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UConn continues to lobby other leagues behind the scenes per McMurphy (he knows his !). Everyone knows what's at stake here. Until it actually happens got to move on and carry on. If we do ever play in the NBE just need to own it and dominate.
 
businesslawyer said:
Warde has to sell tickets for as long as we're in the NNNNBE or our program won't be where we need it to be when more CR occurs. How the duck* do you sell tickets for games if you're bashing the level of opposition publicly?

It's great that you'd all feel better if he was trashing the NNBE, but forgive me for worrying more about preserving the program until something happens then wanting to feel good that someone recognizes your anger.
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Like someone else said, you want to sell tickets? Be straight with your fans. Send out an email to your ticket holders acknowledging that you understand that our product has suffered due to conference realignment and that fans are frustrated with the fact that we are one of only there schools to go from a, BCS to non BCS conference at the moment. Tell them that we will schedule aggressively in the,non conference portion of the schedule to make up for it. Don't go on record with nonsensical shot about developing a rivalry with Cincinnati, when in the same article they're basically saying "we hope not"
 
Noeynox, right on. The problem is your scenario requires that Warde put some responsibility on himself for what is happening/not happening and he doesn't want to do that. He is setting up the fans as the fall-guy for when he goes to interview and when he splits. Anyone who has ever worked in management at a large company will recognize exactly what Warde is doing and it is despicable.
 
This board has fallen down the rabbit hole. Some of these posts are too funny to be real, and too real to be funny.
 
Warde will not be working for a corporate communications firm anytime in the future.
 
WestHartHusk said:
Again, I can't disagree anymore. UConn was better than L'Ville - since they joined the Big East we won 2 National Titles, beat them in the Big East final, had a head-to-head winning record in football - so that apparently doesnt matter.

Regarding the other teams in our league, they are not partners, they are competitors. You will never hear Texas speak up Iowa State, FSU talk up Wake, or, for a better example, Boise talk up its league. It simply doesn't matter, at this point, what the 'strength' is. Quite frankly I'd rather have it be a storm that we go through undefeated then to help build competitors in Houston, Dallas and Memphis. For Warde not to recognize that we are in a battle with Cinci in expansion is thick-headed.

And to address Pudge's comment: if Warde was concerned with the contract then the solidarity statements should have come before the negotiation, not after it. We got a -sandwich from Aresco and no amount of back-peddling at this point will get us one extra dollar so , if we are essentially paying for our free-agent status then let's at least act like free agents.
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Ding!

Honestly. Some people are victims of all of the negative press we have unfairly gotten.

Warde is snatching defeat from the jaws of victory here and telling us that it's not really all that bad.
 
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I guess if you were Manual you could be thinking keep your friends close, and your enemies closer... but I just don't think he has that in him. I think that Uconn is trying to promote themselves as a beacon of education. They are trying to position themselves academically and that is all well and good. The problem is Uconn became popular because of basketball. Uconn grew because kids could identify with them through sports. Prior to this Uconn was not a desired locale to go there and I am a huge fan and supporter. I can admit the past... I think Manual is blind to it.
 
WestHartHusk said:
Again, I can't disagree anymore. UConn was better than L'Ville - since they joined the Big East we won 2 National Titles, beat them in the Big East final, had a head-to-head winning record in football - so that apparently doesnt matter.

Regarding the other teams in our league, they are not partners, they are competitors. You will never hear Texas speak up Iowa State, FSU talk up Wake, or, for a better example, Boise talk up its league. It simply doesn't matter, at this point, what the 'strength' is. Quite frankly I'd rather have it be a storm that we go through undefeated then to help build competitors in Houston, Dallas and Memphis. For Warde not to recognize that we are in a battle with Cinci in expansion is thick-headed.

