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MilliniumPrince said:
Football schedules that include TCU, OSU, KState, WVU, Cincy, Houston, UFC, Memphis, USF, and Memphis sound pretty good to me.
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That's only marginally better than the set-up that cratered our BB programs. Sorry, but FB only gets one crack at killing hoop and they already took it.
 
Waquoit said:
That's only marginally better than the set-up that cratered our BB programs. Sorry, but FB only gets one crack at killing hoop and they already took it.
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Football fans voted with their feet on the American: no thanks, I would rather stay home and watch something else on tv. We created the program to play the old Big East, nobody anywhere cares about the AAC schools.
 
Exit 4 said:
Those daydreaming about what could have been in a super AAC are forgetting how challenging it was for recruiting and fan engagement to be on an island in New England.
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I hear ya, but there may be a scenario which results in another kick in the nuts for us.
 
Butch said:
Holy Cross is probably still more influential than UMass.

At the same time, he can try to boost UMass.

UMass to the Big Ten!!!1!1!
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Ajs120102 said:


Hate to say it but if this does indeed become reality, IMO UConn made a big mistake moving to the big East. Financially at least.
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Indeed. Another exactly wrong move, but this one you can’t blame anybody for other than moving away from Football driven decision making (which is the only thing that matters in college sports). I generally view it has more bad luck and chalk it up to another random kick in the nuts by the Universe.
 
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Bowlsby sounds like a guy who is in charge of Chaos. On the other Aresco has remained suspiciously quiet through all of this. The aac has an ally in the biggest player in the land, ESPN. And both have an interest in seeing the Big 12 go away albeit for different reasons. It's not hard to imagine wheels that turn too far to reverse this in the Big 12 favor. ESPN will not look kindly o any AAC school moving to the Big 12 8 at this point and in fact I can see ESPN incentivizing aac schools to stay and draw an additional members.
 
MilliniumPrince said:
I will be alone in this, but I would rather be in a conference with the best-of- the- rest of the Big 12 and best of the AAC. That is better than being independent, especially in an era where scheduling meaningful games is going to be next to impossible. These teams aren't creating super conferences so they can play out of conference schools. And while they Big 12 leftovers will take a big pay cut, this new alliance will still probably yield a better contract (probably from Fox) than we are going to see.

Football schedules that include TCU, OSU, KState, WVU, Cincy, Houston, UFC, Memphis, USF, and Memphis sound pretty good to me. Basketball with them and Kansas.....I'm taking that.
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I think if the new conference has the potential to get a solid TV media deal along with some sort of agreement like GOR to stay together, it could be the way to go for Uconn. Uconn should also find out what kind of media deal Big East can get in the upcoming media deal. If total money for the new conference is much better than the current Big East deal, then Uconn should definitely considering a move. It is doubtful any of this still come together for the super AAC though.

The key for Uconn is the ability to keep its T3 rights to build an Uconn channel either on SNY, partnering with another media company, or on its own.
 
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Exit 4 said:
Those daydreaming about what could have been in a super AAC are forgetting how challenging it was for recruiting and fan engagement to be on an island in New England.
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Yeah it was basically us and Temple on an island in a southwest centric conference. Sure Tulane has great academics like UConn, but they didn't move the needle athletically. We just didn't fit in with those schools which isn't an indictment on those schools. It just is what it is
 
CL82 said:
Personally I am hoping the discovery for the inevitable lawsuit it is established that ESPN willfully conspired with the ACC to disembowel the Big East thus setting off this whole poopfest of realignment and the court orders everyone back to their 2003 conferences. That could happen, right?
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That would force Cincinnati and USF back to CUSA and gives the Big East VT, BC and Miami all of which have accomplished precisely nothing but downward trends since joining the ACC.
 
uconnric said:
The networks certainly have a stake in all of this, but ESPN didn't make the decision.
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sports.yahoo.com

Big 12 commish Bob Bowlsby takes aim at ESPN, echoing a distrust schools have for network

Bowlsby’s accusation was, essentially, that ESPN was trying to orchestrate a maneuver that could help save the network and its partners well over a half-billion dollars.
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DoctorWho85 said:
That would force Cincinnati and USF back to CUSA and gives the Big East VT, BC and Miami all of which have accomplished precisely nothing but downward trends since joining the ACC.
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Works for me.
 
Drew said:
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Big 12 commish Bob Bowlsby takes aim at ESPN, echoing a distrust schools have for network

Bowlsby’s accusation was, essentially, that ESPN was trying to orchestrate a maneuver that could help save the network and its partners well over a half-billion dollars.
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Excluded from the Yahoo story but included in the original boston.com story was DeFilippo’s quote that BCU blocked UConn because they “wanted to be the New England school.”
 
