Whatever, like I said I was not trying to debate ECU in this thread. But I highly doubt we would be only 1 game better if we would have played your weak schedule. Also I do not think Pitt is a sure win against anybody.

Maybe if you played that "weak" schedule, you to would be 5-0 and in the Top 35. Purdue's schedule is also "weak" and they're getting hype in a battle of Top 25 teams vs Ohio State. I would take 5-0 and 35th or undefeated and ranked #23 with a "weak" schedule over bragging about getting my head kicked in vs a "strong schedule".

Also, please do not try to build up a terrible Duke team in an effort to make your # 129 ranked schedule look better. You know the sad thing about your weak a** schedule is that Duke probably is the best team you have played this year.

You remind me of MWC fans. They brag and brag about playing a "tough" schedule, while putting down other's schedules. But would you rather have Purdue's schedule and be #23 and Connecticut's schedule and be #34 and undefeated, or would you rather have 3 losses against a "strong" schedule and be forced to rip someone else's schedule?

ECU-DMB Fanatic Wrote:

CatsClaw Wrote:You may not like the non-BCS label that was thrown out, but it's silly to try and act like Connecticut has never done anything. Connecticut is doing just fine. Heck, you guys are the same ones who were saying that about USF just a few years ago, and look at them now. Meanwhile, if Connecticut wins at Virginia next week there is a very good chance they'll be in the Top 25. They're doing just fine.

Like I said in my prior post, I did not mention ECU and I was not trying to get into a debate about who was a better team and never inferred that UCONN "has never done anything" or that they were not "doing just fine". He also did not use the term non-BCS, he said "Mid-Major".

I was just calling out the fact that a this point and time a UCONN fan has no right to look down his nose at a team like Utah and call them "Mid-Major" and act shocked that they could beat a down Louisville team.

No where in my post did I ever try to infer that ECU was superior to any team and that was not my intention. You are the one that turned this into some argument involving ECU and UCONN

I use ECU as a reference point because you have insinuated that UConn is only playing well because of a weak schedule, while on the flip side ECU fans have bragged about their schedule in the past. My point is, would you rather have 3 losses against a "strong" schedule or be 5-0 and in the Top 25 or knocking on the door of the Top 25 with a "weak" schedule. Whether you're upset about UConn fans thumbing their noses down at Utah, the bottomline is that UConn is 34th in the country and undefeated in a BCS conference with 4 ranked teams. Thus, they have a pretty solid reputation.

Utah, my Grandmother's Alma Mater, is undefeated all time vs. the the band of rabble currently using the moniker "Big L'East". 7-0 as I recall. 3-0 vs. Loserville, alone. So the Utes got that going for them. Such as it is...

You guys are posers that got exposed.

You reap what you sow.

You build a House of Cards and it's bound to come down at some point.

BlazingGoat Wrote:Utah, my Grandmother's Alma Mater, is undefeated all time vs. the the band of rabble currently using the moniker "Big L'East". 7-0 as I recall. 3-0 vs. Loserville, alone. So the Utes got that going for them. Such as it is...

You guys are posers that got exposed.

You reap what you sow.

You build a House of Cards and it's bound to come down at some point.

Man you're a creative one, cue car crash now.

What ???? Because this is a Big East board I am precluded from calling out BS ???? Whatever.......

I never said that. I said that you should expect comments like that on a Big East board. I see that on the C-USA board all the time.

While it is impressive to be 5 - 0 no matter who you play you would have to admit they have not played a quality team yet. If we would have played similar schedule I feel like we would have a similar record.

Have you see Purdue's schedule? Arizona State's? Heck, I admit, UC's isn't exactly the strongest in the world and neither was Michigan State's prior to the Wisconsin game. But you win the game that you should and you get put where you belong. By the way, it's debatable whether ECU would have had the same record. ECU has problems of their own.

Since you decided to bring ECU into the conversation (mind you I never mentioned ECU) lets compare schedules. Based on the Sagarin Ratings UCONN's schedule ranks #129 and ECU's schedule ranks #14.

Actually you brought ECU into to it as well claiming that ECU would have the same record as UConn and then comparing ECU's schedule to UConn's. The bottomline? What is your record? Because the media, when talking about undefeated teams, never said "oh, and don't forget ECU! "They may be 2-3, but they played a hell of a schedule!" SOS = Excuses for losing.

Time will tell as they have a chance to prove themselves on the field but as of right now they have not done anything impressive.

Who cares whether or not they have impressed you. The bottomline is winning and becoming bowl eligible. They are a young program.

Just think it is rather comical that a UCONN fan would refer to another team as "Mid-Major"

Yet it's not comical for a C-USA fan to call out UConn? I like C-USA, but come on, you guy have been atrocius the last few years.

Duke 1 - 4
Maine 1 - 3
Temple 0 - 5
Pittsburgh 2 - 3
Akron 2 - 3

Enough said....


Yet they're receiving Top 25 votes and are ahead of all of the C-USA teams. As you said, Enough said. . . .

BlazingGoat Wrote:Utah, my Grandmother's Alma Mater, is undefeated all time vs. the the band of rabble currently using the moniker "Big L'East". 7-0 as I recall. 3-0 vs. Loserville, alone. So the Utes got that going for them. Such as it is...

You guys are posers that got exposed.

You reap what you sow.

You build a House of Cards and it's bound to come down at some point.

I find it amusing that you need you use your grandmother's alma mater in order to have a decent team to root for.

CatsClaw, If Cincy was still in CUSA, you would be saying the same as the ECU & Memphis fan. If you haven't noticed, ECU has improved over the past 2 years. Don't get all high & mighty on me since your school was fortunate enough to get in the BCS club. Cincy is on the upswing at the moment, but it doesn't take much to fall to the bottom of the pile, just ask the Louisville fans, BCS or no BCS.

CatsClaw Wrote:

BlazingGoat Wrote:Utah, my Grandmother's Alma Mater, is undefeated all time vs. the the band of rabble currently using the moniker "Big L'East". 7-0 as I recall. 3-0 vs. Loserville, alone. So the Utes got that going for them. Such as it is...

You guys are posers that got exposed.

You reap what you sow.

You build a House of Cards and it's bound to come down at some point.

I find it amusing that you need you use your grandmother's alma mater in order to have a decent team to root for.

Was answering the comments previous in the thread about how bad or how good Utah is. Apparently they are good enough.

I have a decent team to root for--my Alma Mater, UAB. We may not have the record to show for it, but we have heart.

Though for a little TV enjoyment on a Friday Night against Loserville, I'm always happy to get on the Ute Train with Granny!

P.S. If UAB had won the Orange Bowl last year (I know, I know, Haha) I still wouldn't be strutting around like I owned the place.

Brick City Pirate Wrote:CatsClaw, If Cincy was still in CUSA, you would be saying the same as the ECU & Memphis fan. If you haven't noticed, ECU has improved over the past 2 years. Don't get all high & mighty on me since your school was fortunate enough to get in the BCS club. Cincy is on the upswing at the moment, but it doesn't take much to fall to the bottom of the pile, just ask the Louisville fans, BCS or no BCS.

You're missing my point. I understand being upset with him, but going after UConn's history is hypocritical. If you're going to be upset with someone for thumbing their noses down at someone that's one thing, but then don't thumb your nose down at someone in the same post, the way they did to Connecticut. It's a double-edged sword there.

Wilkie01 Wrote:

BlazingGoat Wrote:Welcome back to the Bush League, Loserville.

This ain't welfare. You aren't entitled to anything. When are you guys going to learn...?

Cute black shirts last night. Very intimidating.

Kiss my ass!

How about not letting one CUSA poster be an excuse to bring back the CDOA stuff. Most of the CUSA posters here are bringing legit conversation to this thread so no need to bad mouth the conference because of this guy. It's too easy.

BlazingGoat Wrote:

CatsClaw Wrote:

BlazingGoat Wrote:Utah, my Grandmother's Alma Mater, is undefeated all time vs. the the band of rabble currently using the moniker "Big L'East". 7-0 as I recall. 3-0 vs. Loserville, alone. So the Utes got that going for them. Such as it is...

