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

[Husky25]

About a decade ago, the ACC schools were complicit in destroyed a perfectly viable "Power 6" football conference, locked each member institution in for roughly $30 million/year, for 20 years, locked everyone else out for nothing, with no escalator clause, and now they are crying?

Is that about right?

 

[Ha Who]

Next…

Remember the CSNY song. Teach your children well.

 

[Drew]

Btw- I am still firmly in the UConn Big 12 camp.

Obviously have to take the invite if it comes, but screw those people in the ACC. Horrendously run and have been for 30+ years.

 

[Husky25]

Time is right for UConn to get into the ACC

Ever see the movie, The Lateshift, about how Jay Leno succeeded Johnny Carson and David Letterman wound up at CBS?

"They aren't offering you The Johnny Carson Tonight Show. That's gone forever. They're offering you damaged goods. The Jay Leno Show. And they're not even offering it to you now. They're making you wait."

"...It's leftovers. It's shoddy."

 

[Rufus]

UNC and Miami will be the next to file lawsuits.

 

[ZooCougar]

Btw- I am still firmly in the UConn Big 12 camp.

Obviously have to take the invite if it comes, but screw those people in the ACC. Horrendously run and have been for 30+ years.

Gross

 

[ZooCougar]

About a decade ago, the ACC schools were complicit in destroyed a perfectly viable "Power 6" football conference, locked each member institution in for roughly $30 million/year, for 20 years, locked everyone else out for nothing, with no escalator clause, and now they are crying?

Is that about right?

Imagine joining the ACC and all that’s left is BC and Weak Forest.

 

[Bongo Fury]

I wonder if they have a home. SDSU entered the transfer portal too early.

 

[ZooCougar]

This is special. We have to find a way to preserve this.




That won’t happen in Greensboro.

If the ACC falls apart then the Big East needs to strike.

I don’t want to join the new version of the AAC.

The Big 12 will not be picking us.

 

[Rufus]

I wonder if they have a home. SDSU entered the transfer portal too early.

Greg Flugaur has been saying for months that UNC and Clemson are tied at the hip and have been working behind the scenes on an exit strategy. He thinks they are SEC-bound. The only question is if NCSU has to go along for the ride or not.

 

[UConnJim]

Greg Flugaur has been saying for months that UNC and Clemson are tied at the hip and have been working behind the scenes on an exit strategy. He thinks they are SEC-bound. The only question is if NCSU has to go along for the ride or not.

Flugaur also said that the UVa president called VT, Syracuse, Wake Forest, Duke, and BC on December 21st to formulate lawsuit strategy. Sounds crazy, but who knows?

 

[Rufus]

Flugaur also said that the UVa president called VT, Syracuse, Wake Forest, Duke, and BC on December 21st to formulate lawsuit strategy. Sounds crazy, but who knows?

Yes, I heard him recently say this. I haven't had a chance to sit down and listen to all his shows as he has been busy putting them out daily recently. I haven't tuned in enough to know the back story to this, but I did hear him say it.

 

[Eavesdrop]

Yes, I heard him recently say this. I haven't had a chance to sit down and listen to all his shows as he has been busy putting them out daily recently. I haven't tuned in enough to know the back story to this, but I did hear him say it.

The Virginia president actually declared that he had done so in an affidavit that was attached to an amendment filed yesterday in North Carolina.

 

[Drew]

This is special. We have to find a way to preserve this.




That won’t happen in Greensboro.

If the ACC falls apart then the Big East needs to strike.

I don’t want to join the new version of the AAC.

The Big 12 will not be picking us.

UConn will still play basketball games at MSG regardless of the conference they are in.

 

[LoyalFanCT]

Imagine joining the ACC and all that’s left is BC and Weak Forest.

There will be much more than two schools left. UConn needs to move quickly here. Even if a half dozen schools leave, (I think the number will be less given there are only a few landing spots open for defectors) UConn's basketball dominance will help the ACC have a basketball renaissance. My bigger concern are some of these misguided UConn fans who don't care what the so-called Big East pays its members and who don't want to leave.

 

[uconnyankee]

Ehhh. Maybe not while it’s being sued and we don’t even know what we would be joining.

Agree. Thinking it may make sense to let dust settle before making any decisions.

 

[John]

This is special. We have to find a way to preserve this.




That won’t happen in Greensboro.

If the ACC falls apart then the Big East needs to strike.

I don’t want to join the new version of the AAC.

The Big 12 will not be picking us.

Yes, it's a special thing, but you do not hold an entire athletic department hostage for three days in New York City.

 

[Fishy]

About a decade ago, the ACC schools were complicit in destroyed a perfectly viable "Power 6" football conference, locked each member institution in for roughly $30 million/year, for 20 years, locked everyone else out for nothing, with no escalator clause, and now they are crying?

Is that about right?

In a nutshell, yes lol

 

[Fishy]

This is special. We have to find a way to preserve this.




That won’t happen in Greensboro.

