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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5355574, member: 44"] It's an allegation in a complaint about the Pac 12. I think it is tough to say that provides insight into what the Big 12 was thinking at the time. Keep in mind that big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark actually visited the campus in Storrs. Unless you think that was a "giant head fake" it seems pretty clear that he, at least, had a serious interest in Connecticut. Where our bid failed was with the big 12 presidents. Essentially their mindset was "since UConn isn't a member of a P4 conference, it doesn't deserve to be." That kind of circular reasoning is tough to overcome. Still, I think we were in, until the Pac 12 collapsed, which made other "more worthy" P4 schools available. It was very close and the school was confident that it was going to happen. I think it will be extraordinarily difficult for us to join a P4 conference, because I think the conference expansion bubble has burst, or is close to bursting, and college athletics will go into a period of consolidation rather than expansion. Our best hope to get a P4 invitation would be for a few ACC schools to depart which would create room for us to "backfill" the conference. If that happens, though, it will be a diminished ACC since the schools that leave will be schools that are cherry picked by the Big Ten and the SEC. For what it's worth, it is critically important, in my opinion, for us to get a P4 invitation since the gulf between the "haves" in the "have grows wider every year. For example, in the ACC or the big 12 schools are entitled to a $35 million per year conference distribution plus an additional $15 million per year as part of the college football playoff. Compare that $50 million to the $5 million conference distribution that Big East schools are entitled to and you begin to see the scope of the problem. [/QUOTE]

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