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

[GoKU]

The Big 12 hasn't left UConn hanging. UConn knows exactly what is going on. The Big 12 has to have approval from FOX to go past 14. They are waiting to see if the right PAC schools will be approved for 16. Yormark will get UConn in.

 

[hoopsfan22]

Except in National Championship games.

I think men and women's combined are 16-1 or something like that in title games. I like that it annoys other fan bases who get into the title game and are on pins and needles because it's 50/50 whether they win, while we're like yeah we got this and the celebrations are already in full swing by halftime.

 

[dayooper]

See my earlier post. Apparently the Pro-Rata doesn't go into effect till 2025. That's in the media deal that Yormark negotiated.

That’s gonna hurt any PAC schools moving in 2025. Doesn’t the media deal expire in summer 2024? That would be a year of no media contract for those schools moving in 2025 as I don’t see any media partner upping for 1 year. Maybe a streaming platform but that’s it.

 

[uconnyankee]

The Big 12 hasn't left UConn hanging. UConn knows exactly what is going on. The Big 12 has to have approval from FOX to go past 14. They are waiting to see if the right PAC schools will be approved for 16. Yormark will get UConn in.

Thanks for keeping us updated Mrs Yormark!

 

[jostar1]

The Big 12 hasn't left UConn hanging. UConn knows exactly what is going on. The Big 12 has to have approval from FOX to go past 14. They are waiting to see if the right PAC schools will be approved for 16. Yormark will get UConn in.

Yormark in the interview with John Fanta:

I want us to have a big moment in New York.

 

[Patman]

I feel some people here really thought UConn was on the same left as most of the P5 schools and that it has to happen now or never.

No. That has never been the game.

 

[Vuce]

Mora just said “as a football program if we want to survive and thrive, we have to be in a Power 5”. Said there isn’t an athletic dept in the country that has done more with less than UConn.

 

[jostar1]

Mora just said “as a football program if we want to survive and thrive, we have to be in a Power 5”. Said there isn’t an athletic dept in the country that has done more with less than UConn.

I really wish he wouldn't say that unless he knows that we're going to the Big 12.

He's right about the second part.

 

[noeynox]

I really wish he wouldn't say that unless he knows that we're going to the Big 12.

He's right about the second part.

MAYBE he does?

 

[jostar1]

MAYBE he does?

Maybe he's GoKU.

 

[aburks41]

Mora just said “as a football program if we want to survive and thrive, we have to be in a Power 5”. Said there isn’t an athletic dept in the country that has done more with less than UConn.

He’s right. Basketball can survive in the Big East. Football cannot survive as an independent

 

[TRest]

MAYBE he does?

If he’s wrong then what? He walks away?

 

[noeynox]

If he’s wrong then what? He walks away?

The hell if i know.

 

[GG]

The Big 12 hasn't left UConn hanging. UConn knows exactly what is going on. The Big 12 has to have approval from FOX to go past 14. They are waiting to see if the right PAC schools will be approved for 16. Yormark will get UConn in.

Is UCONN the school that was paired with Colorado? I can’t fathom Yormak saying no to AZ if it wants in and no other pac teams bolt. In that scenario is UCONN the odd man out?

 

[hoopsfan22]

Is UCONN the school that was paired with Colorado? I can’t fathom Yormak saying no to AZ if it wants in and no other pac teams bolt. In that scenario is UCONN the odd man out?

Odd man out temporarily. if another Pac 12 team leaves then I guess we can be paired with them? Everyone thought we'd be the partner with Colorado, but it could end up being Oregon or something like that. Instead of being #14 maybe we end up #16?

 

[jostar1]

Is UCONN the school that was paired with Colorado? I can’t fathom Yormak saying no to AZ if it wants in and no other pac teams bolt. In that scenario is UCONN the odd man out?

I think it gets back to Colorado, UConn, Arizona and Arizona State.
The hell with Utah. The Big12 already has BYU.

 

[jostar1]

If he’s wrong then what? He walks away?

I suspect that when he took the job, he didn't realize all of the ramifications of being an independent. He's coming up against it when he loses a recruit for no other reason than we aren't in a P5 conference.

 

[Ha Who]

MAYBE he does?

 

[ctchamps]

Odd man out temporarily. if another Pac 12 team leaves then I guess we can be paired with them? Everyone thought we'd be the partner with Colorado, but it could end up being Oregon or something like that. Instead of being #14 maybe we end up #16?

Nothing is a given. Well UConn was. But Colorado was almost as certain. If I'm reading the tea leaves Yormack wanted AU and one other (not important which one) to go with Colorado and UConn. UConn and Arizona are the basketball prizes for his basketball vision. An argument is UConn is the top five to ten bb program in the country and Arizona is in the top twenty. He gets both of us he's going to look like Hurley after the NC.

 

[hardcorehusky]

If he’s wrong then what? He walks away?

Yes

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Supposedly ASU doesn't have to go where AZ goes and ASU supposedly doesn't want to go into the Big12. I could see a scenario where AZ goes in next and then Yormark brings in UConn as a way to try to bait in Utah (if they are wanted by the Big12), OR, and/or WA (those last two might be tempted if they have to wait 3 years to get into the Big10). CO was used as bait to get AZ, so maybe Yormark will use the same approach by adding UConn. Maybe the Big12 plan all along was to add 3 westerns and 1 eastern and Yormark is able to optimize the western choices as best he can with these baitings? It's going to get really interesting!

 

[Sea Goat]

I don't know if it's that, but there's a lot of hate on social media towards UConn. Basically they think UConn is garbage and the only thing UConn does decently is basketball. We have a perception problem and I'm not sure how you fix it.

Gratuitous bs - go away...

 

[CL82]

Ask yourself when was the last time the local writers ever had a scoop

I whenever was the last time they went by the dairy bar. From the looks of them, they may have had more than one....

 

[jostar1]

 

[Sea Goat]

Mora just said “as a football program if we want to survive and thrive, we have to be in a Power 5”. Said there isn’t an athletic dept in the country that has done more with less than UConn.

Or athletic departments that have done less with more opportunity than B--C or Syra- ...