Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell. | Page 375 | The Boneyard

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

Hurley is the ultimate level of a competitor. Do you really think he would back down from competing at a higher level in anything? Competitors want to beat the best in everything they do. They're not wired like 99% of other people. So, it's easy for other people to not understand.
 
Beachview said:
Right now we have Dan Hurley…right now we have the best team in the country… right now we recruit as good as any team in the country…right now we sell out our venues…i hope that continues if we join the big 12
Expand ...
Those are not guaranteed whether you stay or go. What is guaranteed is better financials to help to maintain, recuperate in the event of loss and compete at an even higher level in each of those plus other areas of the AD.
 
Beachview said:
Right now we have Dan Hurley…right now we have the best team in the country… right now we recruit as good as any team in the country…right now we sell out our venues…i hope that continues if we join the big 12
Expand ...
The #7 recruiting class of 2023 has kids from CT, TX, FL, and CA. No, it's not ours, it's Kansas. The point is that when you are a national program, you recruit the entire country, not just the northeast. That won't change for us in the Big12, having won 5 national titles since '99.

By the way, our recruiting class is #4 with kids from GA, NH, WA, and NY. Like I said... national...
 
BBall fans simply don't look at the whole picture. Their belief is that the Big East guarantees men's basketball success, so forget everything else, period.... let it rot or die... basketball or bust. Ok fair enough ...hypothetically what happens if we thumb our noses at Big 12 pump our Big East fist and see St. Johns, Villanova and two other Big East schools get offered and take the money for Big 12 jump?.....
 
UConnDan97 said:
The #7 recruiting class of 2023 has kids from CT, TX, FL, and CA. No, it's not ours, it's Kansas. The point is that when you are a national program, you recruit the entire country, not just the northeast. That won't change for us in the Big12, having won 5 national titles since '99.

By the way, our recruiting class is #4 with kids from GA, NH, WA, and NY. Like I said... national...
Expand ...

To add to this, in 24/7's recruiting class rankings for transfers the current top 3 classes are Kansas, West Virginia, and TCU. The B12 is very serious about their basketball and they have no problem recruiting.
 
.-.
Beachview said:
I doubt Hurley stays if we join the big 12…we will be a northeastern school recruiting in a southern league
Expand ...
Just stop….this is the worst straw man, fear mongering post I’ve seen. Why not just suggest the Earth will likely be destroyed by a meteor if UConn leaves the Big East?

Hurley is deserving of a raise which will put him in the top echelon of coaching salaries. In fact, Hurley’s future salary should be almost what our whole Big East payout is….and that is before we factor in the assistant coach salaries and women’s basketball coaching salaries.

Hurley is a northeast guy whose family wants to live in the northeast. UConn’s not moving its campus.
 
TheDrifter75 said:
Didn't he accept the job when UConn was in the AAC? Surely he's smarter than all this drivel would imply.
Expand ...
I should have found a way to emphasize the sarcasm. For whatever reasons Beachview doesn't believe our program has the ability to survive if we aren't in the cocoon of the Big East.
 
Beachview said:
The most important sport at uconn is basketball… we are very successful now in the big east… thats a given… its not if we join the big I don’t see why they wouldn’t be successful in big 12.
Expand ...
 
.-.
The guy on the right is probably a Yarder or at least reads the board. We seem to be the only people that know anything about realignment as it pertains to UConn.
 
huskymedic said:
Expand ...

If that's true, and not wishful thinking on the part of WSU, nobody is leaving the PAC 12 this year. Under this scenario, probably the only way UConn would get an invite this year is if the Big 12 was able to grab SDSU before the end of the month.
 
.-.
mikeinmanila said:
If that's true, and not wishful thinking on the part of WSU, nobody is leaving the PAC 12 this year. Under this scenario, probably the only way UConn would get an invite this year is if the Big 12 was able to grab SDSU before the end of the month.
Expand ...
So you think without CU and/or AZ they pause expansion for now?
 
