b12-b16 needs to be our GOAL

[Dann]

-the b12 has 9 west teams and 1 east team
-the b12 owns the b16 name
-the b10 will get atleast 1 b12 school if not more expansion wise. that will lead to 8 or less west teams
-now the b16 can add and get to 8-8 east/west
-this league will have split tv with espn/fox and t3 for keps which is perfect for uconn. we have strong tier 3
-the b12 will get big boy schools and potential thru good markets, they are going to create a east division

can we get one of the 7 slots remaining in that division?
-vt/ncst to the sec
-nd indy/acc
-ruty to the b10 with kansas is very realistic

who is left?

fsu/gt/clem. ok now its down to 4 slots
unc? uva? md? lville? uconn? 5 for 4 right? can we get in?

if not our future is the private school bball league of the acc that just happens to play washed up fball.

this is what warde and susan need to spend all day every day on. a east division with uconn in would be the best thing ever for this school. look at those teams/school and tell me otherwise.

 

[HuskyHawk]

The goal is clear...someplace other than the NBE. Work the phones Warde and Susan and get us a life raft to anywhere.

 

[HartbeatHusky]

I agree about the Big 12. I don't think schools are in a rush to leave the ACC at this point. If they want to expand and balance the conference geographically, now that WVU is in, they need to expand east and grab us, Louisville, Cincy, and Rutgers.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

No.

Our goal needs to be to accomplish over the next however many years what TCU did after the SWC folded. We need to take care of what we can take care of and more importantly, improve in the one area that will land us an offer (football) to the point where someone will want us.

If we can take care of this, the rest will take care of itself.

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

now that WVU is in, they need to expand east and grab us, Louisville, Cincy, and Rutgers.

Unfortunately, that doesn't work economically. Adding UConn, UL, UC, and Rutgers does not increase the $ for the B12. I would guess that it may actually reduce the per team payout.

 

[Dann]

if on the field recent stuff mattered then the follwoing schools should not have moved:
cuse
pitt
colorado
utah
nd
etc...

if it was all on the field bsu would be in the pac. lville would be in a league years ago, maybe cincy also.

its about markets and potential
tcu may have been good on the field, but when a/m left texas wanted to lock back up the big markets and get to 4 texas teams. tcu was the best team left out at that poin in the best market.

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

if on the field recent stuff mattered then the follwoing schools should not have moved:
cuse
pitt
colorado
utah
nd
etc...

if it was all on the field bsu would be in the pac. lville would be in a league years ago, maybe cincy also.

its about markets and potential
tcu may have been good on the field, but when a/m left texas wanted to lock back up the big markets and get to 4 texas teams. tcu was the best team left out at that poin in the best market.

Can we just open up satellite campus' to get the bigger markets? The University of Connecticut -- Los Angeles Branch, The University of Connecticut - Chicago Branch, etc?

That is the most frustrating part...we are a victim of our geography. The only conference that is in the NE is the ACC...and they aren't interested in us at this point. If we were located anywhere else in the country, would would have been added a long time ago. Do you think that the PAC12 or B12 wouldn't love to have the UConn program in their conference if they were located in their geographic footprint? I think we certainly bring more to the table than Utah or TCU (recent additions to those conferences)...we are just screwed in that we are in the NE and aren't connected to the major conference in the area.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Dan, I respectfully disagree.

If Boise St had our academic profile and a portion of our non-football athletic success the Pac & the B-12 would have been fighting over them.

Utah made it to two BCS bowls (won both) as a member of a non-BCS conference. They also are the flagship of a growing state and bring in a market large enough to house an NBA team.

Colorado had quite a bit of success in the not too distant past (20 years ago) and had been a potential target of the Pac for nearly three decades.

Pitt and Cuse brought high profiles in both major revenue sports and each can claim a heisman and national titles.

ND is ND. Even with what they have lost, they still have more cachet than nearly any other school in the country. If this weren't true there wouldn't be 30+ threads on this board alone on the implications of their loss a mere few hours after the announcement.

You are partially correct on TCU but this wasn't to bring a market (UT holds far more of DFW than TCU can ever hope for) as much as it was a qucik and credible step to rebuild that conference.

We are still a blip on the screen when it comes to college football. Until we are more than that we need to build as too few will take us seriously. It is that simple.