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

[TRest]

How do you take UConn Football but not Hoops? It's total insanity and does nothing for the content that ALL our teams offer down the road towards the possibility of a network. That said, I suppose some selective scheduling in the other sports might be an option to extend our profile in the league. I think the admin would at least listen to it but would try to avoid that arrangement.

I assume a BE contact of Katz mentioned this now that the possibility of UConn finally getting out exists. The last thing the B12 would consider is UConn football only, the opposite may be true.

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

How do you take UConn Football but not Hoops? It's total insanity and does nothing for the content that ALL our teams offer down the road towards the possibility of a network. That said, I suppose some selective scheduling in the other sports might be an option to extend our profile in the league. I think the admin would at least listen to it but would try to avoid that arrangement.

I think because you get the media market in NYC/CT, but you don't incur all the travel headaches for Olympic sports. I agree it seems insane, but that's how I'd rationalize it.

 

[CL82]

Hopefully we are reminding them that UConn had crap athletics before the 90s and have excelled at everything since, regardless of the recent lagging of football. We went to the Fiesta bowl only a few years into have an FBS squad, so it is evident the potential is there. Now, whether or not the Big 12 recognizes this is a different story.

I like how much I'm hearing Academics as well. That puts us in a great position.

Mmm, maybe not the way I'd make that argument.

 

[Drew]

 

[CL82]

Now comes the time to really #BegHarder. Anything has to be on the table. Offer to take a 1/2 share for 10 years.

Here I was thinking that I could disconnect while I'm on vacation next week. Not so much anymore . . .

#BegSmarter

 

[huskymedic]

Kirk Bohls@kbohls 21 mins ago
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby tells me "the idea of (new teams) playing in the fall in 2017 is probably not realistic."

Kirk Bohls@kbohls 20 mins ago
Bowlsby says "most institutions would want to give (at least) a year's notice" before leaving their conferences.

Kirk Bohls@kbohls19 mins ago
Asked how many potential expansion schools he's heard from since Big 12 announcement of exploration, Bowlsby said, "Several."

 

[AZHuskiePop]

I think because you get the media market in NYC/CT, but you don't incur all the travel headaches for Olympic sports. I agree it seems insane, but that's how I'd rationalize it.

I suspect some sports may be in the Big East
If by a miracle we go to the Big 12 they don't typically support all the same sports as us
Could there have been contact between us an them about parking some sports in that conference. I don't think the Big 12 supports men Soccer or women's Field Hockey. If we go ,a fact which I am still skeptical we need a home for some sports
I suspect we will probably will be forced to leave the AAC . Katz may have got it half right. The ACC or B1G is not such a problem

 

[HuskyHawk]

I suspect some sports may be in the Big East
If by a miracle we go to the Big 12 they don't typically support all the same sports as us
Could there have been contact between us an them about parking some sports in that conference. I don't think the Big 12 supports men Soccer or women's Field Hockey. If we go ,a fact which I am still skeptical we need a home for some sports
I suspect we will probably will be forced to leave the AAC . Katz may have got it half right. The ACC or B1G is not such a problem

Why is that a problem? I thought Field Hockey was already in the Big East. They'd take our soccer, or depending on who gets added, the Big XII might sponsor it.

 

[Dooley]

I don't know why the B12 would pass on adding our hoops. Other than baseball, the B12 really doesn't sponsor many Olympic sports that we play. I can see UConn moving or keeping baseball, soccer, field hockey, track, etc to the Big East. Hockey stays in Hockey East. Football and hoops go to the B12. But if there's one thing I don't see happening at all is the B12 adding UConn as a football only member. I can see that for Houston, BYU, Memphis, UCF/USF, CSU. But not UConn and not Cincinnati.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Why is that a problem? I thought Field Hockey was already in the Big East. They'd take our soccer, or depending on who gets added, the Big XII might sponsor it.

I never said there was a problem . I only said contact between UConn AD 's office and the NBE could be regarding parking additional Olympic sports there .
thats actually not a problem but a good sign if true

 

[AZHuskiePop]

Doug Gottlieb

✔@GottliebShow
Big 12 will add Cinci, has to make travel partner for WVU... I think UConn is great,but crazy travel for Olympic sports

8:35 AM - 20 Jul 2016

Let me be the first ,but certainly not the last ,to say it well in advance of BB season
Gottlieb is a tool,

 

[huskymedic]

I don't know why the B12 would pass on adding our hoops. Other than baseball, the B12 really doesn't sponsor many Olympic sports that we play. I can see UConn moving or keeping baseball, soccer, field hockey, track, etc to the Big East. Hockey stays in Hockey East. Football and hoops go to the B12. But if there's one thing I don't see happening at all is the B12 adding UConn as a football only member. I can see that for Houston, BYU, Memphis, UCF/USF, CSU. But not UConn and not Cincinnati.

With Big 12 $$ -- my sense is baseball goes Big 12.

 

[NYUConn]

With Big 12 $$ -- my sense is baseball goes Big 12.

Also, UConn Baseball is pretty darn good. Big 12 would be foolish to not want us.

 

[upstater]

The ACC better step in here. NOW.

 

[kyleslamb]

A personal opinion but a scenario I could see happening...

Cincinnati & UCF as full members, UConn & BYU as associate (football) members. BYU stays in WCC, UConn to Big East. East division... UConn, UC, UCF, WVU, Iowa State, Kansas & Kansas State with BYU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, TCU, Baylor & Texas Tech in the West.

