(09-29-2019 09:20 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  As to UC "pulling a UConn" and joining the BE for all sports but hoops ... I would be militantly opposed to that. Cincy is as good as it is in basketball, to an extent, because it sponsors DI football (and is actually rather solid at it). Same for Memphis. "My schools" are doing the best they can (and doing it fairly well) in a non-power league. Stay the course, UC and UM. But be cool and classy and wish UConn well, understanding that this move for the Husky athletic program makes sense.

I'm not sure about that. The two peaks for Cincy hoops, the turn of the 60s when they went to a bunch of final 4s and won national titles, and the Huggins explosion of the 90s, their football was pretty wretched, not worth mentioning.

There just doesn't seem to be any connection between the success of Cincy hoops, which goes back a long ways, and their football, which didn't play its first bowl game until 1997.