And to address Pudge's comment: if Warde was concerned with the contract then the solidarity statements should have come before the negotiation, not after it. We got a -sandwich from Aresco and no amount of back-peddling at this point will get us one extra dollar so , if we are essentially paying for our free-agent status then let's at least act like free agents.
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Damn straight.
 
businesslawyer said:
Warde has to sell tickets for as long as we're in the NNNNBE or our program won't be where we need it to be when more CR occurs. How the duck* do you sell tickets for games if you're bashing the level of opposition publicly?

It's great that you'd all feel better if he was trashing the NNBE, but forgive me for worrying more about preserving the program until something happens then wanting to feel good that someone recognizes your anger.
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He never said that Biz.
 
Yeah, Warde has to sell tickets. But he is spinning something to people that are impervious to spin at the moment.

No matter how you pitch it, playing Tulane and Memphis is crap sandwich. Of course Pasqualoni could probably find a way to lose to both of those schools.
 
Nelson, nobody is asking for negatively, we're asking for reality. Most of us just don't want to be told that we should be grateful to play SMU, Memphis & Cinci.
 
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noeynox said:
Like someone else said, you want to sell tickets? Be straight with your fans. Send out an email to your ticket holders acknowledging that you understand that our product has suffered due to conference realignment and that fans are frustrated with the fact that we are one of only there schools to go from a, BCS to non BCS conference at the moment. Tell them that we will schedule aggressively in the,non conference portion of the schedule to make up for it. Don't go on record with nonsensical shot about developing a rivalry with Cincinnati, when in the same article they're basically saying "we hope not"
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Being straight is what they already were. You want UConn to succeed. There are two ways it gets done: 1. WIN. 2. Buy tickets.

What could be simpler than that?
 
ZooCougar said:
Yeah, Warde has to sell tickets. But he is spinning something to people that are impervious to spin at the moment.

No matter how you pitch it, playing Tulane and Memphis is crap sandwich. Of course Pasqualoni could probably find a way to lose to both of those schools.
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And what did he say? He said we have no history with those teams. We have a history with Cincy. He actually downgraded the possibility of having great games with those teams (Though personally I'd like to see UConn play Memphis in bball).
 
How about Warde just announces a 2014 OOC schedule? Can we all agree that he can start there, considering most schools have theirs in place and all we have are "agreements that are finalized yet".
 
Damn UConn fans are mad. Who should we blame? Lets all blame Fishy for leaving Scout (rivals for that matter as well) and starting this board. Why if he was still on the Scout or Rivals bandwagon maybe UConn would be playing in the original BE with the U (not sure what year he left rivals) or at least with the revamped UL, SyraPitt BE (ie the scout days). Instead its his frincken karma on switching boards that has led to UConn's demise in conferences.

only thing left is to close up this shop, reopen on a Google affiliated board and B1G here we come.
 
After just reading history of the by on the bb board I wish I could delete the prior thread. Who knew, Oh well.
 
NEforceUConn said:
After just reading history of the by on the bb board I wish I could delete the prior thread. Who knew, Oh well.
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I thought you wrote that BECAUSE of the thread on the BY history.
 
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WestHartHusk said:
Nelson, nobody is asking for negatively, we're asking for reality. Most of us just don't want to be told that we should be grateful to play SMU, Memphis & Cinci.
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Please point to one article where he tells us to be grateful for our situation, just one!

He is being real about it, he's trying to tell you to prepare for the rough road ahead but all most here can see is their own warped interpretation of what he says. He doesn't announce any of our moves so you think he's not doing anything, he doesn't know or understand anything about where we are or where we're headed because to rumor mill has so much better information than he is privy to that you all must know better. It is crap, we all know that, and I'm sure they know it too, I'm also sure they know a hell of a lot more about what's going on than any of us.
 
I think posters just need to deal with the reality that this is our league, and it will be for a while. We can buy all the lottery tickets we want, but most likely, no one is coming to rescue us. Either people need to recalibrate their expectations for UConn athletics, or there are going to be some unhappy UConn fans.

