UConn returning to the Big East

[ehh]

This is surreal. Our seven-year stay in purgatory finally has an end date.





Wild that this story leaked late on a Friday night.

[NYJets]

Re: UConn returning to the Big East

Huge improvement in Conference tournament.

Besides that I'm indifferent at best. Much like the American there's like 3 teams I'm excited to play, and they are teams we have been scheduling ooc anyway.

[ehh]

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I wouldn't say I'm excited to play everyone, but outside of DePaul I'll look forward to every conference game. Annual home-and-homes with Nova and GTown will be awesome. Playing Providence, Seton Hall, and Marquette as second tier/less intense rivals is a hell of a lot more exciting than playing Temple, Wichita State, and SMU. I cared about no one in the AAC; I was never excited for a game in six years. Cincinnati didn't do it for me, neither did Memphis. Even the more traditional mid-major types like Butler, Xavier, and Creighton are at least basketball schools; those will be fun games for me.

The big pieces here are that the days of playing several conference games in front of 3,000 fans will be over. No more football schools whose fanbases don't care about basketball. I'm excited to not be 1,000 miles away from 2/3 of the damn conference. I'm thrilled to go to the BET at MSG again. This should also make recruiting significantly easier for Hurley.

[TripleCrown9]

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Man, possibly joining that MAC in football. If they don't win that conference, it ain't worth it.

[ehh]

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Man, possibly joining that MAC in football. If they don't win that conference, it ain't worth it.

I believe by most metrics we are the worst football program in America. I think we were the worst defensive team in the history of college football last year (I don't know for sure, I'm not a CFB fan, but I recall seeing that on Twitter).

I wouldn't be surprised if they were a middle of the pack team in the MAC, at best.

[TripleCrown9]

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I believe by most metrics we are the worst football program in America. I think we were the worst defensive team in the history of college football last year (I don't know for sure, I'm not a CFB fan, but I recall seeing that on Twitter).

I wouldn't be surprised if they were a middle of the pack team in the MAC, at best.

Oh I know. I just have it stuck in my mind that a decade ago, this team was in the Fiesta Bowl. And now they're probably gonna be playing Eastern Michigan on a Tuesday night on ESPNU.

[KG]

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Welcome back ehh!


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[jake44np]

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I wouldn't say I'm excited to play everyone, but outside of DePaul I'll look forward to every conference game. Annual home-and-homes with Nova and GTown will be awesome. Playing Providence, Seton Hall, and Marquette as second tier/less intense rivals is a hell of a lot more exciting than playing Temple, Wichita State, and SMU. I cared about no one in the AAC; I was never excited for a game in six years. Cincinnati didn't do it for me, neither did Memphis. Even the more traditional mid-major types like Butler, Xavier, and Creighton are at least basketball schools; those will be fun games for me.

The big pieces here are that the days of playing several conference games in front of 3,000 fans will be over. No more football schools whose fanbases don't care about basketball. I'm excited to not be 1,000 miles away from 2/3 of the damn conference. I'm thrilled to go to the BET at MSG again. This should also make recruiting significantly easier for Hurley.

I would agree with everything you said above except the part of AAC schools care more about football then basketball. Name one. All of the "banner" AAC schools care way more about basketball.
UC, Memphis, Temple, Houston.
The exception is probably UCF.
Man after looking at the schools in the AAC again, UConn should be excited to leave that ****ty conference.

[ehh]

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I would agree with everything you said above except the part of AAC schools care more about football then basketball. Name one. All of the "banner" AAC schools care way more about basketball.
UC, Memphis, Temple, Houston.
The exception is probably UCF.
Man after looking at the schools in the AAC again, UConn should be excited to leave that ****ty conference.

I guess I should consider myself lucky to be a bit ignorant in that area.

I thought every school in the AAC except maybe Temple undoubtedly cared more about football.

[jake44np]

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I work in Cincy and i can tell you for sure UC is a basketball school, not a football school.
Also i am for certain that Memphis is the same way.

[phenom1990]

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Houston is a football school, they said sometime in the last couples year 9-3 isn't good enough LOL.

[jerwoods]

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I would agree with everything you said above except the part of AAC schools care more about football then basketball. Name one. All of the "banner" AAC schools care way more about basketball.
UC, Memphis, Temple, Houston.
The exception is probably UCF.
Man after looking at the schools in the AAC again, UConn should be excited to leave that ****ty conference.

the AAC is 6TH in football they have philly memphis tulsa baltmore ciny tampa orlando houton dallas nice size citys

uconn did improve their hoops but killed their football program winch is ok but the worse part is ESPN will ignore u guys in basketball i hope u have SNY cause if not u wont see a lot of uconn woman bball ex for march

[NYJets]

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the AAC is 6TH in football they have philly memphis tulsa baltmore ciny tampa orlando houton dallas nice size citys

uconn did improve their hoops but killed their football program winch is ok but the worse part is ESPN will ignore u guys in basketball i hope u have SNY cause if not u wont see a lot of uconn woman bball ex for march

Yea but in the AAC we would have rarely been real ESPN and would have been playing a ton on ESPN+. One of the reasons they did this deal I believe was so they could use SNY for the women's team. Most of that fanbase wasn't going to figure out streaming.

I've gotten more excited about this. It's not the old Big East but it will be nice to no longer play games at 9:30 in empty road arenas with some announcers they could have just pulled off the street and nobody would know

For football, we'll see, they seem optimistic they can put together a schedule maybe more appealing than the American was. I don't know if it will in any way help turn things around but it can't get worse than its been.

[JHamilton9]

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the AAC is 6TH in football they have philly memphis tulsa baltmore ciny tampa orlando houton dallas nice size citys

uconn did improve their hoops but killed their football program winch is ok but the worse part is ESPN will ignore u guys in basketball i hope u have SNY cause if not u wont see a lot of uconn woman bball ex for march

FOX does have a contract with the Big East, so I expect more true rivalry games to be shown on their networks. Plus, the UConn women will definitely help their women's hoops ratings.

[anonymous42]

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Financial suicide.