I'm on her side, the commissioner of the MWC. The PAC 2 was desperate and it had options, such as joining the MWC. She didn't screw them over at all. All she did was try to protect her conference from exactly what the PAC 2 is now doing - poaching and tearing her conference apart. The PAC 2 agreed to pay penalties if it went after her schools.
Um her priorities are the schools in her conference. All of them. She increased revenue for the schools in her conference. She did her job.
An Executive Session is anticipated during tomorrow’s scheduled BOT meeting. Could be football related.
You can’t have a media contract if you don’t know who’s in a league yet! If they joined as a football only member the money would still be better than being independent. It will be the best conference outside of the P4. And they would have a path into the CFP. The unknown is better than what the football program has right now!
The MAC champ has a shot in the CFP….UConn will not
It's always easier to keep yourself up than to make yourself fall asleep.I doubt UConn is joining the PAC1? for any sport, football or otherwise, but consider this:
For east coast athletes flying west to compete, the jet lag is not a bad thing and might actually help a little.
For west coast athletes flying east to compete in a noon game, the jet lag is brutal.
UConn may enjoy a subtle but real competitive advantage if we play a full home-and-away round robin as the only east coast football team.
I just want to win, baby!
30 million says otherwise
hoping that uconn team uses that $0 as the biggest bargaining chip in the world - with that 'gift' to the pac 12, i don't see why we would owe them 2 or 4 basketball games a year. screw that, we don't need to play their lame bball programs. 4 games is insane and wastes games that could have been at a prestigious tournament against quality opponents from other power conferences. (maui invitational, phil knight, etc.)
Good luck with that. We will definitely have to give them 2-4 men and women games a year if they want us to bring in our football. Remember we have one of the worst historically football teams in all of America in the last 10 years. We can't be that choosy when a gift horse is given out. Yeah we have a good coach, and we are optimisitc on a turnaround but there is no long term guarantee on that especially being an Independent in the new NIL world. We need some decent guaranteed money for football even and a chance at th College Football Playoffs.
The hubris is unreal.
I’d say a move is imminent. Imminent, I tell ya.
Zoo, I generally tend to agree with a lot of your posts, but in this scenario I don't see what she did as nefarious. Her conference, at that point, was in a comparatively stronger position compared to the PAC2 leftovers. Nobody forced OSU or WSU to sign the scheduling agreement with the MWC; those two teams could have negotiated lower terms, scheduled UConn, AAC, and SBC teams. What they did was of their own volition. I see the PAC2 and MWC as using each other, only the MWC didn't know they were gonna be consumed by external/internal forces. I don't fault her, but I think she was naive not to anticipate that defections would occur sooner.
What does $30 million have to say
Im sure the MWC teams had to buy themselves out of games to accommodate those 2.
I think Gloria was astute rather than naive. She must have considered the possibility of early defections which is why she included a poaching penalty.
Live link to BOT Mtg if interested in the University sausage making:
Board of Trustees Live Stream Meetings | Academic IT
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As always... but folks might be interested in the $3.5m Tennis Facility Upgrade or the Gampel Ground Floor KSI Heat Lab
