Best of luck to UConn. Their basketball may flourish. But I see no future in football except maybe at the FCS or DII level. And maybe that's what they want?

(06-24-2019 08:33 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 08:25 AM)The Knight Time Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 08:22 AM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  

(06-24-2019 08:17 AM)The Knight Time Wrote:  

(06-23-2019 04:10 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  Im sad to see UCONN go. Big loss to the AAC.

I know many of you are acting like its not but it is.

For those of us where football is king, no, it's not a big loss. It's not even relevant.

We are losing the consistently worst program in the conference whose fans and Admin care so little about football, they just decided to nuke their football program so that they can cling to past glory of a conference "called" the Big East.

Literally any program we choose to insert as #12 will have a better program and better commitment to football than UConn.

correct, on the football side, it is not a loss at all and they are EASILY replaced.

The problem is, basketball, which is a sport that anybody can win a natty, just took a major hit.

UCONN realized two things and acted on it:
1. Their football sucks, and that isn't changing.
2. Hoops in the AAC sucks, its seen as mid major and their brand was higher than the conference perception. So they moved to a conference that has a better perception. The Big East has a much better brand perception top to bottom than the AAC.
I don't blame them for the move.

Playing dregs of the Big East means St. Johns, Providence, Seton Hall, etc. Playing the dregs of the AAC means Tulsa, Tulane, ECU, and USF (last year aside).

the AAC dregs are low major on paper and just perception killers. St. Johns, Providence etc., while not 'big names' are bigger than our dregs. And its not even close.

So UCONN said football is rigged, our program is in a college football wasteland and the conference we are in has zero shot at they playoff , so screw it. Let's play to our strengths.

It was a great move for them and a MAJOR hit to our hoops.

Ok, so be it. UCF earned an at large bid this year and it had absolutely nothing to do with UConn. We can surely find another high quality basketball school like we did with Wichita.

Football is far more important than CBB nationally and this will allow us to upgrade in football, so it's great for the AAC really.

this will only be true if a big name is added for football (think BYU or Boise). If all we do is back-fill with Georgia State, or Southern Miss, etc., though on the field they are better than UCONN, perception wise, it won't help in football and in hoops will even be more of an anchor.

The only way the AAC comes out of this half-way decent perception wise is to add a name football program and that is basically BYU or Boise and then a solid hoops add like VCU or Dayton.

That's it.

Again, I am talking only about football.

And within that scope, it's impossible to not come out with a better perception when replacing UConn with some other program. UConn was worse than tons of FCS teams in most years.