Their message board exemplifies why I do not want to be part of some ACC-Big East basketball/football merger. The $$ disparity is way too much for basketball-only schools to be in a conference with equal membership (i.e. voice) and equal $. Unless an ACC school is dropping its football program to 1-AA or entirely, they will just be another UCONN looking to hitch their ride to a bigger conference.
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I think Utah is another school to keep an eye on. Even if they are saying the right things about the Pac 12, it is a great fit for the Big 12. They actually have a very good football program, which is what the Big 12 needs.
Lol it's embarrassing, half of their realignment board posters are putting their faith in a Kansas fan who joined last month and is claiming it's a done deal. The other half thinks the Big 12 will pass on them and see themselves as victims due to not being in a P5. These are fans that just won a National Championship 3 months ago due in large part to their current conference, all to join a conference that more closely resembles their former one.
From last year: https://www.deseret.com/2022/7/14/2...nt-to-be-pac-12-big-12-conference-realignment
The corner schools, and obviously Oregon/Washington, would be much better additions than UCONN.
I'm sure Yormark sees UCONN + Cincy + WV as the beginning of recreating the old (but newer) Big East with the leftover ACC schools (Louisville, Pitt, Syracuse, BC), but then you have to wonder -- at how many schools are there too many?
Call the B12 for what it is: the "Leftover League" since each and every school that is, or will become a member of the B12 has been passed over by the B10 and SEC.
That would be hysterical (UCONN), and is very plausible. I also wonder if the SEC eventually (not in the short-term) gets interested in West Virginia. Successful football program, kind of locks down that entire region of the country, and would fit well with the Missouri/Kentucky/UVA/UNC/Tennessee/Vanderbilt contingent very well.
Honestly, if I were the Big 12, I would take Washington State over UCONN in a heart beat. They averaged 1.5 million viewers on TV, over the likes of Oklahoma State/TCU/West Virginia/Baylor/Iowa State/Texas Tech/Kansas State/Kansas. Their fans are rabid, and under Leach, they were relatively successful. If they're adding the west schools, they fit well geographically also.
I was in Corvallis Oregon for a few months awhile back, and even went to a game. I'd have to say, I am not sure what they would add to the table for the Big 12.
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Big 10 payout is larger and academics are more in line with Vandy. I didn't say it would ever happen. That's what my goal would be if I'm Big 10.
Do Nebraska fans and old-timers in the AD's office long for the glory days? I think so. They will never happen in the Big 10. Watching Colorado go back to their roots is only going to make that longing stronger I think.
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Of all the football teams threatened by realignment, I've long pegged them as most screwed. They have Mountain West written all over them. And I'm not even sure Mountain West would 100 percent go for it.
Not sure of how things played out regarding time line, but not sure why Pac-12 never grabbed BYU while they were a possibility. They weren't proactive at all in taking conference-saving measures.
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ND wants Stanford there. Shit could get really interesting . . . or it could be a bunch of constipated programs just sitting on the pot staring at each other.
How will landing Colorado impact Big 12 expansion plans? Don't sleep on UConn
Step one in Big 12 expansion is adding Colorado. Though a Pac-12 school could be targeted next, Brett Yormark also likes the idea of UConn.
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In UConn, Yormark sees something that other Big 12 leaders don’t. They think football first and have their doubts that UConn football can become relevant. The recent track record — 27-83 since 2013 — is hard to ignore. They see the success in men’s and women’s basketball as undeniably attractive, but it’s less easy to get them to buy the pitch that UConn adds value for this league, in part because these presidents, chancellors and ADs have spent the past year locked in on trying to land Power 5 football schools.
But Yormark sees an entry point into New York City. He sees a dominant basketball conference and big-time events at Madison Square Garden. He sees a future in which the Big 12 makes more money down the road by decoupling its media rights package and selling its basketball rights separately. Conference sources say he sees a sort of buy-low opportunity here, a bet that the Big 12 investing in UConn over the rest of the decade will drive up the conference’s value. For him, there’s no hesitation. There’s real conviction.
UConn with their trash football program doesn’t belong at all amongst those schools. They may add them but I can’t see why. Makes zero sense to me. There are schools like Boston college and Syracuse that will be kicking themselves that they didn’t whore themselves out to the Big 12 when ACC gets dissolved,
As I think they both actually fit better than many others.
My first thought is…Yukon has a football program? Hahahaha.
My second thought is Yukon will get it’s ass handed to them in football by most of those schools for the foreseeable future.
My third thought is as good as the Yukon hoops program is (gotta respect that National Championships they’ve won) they will suffer like they did in that other Frankenstein Conference they were in. I mean mid week games could be 1000’s of miles from Storrs. Of course, this won’t be about basketball, it never is.
Lastly, this is EXACTLY what most of us said would happen when they were allowed back in. They are chasing a football dream for some bizarre reason. Sure the money but they are never getting to that level. We should have never allowed them back.
My second thought is Yukon will get it’s ass handed to them in football by most of those schools for the foreseeable future.
My third thought is as good as the Yukon hoops program is (gotta respect that National Championships they’ve won) they will suffer like they did in that other Frankenstein Conference they were in. I mean mid week games could be 1000’s of miles from Storrs. Of course, this won’t be about basketball, it never is.
Lastly, this is EXACTLY what most of us said would happen when they were allowed back in. They are chasing a football dream for some bizarre reason. Sure the money but they are never getting to that level. We should have never allowed them back.
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