Uconn to BE

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On 4/3/2023 at 9:06 PM, UofMTigers said:

I guess everyone gets an opinion but Mora's been fired from 3 straight jobs...I guess 6-7 is the new 13-0.

Edit: he's making 1.5 Million while Liberty was paying their HC 4.9 million.

I’m just responding to your original statement - that they were just giving up.

Just because they left a conference where they had nothing in common with any of the schools, you assumed they were giving up. If you follow the program, you know it’s been quite the opposite. They’ve invested pretty heavily in facilities in all sports (football too) and coaching. Your opinion of Jim More not withstanding. 

[UofMTigers]

On 4/3/2023 at 11:14 PM, babigos said:

I’m just responding to your original statement - that they were just giving up.

Just because they left a conference where they had nothing in common with any of the schools, you assumed they were giving up. If you follow the program, you know it’s been quite the opposite. They’ve invested pretty heavily in facilities in all sports (football too) and coaching. Your opinion of Jim More not withstanding. 

going Indy means you will never make the Access Bowl or Playoff...that's giving up to me.

[UofMTigers]

I mean, like Tommy West said when he was fired (he's a good dude) you either have to get serious or just kill it off...

 

[Wyobraska]

On 4/3/2023 at 10:19 PM, UofMTigers said:

going Indy means you will never make the Access Bowl or Playoff...that's giving up to me.

But they can win basketball Nattys and there is another round of realignment left to play out that will most likely impact East Coast schools, so UConn might have options in the future for football as well.  

[UofMTigers]

On 4/3/2023 at 11:26 PM, Wyobraska said:

But they can win basketball Nattys and there is another round of realignment left to play out that will most likely impact East Coast schools, so UConn might have options in the future for football as well.  

honestly UConn/UMass to the MAC as football-only makes a lot of sense...prolly so much sense it'll never happen.

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On 4/3/2023 at 9:19 PM, UofMTigers said:

going Indy means you will never make the Access Bowl or Playoff...that's giving up to me.

You’re assuming they want to stay Indy forever. They made a tough gamble leaving the AAC, which seems to have paid off for them.  

Also, Mora has  made the goal of getting into the ACC quite clear. One can only assume the UConn AD sold that to Mora when he recruited him there.  BC is the school that’s standing in their way. Now wether that happens or not, is debatable. 

[SalinasSpartan]

On 4/3/2023 at 9:19 PM, UofMTigers said:

going Indy means you will never make the Access Bowl or Playoff...that's giving up to me.

My opinion when it all went down was that they were putting themselves in the best possible position in case the ACC invite never came, while still leaving the door open for that ACC invite. The fact that they even bothered to stay at the FBS level showed to me that they were NOT giving up.

[jdgaucho]

On 4/3/2023 at 9:29 PM, UofMTigers said:

honestly UConn/UMass to the MAC as football-only makes a lot of sense...prolly so much sense it'll never happen.

 

What's in it for the MAC?

[UofMTigers]

On 4/3/2023 at 11:59 PM, jdgaucho said:

 

What's in it for the MAC?

hopefully a bump in TV money but honestly I believe they walked this path before with UMass and there may be bad blood.

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On 4/3/2023 at 9:59 PM, jdgaucho said:

 

What's in it for the MAC?

Or UConn for that matter?

I’m pretty confident in saying this - UConn and UMass have no desire to be in the MAC. They’d rather be indi than go that route. 

[Wyobraska]

On 4/3/2023 at 11:03 PM, babigos said:

Or UConn for that matter?

I’m pretty confident in saying this - UConn and UMass have no desire to be in the MAC. They’d rather be indi than go that route. 

I'd take UConn's upcoming schedule over a MAC schedule any day of the week.

[jdgaucho]

On 4/3/2023 at 10:02 PM, UofMTigers said:

hopefully a bump in TV money but honestly I believe they walked this path before with UMass and there may be bad blood.

 

UMass did walk the path before and left / given the boot because they were unwilling to join as a full member.  They didn't want to leave A10 hoops.

[just_chris]

On 4/3/2023 at 10:03 PM, babigos said:

Or UConn for that matter?

I’m pretty confident in saying this - UConn and UMass have no desire to be in the MAC. They’d rather be indi than go that route. 

