Edsall on his contract was the worst of all worlds. Not cheap compared to much better MAC coaches like Leipold at Buffalo at the time, and those stupid incentives made us a weekly punchline. Its about finding the 3 million dollar year coach before he commands that type of money. We sucked at it.
Idk but here’s a list of our old conference mates who have managed to make it work on the same exact TV payout
Correct - we made 3 bad hires in a row (an old and busted PP, a whacko BD, and a quiet quitter RE2).
Yup, programs with better coaches as compared to our poor ones before Mora came on board and in bigger markets/better recruiting areas. We're going to have to punch above our weight class like we did with RE1 and I think Mora can do that.
California has Cal Berkeley & UCLA which are well known for academics and athletics. The rest of the California system is probably also very well known. NY has Buffalo and Stone Brook which are the flagships but not known for athletics at all.
Don't think he was referring to the ACC where I feel there are more universities that can align with the West coast liberal views. I think he meant more the Big 12 and their current realignment.
Unless it brings us and some other former BE teams in together.
We pay our WOMENS basketball coach comparable to what we pay Mora. You can say what you want about our success with Geno but I promise that’s the type of thing that shows the admins at TCU, Clemson, FSU, etc. that we truly do not care about what matters most to them. Another reason we’re never getting in and need to look at other options til 2036.
You think!
Believe or not, Binghamton is 10x the school Stony Brook is. I would send my kids to Geneseo or Purchase even, Albany too before Stony Brook. SB is excellent for business and finance. But liberal arts, humanities and sciences leave a lot to be desired compared to several other SUNYs.
Please explain how an institution breaching a contract gets officers of the institution jail time. I’ll have to immediately advise all my clients.
No. You have the terms of the contract and then the much more limited implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, which is nowhere near implicated by expansion.
Agreed - the ACC was able euchre a deal with these desperate schools so the additional money will soften the blow to existing, underperforming members who have agreed to an unequal distribution in favor of the better performers. The ACC still has serious systemic problems. This deal buys them time, but ultimately the SEC and BIG wannabes will leave.
Yep, this new ACC configuration is fundamentally a short-term arrangement pending the next wave of realignment. It might be the case that when things shake loose again, whatever is left of the ACC (if that's still a thing) is actually more stable and a much better fit geographically for UConn than the Big 12, with the top-tier football schools and the Pacific contingent having departed. It's hard to project because of the way revenue models are evolving, as consolidation might mean three 24-team conferences or some such arrangement. It also might involve streaming contracts with new groups of contractually-affiliated schools. The current alignment does favor the Big 12, though, in terms of a stable lineup of universities, and it's probably more likely to stay intact and add a few members rather than being picked clean.
ESPN pulled all of the strings to make this happen IMO.
I'm no expert on the SUNY system but Stony Brook shares the designation of flagship and is AAU. Much better bang for the buck than South Canada SU. I guess my original point about SUNY is that the northeast schools were designed to be regional. If the 4 main SUNY schools were 1, it would have a $1 billion plus endowment with 95k students. Just Buffalo and Stony Brook combined would be greater than $1 billion and 60k students. That's B1G.
news.stonybrook.edu
UConn going from nowhere in 1AA to a Bowl eligible conference was treated by Storrs. as found money .
