(07-02-2019 09:57 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(07-02-2019 09:29 AM)usffan Wrote:  

(07-02-2019 09:16 AM)johnbragg Wrote:  

(07-02-2019 09:06 AM)usffan Wrote:  

(07-02-2019 08:56 AM)Native Georgian Wrote:  I think UCONN is simply all-in on the Big East at this point and will do what it has to do to make that a reality as of 01st July 2020. Whatever negative consequences accrue to the football program is something that the football program will simply have to deal with.

I agree with this. Now that it's all out in the open, I think the view will be to rip this band-aid off and get on with life, so whatever the cost, it will largely be a one time thing that the new administration can pretty much pin on Herbst and settle into their new normal.

USFFan

I don't know--I think their vague idea is to "try" indy or G5(4) football for a couple of years before pulling the plug and saying "well we tried."

I'm not sure that the AD would survive rolling out a schedule that doesn't comply with FBS requirements for 4 FBS home games and 8 FBS games total out of 11. I'm not sure if UConn would get a 2-year waiver at that point, or just get knocked down to FCS?

I guess I wasn't clear. I don't think they pull the plug on football after this season. But they will be gone from the AAC by July 1 next year, regardless of what that means for football, and even if that means paying schools to break OOC games to split with UConn to get to a schedule that works. Others have posted examples, but paying both Liberty and Bowling Green to cancel their game so that UConn can play both of them gets them to 5 FBS games. Could do the same with New Mexico State and Texas State. Now you're at 7. Offer to go play a game for free at any school playing at Hawaii (which earns them a 13th game). Voila, 8 games.

USFFan

Expensive, but that might be doable. I was mentally excluding the possibily that they'd fill their schedule the way Liberty did, by writing big checks. But it worked for Jerry's Kids, so why not?

Looks like they may have a spare $10MM now that they won't be paying Kevin Ollie's buyout, which could be used to deal with some of this...

https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-men...story.html

(of course, if they were interested in using basketball to fix football problems, we wouldn't be having this conversation in the first place...)

UConn will almost certainly start their second Big East tenure on probation...

USFFan