(10-17-2019 04:16 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  Edsall is complaining their academics standards are too rigorous and that’s why they are awful. Funny he just lost by 40 points to Tulane. A school known for their light course load and lax admission standards

https://www.theday.com/article/20191016/.../191019576

Did he get a $2,000 bonus for making that statement?

(10-17-2019 10:48 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:31 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  Hahaha, so let’s see one guy is defending their dumpster fire by saying we’re paying too much attention ? That’s like telling a judge or a detective they’re paying too much attention to a case or defendant. . . “God you’re so obsessed !” Don’t worry it won’t be our problem soon enough.

The other clown said it was a BC author (a far superior school to UConn) with a hit piece. Did you read the article ? It’s DEFENDING YOUR DUMPSTER FIRE and saying Edsall’s excuses have validity. As others have said Navy & Tulane aren’t complaining and have far more stringent standard and are superior academic institutions are mop the floor with your school’s football team.

For the record, if we are talking academics, BC is a far superior school to Tulane. In national rankings, Tulane is keeping company more in line with UConn than BC (you may edge us by like literally five schools). You all are AAU (congrats), but we are still your peer, accept it or not.

Anyway, it is beyond adorable to see a Tulane fan beat their chest about sports. You are 6 games into the first season in years where your football team hasn’t been a complete dumpster fire. As for your basketball program, it has been a dumpster fire since the early 90’s).

But yeah, you guys are the cat’s meow. Go you.

Trying to decide which one of your butthurt posts in this thread made my laugh harder. I’m going to go with this one. A sad sack UConn fan bragging on BC’s academics is something one doesn’t ever expect to see. And, uh, UConn is a nice middle of the pack state U. It’s not Tulane’s academic peer.

BC really isn’t either. Its got similarly selective undergrad admissions as Tulane but it’s not a major research university.

(10-17-2019 10:48 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  For the record, if we are talking academics, BC is a far superior school to Tulane. In national rankings, Tulane is keeping company more in line with UConn than BC

Well, who is looking whom at the urinal? And answer this question: Are those rankings you apparently stake claim to, do they behave in a linear or asymptotic manner?

(10-17-2019 11:02 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:27 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:16 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  For those here who don’t do their homework, the author is an alum of Boston College, not UConn. Do you think he has an agenda and bias?

He is just probably butthurt that BC is losing some brand power in New England now that UConn is going to be more prominent in the region in basketball now that we can get more blue chip NYC recruits again.

He can bash our football all he wants, but it isn’t like it wasn’t already on life support in the AAC. If anything, us being Indy in the region is more of a distraction to BC. Our hoop will once again tower over them and they can’t use AAC geography against us in football recruiting. They can use our lack of bowl affiliation, but I will bet that BC makes the CFP never in my lifetime.

Our football will be probably be fine... but if it isn’t, will it really be any worse than it is now? That BC dude knows it, which is why he is mad that we are going back to our bread and butter (basketball) which will upstage his lame school in this area.

None of that has anything to do with Edsall complaining that academic standards hurt his recruiting. See Tulane, lol.

Edsall actually complained about this back in the late 2000's when we were actually decent.

Yeah you and your facts :)

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(10-17-2019 07:29 PM)TripleA Wrote:  They just need to give up football. They can't even make good excuses about why they suck.

UCONN Football loses over $9 Million a year on their program and that is WITH AAC TV $$ and TV exposure.

Remember, they have just 4 games scheduled for 2020...so their AD has a built in excuse to "shut it down" at season's end and just say "we tried so hard to put together a 12 game schedule but we just couldn't find enough games for Oct/Nov when most teams are only playing conf games".

I think that is their plan...as they could use those $9 Million annually on their hoop programs to boost them up even further which is what the big donors at UCONN want to see happen (i.e. have no football program that just eats up valuable resources that could be used on hoops).

UConn athletic department in 2018: generated $40 million in revenue, spent $81 million in expenses
https://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-uco...story.html

(10-18-2019 08:40 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 07:29 PM)TripleA Wrote:  They just need to give up football. They can't even make good excuses about why they suck.

UCONN Football loses over $9 Million a year on their program and that is WITH AAC TV $$ and TV exposure.

Remember, they have just 4 games scheduled for 2020...so their AD has a built in excuse to "shut it down" at season's end and just say "we tried so hard to put together a 12 game schedule but we just couldn't find enough games for Oct/Nov when most teams are only playing conf games".

I think that is their plan...as they could use those $9 Million annually on their hoop programs to boost them up even further which is what the big donors at UCONN want to see happen (i.e. have no football program that just eats up valuable resources that could be used on hoops).

