what they do. I want them, we want them at UConn, to stay a part of the league because we feel they bring the strength on the basketball side and the other Olympic sports and we want them to be a part of the league."

Manuel reiterated Thursday that he is confident the athletic programs will continue to thrive, no matter its conference home.
"My hope is stabilization for UConn and what we're doing going forward," Manuel said on WTIC. "Nobody likes to operate in a rocky environment, an unstable environment. And we're going to be committed and in this conference. So we want to make sure that the conference is stable for us to compete in all of our sports. And so my hope is, this goes away ... if they leave, we have to make sure that we're doing the right things to stabilize this environment that we're in and move forward, and control the things that we can control."

http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-big-east-future-1214-20121213,0,2561546.story

That does not comfort me. Not. One. Bit.