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[UConnSportsGuy]

How do you rank the Top 5 UConn Conference Expansion Failures from your personal pain scale? Mine goes :
1 : 2014 ACC expansion (Louisville) expansion
2 : 2023 B12 expansion (CO, UT, AZ, ASU)
3 : 2013 ACC expansion (Pitts, Syracuse, ND)
4 : 2005 ACC expansion (BC, Miami, VT)
5 : 2022 B12 expansion (Cincy, Houston, Cincy, USF)

 

[That Guy]

50 million a year can soften the blow....

For the ADs and presidents, but definitely not for the fans who won't see a penny of that money. They will however get to watch their teams go 7-5 every year without any hope for meaningful postseason football.

 

[phillionaire]

How do you rank the Top 5 UConn Conference Expansion Failures from your personal pain scale? Mine goes :
1 : 2014 ACC expansion (Louisville) expansion
2 : 2023 B12 expansion (CO, UT, AZ, ASU)
3 : 2013 ACC expansion (Pitts, Syracuse, ND)
4 : 2005 ACC expansion (BC, Miami, VT)
5 : 2022 B12 expansion (Cincy, Houston, Cincy, USF)

If you expect to be let down you’re never disappointed

 

[huskypantz]

How is that Px tournament any different than a typical conference tournament? The beauty of the NCAA tournament is with the at-large bids, they are pretty much assuring they are getting the best 50-60 teams in college. And it gives the opportunity for a few Cinderellas every year to mix things up. Real David vs Goliath drama. It keeps people engaged.
Plus we also know the best football schools don’t correlate with the best basketball schools. So it’s really hard to proclaim you’re the best basketball team in college. You’re only the best in your conference.

It’s really not much different. But they have the most fans and the most resources. Yes, it will kill the beauty of the NCAA tournament. If that results in an extra few million per school, it’s perfectly fine to them. It’s not an accident that Alabama started landing bball talent - it’s resources(from football success). They will slowly drain the talent out of the non-Px conferences and create a competition gap that will allow them to say their Px tournament champ is the best team in the country.

 

[Greedo]

For those visiting this board for the first time, please know that the ten or so posters who are on here predicting the downfall of UConn sports and/ or UConn Football do not represent or speak for the vast majority of the fanbase, ticket holders and boosters.

Anyone not concerned about our future right now is not familiar with the landscape of college sports and how things are projected to progress in the next 10-15 years.

Our present is fine. I’m happy in the Big East right now. The future looks grim.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

50 million a year can soften the blow....

Kindly off

 

[CL82]

Do you think that's how it works?

https://frankthetank.org/2022/07/22/dissolution-is-not-a-solution-to-break-a-grant-of-rights-agreement/

Is this his "disinterested Director" argument? Effectively, if someone is leaving their vote doesn't count. But that seems easy via sequencing, right? Don't withdraw and then asked to dissolve the conference. Instead call for vote on dissolving the conference and there's no need for you to ever withdraw.

 

[UConnMike04]

How do you rank the Top 5 UConn Conference Expansion Failures from your personal pain scale? Mine goes :
1 : 2014 ACC expansion (Louisville) expansion
2 : 2023 B12 expansion (CO, UT, AZ, ASU)
3 : 2013 ACC expansion (Pitts, Syracuse, ND)
4 : 2005 ACC expansion (BC, Miami, VT)
5 : 2022 B12 expansion (Cincy, Houston, Cincy, USF)

For me:
1) 2014 bc that was the worst kick in the balls.
2) 2013 bc we were supposed to go with Cuse.
3) Today
4) 2022 bc didn’t expect it bc we were a dumpster fire.
5) 2005 bc we were barely an FBS school.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

 

[uconnyankee]

We’ve seen what happens when you divert funds from football.

There won’t be another comeback.

 

[RioDog]

Football is never going anywhere

Ivy league FB didn't go anywhere- In the first 75 years of CFB they played for NCs. Now they play in front of < 10,000 fans on average. Any program outside of the Px is headed to the same place.

 

[Jimbo]

How do you rank the Top 5 UConn Conference Expansion Failures from your personal pain scale? Mine goes :
1 : 2014 ACC expansion (Louisville) expansion
2 : 2023 B12 expansion (CO, UT, AZ, ASU)
3 : 2013 ACC expansion (Pitts, Syracuse, ND)
4 : 2005 ACC expansion (BC, Miami, VT)
5 : 2022 B12 expansion (Cincy, Houston, Cincy, USF)

Personally I'd flip 4 and 5. Back in 2004–05, (1) it was at least possible to believe the Big East could turn out okay, (2) the additions created the strongest basketball conference probably ever, and (3) the Miami/VT defections allowed UConn to join up in football a year ahead of schedule. I don't recall any hope at all with the 2022 round; it just didn't hurt very much because we were never in the conversation.

