(06-24-2019 01:50 PM)usffan Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 01:47 PM)usffan Wrote:  Since this topic was about staying at 11 and scheduling, has anybody seen anything about how a future 11 team conference would do this? If it's a single division (which I don't think we can do given the apparent rules that the stipulations are either round robin schedule or two divisions, and we're never doing a 10 game conference schedule), it's easy - just play 8 teams every year (not unlike basketball). If it's 2 divisions, it gets funky. Presuming we keep the divisions the same, then the West goes on like it did - playing 5 division games and 3 games vs. a East teams. The East gets a little bit strange, though. The only way I see this working out is if 3 of the teams play 4 games vs. West teams and 2 teams play a home/home to get to 8 games. I suppose they could rotate that (who plays the home/home every year), but that really seems suboptimal...

USFFan

Or, as another option, we do a deal with Army/BYU where they agree to play 2 games/year against rotating East division teams to replace that home/home that would count in the standings as conference games for those two teams, and as part of that agreement, they join our bowl coalition (but not be eligible for any NY6/playoff bowl).

USFFan

Hard pass from me. Either go all in for football or nothing at all. I do not want them in the AAC bowl pool by just playing 2 AAC teams a year. A 7 win BYU will take one of the best AAC craptastic bowls vs a P5 and delegate a 8 or 9 win AAC team to a game vs a G4

(06-22-2019 03:58 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  UCONN's not having any problems with football scheduling. Probably a big reason why we're leaving.

That has nothing to do with why you're leaving. Your admin assumed they could park football in the AAC. They obviously haven't given any thought to what to do with football, b/c it's secondary.

You're leaving b/c basketball attendance and donations are decreasing, and basketball fans, who apparently make up about 90% of your fan base, are complaining, so admin thinks playing some regional games against a few of the OBE rivals, and playing the tourney in MSG, will turn that around. That and the SNY deal so fans don't have to stream, but I bet a lot of those WBB games would have been on ESPN TV and not ESPN+, anyway.

What really puzzles me is how you plan to stick with FBS football, which was bleeding the most money, and somehow not lose more now.

I'n not anti-UConn, I was happy your BB was in the AAC. But all that stuff makes me scratch my head.

(06-24-2019 02:10 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 01:57 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 01:56 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 01:50 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(06-23-2019 08:01 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Buncha liarfaces. 7 2020 recruits.

These 4: https://www.theuconnblog.com/2019/6/11/1...ss-of-2020

And 3 more today posted by Edsall on twitter (waiting on their announcements).

We also now have the nicest locker room in FCS:

Bet the Fraser family is livid about now...

Doubtful. Their family locker room is now our #1 recruiting tool.

it won't matter

I'm all for you guys going to the BE as I think its a great move for hoops, but let's be real on football...the move was your school signalling the white flag. You guys may look at FCS down the road (if you can...I heard your stadium deal with the state mandates you remain FBS...if so, that is going to be painful).

Ain't no recruit sayin no to those lockers. 5*s gonna be like Alabama-who?

You really should stop drugging your recruits on visits.

(06-24-2019 02:10 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 01:57 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 01:56 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 01:50 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(06-23-2019 08:01 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Buncha liarfaces. 7 2020 recruits.

These 4: https://www.theuconnblog.com/2019/6/11/1...ss-of-2020

And 3 more today posted by Edsall on twitter (waiting on their announcements).

We also now have the nicest locker room in FCS:

Bet the Fraser family is livid about now...

Doubtful. Their family locker room is now our #1 recruiting tool.

it won't matter

I'm all for you guys going to the BE as I think its a great move for hoops, but let's be real on football...the move was your school signalling the white flag. You guys may look at FCS down the road (if you can...I heard your stadium deal with the state mandates you remain FBS...if so, that is going to be painful).

Ain't no recruit sayin no to those lockers. 5*s gonna be like Alabama-who?

Those looks like seats on a space ship...that rockets players all the way to the FCS.