You’re missing the real travesty here guys... No more Civil ConFLiCT.

UConn is stupid they gave up:

Any chance of ever getting into a better conference.

Must pay 10milliin dollar exit fee, more to leave before 27months.

Get paid less in Big East, I hope they make them phase in to full share.

Get no share of CFPO, NY6 invites, or bowl tie-ins.

Now get the priviledge to loose home and home FB games to Liberty and New Mexico State annually.

(06-22-2019 05:29 PM)spenser Wrote:  UConn is stupid they gave up:

Any chance of ever getting into a better conference.

Must pay 10milliin dollar exit fee, more to leave before 27months.

Get paid less in Big East, I hope they make them phase in to full share.

Get no share of CFPO, NY6 invites, or bowl tie-ins.

Now get the priviledge to loose home and home FB games to Liberty and New Mexico State annually.

Maybe they want to go all in on basketball. The problem is that Syracuse, Boston College, Pitt, WVU, and Notre Dame are long gone.

(06-22-2019 03:49 PM)Golden Jedi Knight Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 03:10 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 02:47 PM)Golden Jedi Knight Wrote:  I think both the American and UConn will be better off if UConn stays. I understand that UConn's men's basketball is struggling right now, but good grief, it's only been 5 years since their last national title! Any other program that the American could realistically add from the G5 right now (some school from C-USA, I suppose) would not have UConn's men's basketball history. I'm also doubting how much interest the Big East has in UConn; if there was really enough interest, and if they knew UConn was going to say "yes," and if both UConn and the Big East could make a lot more money from it, wouldn't the Big East have already extended an invitation?

Multiple major news outlets have confirmed it's a done deal, likely to be announced next Thursday.

Beyond that, I would say it's bad for the AAC in basketball, but good for the AAC in football.

For UConn, it's probably good for basketball, and bad for football.

I've read some of the news sources out there. I can't find any confirmation, but certainly, many people are saying the move to the Big East is probably going to happen. In the Hartford Courant, there's an article I found with a quote from Hartford mayor Luke Bronin saying that a move to the Big East could revitalize the downtown area. A Yahoo! article reports that Pete Thamel's sources believe a UConn move will happen. We'll just have to wait and see, but UConn leaving wouldn't exactly be surprising.

https://www.espn.com/college-sports/stor...n-big-east

https://sports.yahoo.com/sources-u-conn-...00471.html

I could go on. How much confirmation do you really need? Yes, the Big East actually wants UConn.

Dumb move by UConn. The BE is a fine basketball conference but so is the American. As Billy Joel said, you can never go back there again. Goodbye Husky football.

Where are all the Aresco defenders and his massive contract relative to what AAC schools are paid? You know the Cinci admin is has a lot of conversations as well right now. This guy is the biggest fraud in all of sports. He has accomplished absolutely nothing that a first yeAr sports management student could not have done. NOTHING!!! UConn is going to basically throw away their FBall investments for their hate of the AAC.

(06-22-2019 07:23 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  Where are all the Aresco defenders and his massive contract relative to what AAC schools are paid? You know the Cinci admin is has a lot of conversations as well right now. This guy is the biggest fraud in all of sports. He has accomplished absolutely nothing that a first yeAr sports management student could not have done. NOTHING!!! UConn is going to basically throw away their FBall investments for their hate of the AAC.

How is a terrible self destructive decision by UConn admin the fault of Aresco? As for Cincinnati they may want out but are smart enough to wait to move up , not stomp out like a petulant child.

(06-22-2019 07:23 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  Where are all the Aresco defenders and his massive contract relative to what AAC schools are paid? You know the Cinci admin is has a lot of conversations as well right now. This guy is the biggest fraud in all of sports. He has accomplished absolutely nothing that a first yeAr sports management student could not have done. NOTHING!!! UConn is going to basically throw away their FBall investments for their hate of the AAC.

Huh?

Wolken's take, seems to agree with most of us here.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/co...-C1PUTGv4s

(06-22-2019 07:28 PM)Chappy Wrote:  Wolken's take, seems to agree with most of us here.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/co...-C1PUTGv4s

"They’re acknowledging that they have screwed up so bad the last half-decade in football that the only way they can save their athletic department is to cut and run from a conference that’s actually trying to compete with the big boys."

Can't argue with that.

(06-22-2019 07:26 PM)vick mike Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 07:23 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  Where are all the Aresco defenders and his massive contract relative to what AAC schools are paid? You know the Cinci admin is has a lot of conversations as well right now. This guy is the biggest fraud in all of sports. He has accomplished absolutely nothing that a first yeAr sports management student could not have done. NOTHING!!! UConn is going to basically throw away their FBall investments for their hate of the AAC.