We are a mid-major program in a mid-major league. Look what happened to Houston. That may be the future of UConn's athletic program. We need to focus on the hoops programs and figure out some way to make the football program modestly competitive with almost no TV revenue. I don't see any way for the football program to be anything but a catastrophic disaster for the entire athletic program, but I am 110% positive that Warde trashing Memphis and SMU in interviews is not going to help, as cathartic as that would be.
 
Pudge said:
bunch of babies.

I get it ... we are in a crappy conference situation. Manual (who really hasn't been impressive thus far) says what is the reality. And ... you all want him to pronounce that we are working hard to get out AND have a good shot at the ACC/B1G. Part of the reason we have such a crappy TV deal is UConn (and Cincy) etc are publicly pushing to get beyond this conference ... and any bidder has no clue who they are going to get as content.

Time to the next conference earthquake? I dunno. I am just not going to wait around because it might not be next week. However, we are seriously endangering our ability to build a fanbase further with all the negative stuff. (Conference Realignment as one component). Manual has to start focusing on getting some of this with traction.
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That's why they would have a renegotiate clause if either side had a brain.
 
ZooCougar said:
No. People are mad because they are not being spoken to genuinely.
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He is genuinely telling us that we are in the BE for the forseeable future, that may not be what any of us want to hear but with the information he is getting that is our reality. Now, is it crap? Yes. He is attempting to try to make lemonade out of the mountain of lemons he was delivered. And even if he did tell us everything this vocal group would still find cause to complain.

People are mad because they are not being told what exactly is happening and what is being done to rectify the problem, even though to expose that would be as dumb as Cincy sending stadium expansion cards to the ACC, it makes them look weak and needy, which they (and we) are but there is no need to announce to world what everybody is already well aware of. People like to think that just by wanting out that it some how makes it happen, wake up, NO ONE WANTS US, so to sit and whine about it is accomplishing nothing!

So I will live in this situation not because I like it but because there is no other choice, we are not disbanding the FB team, we are not going back to D 1AA, we are not going independant (one of the dumber ideas posted) and we are not going anywhere soon. So I will cheer for my team, I will hope they destroy the competition that we have in our new conference and that someone else will recognize that we will be an asset to their conference so we can get the hell out of dodge.
 
It's hard to be considered genuine when you speak about the Big East as being a great place when it clearly is not.

This is a bad situation. He is acting like it is a good situation. That's not genuine.

How is that 2014 schedule coming?
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
I think posters just need to deal with the reality that this is our league, and it will be for a while. We can buy all the lottery tickets we want, but most likely, no one is coming to rescue us. Either people need to recalibrate their expectations for UConn athletics, or there are going to be some unhappy UConn fans.

We are a mid-major program in a mid-major league. Look what happened to Houston. That may be the future of UConn's athletic program. We need to focus on the hoops programs and figure out some way to make the football program modestly competitive with almost no TV revenue. I don't see any way for the football program to be anything but a catastrophic disaster for the entire athletic program, but I am 110% positive that Warde trashing Memphis and SMU in interviews is not going to help, as cathartic as that would be.
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You still here Nelson?
 
ZooCougar said:
It's hard to be considered genuine when you speak about the Big East as being a great place when it clearly is not.

This is a bad situation. He is acting like it is a good situation. That's not genuine.

How is that 2014 schedule coming?
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He's not going to come out and say what you want him to, he has to sell it good or bad. Diehards here are jumping off the bandwagon because of the situation. How many tweener fans would never step to the plate if he called it what it is? My biggest worry is the OOC schedule at this point because that is all thats left right now to maintain some semblance of relevancy. I wish to hell he would announce something soon, and with all the time it's taking it had better be good!
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I think posters just need to deal with the reality that this is our league, and it will be for a while. We can buy all the lottery tickets we want, but most likely, no one is coming to rescue us. Either people need to recalibrate their expectations for UConn athletics, or there are going to be some unhappy UConn fans.

