I love ya mate, but for the ACC do to that would be an omission of his badly the screwed up by not taking us years ago, I don't think they are capable of offering that mea culpa. Yes, it would solve it problems, but so would the football program winning Powerball...which maybe has a better chance of happening.^•^
In short; the college sports landscape is different now.
It is entirely accurate. The ACC destroyed the Big East as we knew it. I know you are a big Big East fan but the 16 team conference was regularly getting 8-10 teams in the tourney. That Big East was far better than the current Big East.
That’s like saying the bank foreclosed on your house but at least you can afford to rent an apartment.
Yeah, UConn found a home. Ridiculous.
I think this is partly correct. The missing piece is that we would have had to invest in football like Houston and Cincinnati and SMU and even Tulane have done. Instead we nickeled and dimed it with Pasqualoni, who was washed up by the time we hired him, Diaco, then Edsall 2.0 who was shocked by the mess Diaco left then pretty much quiet quit when the move to independence was announced. Had we hired Mora (or more realistically a Mora type who knew what he was doing) instead of Edsall or Diaco we would be in the B12 . Staying in the AAC without taking football seriously would have been a disaster of the first order.
Diaco, on paper, wasn't a bad hire. He was a hot name up and comer assistant coach from a big program. He simply didn't work out. Hindsight is 20/20 and looking back, he clearly wasn't the guy, but every program hires a hot shoe that doesn't pan out like planned. Some guys are just better suited in the assistant coach position.
I swear... sometimes, I think you're actually a Seton Hall alum in disguise.
No they didn't discuss.
So no more tweets AND now we have videos with nothing to do with UConn? We need more threads.
That is catfishing! Watched like 10 minutes of that drivel. Time i will never get back. Thanks a lot!
What I feel benefits UConn in all of this is the fact that the focus seems to be shifting to basketball, and basketball is more content for TV networks. It's no longer purely media market driven, but an emphasis on quality of content as well. What's more likely to draw viewers to subscribe; UConn vs UNC or Syracuse vs Little Sisters of the Poor?
Same here. We need to have a detention system around here...
Sorry but rule 1 applies
Rule 1 went out the window as college football changes. We are not a team made of up Woodstock and Snoopy.
Well, it hasn't yet. It continues to be probably the most reliable prediction maxim out there.
nypost.com
Rick Pitino adamant Big East will ‘miss the boat’ if it doesn’t expand into mega conference
“I’ve been trying to get [the Big East on board], and obviously I jumped on your bandwagon with the suggestion that you had about combining with the ACC, because I’ve been trying to get them to start a super league basketball league,” Pitino said before St. John’s 68-62 road win over UConn. “And get up to 18 teams, 16 teams. Eleven is just not enough. And right now, a little bit like the ACC, we are not typical of the Big East of the past that was getting eight or nine, 10 teams in the NCAA tournament. So I think we are missing the boat if we don’t expand.”
"Pitino has also suggested adding schools like Dayton and Saint Louis of the Atlantic 10 and Memphis of the AAC."
“Now the presidents, most of the presidents and probably including mine, who’s a very knowledgeable basketball fan, they think about money, they think about the bottom line,” Pitino said. “And it’s like a company like Uber starting out and they’re losing, you know, $500 million a year, but they understand 10 years down the road they’re gonna be making a billion dollars. We just can’t see that. We can’t see that there’s a lot of money to be made down the road if we form a super league.”
“The coaches I think are in favor of a super league,” he added, “and I just think the presidents are against it.”
Rick Pitino adamant Big East will ‘miss the boat’ if it doesn’t expand into mega conference
A month ago, Coach K suggested a merge, as conferences like the Big 12, SEC and Big Ten have bulked up.
Pitino pushing the idea of lowering team share in the short run for long term deal potential is a LOT to ask, especially with all the possible movement in the P4 still looming. Risky.
It seems there could be 2 potential roads: Expand the Big East or merge with the ACC. Your expansion scenario looks good, and notre dame can take UConn's slot when UConn moves on.
Gonzaga has already made its move though with the PAC which might also negate St. Mary's. Too bad Duquesne hasn't been better to add the Pittsburgh market.
The ACC/BE merger sounds tantalizing and I love the idea, just don't know what would motivate the ACC to pull it as a full basketball move. There are too many football focused schools in that group that would have organ rejection to the idea. Unless there is strong evidence of money moving hard in the hoops direction, just don't see that in the cards.It seems there could be 2 potential roads: Expand the Big East or merge with the ACC. Your expansion scenario looks good, and notre dame can take UConn's slot when UConn moves on.
I would love to see a realistic merger scenario but the ACC is seemingly set for at least 5-6 years.
Or just put someone into the commissioner's role that has those attributes?