UConn athletic department in 2018: generated $40 million in revenue, spent $81 million in expenses
https://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-uco...story.html

I read somewhere (could be wrong) that UConn is obliged to use the wretched “Rent” next season.

They are praying we don't get the waiver

(10-17-2019 10:48 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:31 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  Hahaha, so let’s see one guy is defending their dumpster fire by saying we’re paying too much attention ? That’s like telling a judge or a detective they’re paying too much attention to a case or defendant. . . “God you’re so obsessed !” Don’t worry it won’t be our problem soon enough.

The other clown said it was a BC author (a far superior school to UConn) with a hit piece. Did you read the article ? It’s DEFENDING YOUR DUMPSTER FIRE and saying Edsall’s excuses have validity. As others have said Navy & Tulane aren’t complaining and have far more stringent standard and are superior academic institutions are mop the floor with your school’s football team.

For the record, if we are talking academics, BC is a far superior school to Tulane. In national rankings, Tulane is keeping company more in line with UConn than BC (you may edge us by like literally five schools). You all are AAU (congrats), but we are still your peer, accept it or not.

Anyway, it is beyond adorable to see a Tulane fan beat their chest about sports. You are 6 games into the first season in years where your football team hasn’t been a complete dumpster fire. As for your basketball program, it has been a dumpster fire since the early 90’s).

But yeah, you guys are the cat’s meow. Go you.

You may have to check your math, or contact your admin for an excuse for your bad analysis.

BC US News #37, acceptance 28%, Avg SAT 1413

TU US News #40, acceptance 13.25%, Avg SAT 1410

UConn, #64, SAT 1306, 48% acceptance

So who is closer to whom?

Tulane is also the only one who is AAU. Also when compared to BC TU also has a large hospital, 6 medical centers and of course a solid medical school.
We help plant the athletic killer Scott Cowen on UConn, your welcome.

(10-18-2019 08:55 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  

(10-18-2019 08:40 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 07:29 PM)TripleA Wrote:  They just need to give up football. They can't even make good excuses about why they suck.

UCONN Football loses over $9 Million a year on their program and that is WITH AAC TV $$ and TV exposure.

Remember, they have just 4 games scheduled for 2020...so their AD has a built in excuse to "shut it down" at season's end and just say "we tried so hard to put together a 12 game schedule but we just couldn't find enough games for Oct/Nov when most teams are only playing conf games".

I think that is their plan...as they could use those $9 Million annually on their hoop programs to boost them up even further which is what the big donors at UCONN want to see happen (i.e. have no football program that just eats up valuable resources that could be used on hoops).

UConn athletic department in 2018: generated $40 million in revenue, spent $81 million in expenses
https://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-uco...story.html

I read somewhere (could be wrong) that UConn is obliged to use the wretched “Rent” next season.

Every contract has a penalty clause (i.e. an out) and it would be much, much, MUCH cheaper for UCONN to pay any stadium penalty to the state (which owns The Rent) vs funding an 85 scholarship program for another year.

Rentschler Field has averaged just 3 other stadium events per year in recent years outside the 6 UCONN Football games per year as the Stadium is now losing money.

When the Stadium was first opened in 2003, they use to draw 30,000-40,000 plus to see concerts from Springsteen, Stones, Police, and others but they haven't hosted a concert since 2007.

From article earlier this year:

"UCONN paid $172,000 per game in rent, a $3-per-ticket subcharge and the $250,000 subsidy, Rentschler collected more than $1.5 million from UConn in 2018."

UCONN Football and the Stadium would save money if the program was just killed.

Empty promises and empty seats: After 15 years, Rentschler Field struggles to match expectations
https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-foo...story.html

(10-18-2019 09:07 AM)ECBrad Wrote:  They are praying we don't get the waiver

Nah...I think they hope we get one so they can say good-bye to their football program for good. (But yes, as I suggested earlier...I believe Aresco has a back-door promise to his alma mater, UCONN, that if AAC doesn't get the wavier approved that he would allow UCONN Football to remain in the AAC for at least 1 more year).

(10-17-2019 04:16 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  Edsall is complaining their academics standards are too rigorous and that’s why they are awful. Funny he just lost by 40 points to Tulane. A school known for their light course load and lax admission standards

https://www.theday.com/article/20191016/.../191019576

So basically, he needs dumb players for his scheme to work. Got it.

(10-18-2019 09:53 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(10-18-2019 08:55 AM)Tiger1983 Wrote:  

(10-18-2019 08:40 AM)KnightLight Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 07:29 PM)TripleA Wrote:  They just need to give up football. They can't even make good excuses about why they suck.

UCONN Football loses over $9 Million a year on their program and that is WITH AAC TV $$ and TV exposure.

