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

ZooCougar said:
The clock doesn’t have to start if you aren’t in an NCAA school. NAIA and JUCO count too.

If you’re still in high school basically repeating your senior year then it doesn’t for obvious reasons.
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Because the advantage of an extra year is only for those who can afford it.
 
Hskies4Ever said:
Because the advantage of an extra year is only for those who can afford it.
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Boarding schools have plenty of $ (Taft has a $350 million endowment, NMH close to $200 million) for the right athlete and provide financial aid to many students. Rich kids go there from the start, not just for an extra year
 
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WestHartHusk said:
We bring so much freaking value to the Big East, it is absolutely absurd we are sharing equally with the others.
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Pretty sure the top teams in the P2 feel the same about sharing revenue with the likes of Northwestern, Vandy, Miss St, and Minnesota or any other bottom rung program in either conference. It's why I believe the next evolution is removing the dead weight.
 
noeynox said:
No, not really. They'd be the conference they were before we joined. Which was doing okay without us.
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Not true. Their media rights would be significantly decreased without us. This idea that the Big East was somehow selfless in inviting us is comical. They invited us back for their own salvation as an alternative to actually investing in themselves, particularly on the WBB side. We owe them nothing nothing.
 
noeynox said:
No, not really. They'd be the conference they were before we joined. Which was doing okay without us.
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The conference they are without us is a mid major. I'm sorry to say it, but it's unfortunately true. Unless Cooley revitalizes Georgetown and unless Nova finds a way to do it without Wright, this conference is a mid major only...
 
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WestHartHusk said:
Not true. Their media rights would be significantly decreased without us. This idea that the Big East was somehow selfless in inviting us is comical. They invited us back for their own salvation as an alternative to actually investing in themselves, particularly on the WBB side. We owe them nothing nothing.
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They weren't selfless but they weren't dying either.

They had the largest contract of any non fb playing conference.

It has been mutually beneficial. But again, where would UConn be if they hadn't gotten back into the Big East?
 
UConnDan97 said:
The conference they are without us is a mid major. I'm sorry to say it, but it's unfortunately true. Unless Cooley revitalizes Georgetown and unless Nova finds a way to do it without Wright, this conference is a mid major only...
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The conference is on its way to mid major status with or without us. The WCC is one with or without Gonzaga.
 
noeynox said:
The conference is on its way to mid major status with or without us. The WCC is one with or without Gonzaga.
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It used to be top 3, even while we were in the American. They've been mid major for a few years now, honestly. Like I said, they needed us as much as we needed them...
 
noeynox said:
They weren't selfless but they weren't dying either.

They had the largest contract of any non fb playing conference.

It has been mutually beneficial. But again, where would UConn be if they hadn't gotten back into the Big East?
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They were. They had no ratings and saw the writing on the wall. We just pulled 3M for a single WBB…that is more than every DePaul team can muster combined in a season.

And separately we’d be fine..we hired Hurley and his limit is not bound by conference. This relationship is clearly to the benefit of the BE at our expense.
 
WestHartHusk said:
They were. They had no ratings and saw the writing on the wall. We just pulled 3M for a single WBB…that is more than every DePaul team can muster combined in a season.

And separately we’d be fine..we hired Hurley and his limit is not bound by conference. This relationship is clearly to the benefit of the BE at our expense.
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If what you are saying was true, it was foolish to pay an exit fee to the AAC.
 
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noeynox said:
. But again, where would UConn be if they hadn't gotten back into the Big East?
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Unclear. Being in the big east definitely helped us, but it's tough to bet against Hurley, even if he was stuck in the American.
 
I believe at the time it may have helped a little with recruiting with playing in NYC. It energized the fan base. Today it doesn’t seem to matter as much. There are the best conferences and the rest. BE is usually best of the rest.
 
Bongo Fury said:
I believe at the time it may have helped a little with recruiting with playing in NYC. It energized the fan base. Today it doesn’t seem to matter as much. There are the best conferences and the rest. BE is usually best of the rest.
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Although, like six times in the last decade, they've just been the best.
 
CL82 said:
Well, at least we didn't give notice of our withdrawal with no place to go. So we've got that going for us (and a winning football season.)

Come to think of it we're not like FSU at all.
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I thought that very recently FSU said that they never had any intention of leaving.
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
I thought that very recently FSU said that they never had any intention of leaving.
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Yes, they did. Of course the complaint they filed, which expressly gives their notice of intent to leave, says something entirely different.
 
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