You guys are posers that got exposed.

You reap what you sow.

You build a House of Cards and it's bound to come down at some point.

I find it amusing that you need you use your grandmother's alma mater in order to have a decent team to root for.

Was answering the comments previous in the thread about how bad or how good Utah is. Apparently they are good enough.

I have a decent team to root for--my Alma Mater, UAB. We may not have the record to show for it, but we have heart.

Though for a little TV enjoyment on a Friday Night against Loserville, I'm always happy to get on the Ute Train with Granny!

P.S. If UAB had won the Orange Bowl last year (I know, I know, Haha) I still wouldn't be strutting around like I owned the place.

Well you also trashed the Big East in your post. Utah has a strong tradition, and I don't know what other Big East wins they have, I'm assuming that was the old Big East with Miami and such. But I don't know how beating an obviously down Louisville squad and a down Pittsburgh team from a ravaged Big East "exposes" the Big East. Louisville is, right now, teh 6th best team in the conference. That would be like me saying that the Pac-10 has been exposed because UC pounded Oregon State. That was a very good win, but Oregon State isn't one of the elite teams in the Pac-10 this year. In fact, they're very similar to Louisville.

HiddenDragon Wrote:

Wilkie01 Wrote:

BlazingGoat Wrote:Welcome back to the Bush League, Loserville.

This ain't welfare. You aren't entitled to anything. When are you guys going to learn...?

Cute black shirts last night. Very intimidating.

Kiss my ass!

How about not letting one CUSA poster be an excuse to bring back the CDOA stuff. Most of the CUSA posters here are bringing legit conversation to this thread so no need to bad mouth the conference because of this guy. It's too easy.

Normally I agree, but in the last week or so, and even in this thread, you have had C-USA fans come over and claim that the Big East is "no better" then the MWC, call the conference the "Big LEast" and use a Rutgers and Louisville loss as an excuse to trash the conference, and use Kragthorpe as an excuse to trash Louisville. There are going to be hard feelings.

I'm just giving you guys a hard time. Like you guys have given us for YEARS. Surely if you can administer the medicine you can take it.

P.S. HD, honestly, what is your problem?

BlazingGoat Wrote:I'm just giving you guys a hard time. Like you guys have given us for YEARS. Surely if you can administer the medicine you can take it.

P.S. HD, honestly, what is your problem?

You tell me. What did I say that was wrong? Did I call you out by name? Asking people to not call CUSA (CDOA) because of a poster is within my rights.

Apparently you do have a problem since you took the time to post a negative remark about me. I speak my mind and it not trying to please anyone but myself.

There is a place for trash talk and apparently you didn't know where it was located.

CatsClaw Wrote:

aTxTIGER Wrote:

SF Husky Wrote:UL is getting rolled right now on the national TV by a mid-major. This is embarrassing. I mean even without their two WRs they should at least be competitive. That defense is just bad. It is not even funny anymore.

I think UCONN gonna roll over this team when we play.

that "Mid major" has been to more BCS bowls than UCONN and just as many as Louisville. they also beat the snot out of UCLA this year. should louisville be losing to them? maybe not, but to deride them as "mid major" is sad especially coming from a fan of UCONN....a school who has done nothing a div 1a football program.

UConn is 5-0 and has won a bowl in its short history. So if you're going to rip a UConn fan for deriding Utah's success that's fine. but don't turn around and then deride UConn's success because that's hypocritical.

FYI...even the ESPN announcers last night RIPPED on UCONN's 5-0 record...saying something like UCONN hasn't even played a real team yet.

Having zero clue on who UCONN had played so far (also had no clue they were 5-0), I find this AM that UCONN's non-conf schedule so far has been:

Home wins vs:
Maine
Temple
Akron

and that tough non-conf road game win at Duke.

Wow!!!

Does UCONN's AD and Football Coach realize that they are a BCS Football Conference?

Do home fans get big time discounts to watch games like that?

