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

[Drew]

 

[Fishy]

Amazing. Isn’t it. Those three schools left 25m for 35m. UConn can’t even get $15m.

And how is ucf in that league again? Lol.

$15m?

We can’t get $5M.

 

[CashewCrew]

Amazing. Isn’t it. Those three schools left 25m for 35m. UConn can’t even get $15m.

And how is ucf in that league again? Lol.

Can’t even make $5M. Embarassing

 

[Glastonhusky]

Alas, we’re done.

There’s no path here to a power conference.

Not giving up yet. Where is GoKU?

 

[shizzle787]

If we are out, I hope we beef up our future football schedules as much as we can.

 

[Rico444]

Not giving up yet. Where is GoKU?

It's done. Thamel's most recent article doesn't even mention UConn once.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

The real question is does UConn want to make 12-15 million a year to be in a league across the country with the likes of Cal, Stanford, and SDSU.

No - just schedule some football games with them.

 

[SouthBayHusky]

I don’t know why everyone is so down. They’re going to get another PAC team plus us. This was the plan all along.

 

[superjohn]

Alas, we’re done.

There’s no path here to a power conference.

Maybe we'll get in next time, the time after that, or the time after that. Does DeVry have a football team?

In the meantime I'll enjoy more nets being cut down.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Anyhow, the fact asu and Utah aren’t ready is semi comforting.

But, UConn would die for the guarantee in the apple deal. Lol.

Right now I got a feeling Utah stays. They like it there, have won the league and are going to get a playoff bid out there.

 

[JohnFSilver]

I don’t know why everyone is so down. They’re going to get another PAC team plus us. This was the plan all along.

Utah is the surprise.

 

[SouthBayHusky]

Utah is the surprise.

Utah has been anti-big 12 and vocally very recently. They think they’re going to the B1G. They just need to pry ASU and they’ll make the announcement they were joining.

 

[UConn Dan]

 

[jostar1]

Sources: Arizona deal with Big 12 expected to be finalized soon
Pete Thamel, ESPN
Aug 3, 2023, 10:21 PM ET

From the article:

Barring an unexpected turn in the Board of Regents meeting, Arizona's decision is expected be formalized soon, sources said.

The spotlight will quickly shift to Pac-12 members Arizona State and Utah, which could take a few days to come to a determination on their future. The Big 12 also has courted those two, the final of the four so-called Corner Schools. But they always have been on a separate timeline from Colorado and Arizona, which both had meetings with the Big 12 in recent months before jumping aboard.

Both Utah and Arizona State have been more conservative in their approach, but sources said the tenor on that has begun changing recently with the flurry of events in realignment.

Utah has been conservative in its realignment discussions, but the two-time defending Pac-12 football champion appears to also be more open toward Big 12 discussions. More discussions would be necessary for either Arizona State or Utah to move.

Sources: Arizona amid final steps to join Big 12

Arizona is in deep discussions about joining the Big 12, sources told ESPN, with a deal expected to be finalized in the near future.

www.espn.com

 

[Patman]

We were played. UConn is an after thought

no, you played yourself. You thought UConn was something other than the team to make the even number once the PAC contract as signed. Did you really think UConn was going ahead of Arizona? Did you really?

 

[JohnFSilver]

It's done. Thamel's most recent article doesn't even mention UConn once.

ASU and Utah are on deck. It’s quite annoying that UConn, once again, gets shafted as as a league like pac 12 falls apart.

If that league gets 4 more teams from Mwc, it better not be p5. That’s bullshit tbh.

UConn has helped elevate ucf, Louisville, usf, Cincinnati and even Houston.

None of those teams were in a major conference 20 years ago. And it’s UConn that is outside looking in.

 

[WestHartHusk]

no, you played yourself. You thought UConn was something other than the team to make the even number once the PAC contract as signed. Did you really think UConn was going ahead of Arizona? Did you really?

All hail might Arizona.

 

[HobokenHusky]

Still haven’t seen a single movement from Utah. All speculation to this point.

 

[Drew]

ASU and Utah are on deck. It’s quite annoying that UConn, once again, gets shafted as as a league like pac 12 falls apart.

If that league gets 4 more teams from Mwc, it better not be p5. That’s Stop tbh.

UConn has helped elevate ucf, Louisville, usf, Cincinnati and even Houston.

None of those teams were in a major conference 20 years ago. And it’s UConn that is outside looking in.

Houston probably has a bigger gripe than we do considering they were booted from the SWC in 1994 when the Big XII originally formed and bounced around in CUSA purgatory

The others though- screw em

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Utah has been anti-big 12 and vocally very recently. They think they’re going to the B1G. They just need to pry ASU and they’ll make the announcement they were joining.

A while back, I suspected that the B1G would go after Colorado and ASU to make a ‘bridge’ to the West Coast where they would grab USC, UCLA, Stanford, Oregon and Washington. ASU is in a bigger market (Phoenix) than Arizona (Tucson) and, in my opinion, more potential. Plus, they have hockey now. That would have left 1 slot left to get to 24, which would be between ND, UVA and UConn. 24 teams allows them to create 4 geographic divisions with 6 teams each to cut down on travel. In football, that 5 division games, 3 rotating intra-division games, an option for 1 rivalry game, and then 1 or 2 non-conference games to get to 11.

It was a dream…

 

[UConn Dan]

Still haven’t seen a single movement from Utah. All speculation to this point.

They have a regularly scheduled board meeting on the 8th. I don’t think Yormark wants to wait that long. Let’s see if they schedule a special session

 

[upstater]

YouTube talking heads are saying Arizona was farther along in the process than ASU and Utah, but ASU and Utah are catching up. Supposedly, ASU and Utah were making hard pushes to get into the B1G, but came up short.

Also.........and this is going to ruffle some (Duck) feathers if true...........supposedly, Washington and Oregon will be offered separate deals in the B1G. Washington will be announced first, as it will receive the better deal. Oregon's deal will be less and will be tied to various metrics, such as increases in research spending. Not all of the talking heads agree on this point, some say they will both be offered the same deal.

???

Increases on research spending? The conferences and the AAU measure research grants. No school spends their own tuition money on research. They'd go broke. All money is spent on classroom instruction. In fact, half of every grant goes to instruction and not research.

So, Oregon can't increase research spending more than it is already trying to increase research spending.

 

[ec33]

They have a regularly scheduled board meeting on the 8th. I don’t think Yormark wants to wait that long. Let’s see if they schedule a special session

Start the sales job on Oregon, Washington, nationally ranked Oregon State, Washington State, Stanford, Cal, national finalist San Diego, and Utah being a mighty fine block for a Power Conference - with the added benefit of adding in fellow state public school Utah State, nationally-known Boise State and the growing city of Las Vegas with UNLV and whatever else the marketing department can think of.

New PAC.

 

[JohnFSilver]

They have a regularly scheduled board meeting on the 8th. I don’t think Yormark wants to wait that long. Let’s see if they schedule a special session

Pac-12 is falling apart. Oregon and Washington are going to Big 10.

Utah has to go to Big 12.

ASU, Arizona and Utah are more desperate than UConn.

But, it does blow up he Yormark thought of a National hoops league and NY. That ain’t happening.

 

[AntG168]

Pac-12 is falling apart. Oregon and Washington are going to Big 10.

Utah has to go to Big 12.

ASU, Arizona and Utah are more desperate than UConn.

But, it does blow up he Yormark thought of a National hoops league and NY. That ain’t happening.

This is what I don’t understand. If that’s what he really “wants”, then why does he HAVE to take Utah?