Remember, they have just 4 games scheduled for 2020...so their AD has a built in excuse to "shut it down" at season's end and just say "we tried so hard to put together a 12 game schedule but we just couldn't find enough games for Oct/Nov when most teams are only playing conf games".

I think that is their plan...as they could use those $9 Million annually on their hoop programs to boost them up even further which is what the big donors at UCONN want to see happen (i.e. have no football program that just eats up valuable resources that could be used on hoops).

UConn athletic department in 2018: generated $40 million in revenue, spent $81 million in expenses
https://www.courant.com/sports/hc-sp-uco...story.html

I read somewhere (could be wrong) that UConn is obliged to use the wretched “Rent” next season.

Every contract has a penalty clause (i.e. an out) and it would be much, much, MUCH cheaper for UCONN to pay any stadium penalty to the state (which owns The Rent) vs funding an 85 scholarship program for another year.

Rentschler Field has averaged just 3 other stadium events per year in recent years outside the 6 UCONN Football games per year as the Stadium is now losing money.

When the Stadium was first opened in 2003, they use to draw 30,000-40,000 plus to see concerts from Springsteen, Stones, Police, and others but they haven't hosted a concert since 2007.

From article earlier this year:

"UCONN paid $172,000 per game in rent, a $3-per-ticket subcharge and the $250,000 subsidy, Rentschler collected more than $1.5 million from UConn in 2018."

UCONN Football and the Stadium would save money if the program was just killed.

Empty promises and empty seats: After 15 years, Rentschler Field struggles to match expectations
https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-foo...story.html

I went to Springsteen concert there, a few UConn games, and a few soccer games (USWNT and USMNT).

Although ugly as sin (no paint), the Rent has great sight lines, wide concourses, and is a great place to watch a game. The only thing that sucks is the atrocious parking which (when it is full) means you have to park on a LONG, abandoned runway.

Plus, although I enjoy giving UConn fans crap (I used to work with a bunch of them), they are good people who deserve better than the idiots running the school.

(10-17-2019 08:04 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Sooooooooooooooooo obsessed. Y'all definitely sneakin a peak at the urinals.

Except in this analogy UConn is a full grown man at the kid's urinal with his pants around his ankles.

(10-18-2019 10:40 AM)Helicopter Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 08:04 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  Sooooooooooooooooo obsessed. Y'all definitely sneakin a peak at the urinals.

Except in this analogy UConn is a full grown man at the kid's urinal with his pants around his ankles.

And they thought they had a hair till they peed out of it.

(10-18-2019 10:11 AM)Agust Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 04:16 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  Edsall is complaining their academics standards are too rigorous and that’s why they are awful. Funny he just lost by 40 points to Tulane. A school known for their light course load and lax admission standards

https://www.theday.com/article/20191016/.../191019576

So basically, he needs dumb players for his scheme to work. Got it.

Admissions is tricky at EVERY school. And if the admissions department at your school is unwilling to work with athletics you're going to have a problem. Again, he is talking or rather WAS talking in his first stint at UConn about getting kids admitted not the school's academics.

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(10-18-2019 05:53 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:16 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  For those here who don’t do their homework, the author is an alum of Boston College, not UConn. Do you think he has an agenda and bias?

He is just probably butthurt that BC is losing some brand power in New England now that UConn is going to be more prominent in the region in basketball now that we can get more blue chip NYC recruits again.

He can bash our football all he wants, but it isn’t like it wasn’t already on life support in the AAC. If anything, us being Indy in the region is more of a distraction to BC. Our hoop will once again tower over them and they can’t use AAC geography against us in football recruiting. They can use our lack of bowl affiliation, but I will bet that BC makes the CFP never in my lifetime.

Our football will be probably be fine... but if it isn’t, will it really be any worse than it is now? That BC dude knows it, which is why he is mad that we are going back to our bread and butter (basketball) which will upstage his lame school in this area.

What are you talking about, straight up no one cares about BC. You can get a ticket to a Duke game the day of. I am sure BC fans are shaking in their boots that UConn is going to cut into their 0.5% market share. That’s like saying UMass Fball is scared that UConn Fball may improve as an indy and cut into their fanbase.
Your HC is just following the UConn athletic program that starts at the top....when things go bad just deflect responsibility and find something else to blame. Your leadership stinks.

Oh, I never said that anyone cares about BC. You must have missed the part where I said I live in Boston. I know what a giant turd BC athletics are... but it doesn't change the fact that the BC author of this article has a bias against UConn

(10-18-2019 07:31 AM)LostInSpace Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:48 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:31 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  Hahaha, so let’s see one guy is defending their dumpster fire by saying we’re paying too much attention ? That’s like telling a judge or a detective they’re paying too much attention to a case or defendant. . . “God you’re so obsessed !” Don’t worry it won’t be our problem soon enough.

