Why keep football ?

[noeynox]

It can’t get worse.

Seriously.

I think we’ve statistically found rock bottom. Unless they make the games longer, I think this is as bad as football can get.

I'm leery of "it can't get worse". We heard it after P, and we heard it after Diaco. Each time it got noticeably worse.

Statistically speaking you may be right.

 

[J187Money]

My son came down from Boston from the game on Saturday - one of his buddies was over at the student tailgate - he went over there and promptly came back - said it was a circus - everyone puking, etc - and then heading back to campus. Maybe 30% of those who showed up to tailgate even went to the game. I guess since you can't party like that on campus anymore might as well have the spring weekend-like tailgate even if you don't care about the football.

 

[JMick]

"No one cares about"? Shame on you. These are your classmates. They're in your classrooms with you. They at you gatherings. You socialize with them. And you don't care about them? Oh boy what an attitude!

Lol but no one cares. At all. Have you seen the attendance? People are voting that their time is better spent elsewhere. And for the last few years they're not wrong.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

My son came down from Boston from the game on Saturday - one of his buddies was over at the student tailgate - he went over there and promptly came back - said it was a circus - everyone puking, etc - and then heading back to campus. Maybe 30% of those who showed up to tailgate even went to the game. I guess since you can't party like that on campus anymore might as well have the spring weekend-like tailgate even if you don't care about the football.

Good point about campus partying shut down. I was thinking the same thing as it relates to student game attendance.

 

[gwhuskyfan]

Seven years ago we were in the Fiesta Bowl. Since then we have had a couple of piss poor coaches. One hopes that in four years when all the players are Edsall's recruits we will start seeing improvement. How soon some people forget.

We were an 8 win Fiesta Bowl team that got in with a bowl tie in. With the AAC 8 wins gets us to the Boca Bowl. Completely different world we're in now

 

[noeynox]

We were an 8 win Fiesta Bowl team that got in with a bowl tie in. With the AAC 8 wins gets us to the Boca Bowl. Completely different world we're in now

True. But if Army can go to Oklahoma and take them to Overtime, there really isn't any excuse for the level of ineptness we are currently exhibiting. These freshmen will be sophomores next year. You can't use the young excuse forever, and last years defense has upper clansmen everywhere.

 

[TRest]

True. But if Army can go to Oklahoma and take them to Overtime, there really isn't any excuse for the level of ineptness we are currently exhibiting. These freshmen will be sophomores next year. You can't use the young excuse forever, and last years defense has upper clansmen everywhere.

I bet every single kid on the Army team could get through Uconn admissions. I bet very few of our current team could qualify academically for the academy. What say you, Randy?

 

[whaler11]

I am enjoying the idea that losing 8 figures a year to embarrass themselves every Saturday serves a higher purpose.

 

[Waquoit]

"No one cares about"? Shame on you. These are your classmates. They're in your classrooms with you. They at you gatherings. You socialize with them. And you don't care about them? Oh boy what an attitude!

Shame on you for trying to shame someone just because they don't care for football.

 

[Dooley]

I don’t disagree. As you well know through your real world, the numbers can be spun whatever direction is needed by the storyteller.

https://senate.uconn.edu/wp-content...Senate-UBC-Report-on-AD-Subsidy-to-Senate.pdf

Pages 2, 12-18 are the interesting ones. I know a lot of people here have seen this but there may be some who haven’t.

Medic - I really do hope that you are employed by UConn in some capacity.

 

[TRest]

My daughter is a freshman, if you offered her a $3,000 fees cut in exchange for dropping to Division 3 she and probably thousands of others would take that in a heartbeat. They don't follow sports, they don't care about sports, and the revenue sport athletes on campus are not their peers.

 

[huskymedic]

Medic - I really do hope that you are employed by UConn in some capacity.

Nope - read a lot and have pretty decent recall of dumb stuff (I remember patient names/faces I transported decades ago but can’t remember my dad’s phone number because I just say “call dad” to the phone )

 

[Adios]

My daughter is a freshman, if you offered her a $3,000 fees cut in exchange for dropping to Division 3 she and probably thousands of others would take that in a heartbeat. They don't follow sports, they don't care about sports, and the revenue sport athletes on campus are not their peers.

We had athletes living in Russell in the 90s. They have their own housing now?

 

[Husk1881]

"No one cares about"? Shame on you. These are your classmates. They're in your classrooms with you. They at you gatherings. You socialize with them. And you don't care about them? Oh boy what an attitude!

