A fair article from the world's most important newspaper.

"Second-ranked UConn (22-1) competes in a rump league called the American Athletic Conference, or A.A.C., where the level of football is as middling as the league’s finances."
...
"And surely it won’t help if UConn continues to face a disadvantage in its bottom line once he leaves the sideline."
....
“Does every university want to be in a league where you’re getting a check for $30 million just for showing up?” Auriemma said. “The answer would probably be yes, but it’s not anything we can control.”


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/spo...&referrer=

Like this kind of rump:



or this kind of rump:

Rump or Donkey Booty?

(02-08-2015 08:19 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  "Second-ranked UConn (22-1) competes in a rump league called the American Athletic Conference, or A.A.C., where the level of football is as middling as the league’s finances."

Ouch!

Just a note to non-New Yorkers: The NYT sports section is way behind the Daily NEws or Post or even NEwsday. Basically, it's a sports section for people who see themselves as being a little bit "above" interest in sports. About on the level of their coverage of the Kardsashians--a NYT article on them would have to walk the reader through who everyone is and why people are talking about them.

The target audience for a NYT sports section article is only vaguely aware that the Big East broke up and that UConn has a football team, and that somehow Rutgers is now in the Big Ten, but is hazy on the details.

How about this rump



Oh, wait, that's the authors mug.

"Mr. Longman was born in Coronado, Calif., on July 17, 1954, and grew up in Eunice, La. He received his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Louisiana State University in 1976."



Me thinks this poindexter from LSU just has a sick up his arse. He should stick to writing about women's soccer.

By the way, how did Kevin Ollie perform in the footsteps of a legendary coach, in the AAC?

I guess I could address the article.

If(when) Auriemma leaves, UConn will have trouble staying at the top of the WBB mountain. Duh, and the example the writer gives is post-Wooden UCLA.

The next comparison is to the Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters coached by Pat Summit's kid, a non-power conference school that was a WBB power but isn't anymore.

The power conferences have all the money, and the expectation is that they will start further increasing the amounts that they spend.

Nothing in this article is any kind of news to anybody reading this board.

(02-08-2015 10:35 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  Just a note to non-New Yorkers: The NYT sports section is way behind the Daily NEws or Post or even NEwsday. Basically, it's a sports section for people who see themselves as being a little bit "above" interest in sports. About on the level of their coverage of the Kardsashians--a NYT article on them would have to walk the reader through who everyone is and why people are talking about them.

The target audience for a NYT sports section article is only vaguely aware that the Big East broke up and that UConn has a football team, and that somehow Rutgers is now in the Big Ten, but is hazy on the details.

Hilarious description. Only I also wonder why people are talking about the Kardashians.

(02-08-2015 10:35 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  Just a note to non-New Yorkers: The NYT sports section is way behind the Daily NEws or Post or even NEwsday. Basically, it's a sports section for people who see themselves as being a little bit "above" interest in sports. About on the level of their coverage of the Kardsashians--a NYT article on them would have to walk the reader through who everyone is and why people are talking about them.

The target audience for a NYT sports section article is only vaguely aware that the Big East broke up and that UConn has a football team, and that somehow Rutgers is now in the Big Ten, but is hazy on the details.

To be fair, that wouldn't be true of an NYT sports section article on the Giants, or Notre Dame. And that does tell us something about the relative NYC profile of the entities you mention, such as the Big East, AAC, and UConn and Rutgers football.

(02-08-2015 10:57 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 10:35 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  Just a note to non-New Yorkers: The NYT sports section is way behind the Daily NEws or Post or even NEwsday. Basically, it's a sports section for people who see themselves as being a little bit "above" interest in sports. About on the level of their coverage of the Kardsashians--a NYT article on them would have to walk the reader through who everyone is and why people are talking about them.

The target audience for a NYT sports section article is only vaguely aware that the Big East broke up and that UConn has a football team, and that somehow Rutgers is now in the Big Ten, but is hazy on the details.

To be fair, that wouldn't be true of an NYT sports section article on the Giants, or Notre Dame. And that does tell us something about the relative NYC profile of the entities you mention, such as the Big East, AAC, and UConn and Rutgers football.

Minor quibbles--the Notre Dame story probably has to remind the reader that, although they've been off the radar for two decades, they did make the national title game recently.

Articles on Big East basketball (old or new) would probably also assume familiarity, but also assume that the reader has already read that day's Daily News and Post sports sections. (In other words, the general NYT reader probably isn't reading today's article on the St Johns-Creighton game. The reader of that article is a pretty hardcore sports-news fan.)

EDIT: I guess there's a split in NYT sports articles between ones they want/expect everybody to read (those articles need a primer for the non-sports audience) and the ones they expect sports fans to read, if they've already read their main sources and are still looking for more.

Jere Longman seems more the Timesman writing stories that would interest the non-sports fan. Joe Paterno, Aaron Hernandez, Hope Solo, cities competing for the Olympics, a marathon next year in Pyongyang.

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/...pe=article

The NY Slimes is only read by liberal elites who look down on college football and BBQ ribs.

(02-08-2015 11:24 AM)UConn-SMU Wrote:  The NY Slimes is only read by liberal elites who look down on sports and BBQ ribs.

Thank you for summarizing my longwinded discussion. Minor fix.

(02-08-2015 08:19 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  A fair article from the world's most important newspaper.

I stopped reading here. New York is so much tired old past. Texas is the future.

(02-08-2015 08:19 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  A fair article from the world's most important newspaper.

