Acc is where they really belong. Decent football and basketball as well as baseball on the men’s side and excellent women’s soccer. Academics probably hurt them in most realignment discussions.
Randy Edsall Contract Extended
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Yeesh.
At least the Linc is a real football stadium, not a corny airstrip. Plus, it is marginally close to their campus. The airstrip may as well be in another state. Plus, plus, I would be livid if I was a connie resident and the government wasted so much money on that epic boondoggle.
Connie has been, and always will be, a joke of a program. Could not have happened to a more deserving group of obnoxious fans. Good Riddance.
At some point, somebody is taking Central Florida. One of the two or three biggest schools in the country, administration that opened a brand new arena and stadium in the same year, big growing city, economy hurting now like just about everywhere, but once corona is over the zillions of Mickey lovers will be back down there
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Correct me if I am wrong, but does not their Big East contract prevent them from placing their FB program in another conf?
Storrs isn't really in any market, is it? Pretty rural.
If UConn football won a game at their level you could make a case for the market in CT on the whole. But the infatuation with TV markets has probably passed (we got into the B1G and its network just in the nick of time), and their football program, playing an independent schedule, is probably broken beyond repair. There's no conference championship to play for, no hopes of playing who UConn views to be their peers on a regular basis, and I doubt that even Scnellenberger could make them a winner at this point.
They would have to bring a value equal to other members in a conference, and wouldn't do that even in the American at this point. They put their eggs in the basketball basket and now will be in the Big East for ever.
Cincinnati, Houston or BYU remain the best overall picks of the non P5 to move up -- I think UCF is a notch below them. If the B12 had been interested, they would have taken one or two the last time they flirted with expansion.
The ACC won't be interested in any of them, and if anyone is picking over the remains of the B12, WVU would be the only real choice to expand (along with ND in full time). The ACC held their nose and chose UL once, would they do it again? Or would the ACC take WVU and Kansas, going to 17 members?
I disagree he has leverage. UConn has essentially thrown their football program under the bus so their basketball teams could rejoin the Big East. They may be on the verge of downgrading to FCS as Idaho did a few years ago. Leaving the American Athletic Conference demonstrates that basketball calls the shots. He'd only have leverage if anyone cared about UConn football.
Shea was 7-26 when he was extended, but was coming off a 5-6 season and BE COY honors.
Hard to say. Temple doesn't draw dick unless PSU, ND, or RU are playing at the Linc, and why would any sane person go to a UConn football game?
WVU is definitely an ACC school at heart. I'd lmao if the ACC added WVU and Temple (Philly market) over UConn to get to 16 teams + ND as a leech.
That was the most deceiving 5-6 in history. 6 blowout losses and 5 close wins over Richmond, Army, Navy, Temple, and Pitt. Not sure what was wrong with Pitt that season.
Schedule
| Date | Opponent | Site | TV | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 5 | Richmond* | W 7–6 | ||
| September 12 | at Boston College | ESPN+ | L 14–41 | |
| September 19 | at No. 13 Syracuse | ESPN+ | L 14–70 | |
| September 26 | Army* |
| W 27–15 | |
| October 3 | Miami (FL) |
| ESPN+ | L 17–53 |
| October 17 | at Pittsburgh | ESPN+ | W 25–21 | |
| October 24 | No. 22 Tulane* |
| L 24–52 | |
| October 31 | Temple |
| W 21–10 | |
| November 7 | at Navy* | W 36–33 | ||
| November 14 | West Virginia |
| BEN | L 14–28 |
| November 21 | at No. 23 Virginia Tech | L 7–47 | ||
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Cincy has had more success in both football and men's hoops recently. I guess it depends on if they want a more proven commodity in athletics or the big media market in Philly.
UConn’s move to the Big East seems to be a bold statement by them that they have put their athletic eggs in the mbb/wbb basket. They put the football program on the back burner. I can’t see any p5 conference even thinking about them. I see UCF, Cincy, Boise, Temple, far more inviting targets when and if restructuring begins anew.
I have twin nephews who graduated from UConn. They keep trying to tell me that going independent is a great move for the program because they can now schedule whoever they want and aren't tied to the AAC of which none of their fans cared about. They've actually said that they can now be "just like Notre Dame"
One of them (BTW they both applied to RU and didn't get in) has actually bet me a round of golf at Pebble Beach that they will average more fans per game this year than we will. I can't wait to play a free $500 round on him next summer
Maybe that makes me a bad uncle and I love my nephews but, sometimes you have to take advantage of people who make stupid bets
One of them (BTW they both applied to RU and didn't get in) has actually bet me a round of golf at Pebble Beach that they will average more fans per game this year than we will. I can't wait to play a free $500 round on him next summer
Maybe that makes me a bad uncle and I love my nephews but, sometimes you have to take advantage of people who make stupid bets
Some people, even nephews, have to learn the hard way.
They have Oklahoma coming to the Linc in 2025, that should come pretty close to filling the stadium.
Yes, every Sooner alumnus east of Illinois and north of North Carolina will be driving to Pennsy.
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Temple has Oklahoma on the schedule. As we know there is some great talent in that area, as for East Hartford, I can't see why any national program would agree to make that trip.
Purdue and Houston are scheduled to go to UConn this year. After that no one of any significance for the rest of the decade.
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Do they truly believe that or is this just rationalization? I remember quite a few posters here who said RU should go Independent (before the B1G move) if the B1G or ACC didn't come calling.
