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Rufus said:
Who is in a better position right now - UConn or Washington State/Oregon State?
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UConn. A top 5 program in the second most important college sport and far and away the best program in another top 5 sport, with solid success in other sports. Plus a much more highly ranked academic institution in an important area between massive population centers
 
Rufus said:
Who is in a better position right now - UConn or Washington State/Oregon State?
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With a glimmer of hope that they picked up by the B12, I’d say WSU, OSU right now. OSU in top 25 and PAC have a great year thus getting a lot of attention

But if they don’t get a lifeline in the next few months, then their position fades dramatically.
 
Anyone but UConn is in a better position right now. We have seen that basketball and academics are meaningless in CR. The only thing that matters is football, which is the only sport that UConn gets a failing grade.
 
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I have $5000, the man in the Clemson cap.

Do I hear 10 ? 10, 10...I have 10...the man in the back with the A on his cap.
 
Livvy Dunn...LSU...$12.1 million NIL valuation ($3.1 million annually)....12.1 million followers...

gymnastics
 
billybud said:
Livvy Dunn...LSU...$12.1 million NIL valuation ($3.1 million annually)....12.1 million followers...

gymnastics
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Source? Doubt she's making 3 million, instegram followers are not that monetizable, especially when that is the only source of visibility.
 
billybud said:
I have $5000, the man in the Clemson cap.

Do I hear 10 ? 10, 10...I have 10...the man in the back with the A on his cap.
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Reminds me of a scene from Blue Chips where one of the basketball players tells what type of renumeration he wants to join the program.
 
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How Sway?! said:
Source? Doubt she's making 3 million, instegram followers are not that monetizable, especially when that is the only source of visibility.
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I’ve seen her in a bunch of online and TV ads and I am not online much. There is no way to confirm how much she is actually making but I wouldn’t blink at the $3.1 million annually.
 
The great thing is.. the cheaters can’t cheat anymore.. its all out in the open now…the wild west..and football being the money sport… and a lot more players to pay..you know the business can’t pay enough money to players… im sure schools digging into those tv media deal money to help buy all these players… i hope it gets so expensive to all those schools that want to compete
 
How Sway?! said:
Source? Doubt she's making 3 million, instegram followers are not that monetizable, especially when that is the only source of visibility.
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The On3 NIL rankings:

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Orc said:
Wouldnt surprised me. At this point any program that has some sort of FB team will get picked up before Uconn. FB team always seems to find new ways to be yucky . Sigh
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No one wants us for FB only at this point.

A MW / Pac-2 merger is an opportunity for them to put together a great basketball conference, & add sizzle to a conference that would be only so-so in FB. Like Yormark kept saying - basketball is undervalued.

The geography’s not ideal, but adding SD State, Memphis & Uconn for all sports & Gonzaga & Wichita State for
BB would make a merged conference an immediate BB power. And Uconn & Gonzaga alone might be enough to attract other BB schools ( think Creighton & Marquette, who aren’t geographic
fits in the BE either.)

Given that UConn’s only options now are to wait & hope, I think it’d be a legit proactive move with a potential pathway to P4. We need something out of the box.
 
Kowalski said:
No one wants us for FB only at this point.

A MW / Pac-2 merger is an opportunity for them to put together a great basketball conference, & add sizzle to a conference that would be only so-so in FB. Like Yormark kept saying - basketball is undervalued.

The geography’s not ideal, but adding SD State, Memphis & Uconn for all sports & Gonzaga & Wichita State for
BB would make a merged conference an immediate BB power. And Uconn & Gonzaga alone might be enough to attract other BB schools ( think Creighton & Marquette, who aren’t geographic
fits in the BE either.)

Given that UConn’s only options now are to wait & hope, I think it’d be a legit proactive move with a potential pathway to P4. We need something out of the box.
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Ugh...
 
Kowalski said:
No one wants us for FB only at this point.

A MW / Pac-2 merger is an opportunity for them to put together a great basketball conference, & add sizzle to a conference that would be only so-so in FB. Like Yormark kept saying - basketball is undervalued.

The geography’s not ideal, but adding SD State, Memphis & Uconn for all sports & Gonzaga & Wichita State for
BB would make a merged conference an immediate BB power. And Uconn & Gonzaga alone might be enough to attract other BB schools ( think Creighton & Marquette, who aren’t geographic
fits in the BE either.)

Given that UConn’s only options now are to wait & hope, I think it’d be a legit proactive move with a potential pathway to P4. We need something out of the box.
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UConn's BB boosters would probably threaten to stop donations over that. Just saying.
 
Kowalski said:
No one wants us for FB only at this point.

A MW / Pac-2 merger is an opportunity for them to put together a great basketball conference, & add sizzle to a conference that would be only so-so in FB. Like Yormark kept saying - basketball is undervalued.

The geography’s not ideal, but adding SD State, Memphis & Uconn for all sports & Gonzaga & Wichita State for
BB would make a merged conference an immediate BB power. And Uconn & Gonzaga alone might be enough to attract other BB schools ( think Creighton & Marquette, who aren’t geographic
fits in the BE either.)

Given that UConn’s only options now are to wait & hope, I think it’d be a legit proactive move with a potential pathway to P4. We need something out of the box.
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Yea no thanks
 
Drew said:
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I thought the big news about the original BXII expansion was they had prorata increases built in to pay for BYU, Cincy, Houston, and UCF. This makes it sound like the original BXII schools are paying $7 million each to fund the $18m going to the 4 additions.
 
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ESPN paid for two of the four additions to get the Big 12 to 16 teams. The Big 12 will lose members by 2030 to the other P4 conferences. That will be our next opportunity to get into the Big 12.
 
Rufus said:
The Big 12 has no teams that the B1G or SEC want. Meanwhile, the ACC does.
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The BXII has teams the ACC may want. If the Big XII is paying for expansion out of their own pockets, I’m thinking the differences in payouts between the Middle 2 could cause some turmoil when the Big XII contract ends in 6 years. Kansas, Ok State, TCU, would help with scheduling partners as well as shore up if any defections come.
 
noeynox said:
I agree with you on sentence one. Sentence two, both of them have accomplished much more than us to that point and since as well. However that had nothing to do with why they were added. We were c-blocked, and Warde and Sue did not navigate that era so great.
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Sorry for the late response. Respectfully, I challenge you to put forth what the hell SU has accomplished. They won only one Natty ever in football during the Eisenhower administration. They have won only one Natty ever in BB during the Bush II (Shrub) administration. As an academic institution, it is quite simply the most overrated, over priced second tier private college in the NE. Nothing more, nothing less...

Regarding LV - it has had some athletic success of note - by no means exemplary though. However, as an academic institution, the only requirements for admission is a pulse and being able to find your ass if it's itchy... That will catch up to them. The world already has enough simpletons.

If I seem to be somewhat pejorative with my assessments, it is only because the ACC, taking either of those schools over UConn, was dead wrong! That conference will not succeed in the long run - you'll see...
 
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