OT: Let's check-in on UConn football...

[Roy_Faulker]

Saw on the scroll UT had a bunch of TO for TDs. Bad.

Still can’t believe that program went to the BCS over us. SMH. How the mighty have fallen lol.

 

[bigmatt718]

Saw on the scroll UT had a bunch of TO for TDs. Bad.

Still can’t believe that program went to the BCS over us. SMH. How the mighty have fallen lol.

You could argue that UConn going to the BCS killed BE football when they brought 50 fans and a goat to be slaughtered by Oklahoma in Phoenix.

 

[Knight Shift]

Maybe we're calling the wrong school the "French Whores".

We need a ruling from @DJ Spanky here.

 

[shields]

Tennessee scored again.

 

[DJ Spanky]

Maybe we're calling the wrong school the "French Whores".

We need a ruling from @DJ Spanky here.

Nope, they didn't stab their conference mates in the back while whoring themselves out for money.

 

[Knight Shift]

 

[Leonard23]

 

[Rhuarc]

They're better than their record, but need better players to beat those teams they play. That's some word twister right there.

 

[bigmatt718]

No Jim, your record is what you are. You're 2-9 and could easily lose to UMass to finish 2-10 as one of the worst FBS programs in the nation. Just quit or drop down to FCS already.

 

[Joey Bags]

After the 2020 cancelled season they should have just shut down the football program and dumped the excess capital into basketball. Scrap PAWSARF and sell the land to a developer and put the proceeds into a basketball NIL fund.

 

[PSAL_Hoops]

No Jim, your record is what you are. You're 2-9 and could easily lose to UMass to finish 2-10 as one of the worst FBS programs in the nation. Just quit or drop down to FCS already.

Well I just finished making a case how record doesn’t tell the whole story - but that would only be the case if UConn had played a somewhat tough schedule and lost a bunch of close games to decent teams. Nope - in this case 2-9 serves as a perfect metric of what UConn is - a horrible team that played a soft schedule. One FBS win and blow out losses to all the decent teams.

 

[Colbert17!]

They should probably go back to the AAC for football only. The conference just accepted Army for just football and that would give them a NE partner.

 

[Colbert17!]

UConn 2-9
East Carolina 2-9

Weren't these two of the guys that posters were saying we should have hired?

 

[RuNutz]

UConn 2-9
East Carolina 2-9

Weren't these two of the guys that posters were saying we should have hired?

And a pair of 2-9's who don't play in the B1G 10 East

 

[Doctor Worm]

They should probably go back to the AAC for football only. The conference just accepted Army for just football and that would give them a NE partner.

There is absolutely zero chance that the AAC would accept UConn as football only.

 

[Colbert17!]

There is absolutely zero chance that the AAC would accept UConn as football only.

Just a thought

 

[DJ Spanky]

They should probably go back to the AAC for football only.

That would be the best thing that they could do, but I doubt the AAC wants them for football only.

 

[ScarletDave]

UConn is in the Big East now for almost every sport. You don’t see Georgetown, Villanova, Marquette, St Johns trying this ridiculous football experiement. Put the team in the Patriot league with Nova and Georgetown, or shut it down. Ridiculous waste of money for that school to have a high school team out there playing in a sterile stadium an hour outside their campus.

 

[cicero grimes]

Had we not gotten the b1g invite we might be having similar conversations on out board. Thank God we started planning a move up and invested in the program to make it happen.

 

[wheezer]

UConn is in the Big East now for almost every sport. You don’t see Georgetown, Villanova, Marquette, St Johns trying this ridiculous football experiement. Put the team in the Patriot league with Nova and Georgetown, or shut it down. Ridiculous waste of money for that school to have a high school team out there playing in a sterile stadium an hour outside their campus.

Just a thought

That's the problem for UConn.
And they knew they would have this football problem the moment they went to the big East

They made the decision that basketball was way more important than football, for them
They knew if they got into the big east, basketball would thrive, football would suffer as an independent

It was not a shock what Happened .
They hoped somehow they could still recruit FB players, playing an independent slate with some good teams

They had one semi successful season that way, but long term it would be a bunch of 2-9 seasons

No decent league wants them for football only , and the big East doesn't want them for basketball only

So they are stuck, and they knew this would happen
But basketball was just too important

 

[RUforlife]

UConn is in the Big East now for almost every sport. You don’t see Georgetown, Villanova, Marquette, St Johns trying this ridiculous football experiement. Put the team in the Patriot league with Nova and Georgetown, or shut it down. Ridiculous waste of money for that school to have a high school team out there playing in a sterile stadium an hour outside their campus.

Those are other schools are private institutions, UConn is the state flagship university and therefore deals with a lot of state and local politics. The decisions the administration makes often involve compromises among competing interests and that can result in very short sided and disastrous moves.

 

[ru66]

He does have a valid point , If you don't help football by giving $ you have less justification for bitching.

 

[Knight Shift]

He does have a valid point , If you don't help football by giving $ you have less justification for bitching.

If things move in the direction it appears that they will with revenue sharing from the conferences to the players, that presents a problem for UConn, which is on an island without a conference affiliation. For the B1G and SEC, that may take the NIL onus off the fans, but they will still be asked to contribute in other areas as they have for years, such as building facilities, etc.

