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B12 and ACC on the clock!

giddyup said:
https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2023/05/16/uconn-football-glory-basketball-big-12-realignment

ESPN up to the usual take a crap on UConn. The stick to basketball routine is so tiresome and misplaced.
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Couldn’t agree more man. I read the article and thought the exact same thing. Why can every other comparable school have both sports but we’re designated to just have one? It’s stupid. We’re a flagship state school from a mid sized (5M people) state. States with comparable populations such as Kansas, Oregon, Iowa and Oklahoma can each somehow support 2 major football teams at their big schools but we can’t? Absolute BS argument.
 
noeynox said:
You guys are really nuts. Yeah we lose bus rides to Seton Hall, St John's and PC. But the dollars you gain from now till the expiration of the 12s GOR could transform this AD until the next shakeup.
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Why would we want to purchase tickets on the titanic??? Big 12 won't even exist in 10 years unless something unforeseen. Meanwhile playing midweek games against UCF and BYU and TCU
 
hoopsfan22 said:
B1G would be the best fit for us as a northern state flagship land grant school. We're not great in football right now, but our coach was a contender for coach of the year last season, and there's no reason we can't eventually be respectable even in a power conference. We've done it before in the old Big East. We'd bring our top basketball teams, a couple of very good hockey programs, and we're also very good in some other sports. Someone's gonna snap us up soon I think, and it'll be a home run for whatever conference is bold enough to make that move.
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You forgot a couple of damn decent baseball and softball programs, as well as field hockey. Track and field is no slouch.
 
RSTuthill said:
You forgot a couple of damn decent baseball and softball programs, as well as field hockey. Track and field is no slouch.
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He also forgot that we are not an AAU member and have got a lot of work to do to increase our research funding to get there. The B10 so far really likes AAU status and a higher US News and World Report ranking is not going to make up for it. It could be a dozen years of steady improvement to get there.
 
Nebraskan18 said:
Why would we want to purchase tickets on the titanic??? Big 12 won't even exist in 10 years unless something unforeseen. Meanwhile playing midweek games against UCF and BYU and TCU
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Because making $36 million a year more for 10 years total is $360 million. If you guarantee me that the big 12 falls off a cliff at the end of year 10 but offers us full membership today, it's still the smart thing to do.
 
LoyalFanCT said:
He also forgot that we are not an AAU member and have got a lot of work to do to increase our research funding to get there. The B10 so far really likes AAU status and a higher US News and World Report ranking is not going to make up for it. It could be a dozen years of steady improvement to get there.
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B1G already has members that are not AAU, and I believe have made recent statements that it's not a hard requirement. ND has a standing offer to join and they are not AAU. They also used to have the requirement that a school be in a state that maintains a contiguous footprint for the conference - so much for that one. These aren't your grandaddies conferences anymore. They pick the schools they want first, and then make up the rules to qualify them second.
 
hoopsfan22 said:
B1G already has members that are not AAU, and I believe have made recent statements that it's not a hard requirement. ND has a standing offer to join and they are not AAU. They also used to have the requirement that a school be in a state that maintains a contiguous footprint for the conference - so much for that one. These aren't your grandaddies conferences anymore. They pick the schools they want first, and then make up the rules to qualify them second.
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What "members" are you referring to? Nebraska is a B10 member and was once in the AAU but is no longer. ND is not in the B10 nor has ever been in the conference. Aren't all current members besides Nebraska AAU members. Even if UConn gets AAU status, it is not guaranteed B10 membership. We are in a small state. UConn football was a dumpster fire program for many years. I think UConn is going to need to reach top 25 in FB for a few years straight and get AAU status for UConn to be considered. I hope I'm wrong, but B10 or stay in the New Big East is not the right approach. UConn may soon be given an offer for the ACC or B12. Those are the places UConn needs to go to until it improves its research output and football quality.
 
