[quote="Mike Zaun" post=315801][quote="Room112" post=315785][quote="Mike Zaun" post=315771]This is what I've been saying...UConn is spending on its athletics as if they're in a major conference, however they're in the AAC. They can't sustain having FBS football. Many people say "they will never drop it or demote it, too much money invested". They don't have a choice at a certain point. Their boat is taking on tons of water and they can only use buckets for so long before it sinks. They are at a crossroads and they're still dumb enough to think they can be Penn State. Again, they lose tons of money and there is just not enough interest in college football in the Northeast. No recruiting beds either. If anyone in the tri-state cares about college football, they're likely just frontrunners rooting for ND, Michigan, Bama, etc. For how close we are to Penn State, you don't even see much Penn State stuff and they've been very successful. Rutgers had a year when they were ranked and still nobody cared. What does that tell you?[/quote]
I dunno, I look at it a little different. Connecticut has no pro sports teams. UConn is basically a main draw. When they team was decent years ago, students were showing up for games. That's one thing UConn has is a true campus community feel. They bus kids to these games since the stadium is off campus. Theoretically, if people in the Northeast follow the NFL, they're football fans. Why wouldn't they care about college football?[/quote]
College football has no hype in the tri-state area. Like you said, NFL yes but not college. The culture is just different. In the South, football is a religion. There are tons of hot recruiting beds down there and there's massive interest. That's why a school like UCF can be successful. There's enough good recruits in FL to go to FSU, Florida, and still have some leftovers for UCF. In the tri-state there's barely any real talent. Basketball is a totally different story. I also think Rutgers to the B1G is a cautionary tale in realignment. Major football conferences see they're perennial losers and they won't want UConn who is much worse. UConn is Stony Brook pretending it's Penn State. They aren't fooling anyone.[/quote]
The reason college football is so huge in the south is because they didn't have professional teams other than Atlanta and it was the only show in town. Connecticut has the Pats and the Giants/Jets to root for.
Football and basketball tend to be very one or the other for college and pro. I can watch college basketball all day but can't force myself to watch 5 mins of an NBA game. Football is the opposite.
I dunno, I look at it a little different. Connecticut has no pro sports teams. UConn is basically a main draw. When they team was decent years ago, students were showing up for games. That's one thing UConn has is a true campus community feel. They bus kids to these games since the stadium is off campus. Theoretically, if people in the Northeast follow the NFL, they're football fans. Why wouldn't they care about college football?[/quote]
College football has no hype in the tri-state area. Like you said, NFL yes but not college. The culture is just different. In the South, football is a religion. There are tons of hot recruiting beds down there and there's massive interest. That's why a school like UCF can be successful. There's enough good recruits in FL to go to FSU, Florida, and still have some leftovers for UCF. In the tri-state there's barely any real talent. Basketball is a totally different story. I also think Rutgers to the B1G is a cautionary tale in realignment. Major football conferences see they're perennial losers and they won't want UConn who is much worse. UConn is Stony Brook pretending it's Penn State. They aren't fooling anyone.[/quote]
The reason college football is so huge in the south is because they didn't have professional teams other than Atlanta and it was the only show in town. Connecticut has the Pats and the Giants/Jets to root for.
Football and basketball tend to be very one or the other for college and pro. I can watch college basketball all day but can't force myself to watch 5 mins of an NBA game. Football is the opposite.
