Have you followed realignment in the past year? The B12 and ACC are dead for Football, this is our best chance yet
If you take out games against FSU and Clemson for the ACC and Texas and Oklahoma for the Big 12, the Big 12 football ratings are somewhat higher than for the ACC.
AD Dave has been more than vocal on the FB only conferences. There's a tv deal to be had, especially considering there could be ET and West Coast windows. With the G5 automatic qualifier now at play, a fb conference would at worst have the third best odds of making it to the playoff.
Clemson must've carried hard or the ACC doesn't care about Football as much as you all think
You have to be careful when analyzing TV data as there are many puts and takes. For example, if a team plays on the ACC Network, the games are not rated so they are not used in the averages shown on the chart. So, if you played 3 games on an ESPN network and 9 on the ACCN, your average viewers in the chart are going to be much higher because they are based on 3 games on one of the most widely distributed networks. And, what about the network? If you play on FS1, your ratings are going to be lower than if you are on FOX. And time slots? They matter as well.
The ACCN broadcast 40 games per season and there are 90 total games among 15 teams. that's about 44% of games, meaning each team will feature in about 5 games on the network. But usually, the big matchups are on ESPN
Kansas a top football program?? Since when?
That's another good point. Kansas was right on UConn FB level, maybe even worse on average for longer. Why is it ok for them to use basketball to justify their inclusion but everyone here just loses their shit when we do the same?
Kansas was ranked 23rd in FBS by the AP last season. Much better than UConn.
They don't have to use basketball to justify their inclusion. Kansas and other bad football schools have been grandfathered in their conferences. They aren't going to be thrown out. Lucky for them. Unfortunately, our conference was destroyed by the ACC and ESPN.
They don't use basketball to justify their inclusion.. they've been a member of the Big XII and it's predecessor conference since 1907 (they are actually a charter member of the conference)
I think he meant the 15 years Kansas was awful until this past season
There is a good. Case to be made that the NCAA has already ceased to be the governing body. It however will continue to count its revenues until the next shoe drops.
How has Houston, Cincinnati, James Madison, Tulane, UTSA, etc etc etc competed in football without being in a big conference? Don’t just give me “well geography!” - they are paying coaches at the top top end of the G5 and have made an administrative commitment to being good in football. Tulane was a dead program until Dannen and Fritz arrived and massively upped the commitment to the program, including building a brand new OCS and significantly increasing the amount of funds allocated to the program for everything from the on-field staff, behind the scenes resources, recruiting budget, and everything in between.
Drew raises some very important points. UConn's Board of Trustees has to realize that a competitive football program will help improve the university on several fronts. Almost all of the nation's leading public research universities have FBS football programs and many of them are very competitive on the field.
So 1 yr makes them a top program? So does that mean JMU is gonna jump Uconn in realignment?
When UConn gets into the top 25 I will call them a top program too. Kansas gives UConn a model which we can emulate.
JMU has a real chance to get pulled up again to the next level in the next 20 years.
Good thing we are talking about realignment in the present and not 20 years from now
Let me help you understand better.
Burton contributed $2.5 million to the practice facility that cost $50 million so the vast majority of the investment came from the state. The state payed for Rentschler Field at a cost of ~$90 million. And, the state has been subsidizing the athletic program to the tune of $20 million +/- per year. So, the state has made the investment into UConn football, but the athletic department has not invested wisely. The toughest question is should the AD shift some spending from non-revenue sports to football? Or, should we raise a much larger amount for the AD? I have never felt that the Athletic Department has done a good job of explaining the needs of the football program. Until Mora went on his rant last season about NIL, I never felt that anybody stood up and spoke for the football program.
