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

[Exit 4]

 

[Ha Who]

I hate to say it - but that might happen. All depends what is said in the halls and behind closed doors at the ESPN Bowl/CFB industrial complex. We might have to join something as football only to keep post season access.

E f f ESPN

 

[huskymedic]

 

[JeepCSC]

This move solidified the end of the ACC. UConn's best move right now is to not make a bad knee-jerk move to a G5 conference and stand pat for the remnants of the impending ACC dissolution or pick up a future B12 invite.

It is unconscionable how stupid the ACC is to have added these three against the objections of their three biggest brands.

That tidbit about the 15-team rule is huge to understanding this to be honest. Pittsburgh and Syracuse will now be in a tv contract that makes much more than Kansas and Arizona even if UNC/Clemson/FSU leave.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

That tidbit about the 15-team rule is huge to understanding this to be honest. Pittsburgh and Syracuse will now be in a tv contract that makes much more than Kansas and Arizona even if UNC/Clemson/FSU leave.

Do you really think Disney would honor that contract if any key members left the ACC?

 

[UCFBfan]

Please, please, please play the ACC tournament in San Francisco. Lol!!!! I'd love to see the attendance numbers plus the viewership ratings!

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Here's an idea. Stanford, Cal and SMU need another West Coast school to reduce travel time, say it is SDSU. Let the ACC add SDSU and UConn at the same time. Maybe the B12 will get jealous and there is a war between the two conferences to get UConn/SDSU.

 

[Exit 4]

Expect us to make the same pitch this fall to be #18. Will the public hear about it - probably not. Unlike the past, this has been a year of pitching ideas and the pitching will continue.

 

[metsfan2323]

That’s what I’m terrified of. But that being said, every non P-5 school isn’t giving up their programs. ECU, Tulane etc. aren’t just cutting them. We need figure out the next best non p5 option.

Our best non-P4 option would be the AAC. Join the AAC (football only) and try to do what Tulane did last year, which in the future would put us in the expanded playoff.

 

[Mora4Prez]

Expect us to make the same pitch this fall to be #18. Will the public hear about it - probably not. Unlike the past, this has been a year of pitching ideas and the pitching will continue.

The current ACC will never take us. I don’t know why that isn’t abundantly clear to people at this point.

 

[Mora4Prez]

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Our best non-P4 option would be the AAC. Join the AAC (football only) and try to do what Tulane did last year, which in the future would put us in the expanded playoff.

Pretty sad that’s how far we’ve fallen back to but yes I agree.

 

[Rufus]

I'm more surprised that Miami voted yes on this than I am that NC State flipped their vote.

The SEC may have no interest in Miami, but I believe the B1G would jump at the chance to get into recruiting-rich Florida with a newly minted AAU school.

 

[Exit 4]

The current ACC will never take us. I don’t know why that isn’t abundantly clear to people at this point.

The pitch will be made.....when we join the AAC for football only next spring you'll have your confirmation it is fully dead.

 

[Ha Who]

Here's an idea. Stanford, Cal and SMU need another West Coast school to reduce travel time, say it is SDSU. Let the ACC add SDSU and UConn at the same time. Maybe the B12 will get jealous and there is a war between the two conferences to get UConn/SDSU.

Charlie nice to meet you

 

[king conn]

Expect us to make the same pitch this fall to be #18. Will the public hear about it - probably not. Unlike the past, this has been a year of pitching ideas and the pitching will continue.

We cannot make the same pitch.

We would be paying a 30 million exit fee to make AAC type money again, according to SMU. UConn has already determined this to be the same as Big East money minus the travel. And Big East money may increase

When the time comes for SMU to make the ACC money is when FSU and Clemson will leave, because their payouts will be cut back, and penalties will be cheaper for them.

When that happens, ACC is no longer a power conference, we will continue to make AAC type money

So we will have paid 30 million, and left our success in the Big East for nothing

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Charlie nice to meet you

I don't understand. I am confused.

 

[JeepCSC]

Do you really think Disney would honor that contract if any key members left the ACC?

I don’t know. But if that 15-team threshold is accurate, Disney could save a lot of money taking the top of the Big XII to the ACC in 2031. No one will be bidding $60+m for the state of Utah at that point.

 

[Ha Who]

ACC adding Stanford, Cal and SMU means the conference's days of being an elite basketball league are over

Cal, Stanford and SMU will make the ACC bigger, but with 18 teams it will definitely not be better

www.cbssports.com

 

[LoyalFanCT]

How many teams will be needed now to dissolve the ACC. Can FSU count on Stanford, Cal and SMU to vote for dissolution? Does it make it easier to dissolve now beyond the seven members who said yes before?

 

[CCSU97]

We acted like we were Rhode Island or New Hampshire for way, way too long and it’s killed us.

Again, with the exception of M/W Basketball, until the late-1990s, UConn was UMass/URI. A Northeast state flagship basketball school with I-AA football. It wasn't until the 1980s that UConn was the strongest football program in its own state - it was Yale.

UConn tried to join the FB club way too late. And they only joined because of the opportunity presented by the Patriots proposal and the Big East offer. UConn didn't even really try - it just fell into their lap. Schools like UNLV, Hawaii, and East Carolina have been playing at the major level for twice as long as UConn.

Its a tough pill to swallow, but that's what's happening. Its not like the school can wave their finger and let 60+ years be forgotten. No one in the current administration has the ability to fix the conference situation with money or marketing; they can only do their best with what they've got to work with.

 

[JeepCSC]

ECU has great football fans. Little else, but hat tip to them there.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Again, with the exception of M/W Basketball, until the late-1990s, UConn was UMass/URI. A Northeast state flagship basketball school with I-AA football. It wasn't until the 1980s that UConn was the strongest football program in its own state - it was Yale.

UConn tried to join the FB club way too late. And they only joined because of the opportunity presented by the Patriots proposal and the Big East offer. UConn didn't even really try - it just fell into their lap. Schools like UNLV, Hawaii, and East Carolina have been playing at the major level for twice as long as UConn.

Its a tough pill to swallow, but that's what's happening. Its not like the school can wave their finger and let 60+ years be forgotten. No one in the current administration has the ability to fix the conference situation with money or marketing; they can only do their best with what they've got to work with.

I disagree. UConn had national championships in polo, soccer, field hockey in the 70s and 80s. It was in the college world series in the late 70s. We have had many All Americans and some Olympians.

 

[Ha Who]

I don't understand. I am confused.

Also goes by Chuck

 

[upstater]

We cannot make the same pitch.

We would be paying a 30 million exit fee to make AAC type money again, according to SMU. UConn has already determined this to be the same as Big East money minus the travel. And Big East money may increase

When the time comes for SMU to make the ACC money is when FSU and Clemson will leave, because their payouts will be cut back, and penalties will be cheaper for them.

When that happens, ACC is no longer a power conference, we will continue to make AAC type money

So we will have paid 30 million, and left our success in the Big East for nothing

That $30m penalty though is reduced significantly in a couple years

 

[Fishy]

We cannot make the same pitch.

We would be paying a 30 million exit fee to make AAC type money again, according to SMU. UConn has already determined this to be the same as Big East money minus the travel. And Big East money may increase

When the time comes for SMU to make the ACC money is when FSU and Clemson will leave, because their payouts will be cut back, and penalties will be cheaper for them.

When that happens, ACC is no longer a power conference, we will continue to make AAC type money

So we will have paid 30 million, and left our success in the Big East for nothing

This is such a failure of logic that it's painful.