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

[Waquoit]

Um, this may be even more shocking, but so does everyone else. And the taxes we pay make up for the subsidy their company gets. Our companies for the most part do not get these tax breaks, so their employees are not paying for us

How much money are we talking about here? Do you know specifics? I get the feeling everyone talking about ESPN tax breaks know less about the reality then they do Rent concert curfews.

 

[Urcea]

Looks like we’re officially locked out of expansion until 2036 . Congrats to the ACC and BigXII for effectively killing our football team.

There's an outside chance it helps us long term, not to be the annoying optimist guy. If Clemson/FSU/whomever bolt before or during 2036, and there's no better seats available for CalFord, you can pretty much bet those schools in particular will not vote to add Boise St or whomever. Hopefully you could put them in the column with some other schools for a UConn+USF add

Or, more ideally, the ACC blows up altogether and something resembling the OBE Football division is rebuilt at that time. I will also be driving one of my eighteen Ferraris

 

[WestCoastHusky]

There's an outside chance it helps us long term, not to be the annoying optimist guy. If Clemson/FSU/whomever bolt before or during 2036, and there's no better seats available for CalFord, you can pretty much bet those schools in particular will not vote to add Boise St or whomever. Hopefully you could put them in the column with some other schools for a UConn+USF add

Or, more ideally, the ACC blows up altogether and something resembling the OBE Football division is rebuilt at that time. I will also be driving one of my eighteen Ferraris

While this might very well play out, but the thought of putting our future in the ACC that has screwed us multiple times isn't the best feeling.

We just need to get into the club somehow. Once there, there should be better options. I am not sure why UConn isn't in the discussion to get into the ACC or the B12 by proposing something like what Calford is doing.

 

[CoastAtlantic]

 

[WestCoastHusky]

If Calford leave, I think the best option for OSU and WSU is to rebuild the PAC-12. UConn should explore football only in this conference if the number works out.

Mailbag: All about Washington State and Oregon State, from the Pac-2 and a reverse merger with the MW to the bylaws and “war chest”

Washington State and Oregon State might determine their best option is to orchestrate a reverse merger with the 12 Mountain West schools.

www.mercurynews.com

 

[Urcea]

While this might very well play out, but the thought of putting our future in the ACC that has screwed us multiple times isn't the best feeling.

We just need to get into the club somehow. Once there, there should be better options. I am not sure why UConn isn't in the discussion to get into the ACC or the B12 by proposing something like what Calford is doing.

I tend to agree with what you stated above - UConn should join the frankenstein "best of the rest" conference (PAC-12) football only. I don't think it'll be viewed as "in the club", but it will probably enhance its general reputation

 

[huskymedic]

All the machinations going on to rationalize the craziness…

 

[upstater]

From reading the last several pages, it's clear that people are underestimating the amount of financial distress at UConn.

 

[Ha Who]

ESPN has jobs, which is not an unlimited magical resource. ESPN employs 4,000 people in Connecticut, and the state basically pays them to do it by tax breaks. ESPN employees pay income, sales, property tax.

Better still, they patronize the tailors, bakers, lawyers, realtors, etc., and accordingly benefit all of those workers and companies by their continued employment. Those folks might not get tax breaks, but are benefits of a rising economic tide

The state should absolutely leverage ESPN to help bring about realignment. But please, let’s introduce some critical thinking here

Let alone the image having lost GE Pfizer Lego….

 

[buddy]

ESPN could force them to take UConn with the other three. But they won't.

 

[Sea Goat]

Wake Forest @ Cal
SMU @ Syracuse
Boston College @ Stanford


SIGN ME UP!

Or not.

See attached - this seems to make much more sense - many old conference mates and far better logistics.

https://www.si.com/college/stanford/football/stanford-and-cal-reportedly-exploring-the-possibility-of-joining-the-big-12

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Drew]

 

[huskymedic]

 

[JeepCSC]

David Teel is like the house reporter for the ACC office.

 

[Forte]

One thing is clear ... all remaining power conferences only view value out West. Any East expansion is non existent.

 

[JeepCSC]

Well the Eastern conference was picked apart last decade. The Western one just now. UConn, Washington State, Oregon State, and South Florida were the big losers from there.

 

[noeynox]

Well the Eastern conference was picked apart last decade. The Western one just now. UConn, Washington State, Oregon State, and South Florida were the big losers from there.

It's not over for Oregon State and Washington State.

 

[ZooCougar]

Remember those people posting here that we should decline the Big 12 because we would be in the ACC for sure.

 

[noeynox]

Remember those people posting here that we should decline the Big 12 because we would be in the ACC for sure.

More than ever i want to see the P4 break off.

 

[Patman]

Remember those people posting here that we should decline the Big 12 because we would be in the ACC for sure.

The ACC has always looked at UConn as dogshit in a market they feel they don't have to fight for because they already own it

 

[huskymedic]

 

[nadav]

Now that SMU has introduce the take your pants off and bend over method. That’s what will be expected of us in any future talks.

 

[ZooCougar]

I guess we better learn to love playing Our Sisters of Christ’s Eternal Agony in the Big East.

 

[hank970]

Looks like we’re officially locked out of expansion until 2036 . Congrats to the ACC and BigXII for effectively killing our football team.

Neither the ACC nor the B12 had any effect on UConn's football prospects. UConn damaged (killed is too strong a word) its football program when it left the AAC for the new Big East and opted for football independence. It was a self-inflicted wound made more septic by hiring some poor coaches. Things won't get any better for UConn after 2036 if it doesn't accept responsibility for its own poor decisions and fails to do something to remedy them. Blaming others isn't helpful.