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

[aburks41]

Stop peddling this nonsense and take off the tin hat. Yormark wanted UConn and likely still does, if anything, he made us look good by signaling to to the college athletics world that there is value in our brand.

It’s not nonsense. Like I said earlier, I spoke with someone who knew what happened. And it wasn’t some random bogus “insider” or fake donor. This is UConn’s side of the story

 

[coachcap]

Robert Craft did the same thing to the entire state of Connecticut with his talk of moving the Pats to Hartford. It was leverage to get Massachusetts to pony-up more money for Gillette Stadium.

Kraft's subterfuge also cost UConn. The original plans for "UConn Stadium" were for a 50,000 seat domed facility at Adrien's Landing. When Kraft came in with his Barnum act, he got the State to change the blueprints to a 64,000 seat outdoor facility. The proposed original domed building was to host UConn football, & Men's & Women's basketball games. When Kraft left to go back to Foxboro, the State downsized to the RENT & only after Pratt & Whitney donated the land.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Our athletic department won’t do it to put Olympic sports. The Big east will kick us out and then where do they go?

Even if a miracle was to happen and UConn gets into the XII, can’t totally burn that Big E bridge down as the XII does not sponsor Men’s Soccer, Women’s Field Hockey, and Women’s Lacrosse. Logistically and financially, the Big East would be the best place for them.

PS - The XII's website has an 'official' announcement about Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

The PAC had lost their two biggest properties. Additionally they went to market during a bear stock market, so media companies were not looking to drop big money on dying conference.

Don't know how to break it to you (or @shizzle787 ) but next round of BE media negotiations could be very disappointing. They have little reason to offer an increase over the current deal.

 

[gsmooth]

Yes this hurts, but there are still moves in the future. The 4 remaining PAC schools have lost a lot and are going to look for a solution. The ACC schools (FSU, etc) are grumbling. We all know our strengths (hoops, location, academics) and our weakness (historically terrible football over the last 10 years). If we get a few solid football seasons and maintain in the other sports, we will be in a stronger position the next time openings happen. We are poised for that outcome.

This is correct, IMO. Listen to other fanbases around the country and their podcasts that cater to them. They have the utmost respect for UConn basketball, hell how can they not? It's not UConn basketball that needs to be sold. It's UConn football that needs to be sold and that becomes easier when they perform well and have a loud raucous crowd at their games.

I know I am a broken record, but this is why Randy Edsall 2.0 tenure was so destructive. It wasted years of when UConn football could of rebounded even if the change was incremental it would've sufficed. Now imagine if Jim Mora had the 6-7 season in 2017 which was Edsall 2.0's first season. Even if UConn averaged about, let's 7-8 wins from 2017 to now in every season. The Rent would've been close to packed as well and this would have resulted in UConn being in a P5 or P-whatever.

 

[king conn]

If Mora wins, the narrative would be it is a one off, they were lucky to get an NFL coach cheap, and it won't sustain

The same way the ACC said basketball was all Calhoun

 

[gsmooth]

Nothing is stopping the B12 inviting us as #17. What difference does it make 17 or 18 or 20 at this point?

And to me that is the question and sobering kick in the nads. I never bought into the whole idea that a conference needs to have an even number of teams, why? They have professional companies that make their schedules anyways and it's not that hard to schedule odd number of teams.

Let's put it this way: If Notre Dame called the B12 and said "we would like to join", do you think the B12 would say, "damn we need to find another team to couple with Notre Dame!" No they wouldn't.

 

[UConnKev]

LOL ACC

 

[mikeinmanila]

If Mora wins, the narrative would be it is a one off, they were lucky to get an NFL coach cheap, and it won't sustain

The same way the ACC said basketball was all Calhoun

Why couldn't the narrative be that UConn was successful before, and has shown that it can be successful again once Mora starts racking up 8 win seasons? Similar messaging to MBB.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Our athletic department won’t do it to put Olympic sports. The Big east will kick us out and then where do they go?

People please. When they say “basketball only” they mean everything but football. All Olympic sports.

 

[zls44]

Jim Phillips just got a paige on his beeper. ACC is all over it.

 

[shizzle787]

LOL ACC

5-7?

 

[zls44]

If true, btw, that confirms what BY and the B12 really think about UConn football. And so many of you wanted to just bend over to join that frankenleague that doesn't even respect UConn. Embarassing.

 

[CTBballfan243]

LOL ACC

That means UConn was not be considered

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

That’s why I said Yormark is a snake. He completely lied straight to our administration’s face. We did nothing wrong, but he embarrassed us in front of everyone.

This actually makes me excited if true. I can just picture a pissed off Mora and Benedict looking to kick ash and go on a revenge tour in the next couple of years. Like one of those buddy crime movies with two crazy guys who go on a crime spree cuz they have nothing left to lose.

Let’s go on a revenge tour and kick some elitist football ash!

 

[aburks41]

LOL ACC

Good grief. How are these imbeciles in charge of running billion dollar conferences???

 

[Jimdish255]

The Mansfield mafia would make sure that never happens and I am not sure I want to see Rte 195 and US 44 with 40K fans coming into and going out of campus on game day.

5 or 6 times a year? That terrible?

 

[NH Husky]

If true, btw, that confirms what BY and the B12 really think about UConn football. And so many of you wanted to just bend over to join that frankenleague that doesn't even respect UConn. Embarassing.

Truthfully, many of us wanted to join the frankenleague just to get the P5 badge and the money. Nothing else.
If both money and P5 end up coming via ACC, the end result is much much better.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

If true, btw, that confirms what BY and the B12 really think about UConn football. And so many of you wanted to just bend over to join that frankenleague that doesn't even respect UConn. Embarassing.

Embarrassing will be the next BE tv deal, but go on and lorde over DePaul fans for a few more years, you've earned it.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

5-7?

Seriously. What did they think they were getting Oregon, UW, Zona, ASU, Utah?

 

[Jimdish255]

Good grief. How are these imbeciles in charge of running billion dollar conferences???

Because ESPN's #1 priority seems to be protecting Syracuse "turf".

 

[Slasher]

I'd rather be in the ACC as a basketball-only. 5-6 game football arrangement. 20 million per year. 1st team to leave we replace. Bowl tie-in.

So the ACC is going to pay $20MM a year just for UConn basketball? Talk about dreaming...

 

[DarthGrumpy]

FSU will not be joining the Big 12.

If Florida St. knows it will not get an SEC invite, they may bite if the money is in the ballpark as they could see XII as an easier way to get to the football playoffs than fighting through Georgia/Alabama/Texas/Oklahoma or USC/Ohio St/Michigan every year.

 

[CTBballfan243]

Good grief. How are these imbeciles in charge of running billion dollar conferences???

ESPN doesnt want to open up the ACC tv contract. That’s why they orchestrated the dispersal of the Pac12 teams to where they wanted them to go.

 

[JMick]

I’m sure Yormark was genuine in his interest. This is foolish.

What's worse? He was interested and we couldn't close, or we got played again?