It will be UCONN. All we need to do is to get Rutgers booted from the B1G for all their scandals and history of leeching money from conferences. We are the top choice to take their place.
Right. Because a full conference member has booted from its league ... Never before.
Unless the big 10s invitation included a reference on mcbb competence, your comment is irrelevant.Rutgers is considered a full member? Do they play men's basketball at a competent level?
TROLL...you've only been here since Towson and bring nothing but negativity to every thread....get a life/job !!It will be UCONN. All we need to do is to get Rutgers booted from the B1G for all their scandals and history of leeching money from conferences. We are the top choice to take their place.
I don't think Houston or Nevada have a snowball's chance of a P5 invite and we're currently stuck in our box of hell.
I do believe this is Pasqualoni's last year on his contract. So next year maybe we'll get a good up and coming coach.I can see 4 of those schools going to the B12 and none of them are UCONN. The longer we keep Pasqualoni as head coach of our university's money making program (in CR's eyes), the further away we fall from being on-deck.
Believe me its JUST a nightmare......no way UConn gets left out in the endgame with such an integral market and history of sports excellence!One bad coaching hire (PP) won't blind reason by the P5 (Delany/Swofford) cabal!My nightmare scenario is FSU and Cincy to the B12 while ESPN insists that UCF is the only fit replacement for FSU to keep the ACCs Florida presence.. The Pac-12 adds Houston and Nevada. 14 becomes the new 12 with the B12 later adding Miami and BYU with USF going to the ACC to keep the Florida market. UMess and UCan't are left behind in the new Div II conference to play Maine, Towson, Nova, Army, and Buffalo every year.
I do believe this is Pasqualoni's last year on his contract.
If Houston strings together a few good FB seasons, I think they're in the mix. It's the 5th largest metro area in the country and growing strong, and a fertile recruiting area. Plus, the B12 has probably lost some share there now that TAMU is in the SEC.
My nightmare scenario is FSU and Cincy to the B12 while ESPN insists that UCF is the only fit replacement for FSU to keep the ACCs Florida presence.. The Pac-12 adds Houston and Nevada. 14 becomes the new 12 with the B12 later adding Miami and BYU with USF going to the ACC to keep the Florida market. UMess and UCan't are left behind in the new Div II conference to play Maine, Towson, Nova, Army, and Buffalo every year.
FSU isn't going to the Big 12 - they'll only leave for academics (the Big Ten) or pure football regionalism (the SEC). All of that talk from FSU last year was complete sabre-rattling to see if either the Big Ten or SEC would take them. They didn't want anything to do with the Big 12 - all of those FSU rumors were about the Big 12 trying to puff itself up as more powerful than the ACC (which really isn't true at all - the Big 12 is a paper tiger in the conference realignment game). At the same time, I don't think either UCF or USF are really suitable Florida-based schools as ACC replacements or Big 12 expansion targets. Cincinnati, on the other hand, is definitely positioned to be attractive to the Big 12 - it's a geographic bridge to West Virginia, the athletic department has done a remarkable job in maintaining *consistent* success for its football program despite multiple coaching changes, and it's located in arguably the best non-Sun Belt football recruiting region (which matters for the Big 12 since it's almost completely reliant upon the state of Texas for recruiting right now).
The semi-realistic best case scenario for UConn is that the Big Ten expands with a Big 12 school (Kansas or maybe Oklahoma) and an ACC school (UVA as the prime target) and then the ACC takes UConn as a replacement. The "realistic" worst case scenario (meaning something that can be reasonably foreseeable in the near future) for UConn is that the Big 12 takes Cincinnati and another school (likely BYU) and then everyone else just stands completely still (as that would truly morph the AAC into C-USA 2.0 with UConn stuck). UConn has priority over Cincinnati in the ACC while Cincinnati has priority over UConn in the Big 12, so what ultimately matters is which conference is doing the expanding. The Big Ten really isn't looking at either UConn or Cincinnati - at this point, they'll wait as long as it takes to get an ACC and/or Big 12 school that they really want.
Houston isnt giving the Big12 back its share of Houston that TAMU took. The B12 already has UT, Baylor, TTU, and TCU. They aren't adding another Texas school for the same reason that the ACC won't add any more NC schools. There is no monetary reason to.
I didn't say they'd be a replacement for TAMU, just that they'd help in Houston mkt.
What if they can't reach an agreemtn with BYU? What if TX leaves? Then who does the B12 add?