With all the money being thrown around, and no one in charge, the SEC, and BIG are going to eventually be sorry for trying to eliminate everyone else.
All the college b-ball point shaving scandals were as a direct result of what you describe. Go back to the Black Sox scandal as an example. Comiskey seriously underpaid his players and that left them wide open to taking Arnold Rothstein's bribes. It's very difficult to imagine a US pro doing it today.
But with all the legalized betting today, and NIL it would be a lot easier to fix games today. You don't need the stars in football because of how many players are on the field on every play.
Agreed - in the NBA, we saw in real time how betting being legalized (and thus closely monitored) makes it harder to fix games. I'm concerned about gambling addiction as it is way to accessible in my opinion, but I don't think there is going to be more corruption.
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I think UConn's best bet is to wait until the ACC raids the B12. They will need replacement schools at that point and maybe UConn will make the cut.
Or get out of football altogether. If they're not going to have success, they may as well focus resources on basketball - or maybe even other sports.
I never saw this as the "likelihood" some had it painted. It just never made any sense for the B12 and won't make sense to any major conference once they realize how much work there is to do to bring football up to relevance and how little resources the university has to devote to that endeavor.
Lol on what basis?
Hard to believe, 5 nattys in CBB, the 2 most recent and back-to-back and it gets squashed. I realize fb rules the roost but I never thought it was this much.
On account of voting against them.
UConn is a Big East team- period. Those teams seem to be doing fine facing and admitting their $ limitations regarding being competitive in football. Wonder how many more programs will end up in limbo as the major conferences add and conversely leave other programs behind without a conference? There may be more programs that reassess the viability or competition level of their football programs as UConn should be doing.
Utah maybe if the rumors are true. The others are B12 schools with a GOR. Believe it doesn’t expire until 2030.
I think if UCon was accepted into the B12 and given a share, Utah would have bolted for the ACC.
