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

[CL82]

Notre Dame gets a 20% share or 8million or 2x what UConn gets in the BE

That would mean the difference between staying or going would be an additional $4 million. Better, still not great. For what it's worth, isn't the next biggest contract estimated to be worth about 8 million per school?

 

[JohnFSilver]

Big East is not getting left behind. Yormark thought basketball was a good opportunity for growth, but the Big 12 has diluted basketball by adding UCF, BYU, Arizona St., Utah, and Colorado. So, adding Gonzaga can offset some of that. That said, does anybody think Gonzaga will be Gonzaga in the Big 12? Of course not. BTW, the 4 new ads to the Big 12 currently are 1-8 in conference football games.

I think you are being naive e here. This isn’t just about basketball. Big east is a niche sport conference. Like hockey east.

I don’t like the late start to big east tv contract.

Big east is great for men’s basketball, but it doesn’t really rate outside of that sport.

Big 12 is making a concerted effort to own basketball. It is the best hoops conference. They have football money behind them. Big ten,sec own the football end of things and then there is acc.

Those four leagues are consolidating money and power. They are going to expand the tournament as well.

I don’t like where this is going from a hoops standpoint. Football is lost. Smu, Stanford/cal destroyed the notion of UConn ever getting a full share of anything anywhere, ever.

I been around this a long time. UConn going to have to take the life raft and protect it’s basketball and go to the big 12, maybe get a scheduling deal for football, which considering caliber of play of UConn right now is a proper deal for time being. I am assuming if zags are on the table UConn could have a similar offer, but more complicated .

I got no inside info, not even background information guys, just a guess. Not even a donor mentioned in passing to me.

So don’t Read into it. It just feels like wind blowing and I got a feeling.

 

[JohnFSilver]

I disagree. It’s a top 2 basketball league in the country and has won a slew of national titles over the past 25 years. It’s not going anywhere, and with basketball getting more revenue expect Fox to pay more.

I wish you were right. I just do not see it.

Here is thing. If UConn doesn’t jump, would St John’s, would Gtown, will Nova to an acc, big 12 looking to own hoops in a new world order?

Guys. It’s coming.

 

[Exit 4]

I wish you were right. I just do not see it.

Here is thing. If UConn doesn’t jump, would St John’s, would Gtown, will Nova to an acc, big 12 looking to own hoops in a new world order?

Guys. It’s coming.

No inside info- but I happen to think after Zaga signs to the b12 the heat goes right to UConn to bring all but football and hockey to the b12.

If we don’t take it they will then go to SJU, Gtown or perhaps Nova.

Football stays independent for now. I think the only question besides dollars and cents is if football can have a narrow path to the b12 if we ever meet some performance requirements.

Hope to be wrong. Don’t think the smoke starts for us until after Zaga makes a deal.

 

[HuskyHawk]

No inside info- but I happen to think after Zaga signs to the b12 the heat goes right to UConn to bring all but football and hockey to the b12.

If we don’t take it they will then go to SJU, Gtown or perhaps Nova.

Football stays independent for now. I think the only question besides dollars and cents is if football can have a narrow path to the b12 if we ever meet some performance requirements.

Hope to be wrong. Don’t think the smoke starts for us until after Zaga makes a deal.

Well reports are Zaga would get $2. So no, we wouldn't take that deal. Travel is a little worse and more expensive. But $10m + a scheduling arrangement for football (sort of like the ND deal), I think we'd take that.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

What if we were to win five or six football games this season? Would that change our candidacy for the ACC or B12?

 

[Rufus]

What if we were to win five or six football games this season? Would that change our candidacy for the ACC or B12?

Doubtful. Longterm decisions are not made on the whim of the record of a team in one particular season. This is about money. If UConn can make the Big 12 money, UConn will be in the Big 12.

 

[JohnFSilver]

What if we were to win five or six football games this season? Would that change our candidacy for the ACC or B12?

No. Individual seasons don’t matter.

 

[CTBasketball]

I wish you were right. I just do not see it.

Here is thing. If UConn doesn’t jump, would St John’s, would Gtown, will Nova to an acc, big 12 looking to own hoops in a new world order?