HiddenDragon Wrote:There is a place for trash talk and apparently you didn't know where it was located.

A lot of people don't know where it is located. You know full well how much trash Big East (a certain school in particular; surely you can guess... ) fans have spewed over the last couple years on our main board.

I take a couple shots just to show them how it feels and out of nowhere you are here telling me what I need to do and where I need to be doing it.

Congratulations on the thread derail. You brought the L'East of all to the "discussion".

Anyway. Bye Big Easters. I'm off. Enjoy the rest of your season. Ribbing you guys is fun. But dealing with HD not so much...

KnightLight Wrote:FYI...even the ESPN announcers last night RIPPED on UCONN's 5-0 record...saying something like UCONN hasn't even played a real team yet.

Having zero clue on who UCONN had played so far (also had no clue they were 5-0), I find this AM that UCONN's non-conf schedule so far has been:

Home wins vs:
Maine
Temple
Akron

and that tough non-conf road game win at Duke.

Wow!!!

Does UCONN's AD and Football Coach realize that they are a BCS Football Conference?

Do home fans get big time discounts to watch games like that?

Hey Knightcrap - So a clueless ESPN guy made some statement. Have the guy ever seen us play? This is typical of CDOA fans and other fans who know nothing of anything. If we played top 10 BCS teams every week and we lose, every one of you would say we suck. If we win against everyone we played, you would say our schedule sucks. There is no win with idiots like that unless we schedule top 10 teams every week and blow them out. Even then, I am sure guys like you will find other reasons. Also, when was the last time some of these ESPN clowns have a clue what they are talking about?

To the Ohio fan said UCONN is not even top 50 - Put it this way, we would win the MAC. UCONN is undefeated against the MAC since we went D1A. Something like 9-0.

To the BlazerGoat - no matter how you put it, UL is in better situation than any CDOA teams. Its one game and they will fix this.

To the ECU fan - No, your team will not go 5-0 against UCONN's record. You lost to USM. Nuff said. I saw USM play the other night. They suck after get beat home by RICE a 0-4 team. If you think you could have gone 5-0, keep wishing.

We also beat Pitt on the road by 20. Any idea of how UCF fared in their HOME game versus Pitt last year? It was something to the tune of 42-7....whoops, 52-7 actually.

SF Husky Wrote:

KnightLight Wrote:FYI...even the ESPN announcers last night RIPPED on UCONN's 5-0 record...saying something like UCONN hasn't even played a real team yet.

Having zero clue on who UCONN had played so far (also had no clue they were 5-0), I find this AM that UCONN's non-conf schedule so far has been:

Home wins vs:
Maine
Temple
Akron

and that tough non-conf road game win at Duke.

Wow!!!

Does UCONN's AD and Football Coach realize that they are a BCS Football Conference?

Do home fans get big time discounts to watch games like that?

Hey Knightcrap - So a clueless ESPN guy made some statement. Had the guy ever seen us play?

I don't think the ESPN Announcer commented on your play (either good or bad) but just made a statement about the TEAMS you have played in your non-conf schedule.

His statement was true...now you can choose to ignore it...but his statement was true...and yes...UCONN might actually be a Top 10 team right now...but since most in the meida have never seen UCONN play so far this year (bad/weak non-conf games vs foes like Duke, Maine, Temple and Akron does not help attract media attention), the only thing this announcer went off of was your schedule.

That's all...nothing more...nothing less.

uconnbaseball Wrote:We also beat Pitt on the road by 20. Any idea of how UCF fared in their HOME game versus Pitt last year? It was something to the tune of 42-7....whoops, 52-7 actually.

Does last year really count?

Pitt also blew out UVA last year...only to get blown out by UVA this year.

Also last year...UCONN needed a last second TD and PAT to beat Pitt by 1 last year in CT...46-45...but this year...UCONN dominated the Panthers on the road.

I think its obvious that this year's Pitt team isn't nearly as good as last year's team...I mean...if you want to use last year scores and all.

Again...my first comments were about the ESPN Annoucer's statement on UCONN non-conf schedule THIS YEAR...nothing more...nothing less.