The other clown said it was a BC author (a far superior school to UConn) with a hit piece. Did you read the article ? It’s DEFENDING YOUR DUMPSTER FIRE and saying Edsall’s excuses have validity. As others have said Navy & Tulane aren’t complaining and have far more stringent standard and are superior academic institutions are mop the floor with your school’s football team.

For the record, if we are talking academics, BC is a far superior school to Tulane. In national rankings, Tulane is keeping company more in line with UConn than BC (you may edge us by like literally five schools). You all are AAU (congrats), but we are still your peer, accept it or not.

Anyway, it is beyond adorable to see a Tulane fan beat their chest about sports. You are 6 games into the first season in years where your football team hasn’t been a complete dumpster fire. As for your basketball program, it has been a dumpster fire since the early 90’s).

But yeah, you guys are the cat’s meow. Go you.

Trying to decide which one of your butthurt posts in this thread made my laugh harder. I’m going to go with this one. A sad sack UConn fan bragging on BC’s academics is something one doesn’t ever expect to see. And, uh, UConn is a nice middle of the pack state U. It’s not Tulane’s academic peer.

BC really isn’t either. Its got similarly selective undergrad admissions as Tulane but it’s not a major research university.

My posts aren't the butthurt ones. The butthurt ones are from like people like yourself (and the OP) who post about a million threads per day obsessing about UConn's departure and then claim that you aren't going to miss us. Pure comedy.

I dont get the UConn hate and obsession at all.

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(10-18-2019 09:18 AM)wavefan12 Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:48 PM)UConnHusky Wrote:  

(10-17-2019 10:31 PM)Greenwavedrownsacat Wrote:  Hahaha, so let’s see one guy is defending their dumpster fire by saying we’re paying too much attention ? That’s like telling a judge or a detective they’re paying too much attention to a case or defendant. . . “God you’re so obsessed !” Don’t worry it won’t be our problem soon enough.

The other clown said it was a BC author (a far superior school to UConn) with a hit piece. Did you read the article ? It’s DEFENDING YOUR DUMPSTER FIRE and saying Edsall’s excuses have validity. As others have said Navy & Tulane aren’t complaining and have far more stringent standard and are superior academic institutions are mop the floor with your school’s football team.

For the record, if we are talking academics, BC is a far superior school to Tulane. In national rankings, Tulane is keeping company more in line with UConn than BC (you may edge us by like literally five schools). You all are AAU (congrats), but we are still your peer, accept it or not.

Anyway, it is beyond adorable to see a Tulane fan beat their chest about sports. You are 6 games into the first season in years where your football team hasn’t been a complete dumpster fire. As for your basketball program, it has been a dumpster fire since the early 90’s).

But yeah, you guys are the cat’s meow. Go you.

You may have to check your math, or contact your admin for an excuse for your bad analysis.

BC US News #37, acceptance 28%, Avg SAT 1413

TU US News #40, acceptance 13.25%, Avg SAT 1410

UConn, #64, SAT 1306, 48% acceptance

So who is closer to whom?

Tulane is also the only one who is AAU. Also when compared to BC TU also has a large hospital, 6 medical centers and of course a solid medical school.
We help plant the athletic killer Scott Cowen on UConn, your welcome.

You may have to contact your admin for an excuse for your bad analysis.

UConn is large state university and the flagship university of Connecticut. Seeing as UConn's freshmen class size is larger than BC or Tulane, we are naturally going to have more seats to fill (which means that we accept more applicants on a per number basis). However, you were discussing percentage basis.

For acceptance rate on a percentage basis, location has something to do with that number. A zillion kids in America apply to BC (located in Boston) and Tulane (located in New Orleans) just to give themselves the option to go to school in one of those cities (even if they have no intention of going there or if they don't have the qualifications to even come close to getting in, but figure it is worth an application). UConn is different. If you are going to apply to go to a school located in a corn field in a rural corner of Connecticut, odds are you are probably from Connecticut. So, BC and Tulane are naturally going to appear more selective based on percentage of applicants accepted as they get a zillion more applications and they have far fewer available seats. Furthermore, the mission of UConn and that of a BC/Tulane is entirely different which is reflected in the SAT scores you mention. UConn is a state university that is there to serve all residents of the state. UConn is going to accept more kids from inner cities and from more questionable school districts based on their socioeconomic background and to uphold the mission of a state university to give as many residents as possible (who show promise) an opportunity for success. BC and Tulane can mostly stick to accepting rich kids (who can then come to boards like this to claim their superiority and rub their parents' success in the face of the public school crowd). #truth

(10-18-2019 12:39 PM)panama Wrote:  I dont get the UConn hate and obsession at all.

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