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Why not us?

Until we have an undefeated season where among our victims are the three most recent national champions from the B1G ( which occurred over the past three seasons), the three most recent national champions from the SEC (which occurred over the previous four seasons, compiling four titles), four of the biggest names in the sport (two that lost the most recent national title games, two more that have very recently had deep runs in the CFP) and (currently) the only P-4 New England school, it is beneath you to believe that this football program could be something?

If that's how you feel, don't let the door hit you in your fandom on the way out.
 
It could be us. No doubt. Look at hoops programs as evidence. Now that we can pay players, we have an advantage since many Ct residents are wealthy, love UConn, and really love to win.
 
geordi said:
Why not us? Come back to me when we have $20-30M player pool to distribute (expanded for inflation, of course), an additional $10M to pay a head coach (plus inflation, plus similar money to buy assstants), a stadium that is not only filled every Saturday to SRO but has a waiting list for tickets AFTER its expansion to $50-55,000 seats, a schedule that we run undefeated with including Ohio State, Michigan, LSU, Georgia, Notre Dame, Alabama, Texas, Miami, Oklahoma, Indiana, Boston College (because it's so much fun to annialate them 56-3), Central Connecticut (because even national champions have a patsy on the schedule), and we move the whole university to a state in which people actually give a damn about football tather than other sports like basketball and hockey. New England is not that place.

Can it be done? Sure. It is possible to buy a national championship. Indiana just did it. So 30--40 other competitors every year.
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I guess you don't think so.
 
HuskyNan said:
Any billionaires among the UConn alumni?

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People are acting like Mark Cuban is T. Boone Pickens. Cuban is supposedly financially stressed at the moment.

Indiana’s NIL budget isn’t all that. Cignetti just knows which players to sign and that it’s better if they are 3-4 years older than the people they are playing.
 
How about our accomplishing our first goal of getting into the ACC first?
When men’s and women’s basketball was playing in that cage back at the field house and there were dirt floors under the court and animal husbandry classes on off days, did we dream of the BiG East?
Also, do you know who we spanked 34-10 back on Aug 31,2003 at the very first game at the Rent??!!
 
johnnyg said:
How about our accomplishing our first goal of getting into the ACC first?
When men’s and women’s basketball was playing in that cage back at the field house and there were dirt floors under the court and animal husbandry classes on off days, did we dream of the BiG East?
Also, do you know who we spanked 34-10 back on Aug 31,2003 at the very first game at the Rent??!!
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What is a Hoosier
 
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College football has become the latest playground for the billionaire class. They weren't satisfied with their playground that is professional sports. No, that wasn't enough. Now, with the changes involving the portal and NIL,
college football has become a fun place for them to dump $100 million in excess cash every year, and that will only increase as the billionaires intensify their competition.
 
The crazy thing is IU did it with football. It has been 50 years since Knight went undefeated in hoops. IU basketball has been in a wasteland for decades. Cignetti may have lit a fire under the basketball program.
 
ZooCougar said:
People are acting like Mark Cuban is T. Boone Pickens. Cuban is supposedly financially stressed at the moment.

Indiana’s NIL budget isn’t all that. Cignetti just knows which players to sign and that it’s better if they are 3-4 years older than the people they are playing.
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And Cignetti got this done with a whole bunch of JMU kids on his roster.

NIL helps but this team Indiana team actually shows that it's not everything.
 
CCSUblue said:
Dr. Trisha Bailey I believe is a billionaire and has already donated large amounts of money to the university, $15m to athletics. Elizabeth DeLuca (thanks for Kowalski for correcting me (widow of Subway Founder)) who is also a major donor - see school of nursing $40m - is worth like $9b

Here are some wealthy norable alumni...Doug Bernstein of Melissa and Doug, Bob Kauffman of Bobs Discount Furniture, and Annie Withey of Annie's Mac and Cheese.

What do they all have in common? They like seeing their name on stuff. But Doug and Annie I'm pretty sure both sold their companies.
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Bailey is worth $107 billion now. She'll probably be the first trillionaire.

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Jamaica's Richest Woman Worth $107 Billion Makes Huge Donation To American University Track Programme - World Music Views

Medical Entrepreneur Trisha Bailey is making a sizable donation to the University Of Connecticut. With a net worth of $700 million, Bailley, born in Jamaica has made the largest athletic donation in the university’s history toward the renovation of Greer Fieldhouse. The undisclosed amount is...
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superjohn said:
Bailey is worth $107 billion now. She'll probably be the first trillionaire.

worldmusicviews.com

Jamaica's Richest Woman Worth $107 Billion Makes Huge Donation To American University Track Programme - World Music Views

Medical Entrepreneur Trisha Bailey is making a sizable donation to the University Of Connecticut. With a net worth of $700 million, Bailley, born in Jamaica has made the largest athletic donation in the university’s history toward the renovation of Greer Fieldhouse. The undisclosed amount is...
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She is not worth $107 billion.
 
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johnnyg said:
How about our accomplishing our first goal of getting into the ACC first?

