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

[freescooter]

I don’t think the idea of an ACC-NBE merger makes any sense. If, and I doubt it would happen, the ACC added NBE teams, it would cherry pick. If you have UConn along with BC you don’t have any need for Providence. If you have St John’s and Villanova why give money to Seton Hall. Maybe you want Marquette but not Butler or Creighton. None of it makes sense, but taking everyone makes the least sense of all.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I don’t think the idea of an ACC-NBE merger makes any sense. If, and I doubt it would happen, the ACC added NBE teams, it would cherry pick. If you have UConn along with BC you don’t have any need for Providence. If you have St John’s and Villanova why give money to Seton Hall. Maybe you want Marquette but not Butler or Creighton. None of it makes sense, but taking everyone makes the least sense of all.

You are right. The ACC is absolutely crushing it as is. Why make any changes?

 

[Kolumbo]

I don’t think the idea of an ACC-NBE merger makes any sense. If, and I doubt it would happen, the ACC added NBE teams, it would cherry pick. If you have UConn along with BC you don’t have any need for Providence. If you have St John’s and Villanova why give money to Seton Hall. Maybe you want Marquette but not Butler or Creighton. None of it makes sense, but taking everyone makes the least sense of all.

You are forgetting what made the Big East successful in the first place. If you have bcu, then you need pc. local rivalries trump distant markets.

It doesn’t really matter who you leave in or out of the new K Superconference since it has absolutely no chance of ever happening.

 

[Fishy]

I don’t think the idea of an ACC-NBE merger makes any sense. If, and I doubt it would happen, the ACC added NBE teams, it would cherry pick. If you have UConn along with BC you don’t have any need for Providence. If you have St John’s and Villanova why give money to Seton Hall. Maybe you want Marquette but not Butler or Creighton. None of it makes sense, but taking everyone makes the least sense of all.

It doesn’t make any sense for the Big East. Leaving a round robin conference of like-minded schools to merge with a 18-school conference that lost any semblance of reason a long time ago. God knows where the conference tournament would be yearly, or how many schools would be included. I would not want to see UConn in it, so I cannot imagine schools like Nova or Georgetown wanting any part of it.

It may not be ideal for UConn long term, but the other schools in the Big East are pretty happy with it.

 

[GampelGladiator]

End of the day...are you really in a conference with a team that you don't play annually/regularly?

A 30 team BB conference with 2 divisions would mean the annual conference schedule would be...

• 7 home against division opponents
• 7 road against division opponents
• 3 home against non-division opponents
• 3 road against non-division opponents

So ultimately...it would take 5 years to have a home and home against each non-division opponent. Also, there would be 3 non-division opponents that wouldn't be on schedule until year 3.

This of course assumes that there aren't designated 'rivalry' games between non-division opponents.

An 18 team FB conference with 2 divisions would mean zero non-division opponents.

• 4 home against division opponents
• 4 road against division opponents

 

[UConn Dan]

What happened to Key Tweets?

 

[Hogoff]

What happened to Key Tweets?

There aren’t any.

 

[Patman]

look, you aren't making a league this size work, stop thinking you can. it will exist in a perilous existence until something akin to atom fission occurs.

 

[spsct]

What happened to Key Tweets?

It went to hell....

 

[gioff2323]

If only there was a non-key forum

 

[jostar1]

 

[UConnTrumbull]

This certainly cannot hurt our p4 bid...UConn women's bball will generate a lot of units. This should've happened years ago.

 

[jostar1]

 

[BBFGExecDir]

Is Jared annoying to anyone here? Thought so.

Wtf?

 

[noeynox]

Wtf?

Not that Jared

 

[Exit 4]

Not that Jared

Cant decide if you mean Jared from Subway or Jared from the Jewelry store.

 

[Fishy]

This certainly cannot hurt our p4 bid...UConn women's bball will generate a lot of units. This should've happened years ago.

Definitely won’t hurt, but it’s not massive money - around $1.25M for reaching the final four.

 

[ZooCougar]

The Big 12 is the intended audience for this news. This is to show that we are financially strong.

 

[WestHartHusk]

The Big 12 is the intended audience for this news. This is to show that we are financially strong.

That number just seems a bit off (or this year's number is going to be much higher). The school reported about 179,000 tickets sold last year for 16 game, which works out to $18/ticket. Even if you assume 3,000 students per game (which feels high, considering Hartford), that still works out to $24/ticket.

 

[AllHusky]

I don't even understand how a merger of conferences happens. The schools just vote behind Vals back?

You should have been in the room with the "Old Big East"(hoops) AD's) when CBS announced a TV contract with the FB arm of the Big East. The Hoops AD's(including Lew Perkins) had no idea that was coming. All of a sudden the power of FB was shown in a very real way. That tail wagged the heck out of that Dog.

 

[ZooCougar]

Only posting in key because at the end of this journey we can show that we were in the PAC 12 convo.

I don’t think they will get any of these schools.

https://twitter.com/playactionpulse/status/1879703991090905238?s=46

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Only posting in key because at the end of this journey we can show that we were in the PAC 12 convo.

I don’t think they will get any of these schools.

https://twitter.com/playactionpulse/status/1879703991090905238?s=46

56 followers lol

 

[CL82]

56 followers lol

But they are quality followers

 

[UConn Dan]

Why post this? And how are we not number one?

 

[JMick]

Why post this? And how are we not number one?

I don't understand what we're doing sometimes.