(05-08-2013 12:19 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(05-08-2013 09:41 AM)DonnyMost Wrote:  I'm worried that the next 10 years will not be kind to USF and UConn.

Are you saying that you think the next 10 years will be ok for UC, but bad for USF and UConn? I'm curious why you don't think that it will be bad for UC as well.

It may be, but I think it will be worse for USF/UConn.

I think people are burying UConn basketball too early. Kevin Ollie seems like a good recruiter and coach. Plus a handful of non power conference teams have been consistently good over the years, Xavier, Temple, Memphis, Gonzaga. Plus UConn has been a power for longer than the recruits have been alive, which helps, wish Cal stayed at UMass for that long or Brusier Flint was more like Ollie. It is still the same distance from the NYC recruiting grounds.

WHY worse for USF and UConn only? Expound please.

(05-09-2013 07:55 PM)indydoug Wrote:  WHY worse for USF and UConn only? Expound please.

Worse for whichever one somebody thinks is least likely to get a call up to the Big12 when their GOR gets closer to expiring. I wouldn't put any money on any given scenario, since so much depends on performance in getting to the Access Bowls and then winning some of them, but I would not be at all surprised if its UC and USF that get the reprieve right about the end of the current decade.

(05-08-2013 12:19 PM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  

(05-08-2013 09:41 AM)DonnyMost Wrote:  I'm worried that the next 10 years will not be kind to USF and UConn.

Are you saying that you think the next 10 years will be ok for UC, but bad for USF and UConn? I'm curious why you don't think that it will be bad for UC as well.

Its gonna be even worse for Cincinnati. Back to reality.

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(05-11-2013 09:57 AM)goodknightfl Wrote:  Phone rings..... Hello.... Hello.... Sorry Sir dialed wrong #.

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(05-08-2013 10:08 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(05-08-2013 09:58 AM)JunkYardCard Wrote:  

(05-08-2013 09:41 AM)DonnyMost Wrote:  I'm worried that the next 10 years will not be kind to USF and UConn.

UConn's problem is even more complicated because of basketball. They have a premier basketball program, and they risk sacrificing that in order to salvage mediocrity in football. UConn is not nearly as attractive to basketball recruits without the C7 being on the schedule.

I'm not even sure UConn still has a premier basketball program. That program is kind of like Virginia Tech's in football: the total accomplishment of one great coach who built it up from nothing.

UConn has to prove that Calhoun institutionalized that success so that it will outlive him, an iffy thing.

Just like a certain program I root for before and after Guy Lewis.