At the end of the day U Conn is and will always be a basketball school, I remember when they started their football program and none of the other traditional BE schools had one. Obviously Rutgers, Miami and VA Tech did but they were all later additions to the conference. Georgetown has one but they're lower division as does Villanova. 

I'm not sure that ACC invite will ever come and I think based on people I know in Connecticut they've accepted their lot in life and are fine with things the way they are. They did play in a Fiesta Bowl I think it was but I'm guessing they'd prefer to win titles in hoops as opposed to being a middling team in the ACC

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On 4/3/2023 at 11:15 PM, just_chris said:

At the end of the day U Conn is and will always be a basketball school, I remember when they started their football program and none of the other traditional BE schools had one. Obviously Rutgers, Miami and VA Tech did but they were all later additions to the conference. Georgetown has one but they're lower division as does Villanova. 

I'm not sure that ACC invite will ever come and I think based on people I know in Connecticut they've accepted their lot in life and are fine with things the way they are. They did play in a Fiesta Bowl I think it was but I'm guessing they'd prefer to win titles in hoops as opposed to being a middling team in the ACC

There in lies the tail of 2 fan bases at UConn. Football and basketball. Although the fan base for basketball is a lot bigger, there are some influential alumni that would love nothing more than all sports to be in the ACC. It’s honestly the best fit, IMO. All of UConn’s biggest rivals are already there. 

[Spaztecs]

On 4/4/2023 at 12:15 AM, just_chris said:

At the end of the day U Conn is and will always be a basketball school, I remember when they started their football program and none of the other traditional BE schools had one. Obviously Rutgers, Miami and VA Tech did but they were all later additions to the conference. Georgetown has one but they're lower division as does Villanova. 

I'm not sure that ACC invite will ever come and I think based on people I know in Connecticut they've accepted their lot in life and are fine with things the way they are. They did play in a Fiesta Bowl I think it was but I'm guessing they'd prefer to win titles in hoops as opposed to being a middling team in the ACC

It will come when the Big ACC names get picked off.

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On 4/3/2023 at 11:25 PM, Spaztecs said:

It will come when the Big ACC names get picked off.

Absolutely will 

[SalinasSpartan]

On 4/3/2023 at 11:25 PM, Spaztecs said:

It will come when the Big ACC names get picked off.

It’s funny too because while I’m sure UConn would love to be in a conference with schools like UNC and UVA, the schools they would probably be most excited to share a conference with are their old conference-mates; and none of them are getting poached.

[SharkTanked]

On 4/2/2023 at 8:52 AM, Slapdad said:

This is probably the only instance or one of the very few where football isn’t driving the bus.

Found this interesting...

 

[Pelado]

On 2/17/2017 at 9:16 PM, UofMTigers said:

everyone in the AAC wants to get to a P5, we all simply accept that...but a basketball conference?

I'll admit I'm sour at the UConn fans...as I said earlier, I really did want to like them...playing new teams like Temple, Navy, and UConn appealed to me...but those salty fans, they are something else.

I even stated earlier losing UConn while adding WSU Olympic sports and UMass all-sports would NOT be an even trade...I simply feel it's survivable for the AAC.

that said, had the AAC lost Cincy to the Big 12 and then UConn to the BE...THAT would be a crippling blow IMHO. 

 

On 4/2/2023 at 11:56 AM, UofMTigers said:

all they had to do is put a good team out there and they could have gone back to Fiesta Bowl out of the AAC but they're a hoops school and that's all they want to be...and that's OK, for them. With Cincy, Houston, UCF leaving it would have been an even easier decision for them to make IMHO.

If losing Cincinnati and UConn would have been a crippling blow in your opinion, how do you describe losing Cincinnati, UConn, Houston, and UCF?

 

On 4/3/2023 at 10:19 PM, UofMTigers said:

going Indy means you will never make the Access Bowl or Playoff...that's giving up to me.

It's not technically impossible to reach the playoff as an independent though it is more difficult without an automatic bid as a conference champion.  Also, just because a team goes independent in football, doesn't necessarily mean that it will always be independent in football.

[rebelcuff]

On 4/4/2023 at 12:26 AM, UofMTigers said:

I mean, like Tommy West said when he was fired (he's a good dude) you either have to get serious or just kill it off...

 

Actually came off well. I remember when UNLV fired Mike Sanford and it didn't come out that well.