If the ACC falls apart then the Big East needs to strike.

I don’t want to join the new version of the AAC.

The Big 12 will not be picking us.

Strike what? With what?

I don’t see the appeal. Come here, throw your football program into the void, make 1/15th the money you use to make and in exchange, we will give you 500 tickets to a tournament at MSG every March.

Don’t see that getting it done.

 

[John]

Strike what? With what?

I don’t see the appeal. Come here, throw your football program into the void, make 1/15th the money you use to make and in exchange, we will give you 500 tickets to a tournament at MSG every March.

Don’t see that getting it done.

you close the deal with an annual Seton Hall home-and-home and access to the always-important Chicago market.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Drew]

Strike what? With what?

I don’t see the appeal. Come here, throw your football program into the void, make 1/15th the money you use to make and in exchange, we will give you 500 tickets to a tournament at MSG every March.

Don’t see that getting it done.

Astonishing how many people have no idea how this whole process works given what has happened to us the last 12 years. Nobody is leaving the existing P4 for the Big East. And we will leave as soon as we can.

UConn fans are the only ones trying to find a place for all of the BE teams in the future state power structure. Everyone else in college athletics has moved on.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Eavesdrop]

My guess is UConn's hopes of joining the Big 12 probably depend upon on the league not being able to eventually convince some combination of Georgia Tech, NC State, VPI&SU, Pitt and/or Louisville to join.

Regardless, I tend to believe something like the below watered down/reconfigured ACC would probably prove more lucrative for UConn athletics than the status quo.

-UConn, Duke, Wake Forest, Syracuse, Boston College, USF, Tulane, SMU, Stanford, Cal, Oregon State and Washington State.

 

[ScottVib]

It is still my belief that in the future the new top level of the NCAA or whatever successor organization develops will set up as a level that you can "opt" into by meeting all requirements. One of which will be fully funding a football program + X number of other sports to the full cost of attendance level, plus some other funding requirements that will price it out of reach for the programs that they deem undesirable and probably even most schools not in power conferences already. If Liberty wants to pay and ungodly amount of money to play at that level, great for them, I mean they may not have a conference and may find it challenging to setup a schedule. They won't invite or exclude anyone, but they will simply set the bar too high for most to reach.

 

[ZooCougar]

Strike what? With what?

I don’t see the appeal. Come here, throw your football program into the void, make 1/15th the money you use to make and in exchange, we will give you 500 tickets to a tournament at MSG every March.

Don’t see that getting it done.

What other choice will they have when Clemson, UNC, FSU and a few others are gone?

Nothing. They will be the AAC.

 

[ZooCougar]

There will be much more than two schools left. UConn needs to move quickly here. Even if a half dozen schools leave, (I think the number will be less given there are only a few landing spots open for defectors) UConn's basketball dominance will help the ACC have a basketball renaissance. My bigger concern are some of these misguided UConn fans who don't care what the so-called Big East pays its members and who don't want to leave.

Ok. Which ones?

 

[Fishy]

Astonishing how many people have no idea how this whole process works given what has happened to us the last 12 years. Nobody is leaving the existing P4 for the Big East. And we will leave as soon as we can.

UConn fans are the only ones trying to find a place for all of the BE teams in the future state power structure. Everyone else in college athletics has moved on.

It was never going to happen before, but now….do people really think anyone is going to voluntarily step out of the CFP revenue arrangement forever just to play basketball?

We’re in what is essentially a no-revenue conference and we’re getting 350K out of the CFP basically forever or until they decide to cut us off completely. Even if we get into a conference, we’re never getting a full share of anything.

No one wants to be us.

 

[Fishy]

My guess is UConn's hopes of joining the Big 12 probably depend upon on the league not being able to eventually convince some combination of Georgia Tech, NC State, VPI&SU, Pitt and/or Louisville to join.

Regardless, I tend to believe something like the below watered down/reconfigured ACC would probably prove more lucrative for UConn athletics than the status quo.

-UConn, Duke, Wake Forest, Syracuse, Boston College, USF, Tulane, SMU, Stanford, Cal, Oregon State and Washington State.

Syracuse will have no issue getting into the B12 if it comes to that.

The remainder of that conference is not worth joining.

 

[ZooCougar]

Astonishing how many people have no idea how this whole process works given what has happened to us the last 12 years. Nobody is leaving the existing P4 for the Big East. And we will leave as soon as we can.

UConn fans are the only ones trying to find a place for all of the BE teams in the future state power structure. Everyone else in college athletics has moved on.

I don’t know what your point is. The Big 12 isn’t happening.

Oh and I know how it works. And it’s not like there are any people here like you on Twitter the other day telling everyone that we would be better off by still being in the AAC because the Big East is a “3 bid league”.

The reality is that the Big 12 is never ever ever ever coming for UConn.

They will take what they can from the ACC and what is left isn’t worth joining.

Therefore we are stuck. So we better look for some way to better our situation.