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Big 12 Pushing For UConn Part Deux!

JMick said:
I don't buy this "B1G doesn't want to be seen as destroying the PAC" argument

These are all big boys with their big boy pants on. It's strictly business. They have a duty to do the best thing for their members. They aren't going to care about what happens to another conference if they get what they want.
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Exactly. The B1G was happy to bathe in the PAC's blood when it meant taking USC and UCLA. Let's get real here.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
People seem to forget the ACC is an academic snob conference before they added Louisville over us. WVU simply doesn't fit their model, which is why WVU is in the B12.
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I was just going off of radio commentary. WV is in Big 12 because they were offered prior to ACC offering Louisville
 
uchusky32 said:
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Lmfao @ B1G purposed nobility in this. Hey we only took the two biggest brands from the PAC, the 3rd biggest brand from the Big12, an ACC founding member , and took the 2nd to last flagship U from the Big East.

We haven't done anything!
 
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ConnHuskBask said:
Lmfao @ B1G purposed nobility in this. Hey we only took the two biggest brands from the PAC, the 3rd biggest brand from the Big12, an ACC founding member , and took the 2nd to last flagship U from the Big East.

We haven't done anything!
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Absolutely! I’m a Big10 fan and they’re holier than thou attitude drives me crazy.
 
ConnHuskBask said:
Lmfao @ B1G purposed nobility in this. Hey we only took the two biggest brands from the PAC, the 3rd biggest brand from the Big12, an ACC founding member , and took the 2nd to last flagship U from the Big East.

We haven't done anything!
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And the SEC savaged the Big XII. Arkansas, Missouri, Texas A&M, UT and OU. If you put everything back, we'd have 5-6 fairly level conferences. Some would be better in some years, but the SEC and B1G wouldn't stand out like they do now.
 
The Pac can easily survive for the immediate future because Colorado and Arizona are easily replaceable with SDSU and Boise State. Hell, you can even throw in SMU or UNLV.
 
HuskyHawk said:
And the SEC savaged the Big XII. Arkansas, Missouri, Texas A&M, UT and OU. If you put everything back, we'd have 5-6 fairly level conferences. Some would be better in some years, but the SEC and B1G wouldn't stand out like they do now.
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To be fair, outside of OU, those other schools haven't really made much noise in the last decade+
 
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If these trickles of reports that the ACC is open to expansion have any truth, AD David Benedict absolutely must make a phone call to Jim Phillips before any decision regarding the Big 12 is made.

That said, Utah is a redundant add to BYU in a small state with little/no media draw.
 
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brasssbonanzaa said:
If these trickles of reports that the ACC is open to expansion have any truth, AD David Benedict absolutely must make a phone call to Jim Phillips before any decision regarding the Big 12 is made.
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The ACC isn't expanding. But if we want to play hypotheticals, there's only 2 good things about the ACC. The length of the GOR and the geography. But you're joining a conference that's DOA.

It would buy us time to get football in order and help elevate our position. But we have to be ready to move when 2036 gets here.
 
The ACC isn't expanding, they basically admitted in the article that any candidate that would consider moving to the ACC wouldn't bring enough to make the addition worthwhile. It would be a neutral move with the result being more schools complaining about the situation.
 
JMick said:
This makes sense if only because the Big XII presidents get 3 of what they want and Yormark gets 1 of what he wants. It's a compromise everyone is happy with.
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Tyler2Rings said:
If he can pull off Colorado and the AZ schools the presidents owe him the benefit of the doubt in his NYC vision
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The Big XII has wanted those Arizona schools for a long, long time. It really does make the Big XII the southwest conference if they can pull it off. People may be surprised that this is in Kansas.

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JMick said:
The ACC isn't expanding. But if we want to play hypotheticals, there's only 2 good things about the ACC. The length of the GOR and the geography. But you're joining a conference that's DOA.

It would buy us time to get football in order and help elevate our position. But we have to be ready to move when 2036 gets here.
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Yeah, but gotta get to P5 anyway possible ASAP, if for no other reason than the next move will be as a P5.
 
brasssbonanzaa said:
If these trickles of reports that the ACC is open to expansion have any truth, AD David Benedict absolutely must make a phone call to Jim Phillips before any decision regarding the Big 12 is made.

That said, Utah is a redundant add to BYU in a small state with little/no media draw.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it were the reverse: he already did. The only beneficiary to the "ACC is thinking of expanding" is UConn.

Either to have the B12 put a step on it in accepting UConn rather than using us as bait, or (with the same result) making it seem like WVU might be in danger of leaving, and that's a school that has been whining (rightly) about being on an island for a decade now.
 
"Jim Philips is open to expanding.." - now lets finish the sentence; "if ESPN will fully pay for it with a full share....and also cut the term of our GOR in 1/2."

The ACC would like to reopen that ESPN contract and moving schools around might be one way to make all parties happy again.

That all said, seems like the ACC expanding is something that is cloud talk and cannot be taken seriously. We cannot wait for the ACC to go through their process and make a legit proposal. Its too late.
 
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