Skies2018 said:
Couldn’t agree more man. I read the article and thought the exact same thing. Why can every other comparable school have both sports but we’re designated to just have one? It’s stupid. We’re a flagship state school from a mid sized (5M people) state. States with comparable populations such as Kansas, Oregon, Iowa and Oklahoma can each somehow support 2 major football teams at their big schools but we can’t? Absolute BS argument.
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UConn is located in Connecticut. CT is nowhere near 5 million population.
 
Chin Diesel said:
UConn is located in Connecticut. CT is nowhere near 5 million population.
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From StatsAmerica.org

Population Estimate for 2022​

RankStateFIPS CodePopulation
1California0600039,029,342
2Texas4800030,029,572
3Florida1200022,244,823
4New York3600019,677,151
5Pennsylvania4200012,972,008
6Illinois1700012,582,032
7Ohio3900011,756,058
8Georgia1300010,912,876
9North Carolina3700010,698,973
10Michigan2600010,034,113
11New Jersey340009,261,699
12Virginia510008,683,619
13Washington530007,785,786
14Arizona040007,359,197
15Tennessee470007,051,339
16Massachusetts250006,981,974
17Indiana180006,833,037
18Missouri290006,177,957
19Maryland240006,164,660
20Wisconsin550005,892,539
21Colorado080005,839,926
22Minnesota270005,717,184
23South Carolina450005,282,634
24Alabama010005,074,296
25Louisiana220004,590,241
26Kentucky210004,512,310
27Oregon410004,240,137
28Oklahoma400004,019,800
29Connecticut090003,626,205
30Utah490003,380,800
31Iowa190003,200,517
32Nevada320003,177,772
33Arkansas050003,045,637
34Mississippi280002,940,057
35Kansas200002,937,150
36New Mexico350002,113,344
37Nebraska310001,967,923
38Idaho160001,939,033
39West Virginia540001,775,156
40Hawaii150001,440,196
41New Hampshire330001,395,231
42Maine230001,385,340
43Montana300001,122,867
44Rhode Island440001,093,734
45Delaware100001,018,396
46South Dakota46000909,824
47North Dakota38000779,261
48Alaska02000733,583
49District of Columbia11000671,803
50Vermont50000647,064
51Wyoming56000581,381

#makeDCastate #taxationwithoutrepresentation :)
 
Nebraskan18 said:
Why would we want to purchase tickets on the titanic??? Big 12 won't even exist in 10 years unless something unforeseen. Meanwhile playing midweek games against UCF and BYU and TCU
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How do you know that?
 
noeynox said:
You guys are really nuts. Yeah we lose bus rides to Seton Hall, St John's and PC. But the dollars you gain from now till the expiration of the 12s GOR could transform this AD until the next shakeup.
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Where's the army of women's bball fans throwing their support? One would have to think Big 12 with Baylor etc is a bit of an upgrade for them no?
 
Forte said:
Where's the army of women's bball fans throwing their support? One would have to think Big 12 with Baylor etc is a bit of an upgrade for them no?
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Basketball only crowd is an odd bunch. I can’t imagine playing Kansas, Baylor, ISU, Houston, Cincy, WVU is going to impair basketball in any way.
 
huskymedic said:
Toast:

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"If it comes to that, there are two potential outcomes: The schools risk financial ruin to get out of the league and fail in what assuredly would be a massive legal battle or they win and the fault lines split the ACC in half. The league diaspora would be scooped up by the Big Ten, SEC and likely the Big 12, with perhaps a Big East football reincarnation that brings the northeast schools back together. In short, all hell would break loose."
 
RSTuthill said:
True, but I think his point stands looking at the table posted just after.
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True but I think there is like 11 million with in 100 miles of Storrs.

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Nope, I was wrong...
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CL82 said:
True but I think there is like 11 million with in 100 miles of Storrs.

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Was anyone in Boston, Albany, Worcestor, Nashua, Brattleboro, Westchester, Nassau, or Suffolk excited when UConn won its MBB title? I am sure, but in vanishingly small numbers. A hundred mile radius might work in the midwest, but not so much in the northeast.
 
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