UCONN is the last old Big East team (prior to 2004) in AAC. Without UCONN, AAC membership would be like:

UCF
Cincy
ECU
Memphis
USF
SMU
Temple
Tulane
Tulsa
Houston
Witchta

Now compare this list with the old Conference USA:

UCF
Cincy
ECU
Memphis
USF
SMU
Tulane
Tulsa
Houston
DePaul
Marqutte
St louis
Louisville
TCU

I wonder if this will cause Wichita to have second thoughts?

(06-22-2019 07:54 PM)Wolfman Wrote:  I wonder if this will cause Wichita to have second thoughts?

WSU seemed more excited about playing Tulsa and Houston, tbh.

I wonder if the AAC replaces UConn, or stands pat.

There are a bunch of better football options ... but not many better hoops options.

BYU would be a home run. But I doubt the AAC could snag them.


It will be interesting to watch.

(06-22-2019 07:20 PM)random asian guy Wrote:  UCONN is the last old Big East team (prior to 2004) in AAC. Without UCONN, AAC membership would be like:

UCF
Cincy
ECU
Memphis
USF
SMU
Temple
Tulane
Tulsa
Houston
Witchta

You left out Navy.

(06-22-2019 10:10 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 07:20 PM)random asian guy Wrote:  UCONN is the last old Big East team (prior to 2004) in AAC. Without UCONN, AAC membership would be like:

UCF
Cincy
ECU
Memphis
USF
SMU
Temple
Tulane
Tulsa
Houston
Witchta

You left out Navy.

I am counting full members only.

(06-22-2019 10:23 PM)random asian guy Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 10:10 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 07:20 PM)random asian guy Wrote:  UCONN is the last old Big East team (prior to 2004) in AAC. Without UCONN, AAC membership would be like:

UCF
Cincy
ECU
Memphis
USF
SMU
Temple
Tulane
Tulsa
Houston
Witchta

You left out Navy.

I am counting full members only.

Wichita is not a full member.

Seems like the biggest winners from this is BC and SU. I know UConn plans on going Independent in football and stay in FBS, but let’s be real, they basically de-emphasized football even more. If there were any recruits that BC and SU wanted from UConn, then I think it now becomes much easier to get their commits.

(06-22-2019 11:39 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 10:23 PM)random asian guy Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 10:10 PM)ChrisLords Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 07:20 PM)random asian guy Wrote:  UCONN is the last old Big East team (prior to 2004) in AAC. Without UCONN, AAC membership would be like:

UCF
Cincy
ECU
Memphis
USF
SMU
Temple
Tulane
Tulsa
Houston
Witchta/NAVY

You left out Navy.

I am counting full members only.

Wichita is not a full member.

Every sport Wichita sponsors competes in the AAC. Was Seton Hall or St John's in the OBE a partial member? But I get your point. Most people would conisder Wichita and Navy as a combo.

(06-22-2019 09:05 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote:  I wonder if the AAC replaces UConn, or stands pat.

Speaking of "I wonder"...

...I wonder if UConn will ever admit that suing the ACC was a really stupid move in retrospect.

I mean, I don't think the ACC was ever going to invite UConn into the country club, but being sued pretty much slam dunked any thoughts of that happening.

Dumb a$$e$.

(06-22-2019 12:45 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  - This shows the football block in the ACC (FSU/CU/VT/GT/NCST) couldn't be overcome
- Boston College got its most demanded item as membership of the ACC: the sole program in New England at the P5 level.
- Cincinnati will be a winner in public perception, though their position is unchanged
- UCONN was unable to field a competitive AAC level football product, and is only falling further behind. Randy Edsall is owning that last name pretty hard. It will be interesting to see if he is hired as a lower level defensive assistant at GT. He is from the O'Leary coaching tree and was (IIRC) a LB coach under O'Leary.

Edsall was the Defensive Coordinator on the 1998 team that went 10-2.
Side note: Geoff Collins came on in 1999 as a Graduate Assistant

For hoops (MBB and WBB), UConn is obviously making the right decision and I don’t blame them at all for bailing out.

But for football, this is a suicide note. I don’t know how much money UConn poured into football the past 20 years, but... they’ll never get one penny of it back.

(06-22-2019 11:20 AM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote:  Wow.