How is a terrible self destructive decision by UConn admin the fault of Aresco? As for Cincinnati they may want out but are smart enough to wait to move up , not stomp out like a petulant child.

How is it not? What else is he paid for....oh right a ten year contract and crap bowls. UConn has been worse than Tulane when u consider the value of FBall vs Bball and he could not keep them from leaving. This is the beginning of the end of this conference. Watch.

(06-22-2019 07:28 PM)Chappy Wrote:  Wolken's take, seems to agree with most of us here.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/co...-C1PUTGv4s

The Huskies should drop football. Only ND can make it as an independent and they have a scheduling deal with the ACC . It would be unwise to continue football outside of the P5 /AAC . Who going to play them home and home ? UMASS , Army and who else ?

(06-22-2019 07:35 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 07:26 PM)vick mike Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 07:23 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  Where are all the Aresco defenders and his massive contract relative to what AAC schools are paid? You know the Cinci admin is has a lot of conversations as well right now. This guy is the biggest fraud in all of sports. He has accomplished absolutely nothing that a first yeAr sports management student could not have done. NOTHING!!! UConn is going to basically throw away their FBall investments for their hate of the AAC.

How is a terrible self destructive decision by UConn admin the fault of Aresco? As for Cincinnati they may want out but are smart enough to wait to move up , not stomp out like a petulant child.

How is it not? What else is he paid for....oh right a ten year contract and crap bowls. UConn has been worse than Tulane when u consider the value of FBall vs Bball and he could not keep them from leaving. This is the beginning of the end of this conference. Watch.

It is not the end of the conference. It is all an ongoing process. One day the top MWC schools and B12 leftovers will merge with the AAC. The P5 is not taking anyone else. The only movement will be Texas to the Big 10 and OU to the SEC. Kansas and maybe OK State have an outside shot . The P5 will look to reduce their ranks not add more mouths to feed. Greed is a powerful thing.

I've said elsewhere...its a great move for them. They get back to NE hoops, they play teams they give a rats about, and the Big East is a power conference. Does it strike the final blow for football, sure, but lets be honest, their football program is DOA anyway.

(06-22-2019 07:23 PM)wavefan12 Wrote:  Where are all the Aresco defenders and his massive contract relative to what AAC schools are paid? You know the Cinci admin is has a lot of conversations as well right now. This guy is the biggest fraud in all of sports. He has accomplished absolutely nothing that a first yeAr sports management student could not have done. NOTHING!!! UConn is going to basically throw away their FBall investments for their hate of the AAC.

How do I say something nicely here? Tulane has some work to do.

(06-22-2019 07:54 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  I've said elsewhere...its a great move for them. They get back to NE hoops, they play teams they give a rats about, and the Big East is a power conference. Does it strike the final blow for football, sure, but lets be honest, their football program is DOA anyway.

They see the writing on the wall. There football is horrible and they have no talent in the region. They get away from a few programs in the AAC that have no interest in playing major sports. There is a core group in the AAC that cares though. Guessing UConn will be FCS soon and they can focus on hoops.

(06-22-2019 07:54 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  I've said elsewhere...its a great move for them. They get back to NE hoops, they play teams they give a rats about, and the Big East is a power conference. Does it strike the final blow for football, sure, but lets be honest, their football program is DOA anyway.

What is dead may never die, UConn football new motto

(06-22-2019 08:04 PM)TheBigEastSucks Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 07:54 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  I've said elsewhere...its a great move for them. They get back to NE hoops, they play teams they give a rats about, and the Big East is a power conference. Does it strike the final blow for football, sure, but lets be honest, their football program is DOA anyway.

What is dead may never die, UConn football new motto

"This ain't Amsterdam, Mike. This is a sellers market. Football is f***ing dead as... dead. Big East basketball, UCONN's coming back in a big f***ing way."

(06-22-2019 02:44 PM)Joprior23 Wrote:  

(06-22-2019 02:24 PM)EvilLore Wrote:  I feel legit bad for their football fanbase, because that program is now officially dead, buried and never coming back. It also means that any fleeting hopes of a P5 invite are permanantly over as well. Sucks for them.

I've never seen a school slit their own throat for an olympic sport. It's fascinating to watch.

Let’s be honest, they were probably 5th on the list in terms of expansion into a P5, maybe 6th.

UH, Cincy, Memphis, UCF, USF (because of UCF), and then UCONN. If the AAC gets raided, which it probably will, then UCONN would be screwed. I still think they could have gone back to the Big East whenever they wanted, however.

The fact that you the think UCF is 4th on that list is comical.