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

[Stinger92860]

You can bet on G-League games.

Watch what happens if fan interest starts to slip. Why would the fans of the major programs care about a sport that only 20 schools play at the highest level? How many UConn fans would care if UConn had just won back to back "National Championships" of a sport that only 20 schools played?

I won’t care at all, but I don’t believe they are thinking about folks like me. The schools in the mix arelarge schools with a huge alumni network and national interest. I agree with you it won’t be like NFL fans. This is all about greed and they might kill the sport.

 

[Kolumbo]

Both sides in prior 2 posts make valid points. Remember, it wasn't that long ago when there was hardly any UConn apparel to be found around here. The local retailers were rocky places where one's seed could find no purchase, like Raising Arizona. Years ago all we saw around here was Penn State, Ohio State, Miami, Texas, Oklahoma, etc merch.

I have no idea how I still have this hat, it is one of the most resilient articles of clothing ever, but this is what I bought a long time ago at the Co-op. It's not even remotely a UConn logo!

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I won’t care at all, but I don’t believe they are thinking about folks like me. The schools in the mix arelarge schools with a huge alumni network and national interest. I agree with you it won’t be like NFL fans. This is all about greed and they might kill the sport.

Might kill the sport? If the P2 box everyone else out, they will be the best teams in sports that no one will care about. I also firmly believe that if college sports still somehow remains relevant as a small, regional minor league, the NFL and NBA will step in to compete with it with their minor leagues.

I don't think the people running college sports every appreciated just how fragile their sports are. No where else in the world do minor leagues generate remotely this much fan interest or revenue. Yet those running college sports just can't stop messing with it.

 

[John]

Might kill the sport? If the P2 box everyone else out, they will be the best teams in sports that no one will care about**. I also firmly believe that if college sports still somehow remains relevant as a small, regional minor league, the NFL and NBA will step in to compete with it with their minor leagues.

I don't think the people running college sports every appreciated just how fragile their sports are. No where else in the world do minor leagues generate remotely this much fan interest or revenue. Yet those running college sports just can't stop messing with it.

**except their massive national-level alumni and fan bases.

 

[huskymedic]

Timing is everything in life:

 

[freescooter]

I hope it happens. Why should those schools who do nothing in athletics be collecting all that money just because they are grandfathered in those conferences? Yes, I'm bitter.

Nobody ever died for dear old Rutgers. Oh, sorry. I was thinking of schools that merely exist in proximity to big markets.

 

[GoConn]

Coach K suggests an ACC-Big East Merger here.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Coach K suggests an ACC-Big East Merger here.

Between this and the UNC BoT comments. The ACC is falling.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Between this and the UNC BoT comments. The ACC is falling.

ACC will survive

 

[JMick]

Between this and the UNC BoT comments. The ACC is falling.

The ACC has been done for a while now. It's why I don't understand people wanting to join unless it can grab some Big XII schools and Big East schools.

 

[WestHartHusk]

Because even a rump ACC is bette than the BE (from a brand, money, school profile perspective)

 

[jostar1]

“This is the best basketball conference, historically, in the country,” Phillips says. “I do not want to downgrade basketball. But at the end of the day, our future will be tied to football success, football revenues, tied to TV.

That doesn't sound good for UConn. Back to hoping for a Big 12 invite.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

“This is the best basketball conference, historically, in the country,” Phillips says. “I do not want to downgrade basketball. But at the end of the day, our future will be tied to football success, football revenues, tied to TV.

That doesn't sound good for UConn. Back to hoping for a Big 12 invite.

The Calford + SMU additions didn’t move the needle in football. The article even mentions that it was more about academics than sports.

 

[JMick]

Because even a rump ACC is bette than the BE (from a brand, money, school profile perspective)

Not if there's no one left lol how don't you people get this

 

[buddy]

“This is the best basketball conference, historically, in the country,” Phillips says. “I do not want to downgrade basketball. But at the end of the day, our future will be tied to football success, football revenues, tied to TV.

That doesn't sound good for UConn. Back to hoping for a Big 12 invite.

"I do not want to downgrade basketball" means basketball is meaningless in conference realignment! If their future is tied to football success, then the ACC is truly done. Once FSU and Clemson leave, their flagship football programs are gone. Cal Stanford and SMU cannot fill that void. Unfortunately, ACC leadership has shown that they do not respect UConn and I don't think that will change. The statement about basketball does indeed reitierate that stance. I would say forget about the Big 12 as well.

