UConn - Nightmare article from NY Times

[NJRedman]

jebus - the ncaa tourney is about to get rolling

we have an NIT game tonight to discuss

and instead we decided to go all in on Stever today?

that dude is more than double the number of posts as number 2 poster - and pushing 10% of the total posts on this board

stop engaging him!

7000K or bust!

hahahahaha Dude i'm dying right now! I don't know how you got into stevers moms house to take that pic but I love it!

[ecasadoSBU]

Connecticut will be fine. I don't appreciate all the shytting that Connecticut gets on these boards. Same way that Connecticut fans talk trash about the current Big East when there is no reason to. It's B.S

I think Connecticut can wait around to another college shift occurs. Ultimately I think schools like Northwestern and Boston College need to be bounced from the Power-5. They don't compete at that level and never will. My hope is that Connecticut could squeeze in then or hopefully before that in the next round of expansion

[NJRedman]

Connecticut will be fine. I don't appreciate all the shytting that Connecticut gets on these boards. Same way that Connecticut fans talk trash about the current Big East when there is no reason to. It's B.S

I think Connecticut can wait around to another college shift occurs. Ultimately I think schools like Northwestern and Boston College need to be bounced from the Power-5. They don't compete at that level and never will. My hope is that Connecticut could squeeze in then or hopefully before that in the next round of expansion

Can they wait around when they are costing the state millions of dollars every year? They deserve all the chit they take since they were one of us BBall schools but left us to side with the FB schools. Once they switched sides they were looking for a way out and courting the ACC along with all the other traitors. They are getting what they deserve.

[ecasadoSBU]

Connecticut will be fine. I don't appreciate all the shytting that Connecticut gets on these boards. Same way that Connecticut fans talk trash about the current Big East when there is no reason to. It's B.S

I think Connecticut can wait around to another college shift occurs. Ultimately I think schools like Northwestern and Boston College need to be bounced from the Power-5. They don't compete at that level and never will. My hope is that Connecticut could squeeze in then or hopefully before that in the next round of expansion

Can they wait around when they are costing the state millions of dollars every year? They deserve all the chit they take since they were one of us BBall schools but left us to side with the FB schools. Once they switched sides they were looking for a way out and courting the ACC along with all the other traitors. They are getting what they deserve.

geez. People here don't realize that schools and their programs are trying to do what's best for them. What do you think this is? Some sort of unbreakable marriage? Connecticut wanted to play football at the highest level. They invested the money and as a state school wanted to represent the state of Connecticut in Division I-A BCS Football. There is no foul there. They chose football and decided to jump.

When they saw the whole Big East break up they did what they naturally had to do. try to move to another Football conference... and thankfully the Big East baskeball schools did what they had to do. Reform the league which I'm very happy about. I'm glad how it has turned out for the Big East schools.

If St. John's played football and was a state school they would've done exactly the same.

People here are caught up in some moral bullshyt without realizing that Sports has a competitive and business aspect to it.

I'm the number 1 defender of the Big East in the-boneyard because I love Big East basketball and what it stands for. I always back it up. But I'm not gonna take the same shitty arguments from the other side crapping on Connecticut for wanting to play Division I football.

[FriarJ]

Another AAC versus the world thread, Yippee!

[NovaBall]

Connecticut will be fine. I don't appreciate all the shytting that Connecticut gets on these boards. Same way that Connecticut fans talk trash about the current Big East when there is no reason to. It's B.S

I think Connecticut can wait around to another college shift occurs. Ultimately I think schools like Northwestern and Boston College need to be bounced from the Power-5. They don't compete at that level and never will. My hope is that Connecticut could squeeze in then or hopefully before that in the next round of expansion

think most people know that UConn hoops will be fine. They are going to dominate that crap conference they are in.

But from a fan's perspective, they aren't going to be fine as they play in a disaster of a conference. Their fans are hating their opposition, they are no longer in the national conversation.

It just makes too much sense for them to drop football and re-join the big east. And if they are willing to commit to a 10 year deal with the Big East, I'm willing to take them back. The question is when/if they will realize that football at this point is just a sunk cost and is hurting their school.

