With a shiny new locker room and no plan...

[ZooCougar]

The board is set to vote today on leaving the AAC. It's a foregone conclusion.

Even if you are for this move in principle, and you still love the football program you should cry foul if the school doesn't lay out some sort of concrete and unambiguous plan to keep the football program growing and getting back to some sort of competitiveness.

Otherwise it's a slap in the face to every donor, Season ticket holders and fan who supported this thing over the years in even just the good times. How on earth can they ever ask us for anything again if they are intentionally putting this place on the path to failure?

Get to work Benedict and Herbst; you clowns. I think I loathe these people more than Hathaway.

It is so easy to be even mediocre bad in a conference like the AAC and with our resources. But they couldn't even give us that.

 

[storrsroars]

It is so easy to be even mediocre bad in a conference like the AAC and with our resources. But they couldn't even give us that.

It should've been easier, but PP/BD saw to it that it wasn't. Now it's not so easy because those "resources" you mentioned, other than the physical assets already built, simply aren't there for sustainability.

I would imagine that at some point in the near future, the incredible amount of subsidies from students would effect enrollment. And that, not football, has always got to be the #1 consideration for the future.

I do hope football lands on its feet, but the administration had to do something, like it or not. And this is something.

 

[coachcap]

It should've been easier, but PP/BD saw to it that it wasn't. Now it's not so easy because those "resources" you mentioned, other than the physical assets already built, simply aren't there for sustainability.

I would imagine that at some point in the near future, the incredible amount of subsidies from students would effect enrollment. And that, not football, has always got to be the #1 consideration for the future.

I do hope football lands on its feet, but the administration had to do something, like it or not. And this is something.

Part of the problem with PP & Red Pants was their lack of recruiting acumen while in Storrs. HCRE had a pipeline in Quebec, Florida, Penn., that they disregarded. He is rebuilding those ties, but the results might not be evident immediately on the playing field as he redshirts his incoming class.

 

[uconnyankee]

I'm not really sold that the school doesn't have a plan for football. I think they know but aren't going to admit that it's a slow death over years. nobody wants to be the one who actually killed the program and the be held to the hundreds of millions of $'s invested in the programs and facilities.

Benedict and Herbst will put some temp plan in place for a year and sell it like everyone is still behind football. Yet, we'll still have a coach woefully underpaid, a staff that is barely FBS worthy, and we're going to put them up against some of the best programs to basically get slaughtered for a payday. Benedict will be gone in a year and then it will be someone else's issue. He will be isolated from this and move to a new school by the time the FB program is actually deep 6'd.

Then you'll have people debating whether Benedict actually killed the program or left because the school didn't support his plans. It will muddy his legacy as the man who killed FB and let him be the guy who got Uconn back to BE.

 

[Nostical]

Benedict and Herbst will put some temp plan in place for a year and sell it like everyone is still behind football. Benedict will be gone in a year and then it will be someone else's issue. He will be isolated from this and move to a new school by the time the FB program is actually deep 6'd. It will muddy his legacy as the man who killed FB and let him be the guy who got Uconn back to BE.

This sounds like a plot line from a Machiavellian treatise.

 

[Clockshop]

I believe they have a plan but it has to be on the back burner sort of speak. The Big East likely wants all the press to be about our basketball teams and what it will bring to a basketball league only.

 

[CTMike]

They’ll say they have a plan and they are committed to football, and I imagine that will satisfy exactly no one.

We still don’t know if the plan is “wither and die” or “lets make some lemonade and be a strong regional player”... I hope it’s the latter but only time will tell. It’s the more difficult path, that’s for sure.

 

[CTBballfan243]

Benedict has a plan. He will do what Lou Perkins did when the going got tough and announce he is leaving UConn for a "football" school. I set the over/under for this announcement at 2 months. Let the next AD deal with trying to piece together a football schedule as an Independent.

 

[Adios]

I'm not really sold that the school doesn't have a plan for football. I think they know but aren't going to admit that it's a slow death over years. nobody wants to be the one who actually killed the program and the be held to the hundreds of millions of $'s invested in the programs and facilities.

Benedict and Herbst will put some temp plan in place for a year and sell it like everyone is still behind football. Yet, we'll still have a coach woefully underpaid, a staff that is barely FBS worthy, and we're going to put them up against some of the best programs to basically get slaughtered for a payday. Benedict will be gone in a year and then it will be someone else's issue. He will be isolated from this and move to a new school by the time the FB program is actually deep 6'd.

Then you'll have people debating whether Benedict actually killed the program or left because the school didn't support his plans. It will muddy his legacy as the man who killed FB and let him be the guy who got Uconn back to BE.

I think the sources who said we have no plan for football are lacking information because Fox is already seemingly helping us.

 

[ZooCougar]

I think the sources who said we have no plan for football are lacking information because Fox is already seemingly helping us.

We might play 8-9 I-AAs in 2020. Or play Liberty twice, that is if they are available.

 

[DefCONNOne]

I think the sources who said we have no plan for football are lacking information because Fox is already seemingly helping us.

They aren't and don't plan to.

But keep hope alive, right?

 

[ZooCougar]

They aren't and don't plan to.

But keep hope alive, right?

You don’t think FOX has 6 staffers working round the clock on UConn’s schedule? I bet they have a whole department just dedicated to UConn now. We’re like a conference of our own. A one man wolf pack.

 

[DefCONNOne]

You don’t think FOX has 6 staffers working round the clock on UConn’s schedule? I bet they have a whole department just dedicated to UConn now. We’re like a conference of our own. A one man wolf pack.

Nope. They wanted our bball programs.

Now that they've got us, the football team is a ghost to them.

 

[don356]

Nope. They wanted our bball programs.

Now that they've got us, the football team is a ghost to them.

+!, i think Fox will give them the name of a good liquidator.

 

[VAHuskyFan]

You don’t think FOX has 6 staffers working round the clock on UConn’s schedule? I bet they have a whole department just dedicated to UConn now. We’re like a conference of our own. A one man wolf pack.

Us asking Fox for scheduling help:

 

[ZooCougar]

Nope. They wanted our bball programs.

Now that they've got us, the football team is a ghost to them.

Sarcasm dude.

 

[DefCONNOne]

Sarcasm dude.

My sarcasm meter's been busted for years.

 

[uconnyankee]

Us asking Fox for scheduling help:

Damn.... That was the exact quote I was thinking.... "They've got us working in shifts"

Classic

 

[Alum86]

Benedict has a plan. He will do what Lou Perkins did when the going got tough and announce he is leaving UConn for a "football" school. I set the over/under for this announcement at 2 months. Let the next AD deal with trying to piece together a football schedule as an Independent.

Prophetic. Nobody thinks the ghost (AD Dave) will skamper. You may be on to something.

 

[Skiblets]

Benedict is playing chess Be patient grasshoppers

 

[jostar1]

Benedict is playing chess Be patient grasshoppers

Appreciate this. You were correct the last time.

 

[Adios]

Vanderbilt baseball proves anything is possible.

 

[ZooCougar]

Benedict is playing chess Be patient grasshoppers

Never go full Nostical.

 

[Austin316]

Let’s start paying players to play just for fun... I wanna win a natty before we go too far below the redline.

 

[whaler11]