 

[buddy]

The Calford + SMU additions didn’t move the needle in football. The article even mentions that it was more about academics than sports.

Cal and Stanford were admitted to the ACC because more than a couple presidents of ACC schools are graduates of those schools and pushed for them to be admitted. Any statements by the ACC about academics are totally bogus and no more than a smokescreen. Remember Louisville?

 

[Kolumbo]

“This is the best basketball conference, historically, in the country,” Phillips says. “I do not want to downgrade basketball. But at the end of the day, our future will be tied to football success, football revenues, tied to TV.

That doesn't sound good for UConn. Back to hoping for a Big 12 invite.

Nothing ever sounds good for UConn but glass half full, it could be good. Let's assume no one is leaving the Big 12. There is no one out there that helps the ACC in any meaningful way from a football standpoint. There are some very solid G5 programs but none that help revenues. Basketball, you have UConn which immediately improves the conference. Take any win you can get. And if the ACC did just a little research, it would realize that having UConn Football in the fold would probably benefit its old Big East rivals. Bring in UConn and USF to start.

 

[Kolumbo]

Coach K suggests an ACC-Big East Merger here.

Since Coach K's quote is at the very end of the article:

"We have a conference that in a lot of ways wants to split,” he says. “I’d like to see us talk to the Big East and say, ‘Let’s form the best football-basketball conference.’ Not everyone has to play football. There’s only one conference that thinks about basketball every day of the year—that’s [commissioner] Val Ackerman and the Big East. If you’re a partner with them, that’s a really good thing.”

 

[jostar1]

"I do not want to downgrade basketball" means basketball is meaningless in conference realignment! If their future is tied to football success, then the ACC is truly done. Once FSU and Clemson leave, their flagship football programs are gone. Cal Stanford and SMU cannot fill that void. Unfortunately, ACC leadership has shown that they do not respect UConn and I don't think that will change. The statement about basketball does indeed reitierate that stance. I would say forget about the Big 12 as well.

Yes. He said "I do not want to downgrade basketball"....but he will.

 

[jostar1]

Since Coach K's quote is at the very end of the article:

"We have a conference that in a lot of ways wants to split,” he says. “I’d like to see us talk to the Big East and say, ‘Let’s form the best football-basketball conference.’ Not everyone has to play football. There’s only one conference that thinks about basketball every day of the year—that’s [commissioner] Val Ackerman and the Big East. If you’re a partner with them, that’s a really good thing.”

Coach K is retired. I don't think what he says now means anything to the ACC.

 

[Chin Diesel]

"I do not want to downgrade basketball" means basketball is meaningless in conference realignment! If their future is tied to football success, then the ACC is truly done. Once FSU and Clemson leave, their flagship football programs are gone. Cal Stanford and SMU cannot fill that void. Unfortunately, ACC leadership has shown that they do not respect UConn and I don't think that will change. The statement about basketball does indeed reitierate that stance. I would say forget about the Big 12 as well.

Yes. He said "I do not want to downgrade basketball"....but he will.

This has the exact same feel as dad saying "This is going to hurt me more than it will you" as he's unbuckling his belt and about ready to dole out a few lashings.

 

[UConnJim]

“This is the best basketball conference, historically, in the country,” Phillips says. “I do not want to downgrade basketball. But at the end of the day, our future will be tied to football success, football revenues, tied to TV.

That doesn't sound good for UConn. Back to hoping for a Big 12 invite.

The ACC hasn't been the best basketball conference in a long time as they diluted the conference through expansion, the retirement of HOF coaches, and poor coaching hires. And, look at the head coaches. I would say the SEC, B12, and BE have a better roster of coaches.

 

[uconnyankee]

Coach K suggests an ACC-Big East Merger here.

That’s really an amazing quote from him. The ACC all voted on picking apart Big East. They all decided which schools to choose and more importantly which schools not to choose.
Now they are acting like it’s someone else’s fault.

 

[CL82]

ACC will survive

The PAC "survived."

Sort of.

 

[AllHusky]

Have been a student of realignment since 1981. Have understood the variables behind the decision making process until recently. Didn't always agree with the decisions, but saw the logic used(see Rutgers and BC). I cannot see what the heck some of these folks are thinking about any more. Nothing screams panic more that the Calford SMU add to the ACC. Yormark had the right idea with UConn, but knuckled under to some of the midwest schools. Somehow I believe we are going to end up OK, but for the life of me don't know how or why. Maybe have a bad case of CR Rule #1, similar to Stockholm Syndrome.