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Message: [QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 5067419, member: 8240"] "it’s become very much more like pro football.” Perfect summation in a very well written and thought out article. As these rounds of realignment have played out I've gone from wishing we'd been invited to the ACC to hoping the B1G's leadership would be as forward looking as Brett Yormark appears to have been. If you look at college sports dominance overall, the B1G needs us more if they want to keep challenging the SEC. The B1G offers (till this year) less travel plus a much bigger media contract and a couple local rivals (Rutgers and Maryland) we already dislike. UConn would bring winning in basketball to the B1G that they haven't had in the last 25 years, plus the New England, New York and New Jersey media markets. Yormark may value what UConn can do for league's profile, while adding the New England, NY and NJ media markets to their next media rights deal, even with a weak football program because now that OK and TX have left for the SEC UConn has as many championships in football as the entire current Big 12......:rolleyes: For all the hype about the B1G's competiton with the SEC for dominance, what have they won of note in the last 25 years? [B]A total of 5 championships in the three major sports [/B]while the[B] SEC has 23 [/B]and the[B] Big 12 has 9! [/B] The leagues' total championships in the past 25 years:[B][/B] -[B]B1G-3 football championships[/B] (Michigan 2024 and Ohio State 2002 and 2014) [B]while the SEC has 14 and the Big12 has 2[/B] (but both by teams now in the SEC, OK and Texas). -[B]B1G-1 men's basketball championship[/B] (Michigan State 2000. I didn't count Maryland because they won in 2002 while a member of the ACC) while the [B]SEC and Big 12 each have 3[/B]. -[B]B1G-1 women's basketball championship[/B] (Purdue in 1999. I didn't count Maryland in 2006 because they were a member of the ACC at the time) while the [B]SEC has 6 and the Big12 has 4.[/B] UConn's positives in Yormark's eyes are: -the explosion of interest in the women's game and what the UConn brand would bring to a league; -the immense success of the men's team and how much praise the program and its coaching staff has received (we re-watched the Illinois game last night and it was stunning to listen to the broadcast team effusively praise the program, the coaches, the character and skill of the players and their utter dominance of the sport the last two years); -the potential to own the Northeast for fandom and media rights, including New York and New Jersey, for college sports We can fix football, so whether the Presidents see it the same way and the media consultants see the value Yormark sees in the UConn brand will be what matters...........but the B1G would be so much better for UConn. [/QUOTE]

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