Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
Unless paying a few teams more can be funded by paying the rest of the teams nothing.
But we feel the same way about you guys.
not too confident in this but BUT if we get shafted by oregon state and washington state, that's truly the most depressing thing ever
Report: Big 12 formally votes to invite Arizona State, Utah
The Big 12 is expanding once again, as conference presidents voted on Friday night to formally invite Arizona State and Utah to theUtah is the two-time defending Pac-12247sports.com
The Big 12 presidents also voted on Friday night to pre-approve expansion efforts to a 17th and 18th team by December 31, 2023.
This should be tacked onto the top of this entire thread. It would reduce the thread by half if people understood this and proceeded accordingly.
There is probably maybe 1 or 2 BE teams that would not find a home. Seton Hall and Butler. The rest will end up somewhere.
If not in the Big 12 then pretty much relegated
I don't like to base my moves on a lot of "ifs". To get really good at basketball, all the Big10 schools have to do is put more focus on it and focus pretty much boils down to hiring great coaches. I think basketball-only strategy and hopes are a waste of time to think about until it isn't.
That’s not true at all. Why would any large conference add basketball only Big East schools and slice the pie more? Won’t happen.
Yeah but at the level of current BE payouts, absurd money is not that high of a bar. Would a 65%-75% increase in annual revenues be an absurd increase to these schools?
Think about it. If they go that route then there'll be nothing less interesting that a UCF / Oregon State football game at 10pm on a Thursday. Right now that UCF / Kansas State football game does abosolutely nothing for me. Frankly, I'd rather watch the Browns vs Jacksonville before any Big 12 matchup. As for Yormark why bring any basketball to New York when your closest team is about 400 miles away.
Going indy wasn't thinking outside the box?
Why are you telling me?
It might never go away, but it will be so undervalued that it too will be threatened. Clearly our BB prominence now (which arguably has never been higher) is not enough to power the AD into the big boys club.
What do you even say to this? If people choose not to pay attention, they choose not to pay attention. UConn isn't a small Catholic university like Gonzaga, it's the state university for a US state known as "Connecticut." Look it up if you don't believe me. This university has been playing FBS football for 20 years (and football in general since the olden days), had top-25-ranked teams before the Big East football breakup, and played in the Fiesta Bowl 12 years ago, and yet some fans didn't realize we even had a program? "Just win" must mean "just make it to the FBS championship game as an independent with a patchwork schedule." Not too much to ask. Everyone else had to do it, right?
West coast bias
No brainer, ACC. B12 for BB only adds all the hassle with none of the benefit. Solves nothing. This entire exercise is finding a home for FB.
I would think 17 and 18 would be Stanford and Cal. What's interesting is that the Big 12 has gone from 1 AAU school (Kansas) to 5 as the 4 corner schools are all AAU which would improve the Big 12 academic reputation and make the conference more acceptable to Stanford and Cal.Report: Big 12 formally votes to invite Arizona State, Utah
The Big 12 is expanding once again, as conference presidents voted on Friday night to formally invite Arizona State and Utah to theUtah is the two-time defending Pac-12
The Big 12 presidents also voted on Friday night to pre-approve expansion efforts to a 17th and 18th team by December 31, 2023.
Sorry
I don't think I'm following you/maybe you misconstrued my thinking... to answer your reply, I do believe having B12 games on our FB sked would be a very nice step up. I'm all for betting on Mora to get FB more respected and therefore better positioned for all sports PX status.
ACC full member no question. More money, conference in our footprint. We get a chance to show our football team belongs in a power conference. I also don’t think the ACC with lose as many schools as others think. With the latest round of realignment there aren’t as many seats available at the other three tables. The PAC schools took them.
Yep but to be clear, it’s finding 10s of millions of dollars to subsidize the athletic program through the football product.
Meant to say Big East not ACC.
I doubt it. As can be seen with our most recent conference realignment debacle, conferences don't particularly value basketball. Yormark would appear to be the exception, but even with all the political capital he had, he couldn't convince him his presidents are that we had more value to the conference over four teams who's basketball resumes, combined, don't even approach ours.
I don’t think so. If the TV market has shown there’s not much appetite for western schools and late night games then it’s clear that further expansion would be east. All the best of the west are already off the board. Yormark doesn’t want to become the PAC 2.0 in 7 years.