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Gee says B12 not expanding because Uconn going to B1G.
We have a Cesspool board for this stupidity. You will be in good company over there.
I hope that you're being facetious. If the B-XII dies, then UCONN has drawn the short straw yet again. The remaining P-4 would back fill with XII carcass remains & the Huskies would be relegated to CR purgatory once again.
Gee making those comments is really, really bad. We can think whatever we want about the various parties motivations, but the only part that impacts us is whether the Big 12 adds teams or not. If the answer is "no", then the door is closed at all the P5 for about 8-9 years, and UConn needs to take a hard look at how it is funding its athletic program.
Gee making those comments is really, really bad. We can think whatever we want about the various parties motivations, but the only part that impacts us is whether the Big 12 adds teams or not. If the answer is "no", then the door is closed at all the P5 for about 8-9 years, and UConn needs to take a hard look at how it is funding its athletic program.
One comment and your on the edge of the cliff again Nelson. And where did 8-9 years come from? We know dropping football is not an option back down to D2 since that will permanently move us from any consideration for the BIG or what is left of ACC or Big 12 if they get picked apart. Big East will not take us as a basketball only. I need to know what you expect UConn to do if this is the case? I get your passion for Uconn Hoops, but I think you are too quick to pull the plug on our chances when everything we hear is from backyard hill billy's and one president who is trying to keep everything quiet right now.
It's too the BIG and Big 12 advantage to say nothing is going to happen if the ACC is going to get picked apart in the future.
I hope that you're being facetious. If the B-XII dies, then UCONN has drawn the short straw yet again. The remaining P-4 would back fill with XII carcass remains & the Huskies would be relegated to CR purgatory once again.
You know the NBA is adding ads to their jerseys? You're a little behind. As always.The athletic department has about a $20 to $30 million a year hole. Neither UConn nor the state is interested in funding that for the next 8 years, The ONLY evidence we have that something may change on the conference or revenue front is that Herbst continues to invest in the athletic program because that investment doesn't make a lot of sense right now on the surface of it, and with state funding getting cut, I do not see how this funding is viable long term.
The athletic department has about a $20 to $30 million a year hole. Neither UConn nor the state is interested in funding that for the next 8 years, The ONLY evidence we have that something may change on the conference or revenue front is that Herbst continues to invest in the athletic program because that investment doesn't make a lot of sense right now on the surface of it, and with state funding getting cut, I do not see how this funding is viable long term.
UConnJim nice job with this post. DOn't let nelson get to you...take him for what he is..The Boneyard's resident kook.I hate when Nelson throws out #s with no real sources that are accurate. In the non-key tweets thread, I layed out the AD financial numbers. Again, about $9 million of the "athletic subsidy" is for student activities and intramurals. This money does not go to intercollegiate sports and it would exist no matter what conference UConn was involved in. You CAN'T count this $9 million as subsidizing UConn athletics. UConn is one of the few schools, if any, that includes student activities and intramurals in the AD budget which is one of the reasons UConn show up on "lists" of high subsidies.
Don't get me wrong, UConn does subsidize athletics to the tune of $12 to $15 million per year which is a far cry from Nelson's $20 to $30 million figure. In fact, UConn football, and men's and women's basketball make money. I guess if you amortized the football infrastructure costs (stadium and on campus facilities), UConn would break even or lose money on football, but the facilities upgrades are a sunk cost and don't impact current cash flow at all. By the way, UConn doesn't own the Rent, so they wouldn't be amortizing the cost anyway. Men's hockey could be close to break even with the move to HE. The problems for UConn as they are for every college AD budget is the non-revenue sports.
I just don't get it. The way the Big 12 is set up up right now...it won't survive. Ten teams, small, demographically challenged footprint and it is tremendously top heavy. The ACC is seen to be less stable because, frankly, most of its schools have more value than most of the schools in the Big 12. Outside of Texas, Oklahoma and perhaps Kansas, no one is clamoring for Big 12 schools. VA, VT, UNC, NC St, Duke, Miami, Clemson, Louisville, G Tech and FSU are all more desirable properties than almost all of the Big 12's. I just don't see how the Big 12 can expect to survive without aggressively building value by expansion.
The worst thing about CR is that we hang on the words of a Mountaineer.
UConn is such a superior university to be in this position.
(BTW, if we are not settled in the P-5 by election day, remember that when you are tempted to pull the lever for Blumenthal. His BS lawsuit against all those individuals associated with the ACC continues to be a factor in our predicament. Rightfully or wrongfully, we were denied ACC membership in 2011, at least in part, because of that damn lawsuit.)
If the meetings are in May and we are in April, Gee is correct. I doubt the info is all in and hasn't been totally disseminated yet. Additionally, Boren would have spouted by now if this was true. He is too far out on the limb to wimper back. Put me in this is a smokescreen crowd for now.
Read an article, FSU is trying to keep in quiet but they already have attorneys working on the validity of the GOR, they're arguing is that it's not enforceable.
Are you sure that it wasn't an article rehashing the tweets from Bluevod? He is the only one out there (to my knowledge) saying that FSU's attorneys are looking at the GOR.
As an attorney, I have my doubts about all of his statement on the GOR, especially that any lawyer would tell a client that the GOR is "toast".
Time will tell, I guess, since he is predicting six schools currently bound by GOR's to announce their move to the Big Ten this summer.
Serious question to the entire BY...no one really believes this, right?