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[jostar1]

This article from April is relevant now. Note the quote from one Big 12 AD:

College sports is run by football, so why is the Big 12 betting big on basketball?

"We all now live on the SEC and Big 10’s chess board. This includes you, NCAA. Even if you’re not a King or a Queen on this board, you’re OK with being a rook or a pawn, too. Looking at you, Nebraska.

The ACC and Big 12 are in a death struggle to retain their spots No. 3 on the four-conference power poll rankings. Where they sit typically depends on where you live.

To keep its spot the Big 12 is doubling down not on football, but rather basketball. Because all of the premier names in college football belong to the SEC and the Big 10, the Big 12 sees its future as being the best basketball brand in the sport.

Since he was hired as commissioner of the Big 12, Brett Yormark has made it no secret that he believes basketball is an undervalued property. As football continues to eat up more of the basketball season by expanding its playoffs, this is a calculated but necessary risk.

“It’s the best way to keep our spot at the table,” one Big 12 athletic director said."

The table is that of ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, Turner, or any potential media rights partner that wants to dump money into live sporting events. Think Amazon Prime. Perhaps Apple TV, too.

College sports is run by football, so why is the Big 12 betting big on basketball?

The future of the Big 12 Conference could hinge on the success of branding itself as America’s top basketball league.

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[ZooCougar]

I wonder what ADs would be anti-UConn. Probably. Okie State, Texas Tech, Baylor.

i would think WVU and Cincinnati would love UConn back. Fun games.

John come on.

Do you really think this is going in front of the Presidents knowing this won’t pass?

This is not the ACC.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

This article from April is relevant now. Note the quote from one Big 12 AD:

College sports is run by football, so why is the Big 12 betting big on basketball?

"We all now live on the SEC and Big 10’s chess board. This includes you, NCAA. Even if you’re not a King or a Queen on this board, you’re OK with being a rook or a pawn, too. Looking at you, Nebraska.

The ACC and Big 12 are in a death struggle to retain their spots No. 3 on the four-conference power poll rankings. Where they sit typically depends on where you live.

To keep its spot the Big 12 is doubling down not on football, but rather basketball. Because all of the premier names in college football belong to the SEC and the Big 10, the Big 12 sees its future as being the best basketball brand in the sport.

Since he was hired as commissioner of the Big 12, Brett Yormark has made it no secret that he believes basketball is an undervalued property. As football continues to eat up more of the basketball season by expanding its playoffs, this is a calculated but necessary risk.

“It’s the best way to keep our spot at the table,” one Big 12 athletic director said."

The table is that of ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, Turner, or any potential media rights partner that wants to dump money into live sporting events. Think Amazon Prime. Perhaps Apple TV, too.

College sports is run by football, so why is the Big 12 betting big on basketball?

The future of the Big 12 Conference could hinge on the success of branding itself as America’s top basketball league.

www.aol.com

Which is an interesting point because adding UConn also heavily hits the Big East. Arguably, no seat at the table for them unless Nova turns it around and others step up big time.

 

[Stinger92860]

Which is an interesting point because adding UConn also heavily hits the Big East. Arguably, no seat at the table for them unless Nova turns it around and others step up big time.

I can’t see the BE losing a seat but it will be seat #4 or #5. If the future is p3 with 24 teams per conference, that’s 72 teams ahead of you. The reality is the sec and B1g will be driving the rules.

 

[ec33]

2031 It’s when their tv deal expires so why does 2028 make more sense? What’s the significance of 2028?

They would want UConn to have value as a football program when the next contract is negotiated.

As long as the money isn't out of their pocket, why do they care if UConn is on their schedule once in conference before the next contract is signed? In exchange for that one game, they get better ratings in the northeast from which to negotiate the next long-term deal.

 

[jostar1]

 

[Chin Diesel]

I can’t see the BE losing a seat but it will be seat #4 or #5. If the future is p3 with 24 teams per conference, that’s 72 teams ahead of you. The reality is the sec and B1g will be driving the rules.

Even of UConn stayed in the BE, the P4 breaks away and has a national championship tourney for basketball........
dook, UNC, UVA, NC St, Louisville, Michigan, Mich St, Ohio St, Purdue, Kentucky, Florida, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, UCLA Arizona, Kansas, Baylor..........