That said, I kinda think UConn gets left out but I'm not convinced the ACC or Big Ten are dead as options.

 

[jostar1]

Kirk Bohls ‏@kbohls 2h2 hours ago
Bowlsby added that the Big 12 presidents discussed the Longhorn Network "openly and frankly." Declined to say if Texas made any concessions.

Kirk Bohls ‏@kbohls 2h2 hours ago
Asked how many potential expansion schools he's heard from since Big 12 announcement of exploration, Bowlsby said, "Several."

Kirk Bohls ‏@kbohls 54m54 minutes ago
Bowlsby declined to give major criteria the Big 12 will now use for expansion, but it's clear the league is interested in a bigger number.

 

[LongTimeHusky]

The ACC better step in here. NOW.

What about the B1G?

 

[sportsart]

A personal opinion but a scenario I could see happening...

Cincinnati & UCF as full members, UConn & BYU as associate (football) members. BYU stays in WCC, UConn to Big East. East division... UConn, UC, UCF, WVU, Iowa State, Kansas & Kansas State with BYU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, TCU, Baylor & Texas Tech in the West.

That said, I kinda think UConn gets left out but I'm not convinced the ACC or Big Ten are dead as options.

Yet another genius at work. Take UConn football but leave the NC BB programs behind. Um, sure, ok.......

 

[kyleslamb]

Yet another genius at work. Take UConn football but leave the NC BB programs behind. Um, sure, ok..

Good grief man, take a chill pill. It's just an observation. This is the Big 12 we're talking about here. They're not coming from a position of strength so it's not like they aren't prone to do something that's a little different. It's not even remotely the most possible scenario that I see happening, but it was just commentary on the idea UConn could be looked at for just football. Contrary to your snide remark, I don't think it's impossible. Likely? No. Impossible? No.

Not sure if the condescending attitude is because you're just being a or because deep down you're insecure that such a scenario is actually possible, but this is a place for conversation... just deal with it.

 

[AZHuskiePop]

A personal opinion but a scenario I could see happening...

Cincinnati & UCF as full members, UConn & BYU as associate (football) members. BYU stays in WCC, UConn to Big East. East division... UConn, UC, UCF, WVU, Iowa State, Kansas & Kansas State with BYU, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, TCU, Baylor & Texas Tech in the West.

That said, I kinda think UConn gets left out but I'm not convinced the ACC or Big Ten are dead as options.

I'm with you ,I never bought in to the B12 as more than a flirtation , I 've always been a UConn to the B1G guy sometimes a lone voice .,but I've given up hope of seeing it my self.
My suspicions are if we haven't already been invited and accepted and invitation to the ACC . It's never going to happen.
The ACC have to be madmen to ignore us with the NE hole they currently have . If they passed on us again then shame on them,and I suspect that it will come back to haunt them.
The B1G through scheduling agreements could help keep UConn football viable
as best they can. UConn BB power will sustain,if we're AAU and football is respectable in 6-8 years then the B1G becomes more realistic
If what we're hearing about the ACCN and its GOR is true Delanley's eastern strategy has been thwarted. There is little desirable culturally , academicallyand strategical in the B12 besides Texas for the B1G to embrace. (Oklahoma has SEC written all over it .) By process of illimination that only leaves us.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I'm with you ,I never bought in to the B12 as more than a flirtation , I 've always been a UConn to the B1G guy sometimes a lone voice .,but I've given up hope of seeing it my self.
My suspicions are if we haven't already been invited and accepted and invitation to the ACC . It's never going to happen.
The ACC have to be madmen to ignore us with the NE hole they currently have . If they passed on us again then shame on them,and I suspect that it will come back to haunt them.
The B1G through scheduling agreements could help keep UConn football viable
as best they can. UConn BB power will sustain,if we're AAU and football is respectable in 6-8 years then the B1G becomes more realistic
If what we're hearing about the ACCN and its GOR is true Delanley's eastern strategy has been thwarted. There is little desirable culturally , academicallyand strategical in the B12 besides Texas for the B1G to embrace. (Oklahoma has SEC written all over it .) By process of illimination that only leaves us.

And the reality is that the ACC doesn't need a partner to add UConn. ND means that they would be at an even number for every sport but football. Football would be unbalanced, but that won't matter much with the extra ND games on the schedule. Big Ten made it work with Penn State for years.

 

[Da_Aisijimo_Gou]

This feels very Karmic to me. Yesterday, in a different vote, my employer all but certainly became a company near Austin TX. Now UConn could be in the Big 12. It just feels like too much for coincidence.

Sounds quite Dellicious! <sic>

 

[Jimdish255]

I could see FB, Basketball and Baseball to B12.
Hockey is fine where it is.
Field Hockey Big East along with Men's soccer, Women's Soccer. (Soccer would be positive content if they ever thought about a network but whatever).
Track could go either way but BE again an option.
Swimming who knows.
You could possibly compete in gymnastics as there are few meets for travel. Right now I think it is a club sport though we have the athletes to recruit here.

What else am I missing?

 

[djct1999]

Ed Daigneault ‏@EdDaigneault 1h1 hour ago
UConn source says there's not much more it can do to lobby Big 12. "They know us, they know Memphis, they know Houston."


Interesting response.