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

huskymedic said:


-> UConn athletic director David Benedict recently traveled to Dallas to pitch the Big East school to Big 12 administrators. Conference ADs and presidents were scheduled to hear from the league’s media consultants Monday and further discuss Yormark’s latest vision.

To add a new member, 12 of the 16 Big 12 schools would need to be in favor. According to several people familiar with the situation who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the discussions are private, Yormark still has convincing to do among his members that adding UConn is a sound move and the Big 12 needs to act fast.<-
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Don’t click on that.
 
jostar1 said:
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It's just an opinion obviously but not based on intel.

One quibble in an otherwise decent podcast. UConn did not get kicked out of the BE. The Catholic schools voted amongst themselves to leave the conference with the only dissenting vote being Georgetown. UConn, Cincinnati and South Florida were the remaining BE teams. They sold the name of the BE to the Catholic schools.
 
huskymedic said:


-> UConn athletic director David Benedict recently traveled to Dallas to pitch the Big East school to Big 12 administrators. Conference ADs and presidents were scheduled to hear from the league’s media consultants Monday and further discuss Yormark’s latest vision.

To add a new member, 12 of the 16 Big 12 schools would need to be in favor. According to several people familiar with the situation who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the discussions are private, Yormark still has convincing to do among his members that adding UConn is a sound move and the Big 12 needs to act fast.<-
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Well the new information is that media consultants are going to make a presentation to the Big 12 AD's and Presidents. I think this is a good thing. As someone else posted a few days ago, it seems like something has changed with ESPN. That they want UConn in their inventory. There is also the growth in popularity of women's basketball. Also the market size, which would be the largest in the Big 12.
 
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Anytime realignment happens with other schools, many with far less pedigree than UConn, the vote is reported as simply being a formality. Realignment comes up with us and every time it seems as though we have to jump through 15 hoops and institute world peace to get the votes.
 
Sloth55 said:
Anytime realignment happens with other schools, many with far less pedigree than UConn, the vote is reported as simply being a formality. Realignment comes up with us and every time it seems as though we have to jump through 15 hoops and institute world peace to get the votes.
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I agree. And if we don't get invited this time, I hope we 3peat and shove it up their ass.
 
JMick said:
Yikes. So it leaked again from our side and again we probably don't have the votes? Why do we keep leaking this. Its really bad optics to keep getting rejected.
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Blame Zanetto if this goes south
 
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Rondogg said:
LOL, my thoughts exactly, we are Charlie Brown about to kick the ball, again.

I've grown numb to it. I blame Randy Edsall.
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Rehiring Edsall was one of the worst mistakes. I know he was one of the few affordable coaches because UConn was in a budget pinch, but it was a bad move to hire him. I am not Nostradamus, but I still remember the day having to click into the hyperlink "UConn hires next coach" to only find out it was the retread hire of Randy Edsall. I was demoralized as I knew that was going to fail and it certainly did, even more than I thought it would.
 
All this speculation is just nuts. I can't wait until it is over, and we are in.

If only our football program is decent, all of these bashing Uconn football would be moot. While many of us know football will be back on top, it is hard to convince a bunch of ignorant folks that continue to bash UConn with false info. We will never be a program like Vandy, and there is no way in hell we will be a basement dweller in any conference for football.
 
jostar1 said:
Well the new information is that media consultants are going to make a presentation to the Big 12 AD's and Presidents. I think this is a good thing. As someone else posted a few days ago, it seems like something has changed with ESPN. That they want UConn in their inventory. There is also the growth in popularity of women's basketball. Also the market size, which would be the largest in the Big 12.
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I think the drive is indeed coming from espn. They are helping us get on power conf super yacht before it gets too far away.
 
gsmooth said:
Rehiring Edsall was one of the worst mistakes. I know he was one of the few affordable coaches because UConn was in a budget pinch, but it was a bad move to hire him. I am not Nostradamus, but I still remember the day having to click into the hyperlink "UConn hires next coach" to only find out it was the retread hire of Randy Edsall. I was demoralized as I knew that was going to fail and it certainly did, even more than I thought it would.
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Yep felt the same. It was one of the worst move ever. Hiring coach P was horrible too. We made some huge mistakes hiring these 2.
 
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Rondogg said:
LOL, my thoughts exactly, we are Charlie Brown about to kick the ball, again.

I've grown numb to it.
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Same. Part of it is that, though I believe it is absolutely a necessary next step for us, I'm not that thrilled about leaving the big east and joining the big 12. And, of course, part of it is also a "yeah, I've been here before. I'll believe it when I see it" attitude.
 
WestCoastHusky said:
Yep felt the same. It was one of the worst move ever. Hiring coach P was horrible too. We made some huge mistakes hiring these 2.
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Don't forget the clinically insane Bob Diaco. The irony is that I can see the logic behind everyone of these hires. They all went catastrophically wrong, though..
 
ZooCougar said:
This is a big news week. Can we clearly the net and only post key tweets?

Pretty please with a cherry on top?

We have 25 other discussion threads.
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It's like you don't know us at all anymore.

(Sorry, it's pretty much a reflex at this point.)
 
is this key now?



"Should the Big12 add UConn? Whether or not they should or shouldn't they are going to and I'm going to tell you why"

WOW listen to his tune change filled with facts....

FINALLY. Colorado has had 2 winning seasons in football in 15 years ...
Kansas was what UConn is now 10 years ago...
UConn is better than Colorado in sports overall...
The only reason Colorado made more money is because they had the PAC12 media deal.

How did it take this long ... he must have finally done his homework... the question is why NOW defend UConn :)
 
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Forte said:
is this key now?



"Should the Big12 add UConn? Whether or not they should or shouldn't they are going to and I'm going to tell you why"
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It doesn't matter that UConn baseball sucks? Um....
 
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