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What a ridiculous article. I’ve never seen a whinier program in my life.
I just read that entire article... it lacks factual evidence that being in the American is actually uconn’s problem. It’s just some moron’s opinion about why recruits don’t want to play there. Their fan base rivals some of the worst in the country in regard to loving the smell of their own farts.
You would think if Uconn was really too good for the American, they wouldn't be losing so much. Still, this article is not the funniest thing on the site this morning. On the home page, there is a headline that seems to say we offered a football player who weighs over a ton.
Which is why they will continue to lose, instead of fixing the problem, they blame Tulsa
What pisses me off is the have one of the best basketball programs in the past 20 years. The GD conference doesn’t matter!!! They have a coach that can recruit but is below-average to terrible at player development and Xs and Os. They still have a good brand, could hire a top notch coach from a mid-major. Instead they want to whine about the conference.
Dear author,
There reasons your article bashing your conference is ridiculous are legion. Each torturous in their own way. I have grouped them together to address the lowlights of your complaining.
1) Geography.
First, lets note that many conferences are spreading out more. Had you remained in the vaunted Big East you would be traveling to Omaha to play games (~1200 miles). Had you "made it" into the ACC you would be traveling to Miami (~1200 miles) and Tallahassee (~1100 miles). The few times you have to fly an extra few hundred miles on a (private?) jet plane isn't the reason you are losing.
Second, everyone shares that travel schedule. If going from UCONN to Tulsa explains why UCONN loses at Tulsa... why wouldn't it work in the inverse? Why doesn't Cinci and Houston suffer the same issues UCONN does with travel? And wouldn't we see conference travel outliers with a dominant statistical home court advantage all over?
https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/ranking/home-adv-by-other
2) Recruiting.
Hi, I'm your rival Cinci. And I can recruit just fine in the American. So can Houston. WSU can beat you with Missouri Valley talent. Heck, if we are basing this off of standings recruiting is apparently doing OK at Tulsa, UCF, Memphis, Temple, and SMU. Golly gee, it seems like UCONN actually did outrecruit some of these programs and are still sitting behind them in the standings? Must be the conference.
I wonder how Memphis did it in CUSA 2.0. Or WSU in the Valley. How does Gonzaga do it in the WCC, VCU in the A10, or Nevada in the MWC? Maybe UCONN could get into the A10 or the Missouri Valley... then they can get those big time recruits they need.
And good thing you didn't follow Pittsburgh to the ACC... its really hard apparently to recruit to the ACC.
Seriously though, if you were dominating the conference but just didn't have nation wide level talent to get past the sweet 16, maybe you have a point. But when you are losing in conference, you can't whine and say that recruiting is just too hard in the conference.
3) Perception.
I know right? Can you imagine being Cinci, WSU, Houston, Temple, SMU, Central Florida, Tulsa or Memphis and being stuck in a league with teams that have an RPI below 125? Some programs are trying to elevate the league, others are just dragging it down and it really makes it hard for people to take the league seriously. At least once a week I tell people Tulsa is in the American Athletic Conference and they turn up their nose and say "isn't that the garbage league with South Florida, East Carolina, Tulane, and UCONN in it?"
The perception is being dragged down so much that the team likely to finish 4th probably won't get an at-large NCAA birth! The crap programs at the bottom are holding teams like mine back, and those whiny losers decide the best thing to do is trash the conference some more.
Not helpful. Get out there and win some games. The teams towards the top rely on the overall perception of the conference to get recruits and invites to the post season. You aren't helping.
XoXo,
An American Athletic Fan
(not directed at all UCONN fans or being serious at the other programs. I want programs in the league to do well and I think UCONN will get back to form. But your excuses suck and make you sound like a jerk)
There reasons your article bashing your conference is ridiculous are legion. Each torturous in their own way. I have grouped them together to address the lowlights of your complaining.
1) Geography.
First, lets note that many conferences are spreading out more. Had you remained in the vaunted Big East you would be traveling to Omaha to play games (~1200 miles). Had you "made it" into the ACC you would be traveling to Miami (~1200 miles) and Tallahassee (~1100 miles). The few times you have to fly an extra few hundred miles on a (private?) jet plane isn't the reason you are losing.
Second, everyone shares that travel schedule. If going from UCONN to Tulsa explains why UCONN loses at Tulsa... why wouldn't it work in the inverse? Why doesn't Cinci and Houston suffer the same issues UCONN does with travel? And wouldn't we see conference travel outliers with a dominant statistical home court advantage all over?
https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/ranking/home-adv-by-other
2) Recruiting.
Hi, I'm your rival Cinci. And I can recruit just fine in the American. So can Houston. WSU can beat you with Missouri Valley talent. Heck, if we are basing this off of standings recruiting is apparently doing OK at Tulsa, UCF, Memphis, Temple, and SMU. Golly gee, it seems like UCONN actually did outrecruit some of these programs and are still sitting behind them in the standings? Must be the conference.
I wonder how Memphis did it in CUSA 2.0. Or WSU in the Valley. How does Gonzaga do it in the WCC, VCU in the A10, or Nevada in the MWC? Maybe UCONN could get into the A10 or the Missouri Valley... then they can get those big time recruits they need.
And good thing you didn't follow Pittsburgh to the ACC... its really hard apparently to recruit to the ACC.
Seriously though, if you were dominating the conference but just didn't have nation wide level talent to get past the sweet 16, maybe you have a point. But when you are losing in conference, you can't whine and say that recruiting is just too hard in the conference.
3) Perception.
I know right? Can you imagine being Cinci, WSU, Houston, Temple, SMU, Central Florida, Tulsa or Memphis and being stuck in a league with teams that have an RPI below 125? Some programs are trying to elevate the league, others are just dragging it down and it really makes it hard for people to take the league seriously. At least once a week I tell people Tulsa is in the American Athletic Conference and they turn up their nose and say "isn't that the garbage league with South Florida, East Carolina, Tulane, and UCONN in it?"
The perception is being dragged down so much that the team likely to finish 4th probably won't get an at-large NCAA birth! The crap programs at the bottom are holding teams like mine back, and those whiny losers decide the best thing to do is trash the conference some more.
Not helpful. Get out there and win some games. The teams towards the top rely on the overall perception of the conference to get recruits and invites to the post season. You aren't helping.
XoXo,
An American Athletic Fan
(not directed at all UCONN fans or being serious at the other programs. I want programs in the league to do well and I think UCONN will get back to form. But your excuses suck and make you sound like a jerk)
Does the author think that someone held a gun to their head and made them join the league?
The fact is that the Big East wants nothing to do with 'football schools'. Once UConn put on their big boy pants and decided to play D1 football, they were no longer a candidate for their old conference.
The fact is that the Big East wants nothing to do with 'football schools'. Once UConn put on their big boy pants and decided to play D1 football, they were no longer a candidate for their old conference.
This AND the schools in the Big East don’t want a public university in their conference. They deliberately chose private schools. In fact Butler is the only school in the conference that isn’t a Catholic Private school.
Tulsa, Tulane, and SMU have a better likelihood of being invited to the Big East than UCONN. (And I expect 0 of these schools to ever be invited)
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