ESPN: next round (uconn)

[Duncan Idaho]

Our recruiting would sky rocket, it would be the fastest path in getting the Rent expanded having tOSU, Penn St, Michigan, Nebraska...in East Hartford. B1G would accelerate our program development faster than the ACC.

 

[TouchdownHusky]

ACC. Plain and simple. Best for UConn in all sports - period. Besides if people are going to travel 800 miles to an away game, better to be heading south. Who wants to be in Champaign Illinois is October?

 

[CL82]

Would love to join the B1G, but I can't see it happening. Even to get an ACC invite we need an intervening event to occur...SEC poaches them etc. Get used to the NBE. We'll be here a while.

 

[uconnric]

Penn State's been in the B10 for 20 years and they have no rivals.

I'm a basketball first fan. Games against Syracuse matter. Games against Michigan State or Wisconsin don't.

Don't take it to mean I wouldn't be thrilled to get out of this mess, but B10 isn't happening, and basketball is better in ACC.

Agreed. We are a poor fit for the Big Ten. No rivalries whatsoever. We'd be like BC in the ACC, lost sheep.

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[AJC88]

Agreed. We are a poor fit for the Big Ten. No rivalries whatsoever. We'd be like BC in the ACC, lost sheep.

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yeah, except we'd be playing the most storied programs in college football history (Michigan, Ohio State) rather than Florida State and no one else.
B1G difference.
See what I did there?

 

[coachcap]

yeah, except we'd be playing the most storied programs in college football history (Michigan, Ohio State) rather than Florida State and no one else.
B1G difference.
See what I did there?

AND getting paid handsomely to do so with proceeds from the B1G television network.

 

[HuskyHawk]

AND getting paid handsomely to do so with proceeds from the B1G television network.

Which is, to my happiness, standard on my Verizon FiOS TV. SNY is not.

 

[djct1999]

I would love for the Big 10 to make a power move and lock up the east coast......ND, Rutgers, UConn and MD......man, the acc would be totally screwed.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I personally believe that without a partner (at the moment, Rutgers would appear to be the only realistic possibility) joining the B1G with us, from a geographic and logistic viewpoint we would have serious difficulty in a midwest centered conference (and there would still be many challenges if we did have a partner). That said, if the B1G did offer us a spot in their conference e would have to jump at it. Stealing a line from JC the other day (on whether they could again win five games in five days) and bringing it to present tense, I don't think it is possible but I would like to take a crack at it!

 

[huskypantz]

I would love for the Big 10 to make a power move and lock up the east coast......ND, Rutgers, UConn and MD......man, the acc would be totally screwed.

This would be the scenario that would give UConn the best chance to be successful in the B1G. The fourth doesn't have to be Maryland as long as it's a northeast team. Cuse would be great - brings another rival with us.

 

[junglehusky]

If the B1G does make a move... we have to hope it includes us, since UVA, MD, RU and even UNC have been mentioned in rumors. UNC would opt to stay put, unless the ACC were already completely destabilized. Say, some combination of NC State, FSU, VTech, Miami leaving for SEC /B12 could cause UNC to ditch Duke. Then the B1G becomes the big kahuna. But if that (admittedly unlikely) scenario doesn't happen UConn is waiting for ND / Swofford make their next move.

 

[uconnfan68]

Very interesting.

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Huge travel budget. ;^)

 

[Kgun7]

#1 - Did I miss the memo mandating that all avatars must reference Animal House?
#2 - Why no pics of Fawn Liebowitz?

 

[TouchdownHusky]

Agreed. We are a poor fit for the Big Ten. No rivalries whatsoever. We'd be like BC in the ACC, lost sheep.

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Agreed. UConn + ACC = good fit.

 

[fortebleedsblue]

The only way I see another conference expansion happening is with a play off system that requires only conference teams the ability to play in. That would force Notre Dame to drop it's precious independent status thus restarting the expansion bus.

 

[SubbaBub]

#1 - Did I miss the memo mandating that all avatars must reference Animal House?
#2 - Why no pics of Fawn Liebowitz?

I always thought Shelly Dubinski was hotter, being that she wasn't killed in a freak kiln explosion.

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