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John said:
it's one sport small time thinking like this that has hobbled UConn all along.
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How? It's FBers who are the one sport thinkers.
 
Flipper was in so far over his head he drowned.

He could only survive at a place like BC that operated in a region where they were the only program with a long football tradition.
 
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Waquoit said:
How? It's FBers who are the one sport thinkers.
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The football program can easily be restored. Not like I care all that much anymore, just saying.

However, the northern schools, besides ND, being garbage in the ACC certainly is an eye opener. It would be a while before there's a chance for a national title at UConn in football.
 
From 2011:

An article in The Boston Globe on Sunday became the talk of college athletics, as it reported just how brazen and blatant Boston College’s blocking of Connecticut’s move to the Atlantic Coast Conference was.

“We didn’t want them in,” Boston College’s athletic director, Gene DeFilippo, told The Globe. “It was a matter of turf. We wanted to be the New England team.”

The most stunning comment in the article was DeFilippo’s public admission that ESPN guided the A.C.C.’s decision to add Syracuse and Pittsburgh last month. “We always keep our television partners close to us,” DeFilippo told The Globe. “You don’t get extra money for basketball. It’s 85 percent football money. TV — ESPN — is the one who told us what to do. This was football; it had nothing to do with basketball.”

DeFilippo’s comments give credence to the popular theory that ESPN encouraged Pittsburgh and Syracuse’s exit from the Big East in the wake of the Big East’s turning down ESPN’s billion dollar television deal in May during an exclusive negotiating window. ESPN has a billion dollar deal with the A.C.C., making that move either savvy business or collusion, depending on one’s perspective.

Conference Instability Is Filtering Down to the Next Level (Published 2011)
 
To me, there will be two conferences left standing: the SEC and B1G. Each will have 20 members. The SEC will have to wait about 8 years but they will add Clemson, Florida State, UNC, and Virginia (ND will have a scheduling agreement) and play Olympic sports there. The B1G will add the 4 California schools, Oregon, and Washington. We’ll probably end up in the ACC with WVU. Kansas and a few others with end up in the PAC-12. Game over.
 
billybud said:
ESPN might do it like with FSU....no official contact...have a SEC school President have lunch with the Texas President...social visit... info passes in the guise of gossip...no notes...no ESPN involvement
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Ah, the ole FSU model undermining Big East football via lunches with scUM (round 1) and the latter's dingleberries (BCU/Lahey/Defilippo, and Syracuse/Shaw/Crouthamel; latter killed by VA Legislature), Subsequently, BE football's final death blow in cahoots with Clemson and ESPN (round 2).
 
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Ahhh....I'm over the whole BBC thing at this point. They have a nice hockey program and a football program that that is sometimes competitive. I'll be long in the grave before they ever sniff an ACC championship or playoff appearance.

.......and basketball is something special. Who the heck was president the last time they made the NCAAs......... Eisenhower?
 
John said:
Wrong.
I don't recall posts on the Boneyard football board wishing the basketball program would go away.
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We were in the AAC for one sport and it was killing our basketball program whether you wished it or not. You are all projection, with your calling realists like me "one sport thinkers." I've paid for and attended every UConn FB game in The Rent. All of the posts decrying our leaving the AAC came from the real one-sport thinkers.
 
I don't think the AAC hurt us as much as we hurt ourselves. The coaching blunders on the football side were epic and we're still paying the price for that. P inherited an NFL defense and couldn't even get bowl eligible. Crazy Bob was.....well.....crazy. On the hoops side of the ledger KO imploded and I don't think anyone could have predicted that. We should have been plenty competitive in that conference.

That all said, I and, I suspect most, UCONN fans did not appreciate that conference and I think getting out made good sense. Given what's happening to the Big 12 it looks like an even better move.
 
What a cesspool of unbridled betrayal, greed and power play. The whole system is collapsing because there isn’t a shred of integrity left in the system. it’s about the $$, not the college players, education, or fans.
 
shizzle787 said:
To me, there will be two conferences left standing: the SEC and B1G. Each will have 20 members. The SEC will have to wait about 8 years but they will add Clemson, Florida State, UNC, and Virginia (ND will have a scheduling agreement) and play Olympic sports there. The B1G will add the 4 California schools, Oregon, and Washington. We’ll probably end up in the ACC with WVU. Kansas and a few others with end up in the PAC-12. Game over.
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I agree, that appears to be how it's shaping up. The idea that there will be 3-4 super conferences left standing seems generous.
 
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