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Old 09-24-2023, 02:45 PM
 
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Wasn't it the Wahington Generals or Federals?
Generals, correct.
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Old 09-24-2023, 06:05 PM
 
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Look. It takes time for a new coach to recruit talent that will work within the game plan that a coach has for his team. It is no different than the NFL in that matter. The time to really evaluate the team's progress or lack thereof will be two seasons from now. By that time virtually ever player on the team will be one of his recruits and not those of the prior coaching staff. BTW. The injuries the Huskies have had to endure the last few seasons especially at QB are not helping matters. Bad luck.
Also they did lose their starting QB for the season to injury. That doesn't help.
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Old 09-24-2023, 06:22 PM
 
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Why would they have to move down? Plenty of D1 teams get their clocks cleaned every week.
They’re called cupcakes. Bowling Green, Kentucky, wake Forest are a couple of examples.
Wake Forest is not a "cupcake". They were 8-5 last year and went to a bowl game where they beat Missouri.
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Old 09-24-2023, 09:22 PM
 
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True. The Washington Wizards lost over 90% to the Globetrotters, too.
I thought they were due!
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Old 09-26-2023, 10:54 AM
 
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There are over 40 bowl games these days. Going to a bowl game isn't nearly as big a deal as it used to be.

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Wake Forest is not a "cupcake". They were 8-5 last year and went to a bowl game where they beat Missouri.
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Old 09-26-2023, 11:02 AM
 
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Wake Forest is not a "cupcake". They were 8-5 last year and went to a bowl game where they beat Missouri.
Missouri, that's another one.
Wake Forest is just one of hundreds of other programs like UConn that are just there to fill slots on schedules while the Alabamas, OSUs, PSUs, NDs, Michigans, Clemsons and Georgias of the world wipe the field clean with them every week. It's fine for UConn to stay in D1
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Old 09-26-2023, 06:56 PM
 
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There are over 40 bowl games these days. Going to a bowl game isn't nearly as big a deal as it used to be.
I think most people understand it doesn't exactly make you Alabama or Georgia. But it does mean that talking about packing up and leaving Division 1 football 9 months after playing in a bowl game is a colossal overreaction.
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Old 09-27-2023, 05:13 AM
 
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Personally I think we should take sports out of college. If the NCAA wants to be 100% independent maybe but we can't put public dollars to sports that don't yield anything. Students are not required to stay and work in the states they graduate from and obviously if they go pro we don't have pro teams in the state. We have so many other things that it could be used for (energy, roads, bridges, transit, healthcare etc). Some might argue it attracts more students ok fine I get that but UConn is still a 90% acceptance rate (overall) and most of that in in state students anyway. Attracting people that already live here and then watching them leave doesn't make sense.
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Old 09-27-2023, 06:48 AM
 
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It's not like UConn is a perpetual jobber team in D1, often there are the lower end of top 15 teams that UConn gives a good run against even when taking the L. Plus, with this newest (and seemingly bi-yearly) conference shake up who knows what the other power leagues are going to look like. So it's not W/L record that UConn should consider... the amount of money that gets thrown into the black hole of top-flight football programmes nationally is another story.
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Old 09-27-2023, 08:15 AM
 
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Tax dollars go to many areas of public universities and there is no requirement that students have to stay in state after graduation. Should funding for scholarships at UCONN be tied to staying in state after graduation? No, or the attractiveness of attending UCONN is going to take a huge hit if you feel tied to one location after earning your degree.

Also, where do you get a 90% acceptance rate for UCONN? Almost every source I'm familiar with pegs the acceptance rate right around 55%. And while around 65% of students at UCONN are in-state, I would be willing to bet the number for recruited athletes is more out of state or closer to 50-50. Just as an example, no one on the UCONN Women's basketball team is listed as being from CT.


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Personally I think we should take sports out of college. If the NCAA wants to be 100% independent maybe but we can't put public dollars to sports that don't yield anything. Students are not required to stay and work in the states they graduate from and obviously if they go pro we don't have pro teams in the state. We have so many other things that it could be used for (energy, roads, bridges, transit, healthcare etc). Some might argue it attracts more students ok fine I get that but UConn is still a 90% acceptance rate (overall) and most of that in in state students anyway. Attracting people that already live here and then watching them leave doesn't make sense.
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