There are going to be a lot of today's so-called power schools on the outside looking in like us after the next realignment. Who would have thought a month ago that schools like Stanford or Cal would suddenly find themselves a part of that growing club?
Our nightmare is Mora leaves, and the plan is to catch lightning in a bottle on the cheap. Every G5 that got called up was paying competitive P5 type salary for their FB staff. The longer you are on the outside looking in, the more expensive that will become. At this point, it's whatever. Brining in Edsall under the terms they did will likely be the most expensive thing this school ever did as far as athletics.
Keeping Mora will require a very special donor.
I like Mora and I hope he stays, but I think the biggest positive change for the football team is the change in the administration. There are more resources for football and there is greater use of the transfer portal to bring in talent.
They're probably setting it up so that Wazzu and OR State can have a home and then they'll move to the Big Ten not long afterwards.
Nah. All the folks who fell for it this time will believe that is a smoke screen and that we really are in consideration for conference X Y or Z.
Plenty of money available - The state can pay former presidents and current president
What were they paying those guys when hired them and at the time they left? More importantly, what were their coordinators making? You're right in that UConn was developing the stigma of being a career ender after Diaco. But (and we know the reasons why as UConn fans) bringing in Randy with a contract laden with joke worthy incentives was a poor move for optics. Bonuses for leading at half time or scoring 1st? There is a line between being creative and making yourself a target for ridicule. The big sin there was letting him stay on when the team showed record levels of futility. That is where the narrative of giving up on football has legs, not the move to independence.
Cut us a check Susie!
Going to bowls is the only thing that will change the narrative. People underestimate just how terrible they had allowed this program to become. Hopefully they could compete for a NY6 bowl with their performance.
Except UConn isn’t a small market. I got no idea how they end up as first loser every time .
I wouldn't worry about any of this stuff, it's still in it's infancy. There's going to be a ton more upheaval eventually, lawsuits, the gov't will probably get involved, streaming vs. linear...
You'd think we'd get this, since we've all complained about what is bad about CR. The Big XII always wanted Colorado back and always wanted the Arizona schools. I'm not sure they envisioned Utah until they added BYU. The reality is that aside from UCF, Cinci and WVU, it's quite a rational, regional, mostly contiguous conference. Just like we all believe should exist. So yeah, for that conference, those were the schools they wanted. Pacific Northwest schools wouldn't make any sense, nor the already departed LA schools.
