It is hard to over look all of their basketball championships , as much as Syracuse fans like to do , and call UConn a nonfactor . I mean if they were a decent bball team , yes , but you have to give them some respect . You guys give up playing USC so the conference can go to 9 games and all the teams get to play each more . I didn't think so .
Give it 2 to 3 years...
UConn-Syracuse do not have a FB rivalry. Nor will they ever. If we never played UConn again I would feel the same as never playing Cincinnati again.
Our biggest rival of recent history was Penn State , which is a mega-state school . It sees really difficult to have a rivalry with a team if you can't drive there from campus in a reasonable time .
Geography can be a very important component when building a rivalry but there are many other boxes to check before one has truly evolved. Unfortunately for UConn, geography is the ONLY box they check.
A little different there though. Clemson v USC football gets good ratings and has a pretty big draw. No one is tuning in to watch Cuse v UConn. With the landscape we live in now football matters more than anything else. UConn does not bring that and will never bring that.
Boston College has the most potential. Give me BC over UConn all day long
That is the problem with BC and Pitt , we can't find any reason to hate them . Pitt wants WVU back on the schedule for just this reason . BC has such high entrance requirements that they can never really become a power , and Notre Dame likes that way anyways and probably works at keeping that way .
If UConn does get into the BIG12 , I'm afraid your southern parochialism will be proved wrong and SU will bear the brunt of the adverse effects .
CousCuse said:
We already have a lot of history with UConn football in a short span . Their first D1 coach played his college football as QB at Syracuse ( Randy Edsell ) and then their is Coach P . In any event , the BIG12 said they would announce their decision before the season .
Even with those ties, nobody here cares about UCONN football. AT ALL... Fact is, Edsall was a dbag regardless of where he coached so people just don't like him, UCONN or MD, so when he left there was no reason to dislike UCONN. As for P, that little stint in Storrs simply proved what a lot of people had been saying before he got fired, game had passed him by and just wasn't HC material anymore. Glad he's had so much success in the NFL but it's not like he went back to UCONN and kicked our ass for a decade, he barely made noise there at all.
Nobody cared about eastern basketball before the advent of the Big East conference , brands can be built .
We are playing them this year and you will care .
No actually I hate this series and hated it when we signed it. If Frazier did a better job we would have never signed it.
Interesting. You look at UConn like I look at Maryland. Irrelevant to college athletics, and can't stand seeing ESPN make UVA crush that basketball team in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Boring. Would much rather play some other more interesting program that is at least challenging. Then again Ohio State was just as bad. Maybe change it to an ACC-SEC challenge to be more interesting.