Big picture: the fact that a list like this even exists is its own kind of pain.

 

[Rondogg]

How do you rank the Top 5 UConn Conference Expansion Failures from your personal pain scale? Mine goes :
1 : 2014 ACC expansion (Louisville) expansion
2 : 2023 B12 expansion (CO, UT, AZ, ASU)
3 : 2013 ACC expansion (Pitts, Syracuse, ND)
4 : 2005 ACC expansion (BC, Miami, VT)
5 : 2022 B12 expansion (Cincy, Houston, Cincy, USF)

2 : 2014 Rutgers to the Big 10

 

[DarthGrumpy]

While I don’t agree with Nelson’s take on NU and Vandy (I have personal experience at both schools), I can see a day when the top academic universities with large endowments and uncertain futures - Stan, UC, Duke, WF, BC, GTech, etc - say enough is enough (reliance of football) and explore another model.

History does tend to repeat itself, just ask the Ivy League

 

[98Uconn]

I wish the CR board would combust into thin air. Like a moth to flame, I’m impulsively drawn to it once again. I enjoyed the lapse in addiction I’ve had since the ACC miss and now that this is over, I need to withdraw again.. I just can’t stop though…

 

[aburks41]

Is GoKu real ?… he said something different.

Lol GoKU will go down as the biggest fraud in Boneyard history

 

[UConnSportsGuy]

Based on Conference Realignment Rule #1, I was just trying to think of how things could possibly be worse for us.

Heres an idea….BY convinces the B12 of the need for basketball strength and Eastern growth now that the Corner Four is finalized. So they call UConn about a basketball only invite…we tell them to Off….they decide to expand with Gonzaga, St Johns, Villanova, and Georgetown.

That’s the only possible way I see things being worse!

 

[NH Husky]

It’s really not much different. But they have the most fans and the most resources. Yes, it will kill the beauty of the NCAA tournament. If that results in an extra few million per school, it’s perfectly fine to them. It’s not an accident that Alabama started landing bball talent - it’s resources(from football success). They will slowly drain the talent out of the non-Px conferences and create a competition gap that will allow them to say their Px tournament champ is the best team in the country.

Meh. I just think they’ll be alienating too much of the collective fan base. Giving them no chance whatsoever to lay claim to a title. Tourney time, I’ve always been first, my team, second, fellow conference member (except Syracuse), third, underdog/Cinderella, and, fourth, close by or some other loose connection. The level of enthusiasm drops each level. Until it reaches “who cares?”
This Px model immediately jumps to “who cares?” for a huge percentage of potential fan base. Just plain stupid business.
Don’t dismiss the power of the Cinderella. Olympics used to be a big draw. Now no one hardly knows when they are happening.

 

[noeynox]

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.

Told you this morning not to play games with my heart and you went on ahead and did it anyways. Have you no decency sir?

 

[Bongo Fury]

Is it a good time to talk about UConn building an on campus football stadium?

SMH.

It would be cool but no one outside of UConn fans would really care

 

[Chin Diesel]

I will say this.

If two months ago, we knew the Pac was going to disintegrate, B1G was talking two more of the teams and Big12 was adding four teams, I wouldn't even have considered UConn in play.

All the posturing aside UConn needed an odd number of P5 teams added to the Big 12 to get their golden ticket.

The timing of the Pac's disintegrstion is the kick in the nuts.

 

[Bongo Fury]

I cannot get enough of this guy, What an absolute legend for this

How come there is not a middle finger reaction

 

[BlueandOG]

This hurts like getting dumped by your sweetheart. That said, we are no worse now than we were 24 hours ago. The shifting schools moved from one power conference to another. They didn’t add any G5 schools. Also, there are a few more schools in our position now since the PAC is dead. FSU and the other 6 or 7 snobby crybabies in the ACC are keeping chaos alive in the system. The best bet for us is to 1) look respectable in football and 2) keep winning. If we do, we have a chance for the future in an expanded Big XII or rebuilt ACC

 

[Bongo Fury]

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.

All their moves will be reactionary and they may not include UConn even though it seems logical.

 

[aburks41]

For what it’s worth, about an hour ago I privately spoke with someone who would actually know what the heck happened, and he told me ‘UConn was used as a leverage ploy and only as a leverage ploy. They never had any intention of extending an invite. All that Yormark posturing and visiting Storrs? Yup, that was entirely a calculated move.’

So there ya go. I hope Yormark gets his you know what kicked to the curb one day. I will actively be rooting for his downfall. He’s a snake