After a six-year hiatus everything is in place for the University of Connecticut to rejoin the Big East Conference which will be a huge boost for the school's premier athletic programs such as men's and women's basketball. The past six years have seen Connecticut play the part of a "fish out of water" in the [...]
A return to the Big East Conference will allow the Connecticut Huskies men's basketball program to return to prominence.
East Y-Central Florida Knights 12-1 (8-1) The Central Florida Knights are in the midst of a tremendous turnaround. In 2015, the Knights went 0-12 which marked the end of the George O'Leary era as their head football coach. In 2016, Scott Frost would get his chance to turn things around for Central Florida as their [...]
Will the magic touch of Danny Hurley turn things around for the Connecticut Huskies?
Brick by brick the Connecticut Huskies were built into a powerhouse in men's basketball. Connecticut was one of the charter members of the Big East Conference in 1979 and they would initially take a backseat to the superpowers of the conference in the Georgetown Hoyas, St. John's Red Storm, Syracuse Orange, and Villanova Wildcats. But [...]
East Y-South Florida Bulls 12-1 (8-1) In four years as the head football coach of the South Florida Bulls, Willie Taggart took the program to heights that it had previously never been to. In just four years Taggart was able to transform South Florida from a 2-10 squad to a 10-2 team. Taggart's success led [...]
It's time for a reality check for the Connecticut Huskies as they are not a football powerhouse.
East Temple Owls 12-1 (8-0) It isn't that often that you'll hear the term potential conference champion put into the same sentence with Temple Owls Football, but it is indeed a new day for college football in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Owls are coming off of their first 10-win season since 1979, and after head football [...]
East Cincinnati Bearcats 9-4 (6-3) The Cincinnati Bearcats football program is all about transition. Since 2003, the Bearcats have had five different head football coaches as folks have tended to leave Cincinnati in order to pursue more money at bigger schools. Cincinnati's current head football coach is Tommy Tuberville who has been there and done [...]