Hartford Courant: Another Blow to UCONN

[WVBlue]

By Paul Doyle
Hartford Courant

EXCERPT:


The possibility of a Big 12 invitation is just the latest chapter in UConn's tangled history in conference realignment. The school was left on the sideline during the first phase of significant realignment, as West Virginia joined the Big 12 before Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame left the Big East for the ACC.

In 2013, Rutgers joined the Big Ten and Louisville was tabbed by the ACC. Rutgers was said to deliver the New York market to the Big Ten, which also favored the New Jersey school because it is a member of the Association of American Universities.

Louisville was picked by the ACC over UConn based on its football program and southern geography. The Huskies were completing their second consecutive 5-7 football season when the ACC picked Louisville in November 2012.

A source told The Courant at the time that ACC basketball schools such as Duke and North Carolina supported UConn, but football schools such as Florida State and Clemson favored Louisville. And conference presidents feared losing the football schools if they were not appeased.

The ACC chose Louisville to fill a slot left by Maryland, which left for the Big Ten. The Big Ten has shown no indication it will again expand and the ACC, with 15 members, also seems set.

That leaves the Big 12 as UConn's best hope of joining a Power Five conference.


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http://www.courant.com/sports/college/hc-ncaa-big-12-vote-0114-20160113-story.html

HARTFORD COURANT

 

[3xWVUenginEER]

As they said in Sharknado 3, "Oh Hell No!!!"

 

[ColoradoMountaineer]

There is nobody that the big 12 could add at this moment that would increase revenue

 

[xgunnx]

UCONN [pfftt]

 

[Rootmaster]

colorado...such certainty in your exclamation! done a lot of media negotiations and evaluations in your life? just wonderin'.

 

[Round Hillbilly]

as conferences go, has there been any one conference that has stayed the same for any length of time? heck even tulane left the sec back in the day. who knows, with boren spouting off, we may be conference mates with uconn again some day.

 

[Low Mountains Drifter]

UConn's and Cinci's predicaments show why for all the drawbacks, it could be SO MUCH worse than being in the Big 12.

 

[VaultHunter]

So if UConn was having the success it had previously under Edsall plus its current success in men's and women's basketball they wouldn't add anything? Way more than win loss records in football to take into account when it comes to expansion. Dang I guess the Big12 should kick Iowa State and Kansas to the curb then too huh

 

[3xWVUenginEER]

So if UConn was having the success it had previously under Edsall plus its current success in men's and women's basketball they wouldn't add anything? Way more than win loss records in football to take into account when it comes to expansion. Dang I guess the Big12 should kick Iowa State and Kansas to the curb then too huh

It's not success as much as it is fit. Connecticut is a women basketball school and men basketball school although the benefits of Calhouns cheating are wearing off. They don't care about college football up there. They're more interested in Sox vs Yankees than UConn football. I have been there and they are not into football except maybe the Patriots.

As for the "success" under Edsol. He beat WVU one time it lead to us firing the head coach and offensive staff because our offense was the worst I've seen since the early 90s. And that was playing at a time it was truly the Big LEAST!

UConn is not a cultural fit. You can say what you will about Iowa State, but they care about their school and show up.

Kansas invented basketball. They automatically get a pass for a baaaaaad foorball team.

 

[Euell]

It's not success as much as it is fit. Connecticut is a women basketball school and men basketball school although the benefits of Calhouns cheating are wearing off. They don't care about college football up there. They're more interested in Sox vs Yankees than UConn football. I have been there and they are not into football except maybe the Patriots.

As for the "success" under Edsol. He beat WVU one time it lead to us firing the head coach and offensive staff because our offense was the worst I've seen since the early 90s. And that was playing at a time it was truly the Big LEAST!

UConn is not a cultural fit. You can say what you will about Iowa State, but they care about their school and show up.

Kansas invented basketball. They automatically get a pass for a baaaaaad foorball team.

I too went to a WVU-UConn game up there. I think it was the first or 2nd year of their new stadium. The only time their fans showed any emotion was when they announced the score of the Red Sox-Yankees playoff game. Early in the 3rd quarter WVU went up a couple of scores and they began clearing out. By the 4th quarter there were more Mountaineers fans left in the stands than Huskie fans.