Nope.
Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.
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That's not realignment related.
Sources: Colorado on verge of leaving Pac-12 for Big 12
Ross Dellenger
The Big 12’s next move is now in question. The league added Houston, UCF, Cincinnati and BYU this year as a response to the loss of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC starting in 2024. Colorado’s entrance would give the conference 13 members.
Is there a 14th out there? Yormark, an aggressive and calculated former leader of a New York entertainment agency, has targeted UConn as a potential expansion possibility. But the preference among many of his member schools is to first seek another Power Five program. UConn football currently competes as an independent. According to the Big 12’s new TV contract, Power Five expansion additions receive a full pro-rata share of the distribution, which is expected to start around $31 million annually per school.
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Ross Dellenger
The Big 12’s next move is now in question. The league added Houston, UCF, Cincinnati and BYU this year as a response to the loss of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC starting in 2024. Colorado’s entrance would give the conference 13 members.
Is there a 14th out there? Yormark, an aggressive and calculated former leader of a New York entertainment agency, has targeted UConn as a potential expansion possibility. But the preference among many of his member schools is to first seek another Power Five program. UConn football currently competes as an independent. According to the Big 12’s new TV contract, Power Five expansion additions receive a full pro-rata share of the distribution, which is expected to start around $31 million annually per school.
Sources: Colorado on verge of leaving Pac-12 for Big 12
Colorado has been flirting with the Big 12 since last fall, and now it appears to be ready to leave the Pac-12 with a key board meeting on tap Thursday.
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Sources: Colorado on verge of leaving Pac-12 for Big 12
Ross Dellenger
The Big 12’s next move is now in question. The league added Houston, UCF, Cincinnati and BYU this year as a response to the loss of Texas and Oklahoma to the SEC starting in 2024. Colorado’s entrance would give the conference 13 members.
Is there a 14th out there? Yormark, an aggressive and calculated former leader of a New York entertainment agency, has targeted UConn as a potential expansion possibility. But the preference among many of his member schools is to first seek another Power Five program. UConn football currently competes as an independent. According to the Big 12’s new TV contract, Power Five expansion additions receive a full pro-rata share of the distribution, which is expected to start around $31 million annually per school.
Sources: Colorado on verge of leaving Pac-12 for Big 12
Colorado has been flirting with the Big 12 since last fall, and now it appears to be ready to leave the Pac-12 with a key board meeting on tap Thursday.
Whatever happens next, you can be sure it was planned before the Colorado news broke. The B12 plan wasn’t to get Colorado and then see what happens. They already have the partner school or schools ready.
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Just listen to GoKU. We're not going to be disappointed.
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If Oregon State tries to steal our bid hopefully Yormark convinces everyone that UConn brings more to the table and Oregon State will always be available to add, whereas the ACC might wake up one day and realize they could use UConn.
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14 with Colorado won't happen, but 16 with 3 PAC 12 schools is very possible to balance out the league. Utah will probably be blocked by BYU (especially given their lacking market) and we have more value than WSU / OSU. I doubt Oregon, Washington etc will jump to the big 12, I could see them going independent & getting a great contract or possibly joining the Big 10 before that happens.
I think we get left out again, but today wasn't discouraging or unexpected at all. Still in the game...
I think we get left out again, but today wasn't discouraging or unexpected at all. Still in the game...
Lol. The Big 12 is not taking Oregon State.
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This board is lost. The Big12 isn’t going to a 4th time zone. Yormack has been talking up basketball…so far he has, checks notes, Colorado.
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Good. I hope you are right.
Good grief man, Colorado is not even an official member yet. It'll happen.
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Oregon State is one of those schools that got grandfathered into the P5. If B12 wants a school just for good football with small media markets, Boise State is always available.
UConn is worth much more to the TV networks than schools like Oregon Stb and Washington State.
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I agree with all of that, but they are already P5 and we are not and to some morons that's all that matters.
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But thankfully the morons are nowhere near the decision making desks.
I hear some people call in to those youtube realignment shows and say that ESPN is going to help UConn get in because then they can get tax breaks.
Little do they know that the State of Connecticut has already given ESPN tax breaks and ESPN has never helped us. In fact, they hurt us by destroying the Big East.
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You got to understand UConn fans and realignment history with UConn.
ACC originally wanted UConn and Syracuse, they took Cuse and Pitt because BC went beyond their duty to block UConn since BC AD at the time was head of ACC expansion committee.
Second time when ACC was expanding to replace Maryland, everyone had UConn penciled in since we were by far the best fit. All the NC schools ( Duke, UNC, NCST, Wake) plus Virginia wanted UConn, but at the last second Florida State along with Clemson jumped in to flex their football muscles because they didn't want ACC to be controlled by the NC schools. They look Louisville which is a far inferior school academically and is the second school in the state of Kentucky.
So you can see, you can't blame us UConn fans being nervous about this. We are a P5 school in every way except in a P5 conference. Let's hope B12 will add us soon. I have little doubt UConn will thrive in the B12 opening a whole bunch of new markets for the B12.
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Thats ideal. The basketball would be #1 by vast huge margins. Nobody else is even close.
I’m all in on the Big 12. I think it is the only route for long term success. But, if we’ve learned anything from conference realignment, travel and loss of regional rivalries have hurt most teams that have switched conferences for better money. While Cincy, WVU and UCF are not exactly next door neighbors with UConn, isn’t it better than cross country flights every week. Farther expansion west can’t be good for them, but maybe ignorance is bliss. Look how far WVU has fallen. If these schools think Tucson, Provo or Corvallis are a better fit for them, than what can you do. Seems so short sighted to me.
And Hurley vs. Hurley.
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How do they vote on accepting Colorado as a member when they haven't even applied? And how long does it take for the application process to go through?
You are so right. Those soulless POS do nothing but work overtime to screw us.
It works the opposite way. Colorado won't apply unless they know that they will be accepted.
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They don't leak these things publicly unless it's already a done deal. Colorado to the B12 was probably a done deal since last week. The only thing Colorado president wanted to see was the PAC-12 media deal, and he got noda. He made the statement publicly so people can't blame Colorado for the move. It was a smart public media tactic.