You ever been to a SU @ UConn football game? Worst away experience I have ever been to and it isn’t close but I have avoided WVU so there is that. Fights breaking out everywhere. I didn’t think I could get out of there with my kids without getting into a massive fight. Amazed that I did. Fudge UConn.
So it was confirmed that the ACC had outreach on two separate occasions and the top tier of the PAC had basically zero interest. You can't force them to join. By the time word got out about Colorado, the current was already pushing those other remenant schools to the B12.
It's about tv eyeballs. UConn doesn't add anything new. BC has it covered
Yeah, I've been to a few games there. The only time I had any problems was in 2011. The other two games were fine.
Unfortunately they don't, BC isn't good at anything, they don't carry anything unless they play Notre Dame in football.
I think it was less that the pac leadership had little interest inn the ACC than that both ESPN nd Fox wanted to keep the Pac away from the ACC so they could kill the Pac. Both networks kept stringing the Pac along hoping out would get a decent TV deal.
In terms of CFB, CT is a total nothing state. New England is a TOTAL nothing region (or semi-region if you see it that way). If you want your league to be able to be Big Time in football, it must be filled with schools in great locations for CFB - not locations great for yuppies or gamblers or basketball lovers or super rich summer vacationers or wolves of Wall Street or boxing aficionados.
Wvu is a great away experience.
I had the exact same experience at UConn. As my wife and I were walking to our car after the game we were confronted by a bunch of drunken idiots who got in our faces looking for trouble. Thankfully I was carrying my badge and once I displayed it they suddenly were not so tough anymore. I will never go back to UConn for a football game.
What year? Since they've been bad the Yukon fans have been more docile.
Same here...they were salty we were going to the ACC. I had beer sprayed at Tomcat and myself.
That game was a little understandably heated. And they definitely didn’t appreciate our presence that day.
We are kinda low brow at the SyraCruz Tailgate. We have cocktail tables on asphalt. Our food definitely leans more comfort over small plates but we offer it all under a prix fixe menu.
It was probably the 2011 game that was mentioned previously as it was a while ago. Horrible experience and I vowed to never go again. I know and worked with some UConn Alumni who are good people. Basketball games vs UConn in the Garden, it was always all good. It was just football.
My incident in the UConn parking lot was also in 2011. Reminded me of attending my one and only Buffalo Bills game as a Packers fan where I watched Bills fan light a fans cheesehead on fire and dose fans with beers. It made me wonder what kind of lives these people had when going to a game to harass visiting fans seemed like the only reason they attended a game.
I’m happy for SMU, but feel sad for Cal and Stanford. I’m glad the ACC invited them, and aside from geography they’re a great fit, but they should not be in the ACC. UCLA and USC blew it up for no reason except greed. They’d never be left out.
Anyone who has been to s Syracuse-UConn football game would not be surprised by this.UConn fans allegedly pushed the Iowa State mascot down the stairs busting the bird's wing.
Ugly incident at ISU-UConn game
The rumors surfaced during the game, but Connecticut confirmed the news to the Hartford Courant over the weekend.The student dressed as Cy, the Iowa State cardinal mascot, fell down some stairs during Friday night's game and suffered a broken arm.www.espn.com
Connecticut is for the most part a collection of spoiled entitled brats between the age of 16 and 90. Their arrogance and lack of manors never ceases to disgust me.
UConn fanbase are the most obnoxious, bar none.
Co-sign. All of this.
