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With Indiana coming from the most losses in CFB history to National Championship, Why Not Us to a place ( with new Coach and the portal looking terrific including a 4 star Tennessee recruit) where we can finish 10-2 or 11-1 the next few years, get into a good second tier bowl, and make us hard to NOT to be invited to ACC???!!

You can’t tell me we couldn’t finish in the top half of ACC football consistently and of course that comes with the best basketball twin national champ contenders every year….
Am I wrong? Thoughts please
 
Any billionaires among the UConn alumni?

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Honestly I think Candle has the ability to raise the standard.

I think we have the building blocks for a very solid 2026 team

We know Candle can coach

We know he can recruit

We have the independence to schedule who we want to play

I think we're on track to become Notre Dame Lite and not an Indiana type

That requires p2 membership

That's not something teams outside of the power 2 can easily become, but it's great to aspire to be
 
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Cignetti did an unbelievable job. That team was extraordinarily well coached. They do everything well, they are extremely disciplined and highly motivated. Putting all that in place takes great leadership. That all being said, it took a great coaching staff to assess all that talent, get it on the roster and then meld it together. It took some amount of money to get those coaches, assess that talent and then draw that talent onto the roster. Indiana may not have been full of five star recruits, but it was full of experienced college level players who could perform at a high level up and down that roster. That took money as well.........probably BiG 10 money.

Candle has had success and he's putting together a roster. But I don't see a lot of experience coming in. To me, once your in college football for a year or two and not seeing the field much, I don't think your high school star rating is all that meaningful. Now, that doesn't mean someone down the depth chart at Ohio State can't play, but it does mean they are unproven. We'll just have to see how this unfolds.

But, make no mistake about it, UCONN does not have BiG 10 money for football and knowing the SEC they are about to unload a stream of cash like college sports has never seen, because I am willing to bet those nut cases are losing their minds having watched the CFP this season.
 
why not? because we're an independent with no brand prestige of our own (a-la Notre Dame).

Indiana sucks historically (this we know) - but they were already in the P2 club, and have legit history with the biggest brands in B1G football (OSU, UMich, PSU)

outside of the cignetti years, they are a parasite of the big 10 football brand, unworthy of the prestige of the B1G patch on their jerseys, except for the fact they are an actual B1G school regionally, unlike rutgers or maryland, others that I consider "moochers".

indiana pre-cignetti, and UConn 2026, unfortunately are not comparable. I challenge cignetti to do what he's done, at UConn.

(This is not a knock on Cignetti, i'm saying being a B1G member - even a doormat like Indiana - means a lot in recruiting, and it was a significant part of the equation for getting them to the top of CFB, and cannot be ignored. It is unfair to ask that of an independent UConn).

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HuskyNan said:
Any billionaires among the UConn alumni?

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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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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 LeDuca (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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Good info but it was Elisabeth DeLuca that made the school of nursing gift.
 
uconndogs said:
I'm not sure that's correct.
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I think what he is saying is that as long as we are Indy we will never meet the criteria for the playoffs. There is no rule preventing us from getting in, but the powers that be will keep us out.
 
gioff2323 said:
You realize we’re effectively ineligible for playoff as long as we remain Indy?
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That's not correct. An independent can make it to the playoff if they are ranked in the top 12 at the end of the season.

Obviously thats a lot to ask, we'd have to go undefeated and play a brutal schedule, but we're not locked out
 
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Indy only had a few 4 stars players <6. However they had experience. Their team ave. 4.3 years of college experience. It only took Coach Cig. 2 years. Why not us. Get the right players with experience and find a QB who becomes a star. Maybe we have that QB already!
 
Every program in the country is asking the same question. 'Why not us'? IU has changed the narrative in collegiate athletics. As Cignetti has often said- it started with IU president and AD having the vision and means to accomplish it. It is truly a remarkable accomplishment.

Uconn has the right AD-and hopefully the right coach.
 
B1GEast said:
That's not correct. An independent can make it to the playoff if they are ranked in the top 12 at the end of the season.

Obviously thats a lot to ask, we'd have to go undefeated and play a brutal schedule, but we're not locked out
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Hence the word effectively
 
I would like to see UConn on a level playing field with schools in a P4 conference. The difference in money that they get for their athletic programs and what UConn gets is huge. It's a shame that we don't get that chance.

 
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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Husky15 said:
The beauty and the curse of the NIL era is cash is king. Hopefully as we keep winning more donors come into the fold. That + a power conference invite / $$ and this thing could really get going.
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But who is the biggest alumni, monetary wise, that could make the shift for us? We don't have a Mark Cuban as far as I'm aware.
 
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