I'll be interested to see if the ACC actually moves forward with that. I don't think it would behoove them to have any potential new members try to negotiate GOR terms.
Cal would be a really plum addition......
No. If this whole process hasn't made that clear, basketball championships are seen as flukes. What matters is regularly being in the mix for one. Alabama getting a #1 overall seed probably did more for them than our title did for us. North Carolina losing to Kansas helped validate Hubert Davis. Even in football, nobody downgraded Ohio State or Alabama because Georgia won.
yes, my friend. I agree with you. I was replying (sarcastically) to the comment that we don't want to end up like BC and Pitt.
Who told you that?
Your first paragraph is totally insane.
I think you're overestimating how long memories last. 1976 was a very long time ago.
OSU and WSU and football value? BC and football value? What am I missing here.
Read all the comments from all the fans and media during all of this process and you will see it is the view held by most people. Haven't you seen last year's NC called "Lucky" despite our clear dominance? Certainly 2014 actually was lucky. 2011 is often treated the same way. The average fan probably thinks more of Gonzaga than UConn because they always get a high seed every year. Championships are not the measuring stick for realignment. Otherwise the B1G wouldn't be the most valuable conference.
Of course it is. Most fans don't know about it. But they had Pickett in the first round two years ago. They aren't Alabama or Ohio State, but they aren't a garbage football program either. P5 is absolutely treated differently. To get in you can't just be as good as the lower half of P5 programs, you need to be better than them year after year.
If student athletes become employees that means Workers Comp would cover their sports injuries. Not just lifetime medical expenses but permanent and total disability. Football schools would go broke.
But they would have to find their own ride back to campus
Is that true? Where are you getting those numbers? I get it with football due to the sheer number of individuals who need to be supported. But if we can’t make money in a championship year for basketball, either we have some very bad historical deals on the revenue side or the AD isn’t doing his job properly.
OK. Let's try it this way: more value than us. And remember, value equals what someone is willing to pay for you. Not how many wins your athletic department has. The market has repeatedly said we don't have as much value as we think we have.
Where are you getting the value of basketball skyrocketing? Because Yormark said he thinks basketball is undervalued? We are clinging to that quote. Newsflash, he was playing us for the teams he really wanted. Notice how he never actually quantified how much it was worth? He is such a good salesman. He got everyone drooling and played to our confirmation bias.
I’m not sure it would be that abrupt for bb.
There's not much room on the football schedule for multiple B12 games until 2027.
I distinctly remember in UConn’s early football acension, the sports broadcaster mentioning ‘those Huskies’ and ‘yeah, they play football too’. I think that was 2007 or 2008.