"Second-ranked UConn (22-1) competes in a rump league called the American Athletic Conference, or A.A.C., where the level of football is as middling as the league’s finances."
...
"And surely it won’t help if UConn continues to face a disadvantage in its bottom line once he leaves the sideline."
....
“Does every university want to be in a league where you’re getting a check for $30 million just for showing up?” Auriemma said. “The answer would probably be yes, but it’s not anything we can control.”


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/spo...&referrer=

And this is news to anybody who watches college sports... why???...exactly?

Except for a handful of delusional types who think the AAC is a "major"/power conference, most of the rest of the world knows what the AAC is. And that is reflected in the small amount of compensation the conference gets.

Perhaps this columnist needs to be awarded the "Captain Obvious" award.

(02-08-2015 08:19 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  A fair article from the world's most important newspaper.

"Second-ranked UConn (22-1) competes in a rump league called the American Athletic Conference, or A.A.C., where the level of football is as middling as the league’s finances."
...
"And surely it won’t help if UConn continues to face a disadvantage in its bottom line once he leaves the sideline."
....
“Does every university want to be in a league where you’re getting a check for $30 million just for showing up?” Auriemma said. “The answer would probably be yes, but it’s not anything we can control.”


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/spo...&referrer=

(02-08-2015 12:49 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 08:19 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  A fair article from the world's most important newspaper.

"Second-ranked UConn (22-1) competes in a rump league called the American Athletic Conference, or A.A.C., where the level of football is as middling as the league’s finances."
...
"And surely it won’t help if UConn continues to face a disadvantage in its bottom line once he leaves the sideline."
....
“Does every university want to be in a league where you’re getting a check for $30 million just for showing up?” Auriemma said. “The answer would probably be yes, but it’s not anything we can control.”


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/spo...&referrer=

And this is news to anybody who watches college sports... why???...exactly?

Except for a handful of delusional types who think the AAC is a "major"/power conference, most of the rest of the world knows what the AAC is. And that is reflected in the small amount of compensation the conference gets.

Perhaps this columnist needs to be awarded the "Captain Obvious" award.

Yes, only among AAC fanboys would any of this be controversial.

(02-08-2015 05:46 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 12:49 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 08:19 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  A fair article from the world's most important newspaper.

"Second-ranked UConn (22-1) competes in a rump league called the American Athletic Conference, or A.A.C., where the level of football is as middling as the league’s finances."
...
"And surely it won’t help if UConn continues to face a disadvantage in its bottom line once he leaves the sideline."
....
“Does every university want to be in a league where you’re getting a check for $30 million just for showing up?” Auriemma said. “The answer would probably be yes, but it’s not anything we can control.”


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/spo...&referrer=

And this is news to anybody who watches college sports... why???...exactly?

Except for a handful of delusional types who think the AAC is a "major"/power conference, most of the rest of the world knows what the AAC is. And that is reflected in the small amount of compensation the conference gets.

Perhaps this columnist needs to be awarded the "Captain Obvious" award.

Yes, only among AAC fanboys would any of this be controversial.

OR if someone wanted to troll AAC fans.

(02-08-2015 06:10 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 05:46 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 12:49 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 08:19 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  A fair article from the world's most important newspaper.

"Second-ranked UConn (22-1) competes in a rump league called the American Athletic Conference, or A.A.C., where the level of football is as middling as the league’s finances."
...
"And surely it won’t help if UConn continues to face a disadvantage in its bottom line once he leaves the sideline."
....
“Does every university want to be in a league where you’re getting a check for $30 million just for showing up?” Auriemma said. “The answer would probably be yes, but it’s not anything we can control.”


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/spo...&referrer=

And this is news to anybody who watches college sports... why???...exactly?

Except for a handful of delusional types who think the AAC is a "major"/power conference, most of the rest of the world knows what the AAC is. And that is reflected in the small amount of compensation the conference gets.

Perhaps this columnist needs to be awarded the "Captain Obvious" award.

Yes, only among AAC fanboys would any of this be controversial.

OR if someone wanted to troll AAC fans.

Bait-trolling is one of BE4evah's favorite hobbies. Mods on here encourage.it.

(02-08-2015 06:18 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 06:10 PM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 05:46 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 12:49 PM)BearcatJerry Wrote:  

(02-08-2015 08:19 AM)BE4evah Wrote:  A fair article from the world's most important newspaper.

"Second-ranked UConn (22-1) competes in a rump league called the American Athletic Conference, or A.A.C., where the level of football is as middling as the league’s finances."
...
"And surely it won’t help if UConn continues to face a disadvantage in its bottom line once he leaves the sideline."
....
“Does every university want to be in a league where you’re getting a check for $30 million just for showing up?” Auriemma said. “The answer would probably be yes, but it’s not anything we can control.”


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/spo...&referrer=

And this is news to anybody who watches college sports... why???...exactly?

Except for a handful of delusional types who think the AAC is a "major"/power conference, most of the rest of the world knows what the AAC is. And that is reflected in the small amount of compensation the conference gets.

Perhaps this columnist needs to be awarded the "Captain Obvious" award.

Yes, only among AAC fanboys would any of this be controversial.

OR if someone wanted to troll AAC fans.

Bait-trolling is one of BE4evah's favorite hobbies. Mods on here encourage.it.

You have a very valid point....

I don't buy UConn's demise.

The program has too much tradition in basketball. Its a school that completely owns its state athletically, unique among any Eastern based G5 school.

The AAC isn't one of the top basketball conferences in the country but most analysts would still consider it a major basketball conference. If you look at the basketball budgets across the conference it certainly is.