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

[Jimbo]

This. The presidents/chancellors screwed Yormark. Unless we go to 18 with SDSU, he's not getting that "big NY moment". Utah and ASU agreed to 25 million for first 2 years. I apologize to you all. My information ended up being wrong.

You’re about to get pounded by others here, but I appreciate your coming back and owning it.

I speculated a couple pages up that maybe the Big 12 would negotiate a lower share from the new Pac refugees. Probably could’ve had UConn for even cheaper and gotten more in return.

 

[GG]

This. The presidents/chancellors screwed Yormark. Unless we go to 18 with SDSU, he's not getting that "big NY moment". Utah and ASU agreed to 25 million for first 2 years. I apologize to you all. My information ended up being wrong.

Thank you.

 

[ninety-nine]

This. The presidents/chancellors screwed Yormark. Unless we go to 18 with SDSU, he's not getting that "big NY moment". Utah and ASU agreed to 25 million for first 2 years. I apologize to you all. My information ended up being wrong.

It's ultimately not your fault. You're dealing with a fundamental universal constant that cannot be altered in any timeline: Rule #1 of conference realignment. It can't benefit UConn. I'm pretty sure if we did get into a "power conference," the world would end the following day.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

This. The presidents/chancellors screwed Yormark. Unless we go to 18 with SDSU, he's not getting that "big NY moment". Utah and ASU agreed to 25 million for first 2 years. I apologize to you all. My information ended up being wrong.

Appreciate the info. Obviously the entire landscape pretty much shifted the last couple days. Oh well.

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Maybe now people can stop sucking off Yormack and the B12. All this forward thinking talk just to double down on schools in locations that might be inhabitable in 10 years.

Rooting for climate change!

 

[98Uconn]

All over. F it. Back to being excited about the upcoming hoops season and NC we just won. I’m worn out worrying about reassignment like me life depends on it.

 

[djct1999]

I say we cancel our game w Kansas and let them play Utah instead. We can then schedule duke at msg.

 

[GG]

This. The presidents/chancellors screwed Yormark. Unless we go to 18 with SDSU, he's not getting that "big NY moment". Utah and ASU agreed to 25 million for first 2 years. I apologize to you all. My information ended up being wrong.

Read that West Virginia really wanted more of an East Coast presents and they were concerned travel costs. His mom is very interesting.

 

[upstater]

se

secret agreements with other conferences

But the remaining teams would lose out.

How do convince a majority to dissolve when the majority isn't leaving?

 

[upstater]

Swaim knows nothing.

He was the first to announce Utah was in

 

[Greedo]

With our luck in realignment I’m now fully expecting FSU to leave the ACC and for them to backfill with USF or some BS.

 

[WestCoastHusky]

This. The presidents/chancellors screwed Yormark. Unless we go to 18 with SDSU, he's not getting that "big NY moment". Utah and ASU agreed to 25 million for first 2 years. I apologize to you all. My information ended up being wrong.

Thanks for keeping us updated. I have no doubt your info was correct at one time, but all things went to hell in a day or so with the PAC blowing up.

B12 presidents really thinking small with this move, but who knows what will happen in the future.

 

[GG]

Thanks for keeping us updated. I have no doubt your info was correct at one time, but all things went to hell in a day or so with the PAC blowing up.

B12 presidents really think small with this move, but who knows what will happen in the future.

Flugar’s contact as ASU (the money perch) always had us behind AZ, ASU and Utah.

 

[98Uconn]

Financials and stability long term.. I get it.. and I’m bummed…But man I love playing in the Big East again and for the near term… a lot to be excited about BB wise.

 

[ihatepants]

 

[NH Husky]

I’m wondering what this does to our football program. If we start losing recruits and coaches you have to wonder if we lower football and focus resources on men’s and women’s hoops.
P4 options are dwindling. If the national perception is we’ve given up on football might as well make it reality

 

[WestCoastHusky]

Financials and stability long term.. I get it.. and I’m bummed…But man I love playing in the Big East again and for the near term… a lot to be excited about BB wise.

Let's hope we can right the ship and get football on the right track. This realignment will start again since it's not done.

If B1G goes to 20, others will too.