Enjoy your round of golf. Home opponents in 2021 (UConn vs RU)
Holy Cross vs Temple
Purdue vs Delaware
Wyoming vs Ohio State
Yale vs Michigan State
Middle Tennessee State vs Wisconsin
Houston vs Maryland
RU may have more visiting fans than UConn has fans.
OSU, Sparty, and Wisconsin will draw more road fans themselves than UConn does fans period this season.
Yeesh. Looks like they should change their away jerseys to look like TACKLING dummies.Purdue and Houston are scheduled to go to UConn this year. After that no one of any significance for the rest of the decade.
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Have we had any talks with UConn about scheduling games? They actually count toward the conference's P5 requirement.
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They are both regular posters on the Uconn message board where lunacy seems to reign.
They truly believe that their affiliation with the AAC was the cause of the football & basketball demise. When I try and counter with the fact that they couldn't beat anyone in the conference their response is that "it's because nobody from Uconn wanted to be in that league".
I also think it's funny that they continue to say that the football program has a huge leg up on everyone else because while all these teams were actually playing games they were focusing on getting bigger and stronger in the weight room. It's like no other school was doing any workouts while they were putting in all this work.
Looking at their schedule for this season, if they don't win games this year they may never win again.
Clemson might literally hang 100 on them this season. UConn's fate will be cannon fodder for OSU, Penn State, ND, Bama, Clemson, etc., unless they decide to drop down to FCS or quit football completely.
RU was 5-6 that year. 5 of the 6 losses were gruesome blowouts. They were 1-10 the next season.
Rationalization it is.
How many games do you believe they should they win? They play 2 FCS (Holy Cross and Yale) next year and 6 of their 10 FBS opponents have posted losing records over the past two years. Clemson (26-3), UCF (16-7), Army (14-11), and Wyoming (10-9) are their four opponents with winning records in addition to two struggling P5 teams in Purdue (6-12) and Vanderbilt (3-18). 4-8 should be considered disastrous and 6-6 being marginally acceptable. That could still be a tall order for a program who has not posted a winning record since 2010.
Life comes full circle. Randy brought them from Div. 1AA to Div. 1. He can now oversee the transition from Div. 1 back to 1AA.
A non crap team should have 6 wins guaranteed with that schedule. Fun part, not sure the connies win more than 3.
I have yet to have a rational conversation with someone from UCONN regarding athletics or academics for that matter.
I was at a wedding in the late 90's when UCONN women's basketball was on one of their many dominant runs, Sue Bird etc.... Seated at the same table with a family of UCONN women's basketball fans. If you think their football fans are delusional try having a conversation with this family. They truly believed that the UCONN women's basketball team would make it easily to the sweet 16 on the mens side. I told them that a boys varsity high school team would dismantle their team much less a D1 basketball team. Father and son followed me around for the entire reception trying to convince me otherwise.
Big 12 needs to either add 2 teams to get to 12, or break up the Power 5(14,14,14,12,10=64) to Mega 4, 4 16 team conferences next 5-10 years.
This would be my best guess,
B16- Iowa, Iowa St, UM, MSU, Wisc, Minn, Ill, NW,
Md, RU, Pitt, PSU, Indiana, Purdue, Nebraska, OSU
ACC- BC, Syracuse, V.Tech, Virginia, Duke, UNC, WF, NCSt
Clemson, S. Carolina, Miami, FSU, Ga. Tech, WVU, Louisville, Kentucky
SEC- Alabama, Auburn, Fla, Ga, Ark, Tenn, Vandy, LSU
Kansas, KSU, Missouri, TX A&M?, Baylor?, TCU?, Miss, MSU
Pac 16-Wash, WSU, Oregon, OSU, Stan, Cal, UCLA, USC,
Colorado, Utah, Az, ASU, Okla, OSU, Texas, TTU?
1 of Baylor, TCU, TTU, A&M can go with U of TX, Pac 16.
ND can do whatever they want and be left out with UConn.
This would be my best guess,
B16- Iowa, Iowa St, UM, MSU, Wisc, Minn, Ill, NW,
Md, RU, Pitt, PSU, Indiana, Purdue, Nebraska, OSU
ACC- BC, Syracuse, V.Tech, Virginia, Duke, UNC, WF, NCSt
Clemson, S. Carolina, Miami, FSU, Ga. Tech, WVU, Louisville, Kentucky
SEC- Alabama, Auburn, Fla, Ga, Ark, Tenn, Vandy, LSU
Kansas, KSU, Missouri, TX A&M?, Baylor?, TCU?, Miss, MSU
Pac 16-Wash, WSU, Oregon, OSU, Stan, Cal, UCLA, USC,
Colorado, Utah, Az, ASU, Okla, OSU, Texas, TTU?
1 of Baylor, TCU, TTU, A&M can go with U of TX, Pac 16.
ND can do whatever they want and be left out with UConn.
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I know they say be careful what you wish for, but I want Texas-Austin in the Big 10. 30 million people and growing and an endless supply of football, baseball, basketball, and probably down the line hockey and lacrosse players.
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That is one polluted stream of consciousness! It always amazes me how little people outside Texas know about state of Texas football...A&M and Texas will never ever ever ever ever ever ever be in the same conference again ...like ever!
Baylor can only remain in the b12...they will not merit any other conference invite
Texas tech and ok state in the PAC...cute! Those snobs in the PAC will never go for it...
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