junglehusky
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To quote the Bee Gees, "Ah, ha ha ha stayin' alive. Stayin' alive."Disagree. To quote Seals and Crofts, "We may never pass this way again."
To quote the Bee Gees, "Ah, ha ha ha stayin' alive. Stayin' alive."Disagree. To quote Seals and Crofts, "We may never pass this way again."
To paraphrase The Animals: "We gotta get out of this conference/ If it's the last thing we ever do / We gotta get out of this conference / Girl, there's a better life for me and you"To quote the Bee Gees, "Ah, ha ha ha stayin' alive. Stayin' alive."
To paraphrase Otis Redding: "2000 miles I'll roam, just to make a P5 conference my home."To paraphrase The Animals: "We gotta get out of this conference/ If it's the last thing we ever do / We gotta get out of this conference / Girl, there's a better life for me and you"
To paraphrase The Animals: "We gotta get out of this conference/ If it's the last thing we ever do / We gotta get out of this conference / Girl, there's a better life for me and you"
I read that and ZERO mention of UConn. Only mentioned how schools like Cincy, BYU, and Houston would be interested to find out the vote....was good info about what was being voted on though. The B1G proposal still confuses me.I consider this a key tweet:
SB✯Nation CFB @SBNationCFB 4m4 minutes ago
NCAA admins will soon vote on a rule that could lead to another Big 12 expansion. Here's what you need to know http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2016/1/6/10718972/big-12-expansion-ncaa-conference-title-game-byu-houston-cincinnati…
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I read that and ZERO mention of UConn. Only mentioned how schools like Cincy, BYU, and Houston would be interested to find out the vote....was good info about what was being voted on though. The B1G proposal still confuses me.
I hate to say it, but I think we only have an outside chance. CR has discarded logic, but if any shred of logic remains then UConn is no fit for the Big 12, mostly geographically but also academically. I want to be in the P5 as much as the next guy, and I'd love to join the Big 12, but I just don't know if we're the puzzle piece they're looking for.
I guess that they are not all flagship universities. They're a mish-mash, like the ACC.What does it even mean that we're not a fit academically? We'd be too good a school?
I guess that they are not all flagship universities. They're a mish-mash, like the ACC.
I put it here because it explained the process of the deregulation vote and what the B1G amendment meansI read that and ZERO mention of UConn. Only mentioned how schools like Cincy, BYU, and Houston would be interested to find out the vote....was good info about what was being voted on though. The B1G proposal still confuses me.
But does that mean they wouldn't want a state flagship? What's the downside?
Admissions. I've talked about this a while ago - universities like being in a conference with peer institutions that draw from a similar pool of high school students. You can easily see where Brown or Cornell benefits from being in an athletic league with Harvard and Yale - they want to draw from the same population of students. A high school guidance counselor might be more apt to suggest applying to say, University of Utah as a 2nd/3rd choice when that school is associated with UC Berkeley and Washington. On this front, UConn probably would prefer to associate with the ACC and attract students who are applying to UVA, Duke and UNC. SMU and Baylor may be pretty good schools, but the type of student who applies to those (or to say, Kansas State) is probably not the main type of student UConn wants to attract. And vice versa - kids from New England / New York who grew up fans of UConn, and are applying to UConn, probably won't pick too many AAC or B12 schools as their backup. Geography is a component, but it's more than that.What does it even mean that we're not a fit academically? We'd be too good a school?
Admissions. I've talked about this a while ago - universities like being in a conference with peer institutions that draw from a similar pool of high school students. You can easily see where Brown or Cornell benefits from being in an athletic league with Harvard and Yale - they want to draw from the same population of students. A high school guidance counselor might be more apt to suggest applying to say, University of Utah as a 2nd/3rd choice when that school is associated with UC Berkeley and Washington. On this front, UConn probably would prefer to associate with the ACC and attract students who are applying to UVA, Duke and UNC. SMU and Baylor may be pretty good schools, but the type of student who applies to those (or to say, Kansas State) is probably not the main type of student UConn wants to attract. And vice versa - kids from New England / New York who grew up fans of UConn, and are applying to UConn, probably won't pick too many AAC or B12 schools as their backup. Geography is a component, but it's more than that.
Oh I wasn't shooting it down. I thought it was a good article. Sorry if you thought I was begin negative. Was just expressing that it was odd to see Houston and not UConn being mentioned as someone hoping for more CR.I put it here because it explained the process of the deregulation vote and what the B1G amendment means
What does it even mean that we're not a fit academically? We'd be too good a school?
Yes. The Big 12 is a conference comprised mostly of sub-par schools; it doesn't have nearly the same level of institutions that you have in the Big 10 and ACC. Might sound silly, but that's kind of important to me--I like to play schools that aren't a joke. The nice thing about having rivalries with schools like Syracuse, BC, Georgetown, Rutgers is not just the athletic component, but the fact that they're high caliber academic institutions.