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

[UConnSportsGuy]

That wasn't an "unofficial" vote. Dodd got info about 8 schools.
6 Yes 2 No

The fact that two B12 schools went "on the record" as NO votes is not a good sign.

Pair that with the fact that this was leaked to the media just before the presentation from the consultants, and it feels like Yormark's UConn expansion is being sabotaged from within.

My guess is if this is not finalized and voted on by this Friday, it is dead in the water.

 

[jimva]

The fact that two B12 schools went "on the record" as NO votes is not a good sign.

Pair that with the fact that this was leaked to the media just before the presentation from the consultants, and it feels like Yormark's UConn expansion is being sabotaged from within.

My guess is if this is not finalized and voted on by this Friday, it is dead in the water.

I think your reading to much into this

 

[NJHusky]

Except UConn actually has excellent NIL for basketball And reasonably good NIL for football.

Saw an article on espn that said Ohio st spent 20 M on nil for fb. That’s crazy

 

[CL82]

Saw an article on espn that said Ohio st spent 20 M on nil for fb. That’s crazy

It's all insanity at this point. Amazingly, we seem to be managing it.

 

[superjohn]

The fact that two B12 schools went "on the record" as NO votes is not a good sign.

Pair that with the fact that this was leaked to the media just before the presentation from the consultants, and it feels like Yormark's UConn expansion is being sabotaged from within.

My guess is if this is not finalized and voted on by this Friday, it is dead in the water.

No Big 12 schools went on the record as NO votes.

 

[Waquoit]

TCU didn't play any games in the Big East

Work with me, jo

 

[ScottBonz]

Sen. Derek Slap, D-West Hartford, who co-chairs the legislature's Higher Education Committee, said the state should do whatever it can to facilitate UConn jumping to the Big 12, including if that means extra money for exit and entrance fees or stadium upgrades

Slap gets it. Also, mayor of west hartford is Shari cantor who is on the BOT. Big UConn Athletics fan.

 

[metsfan2323]

The loss of UConn on its channels really hurts espn hoops credibility.

I'm sure they would also like to take another sh

Sen. Derek Slap, D-West Hartford, who co-chairs the legislature's Higher Education Committee, said the state should do whatever it can to facilitate UConn jumping to the Big 12, including if that means extra money for exit and entrance fees or stadium upgrades

Entrance fees? Not surprised that is a thing, but I don't think that has been mentioned yet.

 

[CL82]

Sen. Derek Slap, D-West Hartford, who co-chairs the legislature's Higher Education Committee, said the state should do whatever it can to facilitate UConn jumping to the Big 12, including if that means extra money for exit and entrance fees or stadium upgrades

You have to like seeing that. Trying to read the tea leaves on the phrase "stadium upgrades" does that mean that he's locked into upgrading the Rent, or would building a new stadium on campus be an upgrade?

 

[CL82]

Slap gets it. Also, mayor of west hartford is Shari cantor who is on the BOT. Big UConn Athletics fan.

As is her husband, Mike, who is also a UConn grad.

 

[DoctorWho85]

That seems like ESPN is trying to undermine the Big East.

 

[buddy]

Maybe Matt should have a chat with his dad who sits on the BOT.

Wake up Ct residents. Vote him out!

 

[ZooCougar]

Article rife with wrongness.

These Big East writers are terrified UConn will abandon them.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Lighten up Francis.

I know it's a joke, but we're trying to join them, not the other way around. So insulting them doesn't make much sense. The whole "we're better than you" attitude doesn't play well elsewhere and hasn't been accurate in our lifetimes, if it ever was.

Just curious whether anyone who visited KC/Lawrence for the first time last November had any perceptions changed by the trip? Does it make you more or less likely to support a move to the Big XII.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I know it's a joke, but we're trying to join them, not the other way around. So insulting them doesn't make much sense. The whole "we're better than you" attitude doesn't play well elsewhere and hasn't been accurate in our lifetimes, if it ever was.

Just curious whether anyone who visited KC/Lawrence for the first time last November had any perceptions changed by the trip? Does it make you more or less likely to support a move to the Big XII.

We are better than them.

 

[HuskyHawk]

We are better than them.

Somebody failed in their task to lock him in a closet until this is resolved.

 

[ZooCougar]

Article rife with wrongness.

These Big East writers are terrified UConn will abandon them.

As if we had a choice in the matter.

Love how the Big East people continue the false narrative that UConn and others “left” the Big East.

 

[Waquoit]

These Big East writers are terrified UConn will abandon them.

It's all good. They didn't want us to begin with. We come in, win few titles and earn a bunch of credits for them and move on. Our work is done here.

 

[superjohn]

Somebody failed in their task to lock him in a closet until this is resolved.

Waylon, the guy who has never left Connecticut claiming he's better than anyone. You couldn't make this guy up if you tried.

 

[NJHusky]

I know it's a joke, but we're trying to join them, not the other way around. So insulting them doesn't make much sense. The whole "we're better than you" attitude doesn't play well elsewhere and hasn't been accurate in our lifetimes, if it ever was.

Just curious whether anyone who visited KC/Lawrence for the first time last November had any perceptions changed by the trip? Does it make you more or less likely to support a move to the Big XII.

Do you REALLY think anything written here (even something that innocuous) would have ANY impact on us being invited?????

 

[superjohn]

Do you REALLY think anything written here (even something that innocuous) would have ANY impact on us being invited?????

No but people here whine about how/why they don't like us. It should be pretty damn clear why they don't like us.

 

[GoKU]

I don't know where the idea came from that this was going to get done quick. It's been in the works for months, and they still have to make it right with Fox.

 

[superjohn]

I don't know where the idea came from that this was going to get done quick. It's been in the works for months, and they still have to make it right with Fox.

From Mark Zanetto who has a UConn podcast. He broke the story, said UConn had the votes and it was imminent. He doubled down on the imminent but has now backed off it being imminent.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Slap gets it. Also, mayor of west hartford is Shari cantor who is on the BOT. Big UConn Athletics fan.

Slap gets my vote. Lol. He has a portion of Farmington too.

Ritter…this will mean less wasted tax payer money over the course of next 10-15 years. Stop with any other thought about college athletics, if this is who we want to be, upfront costs, and don’t try and be an athletic director .

 

[ZooCougar]

I don't know where the idea came from that this was going to get done quick. It's been in the works for months, and they still have to make it right with Fox.

It came from a podcaster who had a source saying that this was “imminent”.