Uconn to the B12 NOT looking likely

[JeremyCuse]

Lot's of smoke out there and comments from B12 coaches about the Bball program. Will be fascinating to see how this works out if it actually happens.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

You mean McMuffin...

 

[JeremyCuse]

You mean McMuffin...

Lol I think I miss read it. Thought he had actual statements from B12 coaches

 

[PauliePeppas]

They will win 1 tourney game in 10 years there. Come crawling back to big east and win 5 titles in a row as a 9 seed. The uconn way

 

[Cusefan0307]

What’s the record for changing conferences in one decade?

 

[OrangeXtreme]

UConn Women's Basketball vs Baylor might be worth the price of admission.

 

[walsh2012]

Can they just change the name because this is no longer the b12

 

[Sherman20]

Lot's of smoke out there and comments from B12 coaches about the Bball program. Will be fascinating to see how this works out if it actually happens.

As I’ve said on the expansion thread on the football board, the ACC needs to be more proactive in expansion. We should swoop in and take UConn and a few other programs from the Big 12 or PAC 12 for ourselves. We need to outflank the Big 12 at every step and boost the basketball product. Reigniting the Cuse-UConn rivalry to go along with Duke-UNC would be HUGE.

A number of college sports reporters have pointed out that any new additions to the ACC don’t necessarily have to net the conference a lot more money. They just need to be a net neutral. The point of expansion is to block the Big 12 from becoming the third best/highest revenue conference and to shore up basketball and football as best we can. This is what a number of administrators in the ACC have been arguing, including during the conference meetings. We have to outflank the Big 12 and PAC 12.

 

[orangefog]

Can they just change the name because this is no longer the b12

The Big Mess has a nice ring to it.

 

[SUOrangeSU]

Shocked B12 would want their football team tbh

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

Can they just change the name because this is no longer the b12

When did Kentucky begin to boarder the Atlantic?

 

[Orangezoo]

UConn is truly a fascinating case study as an AD with the success they have had all while operating with Enron's balance sheet.

 

[Scotch]

As I’ve said on the expansion thread on the football board, the ACC needs to be more proactive in expansion. We should swoop in and take UConn and a few other programs from the Big 12 or PAC 12 for ourselves. We need to outflank the Big 12 at every step and boost the basketball product. Reigniting the Cuse-UConn rivalry to go along with Duke-UNC would be HUGE.

A number of college sports reporters have pointed out that any new additions to the ACC don’t necessarily have to net the conference a lot more money. They just need to be a net neutral. The point of expansion is to block the Big 12 from becoming the third best/highest revenue conference and to shore up basketball and football as best we can. This is what a number of administrators in the ACC have been arguing, including during the conference meetings. We have to outflank the Big 12 and PAC 12.

If they don’t add value why do it? Let the B12 continue to add schools out of desperation that make zero geographic sense. Honestly it would help our recruiting against UConn. They couldn’t sell playing in the East, the Garden, etc.

 

[Jake]

As I’ve said on the expansion thread on the football board, the ACC needs to be more proactive in expansion. We should swoop in and take UConn and a few other programs from the Big 12 or PAC 12 for ourselves. We need to outflank the Big 12 at every step and boost the basketball product. Reigniting the Cuse-UConn rivalry to go along with Duke-UNC would be HUGE.

A number of college sports reporters have pointed out that any new additions to the ACC don’t necessarily have to net the conference a lot more money. They just need to be a net neutral. The point of expansion is to block the Big 12 from becoming the third best/highest revenue conference and to shore up basketball and football as best we can. This is what a number of administrators in the ACC have been arguing, including during the conference meetings. We have to outflank the Big 12 and PAC 12.

Do not think UConn would get the votes to get in. FSU, Clemson and BC are definite no’s. I don’t think Virginia, Unc and NCState would approve them either.

 

[orangefog]

Do not think UConn would get the votes to get in. FSU, Clemson and BC are definite no’s. I don’t think Virginia, Unc and NCState would approve them either.

Then UConn would sue all those schools.

