Except, when you have 3 P5 schools looking for a home, it was a no brainer for the Big 12 to take 3 flagship universities that had been historical rivals with many current Big 12 schools to get to 16 schools.
Not to beat a dead horse. but...2 of those three will likely never win a national championship in football or basketball (Arizona in basketball) maybe. UConn at the time 5 time national champ since 1999, with markedly improving program and blue blood status. Some here say that UConn would bring the NYC metro DMA to the Big 12 which has no representatives in the northeast. They added Cinci and UCF which have only local interest in football and none in basketball. UConn other olympic sports are also competitive. There was no evidence at that time that the ACC would be imploding. Now they will wait for ACC leftovers and UConn will be left out again. ESPN is the great satan here, as usual.
Except UConn is not in the NYC DMA.
Count again.
Has anyone actually said that? I'm not really sure what that means in any event. Fairfield County, which includes about a third of the population of Connecticut is in the NYCDMA, so, in that sense it's correct. But the notion that being physically located in the NYCDMA means that everyone there will suddenly be watching college football is incorrect with Connecticut as it was with Rutgers.
I'd argue UConn's position is even better as it can draw from NYC and Boston
Last summer when UConn was allegedly under consideration for the Big 12 conference, men's basketball had won 5 national championships. Note the statement "at the time". Perhaps it could have been worded more clearly.
Ah, got it.
Not sure who you were replying to, but I'll just note the most watched men's basketball game of 2024, including NBA games, was the Connecticut championship game. Think that was a fluke? The most watched basketball game of 2023 was the Connecticut national championship game.
If you go by your previous statement that UConn does not bring the NYC DMA, then maybe that huge nationwide Purdue fanbase was bumping up the numbers. My only point in the initial post was that it always seems there are changing reasons for UConn being left out.
… and the New Haven/Hartford DMA is ranked 30th in the Country.
Reread my post. What I said is the phrase "brings the NYCDMA" is a meaningless statement. You use that phrase repeatedly so it seems important to you, but it literally has no meaning.
I alwys thought it was cable subscribers that mattered in CR, and NYC DMA has a lot of cable boxes or streaming customers. As for paragraph 2, I was being facetious.
What "matters in conference realignment" is kind of a moving target. Different things matter at different times. For the Rutgers moved to the Big Ten what mattered was presents within the NYCDMA, because that allowed the big 10 to get premium first year pricing on the Big Ten network. For conferences without a network that wouldn't matter at all.
People with little understanding of how business actually works will start thinking "this means FSU will be free to leave immediately if they want". The reality is, if this was a legitimate notification the school would have issued it, on its own prior to 8/15/23. If the school felt the manner on which it was included in their complaint was sufficient, with timing being a critical part of the equation, they would have requested an expedited ruling on that portion of the complaint.
They'll use it as a way to countersue for back damages for being held longer than "their original issue date" would otherwise have held them to the conference. Bold, but should not gain traction.
Didn't the original complaint say that it was not a withdrawal notice and they were actually looking for clarification of the withdrawal rules?
They won't get it. Whatever their exit date, the "irrevocable" language basically means that the ACC owns rights to all of their home games through 2027 (4 more football seasons).