 

[mdh2003]

If things move in the direction it appears that they will with revenue sharing from the conferences to the players, that presents a problem for UConn, which is on an island without a conference affiliation. For the B1G and SEC, that may take the NIL onus off the fans, but they will still be asked to contribute in other areas as they have for years, such as building facilities, etc.

The Connies created their own problems the second they moved up.

No history, no recruiting grounds, no fan base, no facilities, no money. It’s a minor miracle (or extremely stupid) that they lasted this long in the top league. But…keep trying morons. Sure is fun seeing the bills and the losses pile up, lol.

 

[ru66]

The Connies created their own problems the second they moved up.

No history, no recruiting grounds, no fan base, no facilities, no money. It’s a minor miracle (or extremely stupid) that they lasted this long in the top league. But…keep trying morons. Sure is fun seeing the bills and the losses pile up, lol.

Not too long ago there were those that screamed that UCONN did everything right and dumped on our football program. Uconn football was destined to be the next Michigan-- boy has thatnot worked out.

 

[wheezer]

He does have a valid point , If you don't help football by giving $ you have less justification for bitching.

Money won't make UConn. A top football program
If a recruit has a choice, and the money were equaled by UConn, The player still goes elsewhere

 

[ru66]

Money won't make UConn. A top football program
If a recruit has a choice, and the money were equaled by UConn, The player still goes elsewhere

Without $ they have no chance.

 

[bryanjints]

Had we not gotten the b1g invite we might be having similar conversations on out board. Thank God we started planning a move up and invested in the program to make it happen.

Something at Rutgers deserves Mulcahy's name on it for this alone. Rutgers would look vastly different if he didn't start the ball rolling when he did.

 

[LotusAggressor_rivals]

Ouch.

 

[LotusAggressor_rivals]

Something at Rutgers deserves Mulcahy's name on it for this alone. Rutgers would look vastly different if he didn't start the ball rolling when he did.

And the Star Ledger ran him out his job for it.

 

[wheezer]

Without $ they have no chance.

To be honest, there is no path to greatness in football for them

They would have to way overpay a great football Player, and even that might not do it, he goes to a conference team

If they want to be a very good football team they have to be in a conference, and it looks like it will never happen

 

[wisr01]

And the Star Ledger ran him out his job for it.

 

[ScarletDave]

Something at Rutgers deserves Mulcahy's name on it for this alone. Rutgers would look vastly different if he didn't start the ball rolling when he did.

I disagree that we’d end up like UConn - a football team destined for FCS with all other sports prioritized. 1) the Big East would have never taken us back and we wouldnt have won the national championshio as soon as we got in.
2) we’d be like USF, a forgotten school in the AAC which is the 20-years-ago CUSA. No school spirit for sure. Maybe, we would have even considered joining the Ivy League. They invited us twice already. Most of our facilities besides football stadium are Ivy-sized anyway. And even the Yale Bowl, Harvard and Princeton have decent stadiums. Who knows.

 

[DJ Spanky]

And the Star Ledger ran him out his job for it.

That's because Drunky McCormick had no spine.

 

[mdh2003]

Not too long ago there were those that screamed that UCONN did everything right and dumped on our football program. Uconn football was destined to be the next Michigan-- boy has thatnot worked out.

Oh I remember. One dipshit that called himself doga2. Dog huh? Lol, ok. Connie lover from the get-go and ultimate Connie apologist. He had some here fooled. Not me.

Then we had that weirdo mod of their’s, PudgeF. That lunatic - always with the FUD campaign against RU and GS. Yeah, that worked out great, haha.

Good riddance to both of those goofballs. Enjoy yourself boys - you‘re getting what you deserve…a **** program for a **** school for **** fans.

 

[Knight Shift]

 

[onesimus_rivals]

I contributed to have this printed! Remember there being a ton of "issues" with the Star Ledger not printing it where/when we paid the ad to be.

 

[MADHAT1]

I contributed to have this printed! Remember there being a ton of "issues" with the Star Ledger not printing it where/when we paid the ad to be.

Here's a nice read about how the Star Liar lied about the program
https://www.onthebanks.com/2008/08/03/keep-digging-that-hole

 

[MADHAT1]

Here's a nice read about how the Star Liar lied about the program
https://www.onthebanks.com/2008/08/03/keep-digging-that-hole

around 4 years after the above article was put out, this one was needed because of the Star Ledgers yellow journalism

The Star-Ledger's anti-Rutgers football agenda - On the Banks
>Let's step back for a second with everything going on at the moment. Literally billions of dollars are at stake with the UMDNJ merger, the Rutgers-Camden merger, and the new Rutgers president. What does the Star-Ledger choose to focus on in the midst of this? Why, Rutgers football of course, That is...rather strange considering that the athletic subsidies are comparatively a rounding error next to the literal billions in bioscience research funds that are at stake, and those subsidies largely aren't going to football anyway. In the midst of all of this, instead of you know, focusing on the billions of dollars at stake, the Star-Ledger is demanding accountability for the pocket change in beween the cushions of the couch. Not just in one, but in two separate stories, digging out disgraced journalist Ted Sherman (who infamously destroyed the Ledger's credibility in 2008 by printing repeated falsehoods with the help of partner in crime Josh Margolin) out of the mothballs to help pen the other hit screed.<



https://www.onthebanks.com/2012/4/11/2942620/the-star-ledgers-anti-rutgers-football-agenda

 

[Knight Shift]