Guys. It’s coming.

Look how much money basketball brings in vs. hockey and that will answer your question. Can’t go Big 12 or ACC, we’ll end up like Syracuse.

Our football team is not desirable for any conference, we’re on the best path forward right now until things change dramatically.

 

[John]

Look how much money basketball brings in vs. hockey and that will answer your question. Can’t go Big 12 or ACC, we’ll end up like Syracuse.

Our football team is not desirable for any conference, we’re on the best path forward right now until things change dramatically.

Syracuse had a coaching problem, not a conference problem.

 

[Sole]

The excitement around the big east this year…. I wouldn’t want to be in any other conference… it’s going to be crazy..and the big east tournament should be insane in New York City… 20 thousand mostly uconn fans in msg

 

[upstater]

Big East is not getting left behind. Yormark thought basketball was a good opportunity for growth, but the Big 12 has diluted basketball by adding UCF, BYU, Arizona St., Utah, and Colorado. So, adding Gonzaga can offset some of that. That said, does anybody think Gonzaga will be Gonzaga in the Big 12? Of course not. BTW, the 4 new ads to the Big 12 currently are 1-8 in conference football games.

You can be included and left behind at the same time. This is how they like to rig things. With the NCAA out of the picture, the SEC and B1G are going to do their best to limit participation from smaller conferences and isolate those conferences when it comes to OOC matchups. They will put the screws to us when all that money is available to them.

They've done this in the past with football--they've made sure that their schools get first dibs on playoff berths.

 

[noeynox]

That would mean the difference between staying or going would be an additional $4 million. Better, still not great. For what it's worth, isn't the next biggest contract estimated to be worth about 8 million per school?

I have not seen this # anywhere but on the boneyard.

 

[CL82]

I have not seen this # anywhere but on the boneyard.

Does that make it any less true?

 

[Storrs South]

 

[LoyalFanCT]

We really need to get into the B12 or the ACC very soon or we will be in la la land for a while.

 

[NowInStorrs]

I wish our fan base would stop shooting ourselves in the foot and realize that we need to be in a real conference for all sports.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Cryptic. Really seems there is a very complicated dance that has to go on to even get UConn out of big east.

 

[huskymedic]

Cryptic. Really seems there is a very complicated dance that has to go on to even get UConn out of big east.

Norlander’s whole thread on subject:

 

[JohnFSilver]

Look how much money basketball brings in vs. hockey and that will answer your question. Can’t go Big 12 or ACC, we’ll end up like Syracuse.

Our football team is not desirable for any conference, we’re on the best path forward right now until things change dramatically.

Respectfully, things have changed dramatically.

UConn is a valued hoops brand. Be thankful for that. But make no mistake, Georgetown and Nova would leave the big east for the big 12 if the deal was right.

Like with anything UConn related, it is so much more complicated than any other school out there.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Norlander’s whole thread on subject:

Thanks. Good stuff from Matt.

 

[How Sway?!]

Respectfully, things have changed dramatically.

UConn is a valued hoops brand. Be thankful for that. But make no mistake, Georgetown and Nova would leave the big east for the big 12 if the deal was right.

Like with anything UConn related, it is so much more complicated than any other school out there.

No they wouldn't. They had their taste of B12 with the big east and they decided they'd rather take their ball and go home.

 

[Waquoit]

 

[How Sway?!]

I wish our fan base would stop shooting ourselves in the foot and realize that we need to be in a real conference for all sports.

If the B12 gave us an all sports invite, we would have taken it, but they haven't and they have shown no willingness to do so. Taking a Gonzaga type deal would relegate us to second class citizens in the worst power conference.

 

[uconnyankee]

It is absolutely nuts to me how much people will twist themselves into a pretzel to justify UConn's exclusion, now they're not questioning an "all sports" inclusion of a school that doesn't even have football and brings $0.00 from the sport while UConn's "downside" is their football. At least we have it and can bring money at all from it it's so infuriating at this point

True. But they aren’t paying for it either with Gonzaga.
Your point works if UConn came in for FB and BB for same $’s as Gonzaga with BB only