Beachview said:
I doubt Hurley stays if we join the big 12…we will be a northeastern school recruiting in a southern league
Expand ...
Really, I didn't know Arizona was a Northeastern state. His brother grew up in the northeast, so your reasoning is off...
 
Skies2018 said:
So you think without CU and/or AZ they pause expansion for now?
Expand ...
I don't see how the B12 can't grab SDSU. It seems like the B12 is the better long term home and the SDSU couldn't risk missing out on a B12 invite just to wait around for the PAC offer and payout numbers.
 
mikeinmanila said:
If that's true, and not wishful thinking on the part of WSU, nobody is leaving the PAC 12 this year. Under this scenario, probably the only way UConn would get an invite this year is if the Big 12 was able to grab SDSU before the end of the month.
Expand ...
Even if this is the case, and it is highly likely it will be if by some miracle PAC-12 ended up with a deal similar to B12, I still believe it would be crazy for the B12 not to expand.

For one, just being 12 is dangerous. B12 should still grab UConn and one of the Western schools. They can also just add UConn to make it 13. There is strength in numbers, and they should expand especially if TV partners willing to pay the same share for UConn as current schools.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
Even if this is the case, and it is highly likely it will be if by some miracle PAC-12 ended up with a deal similar to B12, I still believe it would be crazy for the B12 not to expand.

For one, just being 12 is dangerous. B12 should still grab UConn and one of the Western schools. They can also just add UConn to make it 13. There is strength in numbers, and they should expand especially if TV partners willing to pay the same share for UConn as current schools.
Expand ...
Aw, the bargaining stage in play

Understanding the five stages of grief

What are the five stages of grief? And are they still a good way of understanding how we feel after a death?
www.cruse.org.uk www.cruse.org.uk
 
.-.
Da_Aisijimo_Gou said:
Absent his self-disclosed honesty, which Boneyard contributor?
Expand ...
It was a channel 8 panel with four panelists. Each one gave their take on expansion. When the discussion leader asked one of the four for his opinion he said something like "I told you before I don't know anything about sports." That was it and then they moved on to someone else.
 
CL82 said:
It was a channel 8 panel with four panelists. Each one gave their take on expansion. When the discussion leader asked one of the four for his opinion he said something like "I told you before I don't know anything about sports." That was it and then they moved on to someone else.
Expand ...
Whoosh, no kidding.
 
Hoophound said:
I don't see how the B12 can't grab SDSU. It seems like the B12 is the better long term home and the SDSU couldn't risk missing out on a B12 invite just to wait around for the PAC offer and payout numbers.
Expand ...
SDSU gets its student body overwhelmingly from CA and Pac 12 territory, and will continue to. There is a huge, huge benefit in terms of recruiting students by playing in the Pac and not the Big XII regardless of athletic department cash. They would take less money to join the Pac. However, if they think the Pac will be dissolving in a few years anyway, that would change the equation.
 
businesslawyer said:
SDSU gets its student body overwhelmingly from CA and Pac 12 territory, and will continue to. There is a huge, huge benefit in terms of recruiting students by playing in the Pac and not the Big XII regardless of athletic department cash. They would take less money to join the Pac. However, if they think the Pac will be dissolving in a few years anyway, that would change the equation.
Expand ...

I'm not so sure that is true in a Pac12 without UCLA and USC. Being in the big 12 and getting better visibility in sports I think would expand their reach more than the occasional game with Stanford and Cal.
 
businesslawyer said:
SDSU gets its student body overwhelmingly from CA and Pac 12 territory, and will continue to. There is a huge, huge benefit in terms of recruiting students by playing in the Pac and not the Big XII regardless of athletic department cash. They would take less money to join the Pac. However, if they think the Pac will be dissolving in a few years anyway, that would change the equation.
Expand ...
That makes sense, but passing up a B12 offer in hopes of a good offer from the PAC down the road seems kind of crazy. I would think the kids being recruited to SDSU would be happy to play in the B12, just like UConn recruits would.
 
.-.
You must log in or register to reply here.

Forum statistics

Threads
168,190
Messages
4,556,247
Members
10,441
Latest member
Virginiafan


Top Bottom