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Good or bad for UConn?
Good or bad for UConn?
Mildly positive, but ultimately little impact. It no longer requires even numbered divisions or any divisions, so a 16th team isn't needed but there is no incentive for anyone to expand.
Opportunity: +1
Incentive: no change
I agree. Anything that opens up the possibility of a conference adding another school is a positive. Partner, we don't need no stinking partner!I think its a positive. It takes the question of who is UConn's partner off the table. The B1G or ACC could go three pods of 5 for FB.
The ACC could grab us now, and wait to add ND (likely never). Before, they would have to add UConn and a partner. That puts pressure (perhaps minimal, but pressure nonetheless) on the B1G and the ACC: here's a school that draws in NYC that is now fair game.I can only see this as a negative as far as the ACC goes.
Now the ACC waits until ND joins ( likely never) but if they do? Then the ACC stops with 15 full sports schools.
Maybe when B1G negotiates tier 1 in s couple years, this helps as the Big 12 schools and ACC schools are locked in a GOR?
“It was a very pivotal point, not just for our conference,” said Swofford, the ACC commissioner. “I think it settled the overall landscape with the major conferences.”
Well, there will be a renogotiation of the B1G contract in 2016/2017, so they may want to try to lock in the Northeast before that.The question remains, why would anyone invite us right now? There has to be a $ number attached to the equation.
Let's say Delany wants to get us in and growing while we are hot.
He needs to assure $2-3 for all subscribers in CT on all systems basic tier.
He needs legislature support to expand the Rent to 55k.
He needs his member schools to convince the AAU to invite UConn.
He needs to convince his member Presidents this is a good idea.
He needs to convince some broadcast outfit to up the fees for the additional content.
That's a lot for one man.
Well, there will be a renogotiation of the B1G contract in 2016/2017, so they may want to try to lock in the Northeast before that.
The question remains, why would anyone invite us right now? There has to be a $ number attached to the equation.
Let's say Delany wants to get us in and growing while we are hot.
He needs to assure $2-3 for all subscribers in CT on all systems basic tier.
He needs legislature support to expand the Rent to 55k.
He needs his member schools to convince the AAU to invite UConn.
He needs to convince his member Presidents this is a good idea.
He needs to convince some broadcast outfit to up the fees for the additional content.
That's a lot for one man.
1000% good. B1G football doesn't need to add a premier football power, it already has Michigan, tOSU, Penn State (Franklin will restore that program quickly), Wisconsin, Sparty, and Nebraska. What the B1G needs most is 1) basketball and 2) New York City. Yes, B1G basketball is good but it is definitely a notch below the ACC in terms of perception and top-to-bottom quality. Adding UCONN would give the B1G a toe to toe fight with the ACC overnight as well as opening the door into NYC. While NYC is not so much of a college football town, it is, without a doubt, a big-time college basketball town thanks to its Big East roots. UCONN = NYC for the B1G and nothing the ACC can add or do in the future will ever take that away.
I don't think it helps or hurts.
I just think the ACC wants to avoid sending Duke to their championship game again.
It is good. Any change is good. Will it prove to be the lifeline we seek? What it does is give the ACC optionality. They can sit back and gamble the BIG will look elsewhere, if anywhere, or they can lock up the Atlantic Coast. If UConn were to get picked up by the BIG, it drives a dagger right thru the heart of the ACC footprint, and cedes NYC to the BIG. That's a big gamble to take after all the work done to date.
I think it hurts more than it helps but you're right, it's a way to basically make sure Florida State ends up playing Clemson, VT, GT or Miami in the title game every year.
Agree. The ACC CG will be some combo of FSU/Clemson/VT/GT/Miami/ND every year and the only possible way for another school to get into the ACC CG will be to run the table. The ACC would probably even rig their own system so that a 2 or 3 loss FSU/ND got in over a 1 loss BC or Cuse.
And there is also the Cincinnati gamble. That one also addresses both conferences. The Bearcats are of no value to the BUG, and former OSU President Gee has been honest that half of the Big 2 certainly gains from Cincinnati being cut out. But the ACC could gain from having the Bearcats, perhaps most by hitting right that the heart of the BeeOneGee.
Historically, OH has been the most important state for the BeeOneGee in both football and basketball, especially football. The middle of the conference is as good as it is only because its 2nd and 3rd tier programs count on landing a bunch of 3 star OH talent. BeeOneGee football cannot afford to have even a minority of OH's 3 star recruits begin to see another power conference as a good landing place.
ACC sports will soon be all over OH in recruiting. Pitt to the east, ND to the west, and Louisville to the south all border OH. Now, ACC schools can recruit OH players and say their conference is local. Get Cincinnati in the ACC, and that pitch will be made easily.
Can the BeeOneGee risk the ACC in D'Oh?