Sorry about my last few posts, my dissapointment with this uneven UConn situation grates at me. I don't know the answer, and I'm not a diehard believer that all will be well, just wait (I wish my mind could accept that). I am, how shall I say, pissed off. Pissed off that UConn has gotten the shaft.
I truly wish John Henry, or Bill Lipschultz would become a major conference commissioner with free reign. I guarantee you with their vision and refusal to lose they would transform major College fb and bb into one hell of a show. I don't know how big their conferences would be, but i guarantee you they would transform college athletics as we know it, and UConn would be a key add in their formula. What would result would be a decent number of high level teams playing an even based schedule that was miles above the other colleges. their "conference, be it 20, 30, or 40 teams (or tie in with similar size conferences), would redefine competition as we know it. Stupid CR alliances and moves, such as UL, WVU, Pitt, BCU, RU would be obsolite. They would structure leagues such that a wrong conference move would set that conference back by 5 years.
Only the strong survive.
For instance moves like Delaney taking Ru and UMD, without any UVA follow through would mean its ripe for B1G to lose PSU to the ACC. Stuff like that where dumb moves have consequences. BIG 12's sleeping on UL, Pitt, and Cincy should have meant OKlahoma, OK State bolt immediately to the PAC.
I thought Swafford a fool, however if he taps UConn and UCF, he actually is a trading genious, to the likes of Lipschultz. Uconn and UCF give the ACC the entire East Coast, banishing B1G to move only west. Taking UCF keeps Big 12 from any thought of entering into Florida. What may have benn folly with Cuse/Pitt/UL would end up being sheer genious with a UConn/UCF move. Then offer Texas a ND hybrid deal, and the lowly ACC becomes the 100% dominant college FB and BB conference, hands down.