I read all that kind of speculation about UConn to the Big East on these boards, but never really thought it would be pursued.

As far as the ACC goes, I think this is UConn waving the white flag.

Cincy just lost it's biggest competitor (from the AAC at least) for a spot in the ACC.

I don’t think so – which is why I think UConn is making the right decision here. I think if there’s ever an opening in the ACC, UCF is at the front of that line, followed by USF, then Cincinnati.

(06-23-2019 03:39 PM)Native Georgian Wrote:  For hoops (MBB and WBB), UConn is obviously making the right decision and I don’t blame them at all for bailing out.

But for football, this is a suicide note. I don’t know how much money UConn poured into football the past 20 years, but... they’ll never get one penny of it back.

But they do have the Fiesta Bowl appearance where they got slaughtered. Did they go to that game at 8-4 or something preposterous?

(06-23-2019 06:57 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  But they do have the Fiesta Bowl appearance where they got slaughtered. Did they go to that game at 8-4 or something preposterous?

8-4, exactly.

UConn football at the FBS-level is so brief that you can easily list their entire season-by-season history in that level:
1999: FCS
2000: 3-8. Independent.
2001: 2-9. Independent.
2002: 6-6. Independent.
2003: 9-3. Independent.
2004: 8-4, 3-3 BE Beat Toledo in Motor City Bowl
2005: 5-6, 2-5 BE.
2006: 4-8, 1-6 BE.
2007: 9-4, 5-2 BE Lost/Wake Forest: Meineke CarCare Bowl
2008: 8-5, 3-4 BE Beat Buffalo in International Bowl
2009: 8-5, 3-4 BE Beat Sou Carolina in PapaJohnscom Bowl
2010: 8-5, 5-2 BE Lost/Oklahoma in Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
2011: 5-7, 3-4 BE.
2012: 5-7, 2-5 BE.
2013: 3-9, 3-5 AAC.
2014: 2-10, 1-7 AAC.
2015: 6-7, 4-4 AAC Lost/Marshall in St. Petersburg Bowl
2016: 3-9, 1-7 AAC.
2017: 3-9, 2-6 AAC.
2018: 1-11, 0-8 AAC Allowed 50.42 ppg. None of the games went into OT

(06-22-2019 07:20 PM)random asian guy Wrote:  UCONN is the last old Big East team (prior to 2004) in AAC. Without UCONN, AAC membership would be like:

UCF
Cincy
ECU
Memphis
USF
SMU
Temple
Tulane
Tulsa
Houston
Witchta

Now compare this list with the old Conference USA:

UCF
Cincy
ECU
Memphis
USF
SMU
Tulane
Tulsa
Houston
DePaul
Marqutte
St louis
Louisville
TCU

While all those schools were in CUSA at one point, some of those schools were not in the conference together. For example-- Cincinnati, Louisville, TCU, USF, Marquette, and DePaul were not in the conference when Tulsa, SMU and UCF were members. UC, UL, Marquette and DePaul were charter members in 1995, but ECU did not join until 2001. Those charter schools left after the 2004 season. TCU was only in the conference from 2001-2005.

Hell Yes... UCONN to the BIG East and UCONN FB can re start there UMAS rivilary in the who give a crap bowl

UCONN football ... coming soon to the Colonial.

(06-24-2019 09:40 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  UCONN football ... coming soon to the Colonial.

Maybe in the next 20 years when everybody's egos are sufficiently knocked down, these conferences/schools will get serious about re-aligning geographically.

There really should be a middle-layer division that is below P5 of course and a combo of G5 and the higher-levels of D1AA. They can develop a legit national championship playoff for that middle layer.

Seriously, a good middle-division FB conference could be developed for example in the Northeast that includes the northern wing of the Colonial...UConn, UMass, Maine, Rhode Island, Stony Brook, Albany, New Hampshire, Villanova, and perhaps Buffalo (from the MAC). Similar geographical-friendly FB conferences could be developed in the Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Great Lakes (combining a lot of the MAC with some of the better Mizzou Valley Conference programs), etc.

Unfortunately, it will never happen because D1 CFB is really F'd up and the higher-level G5 programs will possibly never truly get it that they aren't welcome into the P5 country clubs...and, never will be.