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

[ec33]

It would have to be a guarantee at their next contract that we’d be full members

Even better, I feel like a dummy now (which is only fair because I am one).

 

[buddy]

Oh no

Don't fall for this.

 

[CTBballfan243]

It would have to be a guarantee at their next contract that we’d be full members

Just when I was out I get sucked back in.

 

[BigFanCT]

Can someone really answer me if Benedict is this much of a dumb a** to continually be used time after time again for leverage?

I don’t know enough about the situation. But his recent tweets of wink faces, Mora hinting in press conferences……are they really that stupid and getting that blindsided?

 

[Urcea]

I’d only do it with a guaranteed football phase in if some kind

 

[CTBballfan243]

Don't fall for this.

Too Late………

 

[Exit 4]

That dollar value doesn't happen - but a promise (or some kind) that UConn is a full member the next time they expand could work.

Transition plan could work- even a long one… but they won’t offer it. They will say- screw off, Nova sounds good.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Let's hope we can right the ship and get football on the right track. This realignment will start again since it's not done.

If B1G goes to 20, others will too.

If ACC is smart, they invite us and others to get to 16, 18, or 20. I don't think ACC is forward thinking or smart though.

Unlikely, BC and ‘Cuse are likely already on the phone to make sure that doesn’t happen while a half-dozen or more members led by Florida St are more focused on getting out of the ACC, not saving it.

 

[Buffett10]

Pass

 

[ec33]

Remember that UConn has an exit fee, which would be quite high for a non-football cut.

 

[CTBballfan243]

I wonder if Stanford would crawl to the B12, or are they too full of themselves

 

[uconnyankee]

Give us $20 million per year, a bowl tie-in, a 5-6 game football arrangement, and automatic all-sports invite in 2031.

I think you’d have to take that. And full paying share beginning 2031
With no possibility of getting football in, DOA.

I can’t see fans accepting No BE BB and no Big 12 FB to offset.

 

[UConn Dan]

Remember that UConn has an exit fee, which would be quite high for a non-football cut.

You know what would be funny if Yormark takes St John’s instead and they only have a fraction of our exit fee

 

[ec33]

BTW - this whole new wrinkle is because BY is trying to find a way to his choice into the conference.

This isn't toss the bait a treat for helping us catch our limit.

 

[How Sway?!]

Cal and Stanford.

They'll go independent before they join the big 12

 

[aburks41]

I thought you weren't allowed to play in another conference if your primary conference sponsors that sport? So we wouldn't even be able to stay in the Big East and join B12 for basketball only. What the hell is Yormark smoking and why does he think we'd even take that in the first place?

You can either join the conference or be independent. Which is what Notre Dame currently does. You cannot, however, move that sport into another conference if it’s sponsored by your main conference.

 

[ec33]

You know what would be funny if Yormark takes St John’s instead and they only have a fraction of our exit fee

If you recall, the conference as a whole wants to raise everyone's exit fee. That conferences would come for other Big East schools was a known threat.

 

[aburks41]

It will be two of SDSU, Memphis, Wazzou, or Oregon State.

UConn will be used as leverage once again and then oops! Do. Not. Trust. Yormark.

 

[uconnbaseball]

Yall realize there will be 3 conferences on TV and competing for titles and the Big East ain’t one of them?

I’d take it

Only if they pay our exit fee and give us 10 million / a scheduling deal.

If they do that, sure.

 

[shizzle787]

Transition plan could work- even a long one… but they won’t offer it. They will say- screw off, Nova sounds good.

Nova would pass. They don't want to play 17th fiddle in a football league.

 

[NowInStorrs]

If they actually offer and say the words basketball only then Benedict immediately hang up the phone. If he wants to say no or laugh first then hang up, that would also work. Then if they call back have some kind of offer to make them like building an on-campus stadium within X number of years in return for full membership.

 

[How Sway?!]

None of the BE schools are gonna leave for the B12. They are run by traditionalists and their donor base would riot if they left.

 

[shizzle787]

Only if they pay our exit fee and give us 10 million / a scheduling deal.

If they do that, sure.

We are going to get 7-10 million from the BE. Why would we travel to get the same from the Big 12?

 

[DarthGrumpy]

While the further concentration of power schools may add to the difficulty, our scheduling as a football independent has been far better than anticipated when we left the AAC.

After this season the CFP will expand to twelve schools. If we can somehow build something like what Houston did not quite a decade ago, UCF a few years back or Cincinnati recently, we have a shot at landing there (and as an independent, not sharing our take with conference members). It's a tall task but if Mora can build something we can a) make survival under our current situation much easier and b) become attractive enough to power conferences where it won't take both a massive sales job and the good fortune of limited competition for the open spot to land in one of those conferences.

Our only other hope is the professor working on the time machine (if that's still going on). Once he gets it working he can go back to the Fiesta Bowl, convince JH to fire RE before the game and then convince JH to hire someone like say Matt Rhule to replace RE.

The problem is that larger P4 conferences will leave fewer non-conference games to schedule and those that remain will likely be focused on traditional rivalries, such as Washington v Washington St, and cross-conference games as that is where the TV money is. UConn may only be able to schedule with independents and the second-tier conferences going forward.

 

[UConnKev]