Yup, we need to prostitute ourselves to the B1G bigtime, offer to be their cheap NYC whore. Maybe the ACC panics and shows up at our door with some flowers and a mysterious envelope.
It also seems like a total dog and pony show.
Imagine you’re making business decisions worth billions of dollars and treating these negotiations like you own a franchise propane dealership in the 80’s
I think athletic and educational missions are on the back burner with money on the forefront. All this nonsense about allegiance, land grant, AAU is nothing more than background noise at this stage in the game.
A&M are a bunch of softees.
Agree, they are like South Carolina, they think they are great, but in reality they aren't. Watch A+M leaves and SEC kicks out south Carolina, then bring in Texas and Clemson, that's a win for sec
And what is Dave supposed to do at this point? He can't go public with any ideas right now. I also think that the ACC may similarly implode. Florida State and Clemson are going to be salivating over SEC money and may join them.
Isn’t Rutgers their cheap NYC whore? I think we’d have to be their elite escort. More penthouse than back alley.
Our old friend Gene DeFilippo must be working for A&M.
The statement was “I hope”. If I were him, I be meeting with President and Trustees and laying out potential options, putting together a financial analysis regarding the economic benefits both direct and indirect of moving to a major conference, and I be meeting with legislators and the governor to discuss the appetite of buying into a conference like the B1G. This is an economic dev project with long term benefits. I’d be ready to pay in $125M to take in a half share ($25M) for 5 years with a full share thereafter. For the ACC, the local economic drivers are not nearly as attractive and the rev share is smaller, but, again, the is really about economic development and putting a real sports product into Connecticut . Connecticut is sitting on boat loads of federal cash they are not spending.
How about lobbying the legislature to remove the higher wage requirements four research and development projects within the University of Connecticut? That negatively impacts our ability to get federal grants, which in turn impedes our ability to become AAU. And that is a nominal requirement, at least, for joining the Big Ten.
ACC GOR will keep em safe...for now. Bur you're right. AD Dave with his move to the Big East put UConn in a far better position than if they had been in the AAC. If some back channel better offer emerges, great, if not. We're still okay.
We should be their cheap New England date. It blows my mind that the MS has 2 teams in the SEC, and New England 1 in any P5.
Ole Dave was doing more than monitoring.
Where there's not much to do, minor league teams flourish.
LOLOLOLOL, I just spit my drink out
CT leadership has always suffered from small minds. The last guy to try anything audacious was Roland. Pats didn’t work out but at least we tried. Now it’ let’s be a basketball school and hang with Nova, Seton, PC.