[ecasadoSBU]

Connecticut will be fine. I don't appreciate all the shytting that Connecticut gets on these boards. Same way that Connecticut fans talk trash about the current Big East when there is no reason to. It's B.S

I think Connecticut can wait around to another college shift occurs. Ultimately I think schools like Northwestern and Boston College need to be bounced from the Power-5. They don't compete at that level and never will. My hope is that Connecticut could squeeze in then or hopefully before that in the next round of expansion

think most people know that UConn hoops will be fine. They are going to dominate that crap conference they are in.

But from a fan's perspective, they aren't going to be fine as they play in a disaster of a conference. Their fans are hating their opposition, they are no longer in the national conversation.

It just makes too much sense for them to drop football and re-join the big east. And if they are willing to commit to a 10 year deal with the Big East, I'm willing to take them back. The question is when/if they will realize that football at this point is just a sunk cost and is hurting their school.

Connecticut has a sizable football fanbase. Some of you talk about dropping football like there wont be any repercussions. It's not as easy as it sound. Connecticut football has fans, a bunch of donors, and immense state support for the past 15 years. Are you simply going to tell the State that we just going to drop football after funding a stadium for the program and numerous infrastructure improvements in campus. IT'S NOT THAT EASY!

Connecticut was packing the house 40k every game less than a decade ago. They definitely have the potential to draw and this is why such a tough decision to give up on football.

There is a bunch of bright people in this board and somehow ya can't realize this?

Dropping football will NOT happen, at least not in a while. They will continue burning money with the hopes of getting to a P5... and to be honest there is a ton of football playing schools outside of the Power-5 that would like to be in Connecticut's position so it's not the end of the world

I personally do not support dropping football either. Connecticut football has a lot of potential. It can represent the state in the Power-5 like other state schools across America. They just need to keep pushing and lobbying and hopefully they can fit in a power-5 one of these days

[ChestRockwell85]

I was at Stout in NYC right by the Garden before the Big East finals on Saturday and UConn fans were there watching their game against Temple (great turnout by the way AAC!) and they were the loudest, bunch of assbags I have ever had to deal with in my life. Making so many stupid comments, "THE AAC IS THE REAL BIG EAST!" and basically starting fights with people. All fans from the Big East there, drinking, having a good time, and UConn loud mouths were literally ruining it for people. F UCONN!

I don't like us talking about them on the board because #1, WE DON'T NEED THEM, and #2, I am going to enjoy watching them NEVER get scooped up by a Power 5 conference and wither away into nothing.

SUCK IT UCONN!

[NovaBall]

ecad,I understand the UConn position and don't disagree with your post. But if they did take a step back and looked at it from an outsiders view they would see the harm they have done to their school and that there is an easy solution.

And I'm not like the angry st john's fan. I know they made a move that they thought was best for them. Thing is, it turned out to be a disaster.


And gumby, the only reason you would hear a UConn fan bash the big east is because they are jealous that they got left ou tin the cold. All the other big east schools either found their way to good football ocnferences or they ended up in the new big east which is awesome. Meanwhile they are in the worst possible situation, and they are angry and upset.

I know a bunch of UConn fans. I don't know a single UConn football fan, and all the ones I know would love to return to the Big East.

[GoldenWarrior11]

Reading some of the comments/attacks on the other board, I remember why I stopped posting there.

Every topic where the Big East is mentioned, you have the UConn/AAC crowd getting incredibly defensive and then attempt to discredit and devalue the Big East at every turn. Whether it's the fact we don't have football to "prop-up" basketball, or the lack of ESPN, or the lack of public school alumni, or the lack of tournament success, there's always some topic they beat to death that just makes little sense. Eventually, it turns to denial/rejection, where they not only dismiss the Big East as being a top basketball conference, it then turns into how the AAC is superior for the reasons listed above (not to mention how the C7 is evil and prevented the new Big East/AAC schools from entering a power football conference for so many years...). Utterly hopeless to have rational conversations over there.

Having said that, if Connecticut gets left out of a Big 12 expansion (with Cincinnati/BYU being possibly added) - there will be a MASSIVE freakout on the Boneyard/Realignment boards. UConn would have then been left out of three separate realignment cycles - and everyone knows that the ACC (BC) and B1G (AAU) won't be calling them anytime soon. Couldn't happen to a nicer fan base, IMO.