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UC1995 said:
They aren't stopping at 13. It's either 14 or 16 this round!
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Exactly.

Assuming two or three of the remaining three four corner schools wants to join, the B-12 to get to 16 would need to choose the best two of a second Arizona school, a second Utah school and us. I'm not sure that doubling up on both Arizona and Utah is worth giving up what we can bring in terms of location and brand.

Also, if they go to 16, it will be four pods of four schools:
East Cincinnati, WVU, UCF, ?
Texas Baylor, Houston, TCU, Texas Tech
Plains Oklahoma St, Kansas, Kansas St, Iowa St
West BYU, Colorado, ?, ?
They would need to do some gerrymandering to set up four pods if they don't add an eastern school and there really isn't another candidate.
 
UConn has always been partnered with CU. Like someone mentioned earlier, there is no way word will get on UConn until Colorado officially accepts. The other schools mentioned are ancillary benefits.
 
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Sources: Colorado on verge of leaving Pac-12 for Big 12
Ross Dellenger

The Big 12’s next move is now in question. The league added Houston, UCF, Cincinnati and BYU this year as a response to the loss of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC starting in 2024. Colorado’s entrance would give the conference 13 members.

Is there a 14th out there? Yormark, an aggressive and calculated former leader of a New York entertainment agency, has targeted UConn as a potential expansion possibility. But the preference among many of his member schools is to first seek another Power Five program. UConn football currently competes as an independent. According to the Big 12’s new TV contract, Power Five expansion additions receive a full pro-rata share of the distribution, which is expected to start around $31 million annually per school.

sports.yahoo.com

Sources: Colorado on verge of leaving Pac-12 for Big 12

Colorado has been flirting with the Big 12 since last fall, and now it appears to be ready to leave the Pac-12 with a key board meeting on tap Thursday.
sports.yahoo.com sports.yahoo.com
 
jostar1 said:
Sources: Colorado on verge of leaving Pac-12 for Big 12
Ross Dellenger

The Big 12’s next move is now in question. The league added Houston, UCF, Cincinnati and BYU this year as a response to the loss of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC starting in 2024. Colorado’s entrance would give the conference 13 members.

Is there a 14th out there? Yormark, an aggressive and calculated former leader of a New York entertainment agency, has targeted UConn as a potential expansion possibility. But the preference among many of his member schools is to first seek another Power Five program. UConn football currently competes as an independent. According to the Big 12’s new TV contract, Power Five expansion additions receive a full pro-rata share of the distribution, which is expected to start around $31 million annually per school.

sports.yahoo.com

Sources: Colorado on verge of leaving Pac-12 for Big 12

Colorado has been flirting with the Big 12 since last fall, and now it appears to be ready to leave the Pac-12 with a key board meeting on tap Thursday.
sports.yahoo.com sports.yahoo.com
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Whatever happens next, you can be sure it was planned before the Colorado news broke. The B12 plan wasn’t to get Colorado and then see what happens. They already have the partner school or schools ready.
 
If Oregon State tries to steal our bid hopefully Yormark convinces everyone that UConn brings more to the table and Oregon State will always be available to add, whereas the ACC might wake up one day and realize they could use UConn.
 
14 with Colorado won't happen, but 16 with 3 PAC 12 schools is very possible to balance out the league. Utah will probably be blocked by BYU (especially given their lacking market) and we have more value than WSU / OSU. I doubt Oregon, Washington etc will jump to the big 12, I could see them going independent & getting a great contract or possibly joining the Big 10 before that happens.

I think we get left out again, but today wasn't discouraging or unexpected at all. Still in the game...
 
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uconnbaseball said:
14 with Colorado won't happen, but 16 with 3 PAC 12 schools is very possible to balance out the league. Utah will probably be blocked by BYU (especially given their lacking market) and we have more value than WSU / OSU. I doubt Oregon, Washington etc will jump to the big 12, I could see them going independent & getting a great contract or possibly joining the Big 10 before that happens.

I think we get left out again, but today wasn't discouraging or unexpected at all. Still in the game...
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Good grief man, Colorado is not even an official member yet. It'll happen.
 
metsfan2323 said:
Good. I hope you are right.
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Oregon State is one of those schools that got grandfathered into the P5. If B12 wants a school just for good football with small media markets, Boise State is always available.

UConn is worth much more to the TV networks than schools like Oregon Stb and Washington State.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
Oregon State is one of those schools that got grandfathered into the P5. If B12 wants a school just for good football with small media markets, Boise State is always available.

UConn is worth much more to the TV networks than schools like Oregon Stb and Washington State.
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I agree with all of that, but they are already P5 and we are not and to some morons that's all that matters.
 
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king conn said:
Never underestimate the diablo in Bristol

They could be telling the Big 12 no full price for UConn
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I hear some people call in to those youtube realignment shows and say that ESPN is going to help UConn get in because then they can get tax breaks.
Little do they know that the State of Connecticut has already given ESPN tax breaks and ESPN has never helped us. In fact, they hurt us by destroying the Big East.
 
GoKU said:
Good grief man, Colorado is not even an official member yet. It'll happen.
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You got to understand UConn fans and realignment history with UConn.

ACC originally wanted UConn and Syracuse, they took Cuse and Pitt because BC went beyond their duty to block UConn since BC AD at the time was head of ACC expansion committee.

Second time when ACC was expanding to replace Maryland, everyone had UConn penciled in since we were by far the best fit. All the NC schools ( Duke, UNC, NCST, Wake) plus Virginia wanted UConn, but at the last second Florida State along with Clemson jumped in to flex their football muscles because they didn't want ACC to be controlled by the NC schools. They look Louisville which is a far inferior school academically and is the second school in the state of Kentucky.

So you can see, you can't blame us UConn fans being nervous about this. We are a P5 school in every way except in a P5 conference. Let's hope B12 will add us soon. I have little doubt UConn will thrive in the B12 opening a whole bunch of new markets for the B12.
 
auggie22 said:
Whatever happens next, you can be sure it was planned before the Colorado news broke. The B12 plan wasn’t to get Colorado and then see what happens. They already have the partner school or schools ready.
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I’m all in on the Big 12. I think it is the only route for long term success. But, if we’ve learned anything from conference realignment, travel and loss of regional rivalries have hurt most teams that have switched conferences for better money. While Cincy, WVU and UCF are not exactly next door neighbors with UConn, isn’t it better than cross country flights every week. Farther expansion west can’t be good for them, but maybe ignorance is bliss. Look how far WVU has fallen. If these schools think Tucson, Provo or Corvallis are a better fit for them, than what can you do. Seems so short sighted to me.
 
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