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I did. You can laugh if you like, but Tennis is a big deal at UVA. We're trying to improve Golf.Did he just say men's indoor tennis? There are no words, just no words.
I did. You can laugh if you like, but Tennis is a big deal at UVA. We're trying to improve Golf.Did he just say men's indoor tennis? There are no words, just no words.
I did. You can laugh if you like, but Tennis is a big deal at UVA. We're trying to improve Golf.
Why?
Louisville is at $95 million and about to jump $20 million in TV revenue and its basketball pulls in 3x as much as its football.
Football and bball are in tailspin. Hard to believe you can see it any other way. 20-30 in football last 4 years. Basketball has fallen off a cliff.
If hockey is so unimportant as you claim it is..then why the move to Hockey East? and talk of a new rink etc etc...seems you would be satisfied with just remaining in the Atlantic and remaining competitive against schools with a similar Hockey profile. You dismiss the sport because B.C. has won five national titles. As far as Im concerned.... if its good enough for the BIG to create a hockey conference of its own, then the sport must have an audience of some significant proportion and certainly can produce revenue if given proper resources. Delany knows it, Susan and Ward know it, but i guess you know better.[/quote
For many UConn fans, BC is the lowest of the low and it is unlikely that you will be able to get any empathy here. You all can't be trusted. Period. The days national titles for BC in hockey are over, especially once UConn joins that conference. That is whole story with BC. Once UConn joins a conference, BC is done. That is what they have been afraid of for the past 20 years.
I figured the Virginia nitwit would be the first to get himself banned, but I see we have a horserace.
And UConn fans who live in Buffalo and have an affection for Penn State and endless pedantic arguments should also consider perhaps occasionally letting things go instead of beating them into the ground over and over and over and over again.
Hey, Jim Delaney is just chomping at the bit to get it on the BTN, hosted by Ted Robinson and Mary Carillo.Did he just say men's indoor tennis? There are no words, just no words.
The man added Rutgers. Let that sink in. He is obviously not concerned about athletic pedigree in football or anything else.
You couldn't be more right. By adding Rutgers and Maryland, the Big 10 is "all in" on the east coast. It was phase one of a process and the reasons those two schools were chosen first was simply because they better fit the more traditional profile of the conference. We have talked at great lengths about where UConn stands, but the truth is that UConn with the others schools already affiliated is the missing link to the east coast for both conferences. .
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This is a good post. Delany appears to have a cogent plan in place and the resolve to see it through despite the struggles he knows the conference will face.
OTOH ACC expansion has felt reactionary and without regard to a bigger vision. They left a school like BC isolated for nearly a decade, when any number of Big East Teams could have eased their transition. They later take a school like Louisville which was light years behind UConn academically, and only marginally better than them in football over the previous decade.
I remain a believer that The B1G's Plan is focused entirely on easternward expansion. Kansas and Missouri have both coveted conference membership in the past and both could have been had on more than one occassion w/o the entanglement of grant of rights agreements. Neither have recieved an offer to date.
IMO Delany's original plan was to shake the ACC up enough with a UMD offer in order to grab UVA and UNC. The ACC closed ranks with their GOR and subsequent lawsuit against The Terps. The outcome of this lawsuit will be telling for how hard he will continue to pursue the one ACC Property that makes the most sense for The B1G, UVA. UCONN could be free and clear in 27 months. It will be interesting to see unfold.
That would be a shame. It does tickle me a bit that the ACC will forever be little brother to the other power conferences from now on, though.
Can someone please tell me what UVA has that Delaney wants so bad for the B1G? And what does UVA have from a marketing the northeast/New England point of view? I mean if I know my history, the state of Virginia is and always has been a southern state with a lot of southern ties, ask General Lee if you don't believe me. And last but not least, what does UVA bring to the table that UCONN does not in terms of capturing the northeast/NYC market in a sports marketing arena????? Don't get me wrong, UVA is a decent school, on the northern border of the south, but I don't see Delaney getting all hot and bothered about adding them to the B1G. I mean Delaney opened an office in NYC, not in Richmond or Norfolk.
If hockey is so unimportant as you claim it is..then why the move to Hockey East? and talk of a new rink etc etc...seems you would be satisfied with just remaining in the Atlantic and remaining competitive against schools with a similar Hockey profile. You dismiss the sport because B.C. has won five national titles. As far as Im concerned.... if its good enough for the BIG to create a hockey conference of its own, then the sport must have an audience of some significant proportion and certainly can produce revenue if given proper resources. Delany knows it, Susan and Ward know it, but i guess you know better.
that would be all y'all...for the record - I grew up in FloridaI am self banned for a while....I'll give y'all (plural of y'all) a break...see you in July...
Bye for now...bb
Well, you're not playing the game right if you don't see why the Big 10 would want UVa. They have Maryland. Virginia is a populous state in a major media center. They would bring a lot of eyeballs on cable. You aggregate schools together and it's like a network effect - the more you have, the more energy it creates, the more benefit and usefulness you get out of the combination. Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio. It's like filling in states in an election map.
I agree with this. I think the issue is that there's really only 1 spot left in the ACC and they're hoping it will go to Notre Dame. The Big 10 still holds out hope for ND, too. That's why UConn is in limbo, IMO.
The only problem with Delany's reasoning (absorbing 2 schools first and then UConn in a next step) is that you have a bigger impact on perception by having that extra school, especially with the basketball profile of UConn. I think the Big 10 needs UConn more, to make an east coast product more desirable. I don't think the ACC needs UConn as much to get east coast viewers.
The Big 10 isn't going to get many eyeballs for hoops on the basis of Penn State, Rutgers and Maryland. And despite football being the major factor in terms of money paid out, the networks still need that programming to fill in from Thanksgiving to April.
To me, the Big 10 would complete its next round most successfully with UConn shoring up the east eyeballs and the hoops credentials, and stealing Oklahoma from the Big 12 to give them the football rivalry with Nebraska. That used to be a major one in college football and would be a great one for the league.