Dom Amore: If Big 12 calls, UConn will have to choose between Big East love and Power Five money.
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I for one would be thrilled to get a B12 invite:
First, the $$$$. I believe that the B12 media rights deal will be delivering $32M per team (before UConn joining if that happens?) when the new contract begins (2025-26 season).
Second, like it or not college athletics is all about football. We aren't going to have Jim Mora forever, let's see what he can accomplish with P5 status.
Third, great basketball straight away. Let's hope we can schedule as many of our BE competitors as we can in non-league play.
Fourth, major upgrade for baseball and softball. I am sure for other of our programs too?
Fifth, the move should help with alumni contributions / NIL.
Finally, obviously I have no idea what (if anything) will happen should the P5 members decide to break away from the NCAA or force some P5 only football championship but whatever might happen, if UConn is in the P5 at the time it happens I would feel a lot better about it than being shut out as an Independent which would almost assuredly be the case.
First, the $$$$. I believe that the B12 media rights deal will be delivering $32M per team (before UConn joining if that happens?) when the new contract begins (2025-26 season).
Second, like it or not college athletics is all about football. We aren't going to have Jim Mora forever, let's see what he can accomplish with P5 status.
Third, great basketball straight away. Let's hope we can schedule as many of our BE competitors as we can in non-league play.
Fourth, major upgrade for baseball and softball. I am sure for other of our programs too?
Fifth, the move should help with alumni contributions / NIL.
Finally, obviously I have no idea what (if anything) will happen should the P5 members decide to break away from the NCAA or force some P5 only football championship but whatever might happen, if UConn is in the P5 at the time it happens I would feel a lot better about it than being shut out as an Independent which would almost assuredly be the case.
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Judging from the comments here, it might make everybody happy if UConn were to garner a Big 12 invitation and then decline the offer. Football fans could boast that the school was attractive enough to warrant an invitation, and basketball diehards would swoon over the prospect of the school staying in the Big East. Win, win.
In addition, the Big 12 could quickly find another candidate for expansion. And so, win, win, win.
In addition, the Big 12 could quickly find another candidate for expansion. And so, win, win, win.
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UConn would become the complete laughing stock. If leaving the AAC was giving up on football, as some people claim, declining a P5 offer would be running it through the shredder and flushing it down the toilet. No recovery from that one.
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For sure. You think WVU wanted to go to the Big 12? They would’ve much preferred the ACC but that wasn’t an option at the time. Big 12 is currently the best BB conference. UConn would look pretty weak declining if offered as in can’t compete with good competition.
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With Texas and Oklahoma leaving to go to the SEC, I don’t know if you can rely on Houston to make that claim. They are closer to the field than in recent years.
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Cincy is also a solid basketball program with a great history and if the B12 were to add UCONN and San Diego State they would have more than made up for the basketball loss of Oklahoma and Texas.
It will be an outstanding basketball conference, we just need a seat at the table.
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Something else to consider: for all those worried about recruiting the NE, all these schools together with UConn might make the Big 12 competitive in the NE in a way Cuse and BCU just doesn’t
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That WOULD be the way the New Bis East fans would see it all right. UConn fans, though, would want to be in the Big 12
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Yes I'd feel much better if UConn were to pretend we didn't need the money or the exposure and to have our future limited by staying in the Big East.
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If UConn is put up for a vote, I am curious what the yes / no votes would look like.
We seemed to get along with WVU so maybe they are a yes? We have played UH in multiple sports since leaving the AAC so maybe them, too. I doubt Texas Tech and Oklahoma State vote us in. Baylor perhaps?
My guess is we fall a few votes short if we are put up for a vote, but getting into the Big 12 isn't a pipe dream and would be really good for our athletic department.
We seemed to get along with WVU so maybe they are a yes? We have played UH in multiple sports since leaving the AAC so maybe them, too. I doubt Texas Tech and Oklahoma State vote us in. Baylor perhaps?
My guess is we fall a few votes short if we are put up for a vote, but getting into the Big 12 isn't a pipe dream and would be really good for our athletic department.
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I wonder if the ACC would make a preemptive offer to us? It seems like it would be the smart play. If I recall correctly their ESPN deal has an auto bump up for new members. If the choice is full share a cc or partial share big 12 which way do we go?
Probably Big 12, but it would be tempting to think about the ACC. I'd rather play those teams if everything was equal.
Probably Big 12, but it would be tempting to think about the ACC. I'd rather play those teams if everything was equal.
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That’s where my mind is.
In my dream scenario, we have an athletic program that produces enough money to support championship runs in non-football and competes well in whatever the next level down is in football. I’m not sure what that looks like. I’d be very happy if it was a mix of some big east brands and the castoffs from the current acc. I think the university as a whole flourishes if that happens. Just a pipe dream though unless this is the time the ACC runts realize the time is now to control their destiny and agree with their big boys that it is time to dissolve their league.
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The ACC is our “natural” home in my opinion. We are similar to those schools in lots of ways, more so than the B12 and certainly more than the NEWBIE. But if the Big 12 offered, we would absolutely have to go .
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Well played.
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ACC source on record last week said expansion is not the answer because "it's more mouths to feed". Sounded to me that they would expand if a new member took a significantly reduced amount til 2036 to make others happy. Not the situation i want to see UConn in.
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That is a way to "find money" for schools who want to lessen the gap between the ACC and the P2, isn't it?
Why would the Big 12 Commissioner and his entourage waste their time coming all the way to Storrs if they already knew there were a bunch of no votes? Seems to me it was more likely they already had a quorum of yes votes before they left.
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$20 million a year is still 5 times what we get from the NBE.
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I have said the same in the past, but that league has a crabs in a bucket mentality right now. If there was a choice the Big 12 seems more stable going forward.
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TV $$$$ >>>>> Big East loyalty. Plain and simple.
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Lol would that be "big East loyalty" to the schools that abandoned us or to the schools with which we had no prior history?
I’m disappointed to see your comment re the rent. The fan experience at the aren’t is far better than at ND, Penn State, Northwestern, the Rose Bowl and others. The Rose Bowl and ND, in particular are antiquated and as a six footer, impossible for me to sit forward in. Yes it is small for Big 12 but the footings were poured for expansion to 50,000 and I expect good engineers could figure out how to expand further. All we need to do is not give away all the parking for malls or warehouses .
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