I turned on the St Peters @ UConn game, and there is no one in the arena. Granted they're playing St Peters, but it looks like there are less than 1000 people at the game.
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That is a beaten down fan base and it makes me incredibly happy to say that.
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In 2003 I went to the ru/UConn football game. They deflated my tires.
With that said, I feel bad for what they are going through. This was a storied program and a very solid athletic program that got decimated in the conference alignment game. I’m a diehard Rutgers fan and if that happened to us (which it easily could have) I would be very upset. So i feel for the diehards there. They lost something special to them
Yeah, football was actually decent for a few years under HCRE and basketball was one of the best programs of the last 20 years. Now they are dead and dying respectively with no hope of resurrection. It would REALLY suck to be UConn fan.
UConn bb should get a lot better now that they are going back to the big east
However, For the longest time I have said here that the big east itself will slowly diminish and become a lower level conference, because they are basketball only and that is a disadvantage
Nova has kept them propped up for years, but now they have struggled and other, used to be powers, are also not there anymore
Not talking about any specific year of diminishing, but a timeframe over decades
So I don’t think UConn will get as good as they once were before because of that
However, For the longest time I have said here that the big east itself will slowly diminish and become a lower level conference, because they are basketball only and that is a disadvantage
Nova has kept them propped up for years, but now they have struggled and other, used to be powers, are also not there anymore
Not talking about any specific year of diminishing, but a timeframe over decades
So I don’t think UConn will get as good as they once were before because of that
Isn't that like saying if my mom had balls, she be my father?[roll]
100 percent agree. The money difference between the P5 and non P5 schools when you look at it over decades will put the non P5 schools at such huge disadvantages. We’re talking 100s of millons of dollars in difference.
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Last year on 12/22 we had 5231 for Columbia and on 12/29 we had 5401 for Maine. I would think we should get similar numbers for Lafayette and Caldwell on 12/22 and 12/30.
This version of the BE doesn't have the pizzazz of the one that catapulted UConn men's bball into the nation's elite. Most of their biggest rivals are no longer in the conference and the conference itself is now more of a midwestern conference, rendering it less likely that UConn will develop good rivalries with those schools.
I think UConn will bemoan the day when they sacrificed their football program in a vain attempt to recapture the glory days in bball. I don't know what the AAC payout is each year, but it must be higher than the BE payout, where bball alone drives the revenue bus. So less conference money together with almost no TV money from football is going to hurt them. The home football schedule will likely be unattractive, made even less attractive when those home games follow a few road game beat-downs as UConn becomes fodder for P5 schools looking to fill out their home schedules (a la UMass these days).
I think UConn will bemoan the day when they sacrificed their football program in a vain attempt to recapture the glory days in bball. I don't know what the AAC payout is each year, but it must be higher than the BE payout, where bball alone drives the revenue bus. So less conference money together with almost no TV money from football is going to hurt them. The home football schedule will likely be unattractive, made even less attractive when those home games follow a few road game beat-downs as UConn becomes fodder for P5 schools looking to fill out their home schedules (a la UMass these days).
I agree. I thought it was a strange move to basically abandon football and be aligned with mostly Catholic basketball schools. It only makes sense geographically but I think they had a higher sports ceiling with the AAC.
I think the Big East might regret letting U Conn join the Big East. They threw them a life raft. They were sinking very fast. If they begin to dominate the Big East some schools might not be too happy.
I think UCONN BB will be fine. They're re-joining the Big East next season. It's football they have to worry about because they're becoming an independent.
There is noooo way UConn makes it as an Independent in Football. In BB they can still produce a good and maybe champion type team.As the saying goes “ be happy for what you have for it can be taken away very quickly “ . Like the past 6 years of RU football we can conceivably reach levels of 2005-2012. Especially with the B1G $$$$ shares in a few more years.
The attendance was 7514 according to the UConn box score, a crowd much larger than we normally draw at the RAC. All assertions that the number is inflated to file /dev/null. I will agree that UConn pumps in fake crowd noise through the intercom.
https://uconnhuskies.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2019-20/saint-peters-university/boxscore/20326
https://uconnhuskies.com/sports/mens-basketball/stats/2019-20/saint-peters-university/boxscore/20326
A second thought on this: by focusing on their bball program and leaving football to whither on the vine, they are basically abandoning any chance of getting into a P5 conference in the next round of conference realignment. I had long thought that either ACC or B12 expansion might lead to UConn to be invited to join one of those two conferences.