If ACC is smart, they invite us and others to get to 16, 18, or 20. I don't think ACC is forward thinking or smart though.

 

[huskypantz]

This. The presidents/chancellors screwed Yormark. Unless we go to 18 with SDSU, he's not getting that "big NY moment". Utah and ASU agreed to 25 million for first 2 years. I apologize to you all. My information ended up being wrong.

Appreciate you coming here to share. Hopefully we’ll meet up again under better circumstances for us.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

Yes. Randy Edsall 2.0 was one of the worst decisions ever by UCONN admin and AD Dave.

This turned out to be a disaster but there were a number of contributing factors.

• Someone posted in one of the threads about the dog and pony show the B-12 ran in 2016 where they pretended to want to expand and ended up standing pat. The truth is they went into that believing we would be a solid addition and needed to determine who to bring in along with us and ended up being stunned at what a mess our football program was, realizing that we wouldn't be competent in a P-5 conference. This was when DB tried to get Diaco to bring in a veteran (I believe Kill) as a mentor to stabilize the program but Diaco refused.
• DB knew he had to fix the football program and was told by a few boosters that he needed someone with experience with our unique situation (basically given a presentation to bring in RE) to fix the program, let Diaco go with a large buyout and hired RE (the trustees were furious about the buyout).
• When DB found out that Pitt was going to interview Dan Hurley, DB asked for approval to buyout KO so we could hire Hurley (if you believe bringing in Hurley was the right move, this was necessary). He was told that he had to wait a year to fire KO (buyout would have dropped) so he took a different approach so he wouldn't lose Hurley. The BOT showed their pettiness after this.
• Even though RE was hired at a discount, the BOT tied DB's hands on money as a means to punish him for putting money at risk in replacing KO with Dan Hurley. We lose an offensive coordinator, RE has to did into his salary to replace him. We lose a second one, we have to have our offensive line coach pull double duty.
• RE unfortunately knew only one way to build a program; rip it down to the foundation and then rebuild. We were in a situation where we really didn't have the time for an RE rebuild. This was compounded when we left the AAC and became independent as RE couldn't conceptualize the move as anything other than abandoning the football program.

 

[aburks41]

I’m wondering what this does to our football program. If we start losing recruits and coaches you have to wonder if we lower football and focus resources on men’s and women’s hoops.

I don't want to say it, but we're getting dangerously close to shuttering the program territory. We'll keep it operating until the ACC falls, but if we still don't get into a power conference after that, we can probably say goodnight.

 

[CTBballfan243]

AD David Benedict and UConn gave it a good fight. We new it was a narrow window for us to get in. We were in it right up until the last few hours. UConn’s day will come. Keep the faith. Now let’s get ready for fun football and basketball seasons. It’s great to be part of Huskie Nation!!!!!

 

[huskypantz]

I don't want to say it, but we're getting dangerously close to shuttering the program territory. We'll keep it operating until the ACC falls, but if we still don't get into a power conference after that, we can probably say goodnight.

That will be the end of elite basketball as well. We’ll be “second division” when the Px break off.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I get it. Always assumed we’d be behind all four corner schools. Only hope was the B1G didn’t act on Washington & Oregon and they’d choose to stay.

Stanford and Cal still out there with us. So my scenario where the ACC wakes &$k up and becomes aggressive is still in play. They are at 15 now. Go to 18.

 

[aburks41]

That will be the end of elite basketball as well. We’ll be “second division” when the Px break off.

Yup. That's why I can't understand how people on twitter are celebrating this news. Was the Big 12 a good fit for us? No, not at all. But what it would have done was save our athletic department and give us options in the future should we want to do some sort of merge with the ACC. I'm not trying to be a doomer, but this is a scary, scary day for UConn athletics.

 

[That Guy]

I get it. Always assumed we’d be behind all four corner schools. Only hope was the B1G didn’t act on Washington & Oregon and they’d choose to stay.

Stanford and Cal still out there with us. So my scenario where the ACC wakes &$k up and becomes aggressive is still in play. They are at 15 now. Go to 18.

At this point it wouldn't even surprise me if the ACC took any combination of the remaining Pac schools and some AAC schools instead of us.