I’m sorry, was that wrong?
Essentially.
In late 2012 when Maryland voted to leave the ACC, Louisville's football and basketball teams were both top 20. UConn's men's basketball team was still pretty good, but football was extremely mediocre. In a lot of ways, I think UConn actually checked more boxes for the ACC than Louisville, but Louisville, with Tom Jurich as AD, was more committed to their athletic department and getting better results in the big money sports.
I'd guess the season would be a net loss at a time departments are struggling.
With the Power 5 playing mostly conference-only schedules, they will produce fewer bowl-eligible teams than usual. That opens the door to a bowl game for some of the lesser independents this season. A bowl game means a national TV appearance, which would be tremendous exposure for their football team.
in 2019 on only $3.3M in revs. That will cripple the athletic department. (Notwithstanding some creative accounting)
How much were they going to lose in this environment?
They'd lose even more money if they went to a bowl game.
story is out there that 3/4 of the team wants to opt out of the season due to Covid-19 fears.
His son played QB and got a lot of early attention from the big boy schools, but ultimately didn't land any power 5 offers. Anyway, he attended camp at Notre Dame and said he absolutely loved Notre Dame overall but that Charley Molnar was possibly the biggest d-bag he met during the whole recruiting process.
in the Weis years. Just really rubbed people the wrong way.
players should be able to transfer immediately because of this.
This probably had as much to do with $$ as the virus, and a year off isn't going to help the program. Given their recent conference issues, this is heading down like a bullet.
to do the same. Just need one to weaken the dam. My guess is this will eventually lead up to the Power 5 teams but they will be the most resistant to cancelling the season. The PAC10 were looking for ways to move to the spring so my guess is that they will be 1st, followed by the B1G, then ACC, B12 and finally the SEC. Then comes basketball. I don't think they necessarily should but lawyers, liability and insurance have ways of pushing these issues.
One thing UConn that made it hard for them is that they are an independent this year. Tough to schedule games that way.
Doesn't seem like they are in a hurry to cancel anything.
want to see the safety protocols.
This might get ugly.
Know, no parties, doing your girlfriend, side piece, oh and the other side piece! I have absolutely no faith they would listen to any protocols themselves.
Let me be clear, I think they should play normally, but at the end of the day, liability and public pressure will force them to cancel the season. Just think about having 1 outbreak on September 1st. What do you think that will do.
They were absolutely screwed in terms of scheduling. I don’t believe this gets the ball rolling in terms of major college football. Those dominos may eventually fall, but UConn’s decision will have nothing to do with it.
He said the other day "You call us at midnight and we'll play you in a pasture". My guess is the SEC will find a way to play.
The Pac 12 however seems to be on the opposite side of the coin. They've got a mini-uprising of players demanding things like payment in the name of Covid protection. Seems like a mess that may not get untangled in time.
to advance to the playoffs. There are no marquee OOC games to boost anyone up and it will be the top 2 teams playing in the conference Championship. otherwise you will end up getting Herbie and gang talking about the eye test and wanting to put in 3 loss SEC or Michigan.
Going to be very tough.
Or something else? Just curious