Also, do you know who we spanked 34-10 back on Aug 31,2003 at the very first game at the Rent??!!
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I'd rather be in the B12, because I think the ACC will self destruct. However, if we did go into the ACC we would be in the top half...

Since I was there at the first game, Indiana. I still got the T-shirt from opening day. I bike to the stadium from my house.
 
Purple Stein said:
And Cignetti got this done with a whole bunch of JMU kids on his roster.

NIL helps but this team Indiana team actually shows that it's not everything.
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Problem is because Cignetti figured it out, now other P4s are going to try and emulate it, increasing market demand and competition.

Our key to success is probably not remotely similar to Indiana’s, but we can take advantage of guys trying to get more snaps. Guys like Mickens who are from high-tier schools with some degree of experience are our best bet paired with some experienced call-ups.

There’s a lot of potential here in CT. Mora at least showed us that
 
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jmsjoejms said:
"In Jamaican currency her net-worth is more than $107 billion."

Jamaican dollar ≈ 1/160 of a U.S. dollar

Click bait....
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She lives in the United States. How much did you give to UConn last year?
 
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AllHusky said:
She lives in the United States. How much did you give to UConn last year?
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Not really sure what that has to do with anything.

There was a question on the validity of her net worth in the title of the article, I answer that it was in Jamaican not US dollars (as the article itself references and I quoted). Perhaps if you had read the question or the article...
 
jmsjoejms said:
Not really sure what that has to do with anything.

There was a question on the validity of her net worth in the title of the article, I answer that it was in Jamaican not US dollars (as the article itself references and I quoted). Perhaps if you had read the question or the article...
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Correct you are. So, only worth 668,750,000US using that conversion, correct? Guess I am a little defensive of how quick people were to call her publicity clickbait. That woman was a tough competitor at UConn and is a tougher competitor in the business world. Pretty sure her donation is in US also. A few more folks like Trish and we’d be further up the Ladder.
 
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BonaConn said:
Our model should be BYU in the 2010s. They had an average record of roughly 8-4 as an indy, peaking in 2020 when they were about a yard away from winning at ranked Coastal Carolina (Mormons vs. Mullets) and going undefeated. BYU has more history than us, but a non-ND with the right resources can be successful in modern times, at least with an ultimate goal of going P4.

Also, it seems like everyone who says a theoretical 12-0 UConn can't make the CFP is assuming the CFP is gonna stay at 12 teams. You know they're just dying to expand to 16 (or more, gross) and it would be criminal to keep any undefeated FBS team out of a 16-team playoff.
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Totally agree with you on your point about modeling ourselves after BYU in the 2010s, it's what I've thought we were striving for since we went independent. They relied on their brand name to schedule big time opponents (I don't think they played less than 4 P5s in a year, if they did I believe it was 3, and they had up to 6 on their schedule each year) and create a schedule better than anything they would have had in the MWC. We seem to be taking the same approach, and judging by the steady attendance increase, it has been working (obviously the success of the team has played a huge role in that as well.)

Kind of disagree with you on your point about the CFP. I agree it would be criminal but you know they would contort themselves however they needed to in order to justify giving the slot to a P4. Just thinking about this season; BYU and ND would have easily taken 2 of those slots. Then they have their pick of Vandy, Texas and Utah for the final 2. Whoever didn't get that final slot would be the team the media talked about as being snubbed. I doubt even with a 12-0 record this year and a 16 team playoff we would have gotten serious consideration.

It is what it is. Just keep winning and change the perception over time.
 
huskymedic said:
You are a regular Quasimodo😉



The remaining path is getting narrower and narrower.
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Lol. We all knew this was coming, but I have to admit I'm a little surprised with how quickly it got done. They try to create this illusion that every team has a chance, but as soon as the "G" got 2 teams into the playoff the format had to change.

It reminds me of the South Park "they took our jobs" meme. Just replace "jobs" with "money" lol
 

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huskymedic said:
You are a regular Quasimodo😉



The remaining path is getting narrower and narrower.
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It could have been worse (which I was fully expecting).

They basically capped G level conference champions at one, which if they had done this from the start, there would have been very few complaints as they would have bumped JMU for ND and altered the seeded.

What they should have done was added a provision where they could select a significantly higher ranked school over the conference champion (Miami over Duke) if there were a ranked non-champion but no ranked champion.

As it pertains to us, I'm curious as to the exact language that gives ND a bid for a top 12 finish. I'm pretty much convinced that at the moment we would need to clearly demonstrate that we have top five team to get enough support to be ranked in their top ten, and then it may take the correct circumstances from other non-champion P-4 schools for us to get a bid.
 
Nameless said:
Lol. We all knew this was coming, but I have to admit I'm a little surprised with how quickly it got done. They try to create this illusion that every team has a chance, but as soon as the "G" got 2 teams into the playoff the format had to change.

It reminds me of the South Park "they took our jobs" meme. Just replace "jobs" with "money" lol
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It didn’t help that the 2G teams looked completely overmatched
 
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