The national audience won't call illegitimate because there is no UConn, Gonzaga, SDSU.

The P4 would freeze out BE and every other conference in the blink of an eye.

 

[bendm]

Even of UConn stayed in the BE, the P4 breaks away and has a national championship tourney for basketball........

The P3 once the acc is raided for spare parts in 2036 but yes I agree with the sentiment

 

[aburks41]

I can’t see the BE losing a seat but it will be seat #4 or #5. If the future is p3 with 24 teams per conference, that’s 72 teams ahead of you. The reality is the sec and B1g will be driving the rules.

The Big 10 and SEC will have zero say when it comes to basketball if that future doesn’t include UConn, Duke, UNC, and Kansas, which is why it’s smart for a school like Kansas to find a partner in UConn to team up with. But literally no one will be fighting for the inclusion of a Kyle Neptune Nova, Providence, Marquette, Butler, etc.

 

[king conn]

The Big 10 and SEC will have zero say when it comes to basketball if that future doesn’t include UConn, Duke, UNC, and Kansas, which is why it’s smart for a school like Kansas to find a partner in UConn to team up with. But literally no one will be fighting for the inclusion of a Kyle Neptune Nova, Providence, Marquette, Butler, etc.

I would argue even a Red Auerbach Nova

 

[ZooCougar]

Even of UConn stayed in the BE, the P4 breaks away and has a national championship tourney for basketball........
dook, UNC, UVA, NC St, Louisville, Michigan, Mich St, Ohio St, Purdue, Kentucky, Florida, LSU, Texas, Oklahoma, UCLA Arizona, Kansas, Baylor..........

The national audience won't call illegitimate because there is no UConn, Gonzaga, SDSU.

The P4 would freeze out BE and every other conference in the blink of an eye.

Just look at what they did to the Big East for the tournament this year.

They locked out 2-3 deserving teams and tried to give us the most difficult path possible.

 

[Bongo Fury]

Listening to national college sports, the BE was an afterthought until UConn in the tournament and how dominant they were.

 

[JMick]

Just look at what they did to the Big East for the tournament this year.

They locked out 2-3 deserving teams and tried to give us the most difficult path possible.

People just don't get it. There's more to it than what happens on court or on the field. The narratives drive perception, and perception drives reality.

 

[bendm]

The Big 10 and SEC will have zero say when it comes to basketball if that future doesn’t include UConn,

Wishful thinking. Why would those teams want to keep watching us win titles if they can just take their ball and go home, then start their own tourney. Need to be in the P3 to assure that doesn’t happen.

 

[huskymedic]

Attention in the Terminal > Paging Berry Tramel… Mr. Tramel please pick up a courtesy phone.

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[bendm]

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Is he referring to himself in the third person in that tweet? He’s reached a new level of hubris.

 

[jostar1]

"But a Big 12 source said support for a Connecticut invitation still is lacking".

Yormark hasn't made his presentation to the Presidents yet. Let's hope he can sell it.

 

[LBird33]

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Another lap dog

 

[bendm]

"But a Big 12 source said support for a Connecticut invitation still is lacking".

Yormark hasn't made his presentation to the Presidents yet. Let's hope he can sell it.

makes no sense to be going through the dog and pony show again, a year later, if things weren’t different this time.

 

[uconnbaseball]

We knew the hit piece was coming; probably from Oklahoma State.

 

[UConnKev]

 

[bendm]

Lemme get this straight. The Big12 “power players” want to fire yormark for trying to add UConn after he single handedly destroyed the PAC and turned the big12 into a power conference just this time last year? These bleeping people

 

[ec33]

makes no sense to be going through the dog and pony show again, a year later, if things weren’t different this time.

While this story is news to us, it has been going on for months behind the scenes and it is obviously important to BY -- if this were any school other than UConn the invite would be a dead-certain outcome. With UConn, there is always a possibility that New Mexico and Gonzaga are announced this week.

 

[Blades]

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LOL, Come on Medic did you have to with this chode ???

 

[jostar1]

None of them know anything. Curry Hicks Sage is a UMass fan.