Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[Marty Jackson]

Stupid....

Round robin means everybody plays everyone once.
Having a championship means somebody is playing twice.
And somehow, when the schools split the games, they think this will help determine a champion?

 

[Marty Jackson]

The B-12 has never been against splitting into 2 divisions to have a CCG with 10 teams...if I'm not mistaken that may have been why they originally asked for deregulation. It's the ACC that wants to pick who plays in the ACC Championship game..that's why Delaney and the B1G added that addendum about 2 divisions. It was a direct shot at the ACC...not the B-12. It just works better with 2 6 team divisions instead of 2 5 team divisions.

Big12 is publicly against divisions. They want the top 2 teams. Period.
Divisions mean the top two teams could be in the same division.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Thousands of threads of open Internet to mindlessly debate big 10 divisions and yet it's in key tweets.

Stop the madness!

 

[FDNY99]

Big12 is publicly against divisions. They want the top 2 teams. Period.
Divisions mean the top two teams could be in the same division.

Just like the ACC then...

 

[jostar1]

Kirk Bohls ‏@kbohls · 28m28 minutes ago
Big 12 commish Bob Bowlsby on Wed vote to have right to play conf title game: "I think we will negotiate an outcome with which we can live."

 

[The Viking]

So stupid that Louisville and Cincinnati aren't in the Big 12 and we aren't in the ACC.

 

[ShakyTheMohel]

So stupid that Louisville and Cincinnati aren't in the Big 12 and we aren't in the ACC.

Thats the thing that gets me...BC, Cuse, RU and UConn should be in the same conference. It feels like someone needs to reshuffle the deck and do the right thing.

I know its not going to happen...but that doesn't make it less frustrating.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

I caught this in Wiki looking up the old Metro Conference, just replace Temple with UConn (and Tulane with Clemson) and it is interesting. Just shows how far back people were talking that the basketball and football schools would have to split-up in the Northeast. Damn the fools in Providence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Conference

Metro Super Conference - 16 programs
North: BC, Cincinnati, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, V Tech, W Virginia
South: E Carolina, Florida St, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, South Carolina, Southern Miss, Tulane

 

[The Funster]

I caught this in Wiki looking up the old Metro Conference, just replace Temple with UConn (and Tulane with Clemson) and it is interesting. Just shows how far back people were talking that the basketball and football schools would have to split-up in the Northeast. Damn the fools in Providence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_Conference

Metro Super Conference - 16 programs
North: BC, Cincinnati, Pitt, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, V Tech, W Virginia
South: E Carolina, Florida St, Louisville, Memphis, Miami, South Carolina, Southern Miss, Tulane

Gavitt knew it was coming. I forget the details but I believe he offered to broker a conference move for Syracuse and BC back in the day. That has been my beef with Tranghese. He refused to see the writing on the wall. He could have brokered a split which ultimately would have been better for everyone. However, at that time UConn had no plans to upgrade FB.

 

[tcf15]

 

[tcf15]

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

welp, that was fun while it lasted.

 

[SAMCRO]

now I can get back to work.....

 

[The Viking]

So what "compromise" was reached? What the Big 12 have to give up to get a CCG without going to 12 teams or two divisions? I thought in a compromise you give something up....

 

[Chuck]

If the compromise is that they play a round robin and their top two teams play for a championship (without divisions and only 10 teams), what a HUGE win for the B12. The other conferences must really not want them to expand.

 

[CL82]

now I can get back to work.....

Yep. back to work....just give me a minute.

 

[upstater]

This will come back eventually.

It really is a weird set-up.

 

[UC1995]

Unless I have word from our WF contact at the car wash.... I won't believe a word of any of it!

 

[UConnTrumbull]

It's only gonna take another few months before OU threatens to leave before we go through this again

 

[upstater]

It's only gonna take another few months before OU threatens to leave before we go through this again

It might take longer than that, but I do agree. I think it will take until at least the end of the next football season.

UConn needs these next two years to be really strong efforts in basketball and football. S16 this year and F8 next year, and 8-4 in football.

 

[BlueHen]

FWIW - this is at least the second time where Bowlsby has stated that the Big XII didn't want to be forced to expand. We'll, they aren't being forced too, so that leaves open the possibility that they may expand anyway.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

FWIW - this is at least the second time where Bowlsby has stated that the Big XII didn't want to be forced to expand. We'll, they aren't being forced too, so that leaves open the possibility that they may expand anyway.

It takes some real wordsmithing to extract that meaning from his statement.

 

[huskymedic]

OU not going quietly:

BradyVardeman 7:11pm via TweetDeck
.@President_Boren says Big 12 would still be disadvantaged even with title game: #Sooners

 

[upstater]

OU not going quietly:

BradyVardeman 7:11pm via TweetDeck
.@President_Boren says Big 12 would still be disadvantaged even with title game: #Sooners

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UConn! UConn! UConn! UConn!

Or, if not UConn, Boren is out of his mind.

 

[upstater]

It takes some real wordsmithing to extract that meaning from his statement.

Or maybe NOT!!!!!