We are a mid-major program in a mid-major league. Look what happened to Houston. That may be the future of UConn's athletic program. We need to focus on the hoops programs and figure out some way to make the football program modestly competitive with almost no TV revenue. I don't see any way for the football program to be anything but a catastrophic disaster for the entire athletic program, but I am 110% positive that Warde trashing Memphis and SMU in interviews is not going to help, as cathartic as that would be.
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I'm inclined to agree with much of this. We have been relegated to a mid-major status, oddly enough hockey being the exception. Though I see the basketball and the football situations as a little bit reversed form how you see it. If the recent situation has taught us anything it should be that basketball doesn't matter. One single bit. So if we have any hope of going someplace in the conference re-alignment Round 3 we need to just accept that and move on. Put as good a product on the floor as we can. Compete for Big East 3.0 titles, rankings if possible(though we're mostly talking 15-25 not 1-10) but just accept the fact that A. competing for national championships is a thing of the past. And B. It doesn't matter anyway. We can win the next 4 NCAA titles, and we'll still be locked out of the majors and we'll still be playing for peanuts.

On the other hand, we need to focus on the football program and doing whatever it needs to make it successful. Bring in 10 JUCOs a year? If that's what it takes, just do it. Lower admission standards for football players? If necessary, bite the bullet and accept a used dump truck if it can block. Accept transfers from other programs? Y'all Come. TCU, Boise, those are the models. We need to go 10-2, 11-1, 12-0 and get ranked every single year until UConn is a regular feature of the pre-season polls. The goal needs to be that in 2016 folks are arguing about whether UConn deserves to be in the Final 4 over the 2nd SEC members. And we don't even need to actually be selected. Just need sportswriters to start the argument. And we need to be the "football school" everyone wants when the B-12 finally gives in to the other leagues and goes to 12. that will open a space somewhere and we need to be the one to take that space. Something might happen before that, and we need to be on the move then too, but the B-12 expansion will happen eventually if only because the others will demand it.
 
Jerry27 said:
He's not going to come out and say what you want him to, he has to sell it good or bad. Diehards here are jumping off the bandwagon because of the situation. How many tweener fans would never step to the plate if he called it what it is? My biggest worry is the OOC schedule at this point because that is all thats left right now to maintain some semblance of relevancy. I wish to hell he would announce something soon, and with all the time it's taking it had better be good!
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Diehards don't ride bandwagons by definition.

As much as I bash The Monitor, I just reinvested in failure and bought three season tickets along with the 400 ducat donation for each seat.

It isn't too much to ask The Monitor to infuse a little reality into his message. It's time to get tough, it's not time to pretend this situation is something that it isn't.

What you people want is more of the same failed strategy, you'll probably apologize for tardy tailgaters too.
 
ZooCougar said:
Diehards don't ride bandwagons by definition.

As much as I bash The Monitor, I just reinvested in failure and bought three season tickets along with the 400 ducat donation for each seat.

It isn't too much to ask The Monitor to infuse a little reality into his message. It's time to get tough, it's not time to pretend this situation is something that it isn't.

What you people want is more of the same failed strategy, you'll probably apologize for tardy tailgaters too.
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Yeah I should have put "diehards" in quotes, the point being with all the whining about selling tickets, not re-upping, not doing this and not doing that going on on these boards I question the loyalty of quite a few here.

I'm not making excuses for WM, quite the opposite, I simply understand why he has to do what he is doing in regard to the new members. He has to do the selling, he can't say what you already know and you know why. The perception of the conference already is near bottom it makes perfect sense to rip it and further devalue the conference and by association UConn. So yeah it makes sense, he should call it what it is to appease a few of us.
 
businesslawyer said:
Warde has to sell tickets for as long as we're in the NNNNBE or our program won't be where we need it to be when more CR occurs. How the duck* do you sell tickets for games if you're bashing the level of opposition publicly?

It's great that you'd all feel better if he was trashing the NNBE, but forgive me for worrying more about preserving the program until something happens then wanting to feel good that someone recognizes your anger.
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actually, it would help if wm could schedule some games first. then worry about selling tickets.
 
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