 

[orangenauburn]

Do not think UConn would get the votes to get in. FSU, Clemson and BC are definite no’s. I don’t think Virginia, Unc and NCState would approve them either.

Virginia would be no as well

 

[Col. Bleep]

As I’ve said on the expansion thread on the football board, the ACC needs to be more proactive in expansion. We should swoop in and take UConn and a few other programs from the Big 12 or PAC 12 for ourselves. We need to outflank the Big 12 at every step and boost the basketball product. Reigniting the Cuse-UConn rivalry to go along with Duke-UNC would be HUGE.

A number of college sports reporters have pointed out that any new additions to the ACC don’t necessarily have to net the conference a lot more money. They just need to be a net neutral. The point of expansion is to block the Big 12 from becoming the third best/highest revenue conference and to shore up basketball and football as best we can. This is what a number of administrators in the ACC have been arguing, including during the conference meetings. We have to outflank the Big 12 and PAC 12.

The ACC has spent too much time blathering.
If they were serious they would have brought UConn in years ago...before they rejoined the Big East.

The writing is on the wall.
Retaining sourhern provincialism won't cut it much longer.

As for the huge debt of the UConn Athletic Dept...that's a page out of the Rutgers playbook.

 

[Orangezoo]

As for the huge debt of the UConn Athletic Dept...that's a page out of the Rutgers playbook.

Debt yes. Success though... ummm

 

[CardiacCuse]

UConn is truly a fascinating case study as an AD with the success they have had all while operating with Enron's balance sheet.

lol - -- - keeping the "Con" in UCONN since **checks notes**1881

 

[Chip]

UConn is truly a fascinating case study as an AD with the success they have had all while operating with Enron's balance sheet.

Hey Moose! Rocco! Help the Burtons find their checkbook.

 

[Brian Orange]

They will win 1 tourney game in 10 years there. Come crawling back to big east and win 5 titles in a row as a 9 seed. The uconn way

No seriously that is what will happen.

 

[SUFan44]

I’ll believe it when I see it.

 

[baggerbob]

As I’ve said on the expansion thread on the football board, the ACC needs to be more proactive in expansion. We should swoop in and take UConn and a few other programs from the Big 12 or PAC 12 for ourselves. We need to outflank the Big 12 at every step and boost the basketball product. Reigniting the Cuse-UConn rivalry to go along with Duke-UNC would be HUGE.

A number of college sports reporters have pointed out that any new additions to the ACC don’t necessarily have to net the conference a lot more money. They just need to be a net neutral. The point of expansion is to block the Big 12 from becoming the third best/highest revenue conference and to shore up basketball and football as best we can. This is what a number of administrators in the ACC have been arguing, including during the conference meetings. We have to outflank the Big 12 and PAC 12.

We know that but the idiots at Florida St only care about themselves.
That's why the ACC is in trouble too many only care about themselves and not the whole.
A good conference doesn't care only about 1 but all when making decisions.

 

[NorSyr66]

Not really sure where UConn goes as long as they go!!!

 

[sutomcat]

UConn is truly a fascinating case study as an AD with the success they have had all while operating with Enron's balance sheet.

If they invited to the B12 and get offered full membership with a full cut, they have to take it.

You can’t lose $52 million a year and keep operating long term. That is over a million dollars every week!

Yes it will destroy their basketball program but it allows them to field a football team, which apparently is really important to some decision makers there.

Leaving the New Big East costs what, $30 million? The B12 GOR ends in 2031 and there are no guarantees after that.

The thing is, adding schools like UConn is not going to get the other B12 schools more money. Not unless the plan is to take their $31 million and give some of the money, say $12 million, to the schools already in the conference. And that assumes networks would pay $31 million for a school like UConn. I don’t think the B12 has the same clause the ACC apparently has, where it can add schools and be guaranteed the conference will get the same dollars for each new school added as the existing schools are getting now.

UConn‘s dream is that this talk about joining the B12 makes the ACC panic and offer them a spot. They would probably get a full payout in the ACC, they would have some important rivalries restored and the games would be a lot more interesting for the fanbase. Their basketball program might still end up decent in the ACC.