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

[CL82]

B1G has already moved past 16. Only a matter of time until XII and SEC do the same. ACC is still only at 14 (+1). Is the ACC supposed to sit around waiting to be poached?

If everyone else has ceded the East Coast to them, then there is zero need to further divide the pie. That said, particularly with the ACC, they'll do whatever ESPN tells them to do as long as ESPN is willing to back it with cash.

 

[businesslawyer]

Guys it's ok --- regardless of how this all turns out, UConn athletics will be absolutely fine.

We all agree with you 100%. In the short term.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

If it’s really about markets why does adding 2 schools from a state where you can’t go outside for 5 months of the year and 2 schools from a Mormon wasteland make any sense?

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

View attachment 90360

Hellyeah Abe

 

[uconnyankee]

He should be here instead.

Maybe GoKU is DB!

 

[WestCoastHusky]

Do they prefer associating with Fresno, Boise, and Wyoming?

It’s one or the other.
Unless they want to drop to the WCC.

I am trying to picture Baylor and Texas Tech playing at Stanford. Better yet, Cincy, UCF, or WVU.

If UCONN is located in the West, we would have been in the PAC-12 a long time ago.

 

[jostar1]

Guys it's ok --- regardless of how this all turns out, UConn athletics will be absolutely fine.

Thank you, Susan Herbst.

 

[ctchamps]

Do they prefer associating with Fresno, Boise, and Wyoming?

It’s one or the other.
Unless they want to drop to the WCC.

That’s the alternative.

Yormark and the B12 are salivating at this situation.

And yes I’m still positive they want and need an eastern presence that is the best bb program so UConn will still get an invite.

 

[uconnyankee]

8-4 for UConn according to a post by C W Lambert

Was this actually posted?

 

[Mots010]

If it’s really about markets why does adding 2 schools from a state where you can’t go outside for 5 months of the year and 2 schools from a Mormon wasteland make any sense?

Arizona may be uninhabitable in our lifetimes

 

[ZooCougar]

On Twitter, most of the B12 fans who hated the idea of UConn are right now butt hurt by the Pac12 meeting this morning, and they're telling ASU/UTah to go to hell.

This comes from the meaningless-tweets-department

My irrational UConn centric desire is for Yormark to get the UConn deal done and make the others have a cage fight for the remaining slots.

 

[businesslawyer]

Is it possible that, with the opportunity to add Stanford, the XII goes to 18, taking all 4 corner schools plus Stanford and us? Or does that require too much of Fox and ESPN?

Still assuming we're out, but just wondering how hard a ceiling 16 is.

 

[crazyUCfan23]

Is it possible that, with the opportunity to add Stanford, the XII goes to 18, taking all 4 corner schools plus Stanford and us? Or does that require too much of Fox and ESPN?

Still assuming we're out, but just wondering how hard a ceiling 16 is.

one would think that with the big ten going to 18, SEC and B12 would try to follow suit, but who knows.

 

[pj]

It's amazing how much credence people here put on Internet tweets or news stories. The people who know are under CDA and not talking, the people who are talking are guessing. In the end things will go the way that makes financial sense, and assuming the B1G stops at Oregon and Washington, who is more valuable than UConn? Arizona, Stanford, Colorado, maybe Cal ... and no one else. UConn is way more valuable than Utah or Arizona State (as the second teams from their states), especially if the B12 foresees NCAA basketball shifting toward the football model and revenue going to the revenue producers.

GoKU is the most plausible poster because the scenario he's been describing is business-rational. Let's just wait for all the behind-the-scenes work to get done, and it will probably be a good outcome for Huskies.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Is it possible that, with the opportunity to add Stanford, the XII goes to 18, taking all 4 corner schools plus Stanford and us? Or does that require too much of Fox and ESPN?

Still assuming we're out, but just wondering how hard a ceiling 16 is.

I mean, it’d be Cal and Stanford

 

[businesslawyer]

I mean, it’d be Cal and Stanford

I view Cal like OSU and WSU. I can't imagine that it really brings value worth $30M to anyone.

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

It's amazing how much credence people here put on Internet tweets or news stories. The people who know are under CDA and not talking, the people who are talking are guessing. In the end things will go the way that makes financial sense, and assuming the B1G stops at Oregon and Washington, who is more valuable than UConn? Arizona, Stanford, Colorado ... and no one else. UConn is way more valuable than Utah or Arizona State (as the second teams from their states), especially if the B12 foresees NCAA basketball shifting toward the football model and revenue going to the revenue producers.

GoKU is the most plausible poster because the scenario he's been describing is business-rational. Let's just wait for all the behind-the-scenes work to get done, and it will probably be a good outcome for Huskies.

Very rational post….you must be new to this Conference Realignment world.

 

[Huskyforlife]

I view Cal like OSU and WSU. I can't imagine that it really brings value worth $30M to anyone.

But being in the same conference as Cal feels soooo good…

 

[HobokenHusky]

I mean, it’d be Cal and Stanford

On what universe is Cal more desirable than UConn? We could beat their football team now, like this year.

 

[metsfan2323]

On what universe is Cal more desirable than UConn? We could beat their football team now, like this year.

I agree, but they are in the club and we are not.

 

[Rewster]

Disagree, I find the placement or not of Connecticut in a P5 conference enormously important, it's just the need to disprove random posters that I find meaningless.

Agreed. I feel it is important too. That is why
I questioned GoKu’s validity to some degree.
This thread is hanging on is every post.

 

[DCUconnfan]

Is it possible that, with the opportunity to add Stanford, the XII goes to 18, taking all 4 corner schools plus Stanford and us? Or does that require too much of Fox and ESPN?

Still assuming we're out, but just wondering how hard a ceiling 16 is.

If the PAC is dead and there's no need for money to be shelled out there, they have budget room and it will cost less than the PAC alone, so I don't see why not.

 

[NH Husky]

On what universe is Cal more desirable than UConn? We could beat their football team now, like this year.

So how about UCONN and Stanford to B1G to make it even 20?

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Arizona may be uninhabitable in our lifetimes

As far as I'm concerned it already is. I've been there on business trips, the only thing worse than when it's ridiculously hot there is when it isn't. If it's two degrees colder than they think it should be the heat gets cranked up to an unbearable level. They don't have any breezes, so every breath is stale air and the sun is still overly intense, even if it isn't bringing the air temperature to triple digits.

 

[Jimbo]

If it’s really about markets why does adding 2 schools from a state where you can’t go outside for 5 months of the year and 2 schools from a Mormon wasteland make any sense?

Of course you’re right… if it’s really about markets. But it seems some Big 12 presidents have football-shaped eyes that can’t see anything else.