The ACC in particular might offer an opportunity should the powers who govern the college football playoff system make a decision that would render ND irrelevant as an independent, they might be forced to join the ACC for all sports. That could pave the way for UConn to be school #16 in a newly expanded ACC. I can't see that happening now that UConn is abandoning big-time football.
The ACC in particular might offer an opportunity should the powers who govern the college football playoff system make a decision that would render ND irrelevant as an independent, they might be forced to join the ACC for all sports. That could pave the way for UConn to be school #16 in a newly expanded ACC. I can't see that happening now that UConn is abandoning big-time football.
None of the Big East coaches wanted UConn in the conference because Hurley will out recruit them and it ll be a 2 horse conference with UConn and Nova.
The Big East or the Villanova and 9 dwarf league as I call it saw it was slowly dying and the commish and the ADs did the smart thing admitting UConn to preserve the league and to preserve MSG for the BET as UConn will have thousands of fans there.
I worked with some mush mouth UConn grad. Guy constantly dirted RU. Glad they suck.
Leaving AAC was stupid. They have good football and their basketball will surpass the BE soon enough.
If the ACC expands it will be W. Virginia. No brainer.
Leaving AAC was stupid. They have good football and their basketball will surpass the BE soon enough.
If the ACC expands it will be W. Virginia. No brainer.
Got to hand it to Cincy , they have survived
Better than expected
UConn invested all that money for the fb stadium by the airport and now it probably is not needed size wise
Would not be shocked if they drop football in the next decade, that would be the next painful decision
I remember after they beat us two years in a row, Way back when, some of their fans said they had left us in the rear view mirror, meaning their program went past ours for good. Not
Better than expected
UConn invested all that money for the fb stadium by the airport and now it probably is not needed size wise
Would not be shocked if they drop football in the next decade, that would be the next painful decision
I remember after they beat us two years in a row, Way back when, some of their fans said they had left us in the rear view mirror, meaning their program went past ours for good. Not
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No it wouldnt. Our senior citizen season tix holders are as loyal as they come. Just dont dare stand up to cheer or clap during the game if theyre behind you though
Either Temple or Cincy would be the ACC's choice. Temple if the ACC wants a foothold in the Mid-Atlantic that was lost when the B1G raided RU and MD, Cincy if they want to continue branching out in the Midwest. Both have solid athletic programs but Cincy has a better, more loyal fanbase (I know firsthand due to me living in Philly that Temple has terrible fan support for football and only okay support for hoops).
I love watching UConn wither away on the vine. Their fans were and still are the most obnoxious fans in the Big East and that's saying something. They have no class. I hope we never throw them a lifeline by buying a game.
Not going to shed a tear for ConnU. It's a women's basketball school, or so I've heard.
Maybe the men's hoops program will get back to being a top program, or maybe not. There's no inherent advantage to being situated in the no man's land of northeastern CT in terms of fertile recruiting area but it didn't hold them back under Calhoun. A few of the prior BE foes such as PC, SJU, SHU, VU, GU will help rekindle old rivalries, I suppose, but the five midwest schools won't have as much juice.
I think they should have continued trying to make football work in the AAC but maybe they need to ask in to the CAA for football-only membership. Being a football Independent is a tough road to hoe in the current landscape.
Maybe the men's hoops program will get back to being a top program, or maybe not. There's no inherent advantage to being situated in the no man's land of northeastern CT in terms of fertile recruiting area but it didn't hold them back under Calhoun. A few of the prior BE foes such as PC, SJU, SHU, VU, GU will help rekindle old rivalries, I suppose, but the five midwest schools won't have as much juice.
I think they should have continued trying to make football work in the AAC but maybe they need to ask in to the CAA for football-only membership. Being a football Independent is a tough road to hoe in the current landscape.
I guess the issue is Philly/South Jersey TV v Cincy area. WVU would make alotta sense.
Let's just see who shows up for the Caldwell game over break. I suspect there will be a lot of loyal "senior citizen ticket holders" disguised as empty seats!
Philly/South Jersey is a bigger hotbed for recruiting for hoops than Cincy, another selling point for the ACC. Of course if the Big 12 gets raided to the point of extinction, the ACC will just grab WVU and call it a day.
Can’t speak for anyone else but this septegenarian will be there
Dont hold your breath waiting for ND to join that conference for football -- they got a sweetheart deal and are set up for the next 20-30 years
Who do you think might be raiding the B12 and which team/teams would they be going after?
I'm sure WVU would love to move to the ACC if they were invited. They are a better geographical fit with them than with the B12. The ACC always looked down on them before because of academics but then they took Louisville so they can't use that argument any more.
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