The teams we play no one cares about.

 

[storrsroars]

My daughter is a freshman, if you offered her a $3,000 fees cut in exchange for dropping to Division 3 she and probably thousands of others would take that in a heartbeat. They don't follow sports, they don't care about sports, and the revenue sport athletes on campus are not their peers.

I don't doubt this in the least. FBS football is for the alumni. Because once you're married and have kids, you need an acceptable social excuse to go out and drink in the afternoon.

 

[Husk1881]

Winning fixes everything just give it time

 

[Dooley]

Nope - read a lot and have pretty decent recall of dumb stuff (I remember patient names/faces I transported decades ago but can’t remember my dad’s phone number because I just say “call dad” to the phone )

"Pretty decent"?!? You sell your talents short my friend. Your ability to not only provide links to applicable factual documents, but also give page numbers to specific facts, is something of a museum curator talent.

 

[Dooley]

Not so sure about that...

The Huskies finished 8-5 and shared the BE title with WVU and Pitt... beaten by 28 points in the Fiesta. UConn, in season, had been blanked 26-0 by Louisville and had lost to Temple and Rutgers.

In the Orange they would have played Stanford...whose only loss was to the eventual BCS champion.

A little bit off here. If you remember, the Orange Bowl was able to pick their at-large ahead of the Fiesta that year because the Championship Game was played in Arizona. The tie-in was Virginia Tech, not Stanford. The Orange Bowl went with Andrew Luck and Stanford...and rightfully so. The Orange went with the Old Money Club to play their ACC Champ representative. Had they selected UConn, it would have been UConn vs 11-2 Virginia Tech. And if you recall, Va Tech lost to James Madison that year.

I'm not saying that UConn would have won that game either, but I certainly would have liked our chances MUCH more playing VT in Miami where there would have been a significant UConn fanbase presence (even more than the 20K-25K that went to Arizona) and playing against an opponent who played more our tempo. And since VT got trashed in the same manner that we did (our game was "only" a 14 point difference with 8 to play), I - and most UConn fans - feel that an Orange Bowl against Virginia Tech that year would have played out MUCH differently than our Fiesta. Ironically and also highly likely, the Fiesta would have been better too! Stanford vs OU would have been a far more compelling game for both of those teams plus much better attended by Stanford fans, who had a fairly similar difficulty selling school allotted tickets to Miami. But you don't hear about that because the PAC-12 covered unsold ticket costs for their members and the Big East didn't. Hence, the bad press for UConn.

But I digress...

 

[whaler11]

The only other team in the conversation for worst BCS team was Pitt.

 

[Dooley]

The only other team in the conversation for worst BCS team was Pitt.

Agreed. We were far from a BCS juggernaut for sure. In hindsight, we might have been better off declining the Fiesta invite once the Orange passed (as they should have). Randy could have bolted for his dream job a month earlier and maybe our BOT would have had more of an opportunity to direct Hathaway to a far more compelling hire than Sir PP and Robin GDL.

 

[champs99and04]

I don't want to hear the crying about student fees from people who willingly decided to attend UConn. It's the height of hypocrisy when the only reason UConn is Uconn is because of...sports. The gravy train isn't a one way street. The school exploited "those people who are not your peers" for years to fund their research initiatives and the result was that it became both more expensive and harder to get into. If you're looking to roll those investments back now because the cheap labor is dried up and the state's facing a budget crisis, welcome to being a glorified UNH moving forward. It's what you deserve after years of making excuses for Herbst.

 

[uconnric]

On the bright side, we are hopefully getting this thread over and done with early in the season.

 

[J187Money]

My daughter is a freshman, if you offered her a $3,000 fees cut in exchange for dropping to Division 3 she and probably thousands of others would take that in a heartbeat. They don't follow sports, they don't care about sports, and the revenue sport athletes on campus are not their peers.

For that matter, cut $6,000 or some other number - and take away arts, activities, student clubs, etc - and only have school.

 

[whaler11]

For that matter, cut $6,000 or some other number - and take away arts, activities, student clubs, etc - and only have school.

That is coming.

 

[UCFBfan]

Because it hurts recruiting - it effects basketball much deeper that football because of the numbers

I don't buy this for a minute. Ollie brought in a top rated class a few years back and Hurley is landing some Top 100 players. I don't follow basketball recruiting super closely but I haven't seen a major blow to recruiting in basketball due to conference.

If anything, it's the fans that have the issue. I don't blame them as we have zero history with these programs.