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

DarthGrumpy said:
The Mansfield mafia would make sure that never happens and I am not sure I want to see Rte 195 and US 44 with 40K fans coming into and going out of campus on game day.
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5 or 6 times a year? That terrible?
 
zls44 said:
If true, btw, that confirms what BY and the B12 really think about UConn football. And so many of you wanted to just bend over to join that frankenleague that doesn't even respect UConn. Embarassing.
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Truthfully, many of us wanted to join the frankenleague just to get the P5 badge and the money. Nothing else.
If both money and P5 end up coming via ACC, the end result is much much better.
 
zls44 said:
If true, btw, that confirms what BY and the B12 really think about UConn football. And so many of you wanted to just bend over to join that frankenleague that doesn't even respect UConn. Embarassing.
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Embarrassing will be the next BE tv deal, but go on and lorde over DePaul fans for a few more years, you've earned it.
 
shizzle787 said:
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.
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So the ACC is going to pay $20MM a year just for UConn basketball? Talk about dreaming...
 
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shizzle787 said:
FSU will not be joining the Big 12.
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If Florida St. knows it will not get an SEC invite, they may bite if the money is in the ballpark as they could see XII as an easier way to get to the football playoffs than fighting through Georgia/Alabama/Texas/Oklahoma or USC/Ohio St/Michigan every year.
 
aburks41 said:
Good grief. How are these imbeciles in charge of running billion dollar conferences???
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ESPN doesnt want to open up the ACC tv contract. That’s why they orchestrated the dispersal of the Pac12 teams to where they wanted them to go.
 
NH Husky said:
Truthfully, many of us wanted to join the frankenleague just to get the P5 badge and the money. Nothing else.
If both money and P5 end up coming via ACC, the end result is much much better.
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ACC is 100000% better than that pile of garbage
 
DarthGrumpy said:
If Florida St. knows it will not get an SEC invite, they may bite if the money is in the ballpark as they could see XII as an easier way to get to the football playoffs than fighting through Georgia/Alabama/Texas/Oklahoma or USC/Ohio St/Michigan every year.
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When the playoff goes to 12 teams in a few years, 5 spots will go to the Big 10, 5 to the SEC, 1 to the Big 12, and 1 to Notre Dame. Lol
 
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JMick said:
What's worse? He was interested and we couldn't close, or we got played again?
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My guess is that ESPN steered them away from UConn. Connecticut needs to give ESPN more tax breaks
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Don't know how to break it to you (or @shizzle787 ) but next round of BE media negotiations could be very disappointing. They have little reason to offer an increase over the current deal.
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Especially since they're going to be paying top dollar for 2 schools in Utah and Arizona. Way to expand your reach.
 
upstater said:
I say talk to Yormark and get the networks on board. How much are they offering? Get very close to making the deal. Then renege, walk away, and you know how the networks value your basketball.
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Except then we get a bunch of tweets and articles about how UConn going basketball only to the B12 is a real possibility and that's not a good look.
 
Bongo Fury said:
Don’t think they need bait for the PAC schools. They are pretty desperate right now. Sadly they’ll get voted in before UConn.
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Oregon State I would understand. They've had some decent football and they will have a very good team this season. Their baseball is also extremely good. But Wazzou??? Outside of a few years with Mike Leach they have been completely irrelevant in every sport. They're also in the middle of nowhere over there in eastern Washington. I would probably give up on college athletics if they got the invite over us.
 
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ec33 said:
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.
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Oh, then why did the NFL send Connecticut a $2.4 million to avoid a potential lawsuit for breach of contract?

From the NY Times, March 3, 2000

Ten months after the New England Patriots backed out of a $375 million deal that would have made Hartford a star in the National Football League's constellation of football cities, Connecticut finally got some payback today.​
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Exactly $2,399,060.66.​
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That is the amount the league wired to Connecticut this afternoon to settle an embarrassing episode for the state and Gov. John G. Rowland, the foremost champion of the deal that evaporated almost overnight last April. It called for the state to finance a new stadium for the Patriots in exchange for a 30-year lease.​
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UConnKev said:
LOL ACC

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Theme of the ACC President's meeting...

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UConnTrumbull said:
And some say we’ve been over dramatic…
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There are folks on here who see that and will think “yes, obviously, that’s why we needed to join the Big 12”.

To that I say: I have no interest in playing TCU and Kansas State just to be able to play in the Big College Championship Presented by FanDuel against South Carolina in Monterrey in 2036. I’m good. I’m gonna enjoy what we’ve got and hope maybe we get an ACC spot with folks we know and hate until then, thanks.
 
aburks41 said:
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
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I just don’t buy any of this, man. Not sure who your sources are, but I don’t buy that Yormark specifically is “playing” us. Why on earth did the Big 12 need UConn to leverage PAC 12 schools into joining the conference? UConn had nothing to do with the PAC 12 media rights deal and Apple debacle.

We’re not important enough to have that kind of impact on those schools, lol. I fully believe Yormark is highly interested in adding us to the conference, but the PAC 12 shenanigans is priority right now, and he’s had a hard time convincing the conference presidents to make us a priority.
 
zls44 said:
There are folks on here who see that and will think “yes, obviously, that’s why we needed to join the Big 12”.

To that I say: I have no interest in playing TCU and Kansas State just to be able to play in the Big College Championship Presented by FanDuel against South Carolina in Monterrey in 2036. I’m good. I’m gonna enjoy what we’ve got and hope maybe we get an ACC spot with folks we know and hate until then, thanks.
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So it’s cool to play in the Big College Fanduel tournament if we’re in the ACC but not the XII? I’m confused.
 
zls44 said:
There are folks on here who see that and will think “yes, obviously, that’s why we needed to join the Big 12”.

To that I say: I have no interest in playing TCU and Kansas State just to be able to play in the Big College Championship Presented by FanDuel against South Carolina in Monterrey in 2036. I’m good. I’m gonna enjoy what we’ve got and hope maybe we get an ACC spot with folks we know and hate until then, thanks.
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This is how we all should be thinking now. At least the tweet acknowledged 6 power conference so essentially we already are “in”.
 
Bongo Fury said:
It would be cool but no one outside of UConn fans would really care
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I guess, but isn't us caring enough?

(in any event I wouldn't have to read columns about how Connecticut wasn't committed to football because they play 25 miles off campus)
 
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