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[zls44]

, I resent that the football program has forced basketball into this awful situation

The football program being bad forced it. Not having a football program.

You should support them. Not scorn them.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

We have ZERO history with the AAC schools and the travel is horrible for the UConn athletes. Eventually, this will negatively affect recruiting.
The AAC is purely a creation to preserve a semblance of a football conference. From UConn's perspective, the AAC serves as a lifeline that somehow, someway UConn could still be a player in conference realignment. But, as it currently stands, UConn is the worst of the bunch in football. The ACC has restructured their financial deal, which would make it very punitive for any other schools to leave. Without movement out of the ACC, further CR is unlikely.
The quality of the AAC in basketball is pretty good this year but will take a significant blow when L'ville leaves.
UConn needs to at least recover the $ from the departure buyout but the AAC is an awful long-term solution. As a long-term UConn basketball fan, along with many others, I resent that the football program has forced basketball into this awful situation, but it is what it is.

How much legitimate history did we have with the original BE in 1979?

As far as travel, it can easily be argued that this will be a recruiting advantage. Look at how JC first built our program. He started recruiting players from nearly every corner of the country. The travel will be far from ideal for all sports outside of the two hoops programs and and football but seriously, were DePaul, Marquette & Notre Dame within driving distance? Yes there will be more travel now but it is not as if we've just moved from the Yankee Conference to the Mountain West.

This is not the football program's fault. It is the fault of a leadership vacuum at the top of the school for nearly all of Hathaway's tenure as AD and a completely inept athletic director during that span. The success we had during that time (and there was quite a bit, none of which was capitalized on) was in spite of Hathaway, not because of him.

 

[Stinger92860]

Agree. Take away the 48 best football schools and what do you have left: a darn good NCAA basketball tournament.

You would have the NIT

 

[Marty Jackson]

We have ZERO history with the AAC schools and the travel is horrible for the UConn athletes. Eventually, this will negatively affect recruiting.
The AAC is purely a creation to preserve a semblance of a football conference. From UConn's perspective, the AAC serves as a lifeline that somehow, someway UConn could still be a player in conference realignment. But, as it currently stands, UConn is the worst of the bunch in football. The ACC has restructured their financial deal, which would make it very punitive for any other schools to leave. Without movement out of the ACC, further CR is unlikely.
The quality of the AAC in basketball is pretty good this year but will take a significant blow when L'ville leaves.
UConn needs to at least recover the $ from the departure buyout but the AAC is an awful long-term solution. As a long-term UConn basketball fan, along with many others, I resent that the football program has forced basketball into this awful situation, but it is what it is.

so you really think Uconn with absolutely no possible future beyond the Big East, being forever tied to St. Johns, Providence College, and Seton Hall is better?
in 5 years, it will be because of football that uconn has an opportunity to join the either the ACC or Big 10.

 

[upstater]

As a long-term UConn basketball fan, along with many others, I resent that the football program has forced basketball into this awful situation, but it is what it is.

How has football forced anything on anyone? If there's no football at all, they won't be invited into a P5 conference.,

Where's the logic?

 

[upstater]

Agree. Take away the 48 best football schools and what do you have left: a darn good NCAA basketball tournament.

It would be pretty crappy. Besides there are 66 football schools in the P5, not 48.