A4 Seek Control Over NCAA Championships, Including Management of NCAA Basketball Tournament

[Drew]

 

[UConnJim]

And some people wonder why football matters.

 

[Patman]

And some people wonder why football matters.

Nonsense college hoops is just underappreciated /s

 

[UConnTrumbull]

It’s the de facto P4 separation. If we’re not in it, we don’t exist at all.

 

[LBird33]

Oh boy another opportunity for the cartel to stack the deck. I hope they don’t mess up the basketball tournament just to get more money for themselves.

 

[noeynox]

Oh boy another opportunity for the cartel to stack the deck. I hope they don’t mess up the basketball tournament just to get more money for themselves.

Of course they will! Why bother otherwise?

 

[Drew]

 

[Rufus]

The SEC and B1G are being generous to the Big 12 and ACC….for now.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

The SEC and B1G are being generous to the Big 12 and ACC….for now.

Basically they're letting the B12 & ACC help design the mechanism that the B1G & SEC will use to destroy them.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Are there still any?

 

[ScottVib]

Oh boy another opportunity for the cartel to stack the deck. I hope they don’t mess up the basketball tournament just to get more money for themselves.

That's the whole point of the proposal... the basketball tournament is the only truly valuable properly left for them to take control of. This is simply the performance piece to be able to say "we tried" before they leave or the "Autonomous Division" is created as a separate entity with higher barriers in the form of required sport sponsorship/spending requirements to make it cost prohibitive without being on it's face exclusionary and saying, "Just these schools."

 

[CL82]

Basically they're letting the B12 & ACC help design the mechanism that the B1G & SEC will use to destroy them.

No, they are momentarily, allowing the ACC and the big 12 to pretend they matter.

 

[uchusky32]

Notre Dame? I guess the ACC speaks for them?

 

[Fishy]

Hey, look, that thing that people told me was never going to happen is going to happen.

 

[LBird33]

Hey, look, that thing that people told me was never going to happen is going to happen.

Yawn

 

[Fishy]

Basically they're letting the B12 & ACC help design the mechanism that the B1G & SEC will use to destroy them.

Those two conferences are so far down on the list of people who should be worried.

 

[Ldandy]

If people didn't believe that this was the end goal of the P4 then they're either willfully ignorant or have been living under a rock. I know that the NCAA Basketball Tournament as currently configured is sacrosanct to some, but I can assure everyone reading this that they don't care about the MVC's, Patriot Leagues and Ivies. This has always been about control. Either wresting it away or reinventing the system anew. All I can suggest is that Husky Supporters continue to do whatever you can to invest in your programs, and continue to lobby your administration on the dire need to get into The Big 12 or ACC. We are in the endgame now...

 

[buddy]

If people didn't believe that this was the end goal of the P4 then they're either willfully ignorant or have been living under a rock. I know that the NCAA Basketball Tournament as currently configured is sacrosanct to some, but I can assure everyone reading this that they don't care about the MVC's, Patriot Leagues and Ivies. This has always been about control. Either wresting it away or reinventing the system anew. All I can suggest is that Husky Supporters continue to do whatever you can to invest in your programs, and continue to lobby your administration on the dire need to get into The Big 12 or ACC. We are in the endgame now...

If you don't think UConn and its supporters have been trying to get into a power conference over the past decade, then I don't know what to say. UConn has auditioned for both of those conferences multiple times and has been rejected every time. I don't think there is anything more that can be done. I even think if UConn offered to join the Big 12 for free like SMU with the ACC, it would still be rejected, just for spite.

 

[Ldandy]

If you don't think UConn and its supporters have been trying to get into a power conference over the past decade, then I don't know what to say. UConn has auditioned for both of those conferences multiple times and has been rejected every time. I don't think there is anything more that can be done. I even think if UConn offered to join the Big 12 for free like SMU with the ACC, it would still be rejected, just for spite.

Not sure that The Big 12 would reject that, as how would any of us know? That said desperate times call for desperate measures. SMU Boosters stepped up and did what they thought they needed to do to secure their school's future. I hate the idea of UConn, a school I've come to admire, having to prostitute itself in this manner. That said I would feel a heck of a lot better with them being on the inside looking out even if they temporarily have to accept a bum deal to do so.

 

[noeynox]

Not sure that The Big 12 would reject that, as how would any of us know? That said desperate times call for desperate measures. SMU Boosters stepped up and did what they thought they needed to do to secure their school's future. I hate the idea of UConn, a school I've come to admire, having to prostitute itself in this manner. That said I would feel a heck of a lot better with them being on the inside looking out even if they temporarily have to accept a bum deal to do so.

UConn doesn't have rich oil guys who can prop us up like that.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

UConn doesn't have rich oil guys who can prop us up like that.

You’re right. But let’s say for argument’s sake UConn is next in line for a spot in the XII or ACC…we better have administrators on the phone with the CEOs of the biggest in-state corporations. Sell it as “Save UConn Athletics” and keep our enrollment strong/keep talent here for local businesses. Not sure what the response would be. But this is also where private equity seems to be an inevitability.

 

[Stinger92860]

Well, No one was expecting this to happen

 

[CL82]

. But this is also where private equity seems to be an inevitability.

Why?

 

[CL82]

The seminal paragraph: