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RE: The AAC Post UConn: What Is Your Preference?
(06-22-2019 08:24 PM)dsquare Wrote:  
(06-22-2019 07:56 PM)converrl Wrote:  Smart move for UConn. the FB was rotting and a net loss for their AD. In this reconfiguration, they'll profit by playing elevated competition in MBB and will also benefit from the title IX reduction in women's scholarships for non-revenue sports. Gives them 2 revenue sports they can concentrate on: MBB and WBB.

Elevated competition is a bit of a stretch. They'll play schools closer to them who are not state flagship schools. The bigger issue if you're a Uconn fan is you're a state flagship university who aspired to play a fball schedule, and couldn't pull it off in spite of little competition for talent in the East. There is basically BC and Rutgers up there, and they struggled to put any kind of competitive team on the field in spite of a lot of investment. Their bigger issue is the loss of Jim Calhoun in all of this. Uconn was never Kentucky or Duke pulling in all the top talent. Calhoun made that program and developed kids. The reality is in the AAC or the new Big East they look a lot like St. John's after losing Lou C, or Gtown after JT senior stepped down. Going to a different league is not going to throw holy water on that reality.

They can use the money they save from dropping lodestone FB to hire a real coach--and he'll know that MBB is king at UCONN.
 
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