I would love to see UConn in the ACC. But would its presence increase the amount paid to members from the TV deal? FSU and Clemson are already complaining about too little cash. A new member may cause more issues. UConn may need to wait for some members to drop out of the conference and then fill the spot.
The Super conferences need to have teams that lose games. If you have a lot of teams going 7-5, or 5-7.
No one cares about that. The goal is to print as much money as possible, so you'd rather have the biggest name brands with the biggest followings in your portfolio over ones that win the most often. If winning was a metric that mattered even a little bit, we'd have been one of the most sought after schools over the last couple of decades. No school has hoisted more championship trophies in front of a national TV audience over the last 20 years than UConn.
It’s killing the SEC
They want whomever ESPN tells them to take.
Wouldn't this just be a bigger version of the old Big East that the Catholic schools ultimately wanted nothing to do with?
Exactly. Except this time they could proactively design a system everyone is happy with instead of having it develop willy nilly. Duke, Wake, Pitt, ND, SU, Louisville, and BC for ballast chief, I think the Catholics would find that basketball acceptable. The Big East may not be able to hold at 10 or 11 programs long term.
Conference realignment has been driven by football, not basketball. If UConn football had won championships in the AAC like UCF, Cincy, and Houston did, UConn would have been invited to the Big 12.
Conference championships have absolutely nothing to do with the selection of schools to join the P5 conferences. What championship did Rutgers win to get it into the Big Ten? UConn won the big east conference, twice, and yet we were left on the island of misfit toys, known as the American Athletic Conference.
This is probably my dream scenario, we don’t have to leave the big east which we all love as a basketball conference, and we gain a decent and consistent football schedule. We also could possibly have yearly matchups with duke on the hardwood which would be good for visibility and recruiting. I don’t know how realistic something like this would ever be.
FIFY. It's a subtle difference, but we're the Big Dog and they would be getting the added visibility.
It's a plausible outcome - especially since it lets ND remain independent in FB (which I think remains their sole objective).
Getting a call up from the G5 to P5 has been almost solely based on football performance. Six G5 schools have gotten the call up to the P5: TCU, Utah, Cincy, Houston, UCF, and BYU. All of the schools were doing very well in football before they were called up. Here were their records in the 4 years before they moved conferences and number of Top 25 final poll rankings:
You kind of make my point for me here. Rutgers didn’t have on the field success, but “showed commitment” and was located in the right spot. He seem to be looking at the last round of expansion and defining, all conference realignment by it. Practically speaking, football success hasn’t been the engine that drives it cable boxes has been. In the future, that will change from cable boxes, to “potential online subscribers”. Conference realignment isn’t about making conference is better, it’s about making conference’s richer.
Let me get this straight. You're good with the idea of a hybrid sports conference comprised of basketball only Catholic Schools and FBS Level Football Schools? A conference that would allow ND to fully benefit while giving next to nothing of value back? Where have I seen this before? UConn Fans don't walk, run from this. Tell your AD and president to call Yormak everyday until he either says yes or puts a restraining order on your entire leadership.
