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

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I love when PC or Creighton or Marquette people talk about attendance and it’s like congrats you have just enough fans to fill your building and that’s about it

 

[ZooCougar]

Hell, if that's our strategy I'd start with a phone call to the B1G and tell them we're willing to join for all sports at $7 million a year.

It’s almost as if one should wonder why we haven’t we done that already?

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Nope. Even in an unequal setup there are plenty of reasons.

Sone of them are utterly dead weight. And scheduling and so on.

I agree with you that there is a 99% chance the ACC and Big 12 conferences will move pawns around the chess board as they lose all their valuable pieces. I don't want to give the Big 10 or SEC credit for being smarter, they just happened to have larger fan bases at the right point in history when casual fans drove enormous value because of the linear cable model and ESPN.

College sports has stuck with the logic in your post for 25 years, and it is becoming a P2 on its way to a P1, and somewhere along the way will hit a doom loop tipping point where fans will stop caring and its ratings will mimic virtually every other minor league in the world.

If college sports ends with the kamikaze crash that I expect, the history of realignment will be studied in college strategy classes as another example in how the leadership at universities in the first decades of the 21st century had become completely detached from the basic rules and tactics of market competition.

 

[Samoo]

If you think Creighton is the addition that the ACC can't skip out on or they would be "absolute morons", then we can't talk about conference realignment together anymore...

 

[freescooter]

I don’t think the idea of an ACC-NBE merger makes any sense. If, and I doubt it would happen, the ACC added NBE teams, it would cherry pick. If you have UConn along with BC you don’t have any need for Providence. If you have St John’s and Villanova why give money to Seton Hall. Maybe you want Marquette but not Butler or Creighton. None of it makes sense, but taking everyone makes the least sense of all.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I don’t think the idea of an ACC-NBE merger makes any sense. If, and I doubt it would happen, the ACC added NBE teams, it would cherry pick. If you have UConn along with BC you don’t have any need for Providence. If you have St John’s and Villanova why give money to Seton Hall. Maybe you want Marquette but not Butler or Creighton. None of it makes sense, but taking everyone makes the least sense of all.

You are right. The ACC is absolutely crushing it as is. Why make any changes?

 

[Kolumbo]

I don’t think the idea of an ACC-NBE merger makes any sense. If, and I doubt it would happen, the ACC added NBE teams, it would cherry pick. If you have UConn along with BC you don’t have any need for Providence. If you have St John’s and Villanova why give money to Seton Hall. Maybe you want Marquette but not Butler or Creighton. None of it makes sense, but taking everyone makes the least sense of all.

You are forgetting what made the Big East successful in the first place. If you have bcu, then you need pc. local rivalries trump distant markets.

It doesn’t really matter who you leave in or out of the new K Superconference since it has absolutely no chance of ever happening.

 

[Fishy]

I don’t think the idea of an ACC-NBE merger makes any sense. If, and I doubt it would happen, the ACC added NBE teams, it would cherry pick. If you have UConn along with BC you don’t have any need for Providence. If you have St John’s and Villanova why give money to Seton Hall. Maybe you want Marquette but not Butler or Creighton. None of it makes sense, but taking everyone makes the least sense of all.

It doesn’t make any sense for the Big East. Leaving a round robin conference of like-minded schools to merge with a 18-school conference that lost any semblance of reason a long time ago. God knows where the conference tournament would be yearly, or how many schools would be included. I would not want to see UConn in it, so I cannot imagine schools like Nova or Georgetown wanting any part of it.

It may not be ideal for UConn long term, but the other schools in the Big East are pretty happy with it.

 

[GampelGladiator]

End of the day...are you really in a conference with a team that you don't play annually/regularly?

A 30 team BB conference with 2 divisions would mean the annual conference schedule would be...

• 7 home against division opponents
• 7 road against division opponents
• 3 home against non-division opponents
• 3 road against non-division opponents

So ultimately...it would take 5 years to have a home and home against each non-division opponent. Also, there would be 3 non-division opponents that wouldn't be on schedule until year 3.

This of course assumes that there aren't designated 'rivalry' games between non-division opponents.

An 18 team FB conference with 2 divisions would mean zero non-division opponents.

• 4 home against division opponents
• 4 road against division opponents

 

[UConn Dan]

What happened to Key Tweets?

 

[Hogoff]

What happened to Key Tweets?

There aren’t any.

 

[Patman]

look, you aren't making a league this size work, stop thinking you can. it will exist in a perilous existence until something akin to atom fission occurs.

 

[spsct]

What happened to Key Tweets?

It went to hell....

 

[gioff2323]

If only there was a non-key forum

 

[jostar1]

 

[UConnTrumbull]

This certainly cannot hurt our p4 bid...UConn women's bball will generate a lot of units. This should've happened years ago.

 

[jostar1]

 

[BBFGExecDir]

Is Jared annoying to anyone here? Thought so.

Wtf?

 

[noeynox]

Wtf?

Not that Jared

 

[Exit 4]

Not that Jared

Cant decide if you mean Jared from Subway or Jared from the Jewelry store.

 

[Fishy]

This certainly cannot hurt our p4 bid...UConn women's bball will generate a lot of units. This should've happened years ago.

Definitely won’t hurt, but it’s not massive money - around $1.25M for reaching the final four.

 

[ZooCougar]

The Big 12 is the intended audience for this news. This is to show that we are financially strong.

 

[WestHartHusk]

The Big 12 is the intended audience for this news. This is to show that we are financially strong.

That number just seems a bit off (or this year's number is going to be much higher). The school reported about 179,000 tickets sold last year for 16 game, which works out to $18/ticket. Even if you assume 3,000 students per game (which feels high, considering Hartford), that still works out to $24/ticket.

 

[AllHusky]

I don't even understand how a merger of conferences happens. The schools just vote behind Vals back?

You should have been in the room with the "Old Big East"(hoops) AD's) when CBS announced a TV contract with the FB arm of the Big East. The Hoops AD's(including Lew Perkins) had no idea that was coming. All of a sudden the power of FB was shown in a very real way. That tail wagged the heck out of that Dog.

 

[ZooCougar]

Only posting in key because at the end of this journey we can show that we were in the PAC 12 convo.

I don’t think they will get any of these schools.

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