Memphis & Cincy To Leave AAC for Big 12
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Dear Steve, like all UConn fans you have snorted way too much sheepskin manure in the great state of Connecticut! "Upgrade their conference profile" in what sport? UConn was given the privilege of being a part of the greatest Basketball conference ever assembled. Uconn, Pitt and Syracuse were the prime backstabbers of the Big East three years ago. Of that group, in the sport of football UConn already earned a big fat "F". The Big does not need UConn for football so your only hope is the ACC. With the scandals brewing at UNC and Syracuse I doubt UConn basketball is on top of their list. Karma is what Uconn will get because down the road the Big East will do better with a like-minded school like Dayton than a sinking Uconn. In the end, everyone ended up where they belonged except for Syracuse and UConn. I wish both nothing but the worst in the future.
UConn and the Big 10 no way all member are members of The American Association of University with exception of Nebraska which keeps its medical research in a seprate entity. Nebraska could qualify for membership with a few pen strokes. Do not believe UConn is a member or qualifed for admission to AAU.
southernjohnny2
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Uconn already tried to join the big ten, and they can never join the conference. The Acc would never let uconn in for the same reason ECU couldn't get in, and their football program is far advanced than Uconn in terms of revenus
L J S A
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Eventually UConn will see the light and try to park football in a difference conference. Their marquee sports will be dragged to the gutter in the AAC.
MAAC for football and BE for nearly everything else makes sense to me, but I'm not making the decisions.
Would liked to have seen UConn and Memphis here.
MAAC for football and BE for nearly everything else makes sense to me, but I'm not making the decisions.
Would liked to have seen UConn and Memphis here.
redmen1969
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I really don't want to put up with all the football nonsense again. Let's keep the BE a non-football conference.
I don't see UCONN dropping football but their men's and women's basketball teams would add prestige to the BE if they did.
I don't see UCONN dropping football but their men's and women's basketball teams would add prestige to the BE if they did.
As always, conference realignment creates a lot of interesting discussion.
The Big 10 doesn't care about Uconn's football team. Adding a weak football team to the Big 10's schedule improves the existing Big 10 team's records thereby making their selection for the playoffs more compelling.
The Big 10 is creating a sports network. A critical component of a sports network is viewers. Adding Uconn would add the State's and New England's viewers to the revenue generating formula for the Big 10.
McGarry2's comments on accreditation are interesting. This is the first time I have been exposed to that issue. I will look into it. I will counter with the Big 10 is a billion dollar industry. A lot of rules can be amended for a billion dollars.
The Big 10 doesn't care about Uconn's football team. Adding a weak football team to the Big 10's schedule improves the existing Big 10 team's records thereby making their selection for the playoffs more compelling.
The Big 10 is creating a sports network. A critical component of a sports network is viewers. Adding Uconn would add the State's and New England's viewers to the revenue generating formula for the Big 10.
McGarry2's comments on accreditation are interesting. This is the first time I have been exposed to that issue. I will look into it. I will counter with the Big 10 is a billion dollar industry. A lot of rules can be amended for a billion dollars.
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"Adding Uconn would add the State's and New England's viewers to the revenue generating formula for the Big 10."
News Flash: no one in New England gives a crap about Uconn football!!!! Heck, your stadium in East Hartford goes half filled. Bottom line is the taxpayers in Connecticut should have the Attorney General look into the hundreds of millions squandered on this program. UAB just dropped football after looking at the balance sheet. Uconn should do the same!
RedmanMike
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I haven't posted for a while, but have been following the board regularly...
Guys, we should not invite UConn-vict back under any circumstances. First, there is the football question -- why would we want to get involved in that drama again. This is a basketball conference, period.
Just as important, however, is that we should not compete with large public institutions with unlimited taxpayer dollars ever again. That was one of the problems with the Too Big East before -- we had private schools competing with large public universities (UConn-vict, WV, Rutgers, VA Tech for a while, etc.). The disparity in resources is too great.
The beauty of the Big East now is not just that we're all basketball schools, but that we arte all private schools with similar missions and resources.
If we do expand at some point (which I'm not sure we need to do anyway), we should expand with other like-minded and similarly situated private schools. That could be Dayton, St. Louis, St. Joe's -- but no football schools and no public schools.
So that means no UConn, no Temple, no Rhode Island, no George Mason, no VCU, no Charlotte. Don't need 'em, don't want 'em.
Guys, we should not invite UConn-vict back under any circumstances. First, there is the football question -- why would we want to get involved in that drama again. This is a basketball conference, period.
Just as important, however, is that we should not compete with large public institutions with unlimited taxpayer dollars ever again. That was one of the problems with the Too Big East before -- we had private schools competing with large public universities (UConn-vict, WV, Rutgers, VA Tech for a while, etc.). The disparity in resources is too great.
The beauty of the Big East now is not just that we're all basketball schools, but that we arte all private schools with similar missions and resources.
If we do expand at some point (which I'm not sure we need to do anyway), we should expand with other like-minded and similarly situated private schools. That could be Dayton, St. Louis, St. Joe's -- but no football schools and no public schools.
So that means no UConn, no Temple, no Rhode Island, no George Mason, no VCU, no Charlotte. Don't need 'em, don't want 'em.
I agree with the list of schools you want to add, but ask that Richmond be considered. Richmond does have football, though the program is probably the rough equivalent of Villanova football. Richmond improves the academic standing of the conference.
Villanova probably not interested in letting in Temple.
Villanova probably not interested in letting in Temple.
Dayton
St. Louis
St. Louis
I agree nobody cares in New England about UConn Football but the Big 10 would love to get interest and viewers for it's network from New England. Both their basketball teams are good as is baseball and other non revenue sports. UConn could grow football quicker in the Big10. I hope it does not happen, but if it does it will not be a decision made based on the current status of UConn Football.
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Well that makes a big difference :silly: That is the same AD that was taking it up the wazoo to get into the ACC. Whatever their future they are dead to us in the Big East. ...DEAD!
I am confused. I thought this was about the Big 12 (think Baylor and TCU) adding these teams. Not the BIG.
Big 12 makes sense so they can have 14 teams, split them in divisions, and have a conference championship game. That bit them in the arse this year.
RedStormRising
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I don't know if this is true, but it makes a lot of sense to me. I was talking about Rutgers in the big 10 and could only ask why? The response from someone who is usually in tune to all things big 10 was:
The Big 10 likes having Rutgers in the conference because it give members like Michigan, Ohio State, Northwestern, etc who have big alumni bases in the city a chance to get together on the east coast see a game, usually a win because its against rutgers (my addition), and solicit money from the alums.