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Noworriesbro said:
i guess good point, but im justing saying here you get into the big 12, and then it falls apart, its just more stress
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More stress than what? Being in the AAC and hoping that when the Big XII and ACC merge they also grab us?

I'd rather be in the Big XII, I also believe that if the Big XII gets a network and adds UConn it becomes more stable than the ACC (which doesn't have a network).

The Big XII and the ACC remind me of that joke about the two guys walking through the woods when the see a bear charging at them:
The first guy puts his sneakers on.
The second guys says: "Why are you putting sneakers on, you can't outrun a bear"
The first guy says: "I don't have to outrun a bear, I just have to outrun you."

The first conference to get a network "outruns the bear". I want UConn in that conference.
 
How can Houston afford Herrmanns contract if they're not going anywhere? Seems like it would be hard on the pocketbook.
 
I like the thought processes in most of these threads, ...
1). B12 is desperate and unstable with only 10 members, therefore they need to add UCONN and Cincinnati because no other P5 schools are interested.
2). UCONN and Cincinnati allow the B12 to build a successful conference network.
3). B12 is able to pluck Clemson and FSU from the ACC.
4). ???????
PROFIT!!
 
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Noworriesbro said:
you guys really dont want to join the big 12, if im a uconn fan as painful as it is im waiting this out and hoping for a ticket to the acc once the big 12 implodes. heres how its going to happen, you can pin this if you want because this is 100% how its going down.

2 ACC schools to the SEC (nc state and v tech perhaps) texas and a few others to the pac 12, big ten will go with either oklahoma and kansas or unc and uva (or all 4) and then the rest of the big 12 will merge with the acc and add cincy , uconn and a few others.

book it.
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Tell this to Pudgey
 
Noworriesbro said:
2 ACC schools to the SEC (nc state and v tech perhaps) texas and a few others to the pac 12, big ten will go with either oklahoma and kansas or unc and uva (or all 4) and then the rest of the big 12 will merge with the acc and add cincy , uconn and a few others. book it.
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As if most people with any gray matter would opt to remain stranded on AACisland. Yup, book that! :rolleyes:
 
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noeynox said:
Like everyone else, BYU won't know until they are invited. If you're Bronco, and UVA offered big life changing money I believe, do you pass that up "just in case BYU gets invited" to the Big 12. I don't think you can do that and clearly he didn't think it.

Is it possible BYU was told were going East not West IF we expand? I suppose so.
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I just found this on Coaching Search
( http://coachingsearch.com/article?a=News-Notes--Quotes--Feb-18)
...pretty interesting comments from Bronco Mendenhall yesterday re: BYU

- Bronco Mendenhall says BYU needs to join a conference. The current Virginia head coach had called for the school to join the Big 12 while he was there. It’s still his belief.

“After being the head coach at BYU, I don’t think independence is sustainable,” he told SiriusXM College Sports Nation. “What I chose to do was schedule the most compelling games on the biggest stages with the most difficult opponents to draw the most people and visibility and draw the exposure for administration that this is what we could be doing every single week.

“No one had more to lose than I did, but it was compelling me to want more for the university, now that there’s a divide between Power 5 and Group of 5.”
 
Noworriesbro said:
i guess good point, but im justing saying here you get into the big 12, and then it falls apart, its just more stress
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It's a club. Aside from the obvious better money and better competition during that period (and better recruiting), once a school is in the P5 it is perceived differently. UConn has better metrics than many current P5 schools, yet they are perceived as belonging and we are often perceived as unworthy. In short, UConn's chances of staying in the future equivalent of the P5 is dramatically improved by getting a P5 invite now.
 
HuskyHawk said:
It's a club. Aside from the obvious better money and better competition during that period (and better recruiting), once a school is in the P5 it is perceived differently. UConn has better metrics than many current P5 schools, yet they are perceived as belonging and we are often perceived as unworthy. In short, UConn's chances of staying in the future equivalent of the P5 is dramatically improved by getting a P5 invite now.
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I can't believe you just had to explain that to someone.
 
HuskyHawk said:
It's a club. Aside from the obvious better money and better competition during that period (and better recruiting), once a school is in the P5 it is perceived differently. UConn has better metrics than many current P5 schools, yet they are perceived as belonging and we are often perceived as unworthy. In short, UConn's chances of staying in the future equivalent of the P5 is dramatically improved by getting a P5 invite now.
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i dont think anyone is saying uconn is unworthy, and those people have zero idea. honestly, all the schools are doing what they can to get a seat in the P5. From uconn, to houston. all the schools have positives and negatives. it really comes down to luck to be honest. if there was conferences being created today, a school like purdue would not be asked to join. its a market based decision. the question will be who delivers more tv money uconn or cincy or usf or ucf. nobody knows those answers except for the conferences that hire companies to find out. a school like houston has the texas state politics pushing hard vs the tv money, its really a coin flip decision and it comes down to luck
 
To me it's pretty simple.

-If the Big XII moves for a TV network, we're in. Easily, at that.

-If they don't, we're less likely - but probably one of three major candidates and we profile better across the board than who I'd assume would be our primary competition.

The Big XII is a weird conference for us to be in, but it's feeling more and more likely.
 
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