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

[shizzle787]

Yeah, the PAC was anticipating a small uptick on their next contract. Look how that ended.

The Big East is stable for the foreseeable future. The Pac-12 was not.

 

[Bongo Fury]

We've seen this game before.

It is starts "Oregon State and UConn" and in the middle it becomes "Oregon State and Washington State" before finishing off "Oregon State, Washington State, Cal, and Stanford, with UConn looking in from the outside."

Anyone but UConn

 

[shizzle787]

Benedict needs to leverage this (if true) into a hybrid ACC arrangement: non-football membership, automatic membership as soon as one member leaves, bowl tie-in, and 10-15 million per year.

 

[Patrick79]

No, GoKU was a fraud. I got confirmation from someone that every single person on this board knows. Talked with them a couple hours ago. All of the smoke around us was a lie by Yormark to get the Pac schools to jump. He used us, and executed it perfectly

Sorry but that is not true. First, B12 had zero need to do that in the first place. If anything, UConn in the mix took pressure off the schools to jump since most would have preferred to stay in the league.

Second, a conference commissioner has little time to make trips across the country as a ruse or to burn their professional credibility by using a school (and college president).

Third, if Yormark really wanted to ratchet up pressure in this way, he would have gone with a more orthodox/traditional school that was believable and tolerable to the other B12 schools - SDSU for example.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

That was actually a very smart business move by Yormark. Didn’t work out for us, but I have to give Yormark props, he was playing chess.

Robert Craft did the same thing to the entire state of Connecticut with his talk of moving the Pats to Hartford. It was leverage to get Massachusetts to pony-up more money for Gillette Stadium.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

No, GoKU was a fraud. I got confirmation from someone that every single person on this board knows. Talked with them a couple hours ago. All of the smoke around us was a lie by Yormark to get the Pac schools to jump. He used us, and executed it perfectly

What does Mike DiMauro know?

 

[Bongo Fury]

Don’t think they need bait for the PAC schools. They are pretty desperate right now. Sadly they’ll get voted in before UConn.

 

[aburks41]

Seems like Mora and others were believers.

They were. That’s why I said Yormark is a snake. He completely lied straight to our administration’s face. We did nothing wrong, but he embarrassed us in front of everyone. He needed a sacrificial lamb and UConn was perfect for the job

 

[Patrick79]

Benedict needs to leverage this (if true) into a hybrid ACC arrangement: non-football membership, automatic membership as soon as one member leaves, bowl tie-in, and 10-15 million per year.

ACC is trash and will be the new AAC in a couple of years when the valuable teams leave. We don’t need or want to join that league at this time. It would be all exit fee for the chance to tie up our media rights and guarantee we never get into a real conference.

 

[shizzle787]

They were. That’s why I said Yormark is a snake. He completely lied straight to our administration’s face. We did nothing wrong, but he embarrassed us in front of everyone. He needed a sacrificial lamb and UConn was perfect for the job

If the Pac-9 had stayed together this morning, we would have been welcomed to the Big 12 this afternoon. We were a back-up plan, and I think we knew this.

 

[aburks41]

What does Mike DiMauro know?

Hahah, I can confidently say it was not him. I would never voluntarily talk to that clown

 

[ec33]

Robert Craft did the same thing to the entire state of Connecticut with his talk of moving the Pats to Hartford. It was leverage to get Massachusetts to pony-up more money for Gillette Stadium.

One of the dumbest things ever. Total non-starter.

Even if Kraft was sincere, the Giants and Jets would have nixed it. They just didn't want to ruin Kraft's grift.

 

[aburks41]

If the Pac-9 had stayed together this morning, we would have been welcomed to the Big 12 this afternoon. We were a back-up plan, and I think we knew this.

The pac was never staying together. That was Oregon’s last second effort to get a better deal from the Big 10

 

[NH Husky]

“Fodder schools” definition: Institutions that are willing to consistently lose in football in order to provide the conference “kingpin schools” the image of football dominance. In exchange they are given money, an occasional impression of a chance of winning football only to come up just shy of it, and/or success in non-football sports. Examples are too obvious and not necessary to provide.
So, regarding B1G, are former PAC kingpin schools willing to become fodder schools? Do current B1G kingpins want to relinquish their status? Regarding SEC, Texas and Oklahoma fodder? Alabama and Georgia relinquish?
Hmmm. I don’t think so. I see train wrecks coming.
Greedy people hurt other greedy people. Needy people help other needy people.

 

[Patrick79]

They were. That’s why I said Yormark is a snake. He completely lied straight to our administration’s face. We did nothing wrong, but he embarrassed us in front of everyone. He needed a sacrificial lamb and UConn was perfect for the job

Stop peddling this nonsense and take off the tin hat. Yormark wanted UConn and likely still does, if anything, he made us look good by signaling to to the college athletics world that there is value in our brand.

 

[How Sway?!]

Yeah, the PAC was anticipating a small uptick on their next contract. Look how that ended.

The PAC had lost their two biggest properties. Additionally they went to market during a bear stock market, so media companies were not looking to drop big money on dying conference.

 

[BigFanCT]

So we just have the dumbest athletic department in the country, it seems.

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Oh no

Damn it, the packie store around the corner just closed for the night...

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Their tradition in basketball and football happened when I was a little kid or even before that...

... and I'm not a young man...

Had alot of good offenses and Qbs since Ware

 

[CTBballfan243]

I can’t believe ESPN/FOX will be willing to pay for Washington State and Oregon State when Fox already has those markets with B1G properties

 

[Rufus]

 

[Skies2018]

Honestly this entire section of the BY should be shut down. We’ve talked ourselves into a wild scenario that’s clearly never going to happen. I give our football team 3-5 more years before they kill it.

Lol you all roasted me when I posted this last week. I’d laugh if our entire athletics department wasn’t just nailed into a coffin.

Been a pleasure boys.

 

[djct1999]

I'd rather be in the ACC as a basketball-only. 5-6 game football arrangement. 20 million per year. 1st team to leave we replace. Bowl tie-in.

Ok

 

[aburks41]

Stop peddling this nonsense and take off the tin hat. Yormark wanted UConn and likely still does, if anything, he made us look good by signaling to to the college athletics world that there is value in our brand.

It’s not nonsense. Like I said earlier, I spoke with someone who knew what happened. And it wasn’t some random bogus “insider” or fake donor. This is UConn’s side of the story

 

[coachcap]

Robert Craft did the same thing to the entire state of Connecticut with his talk of moving the Pats to Hartford. It was leverage to get Massachusetts to pony-up more money for Gillette Stadium.

Kraft's subterfuge also cost UConn. The original plans for "UConn Stadium" were for a 50,000 seat domed facility at Adrien's Landing. When Kraft came in with his Barnum act, he got the State to change the blueprints to a 64,000 seat outdoor facility. The proposed original domed building was to host UConn football, & Men's & Women's basketball games. When Kraft left to go back to Foxboro, the State downsized to the RENT & only after Pratt & Whitney donated the land.