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If ACC takes football right now, you join the ACC.ACC looks way too wobbly. Best move is Big XII and perhaps they add Pitt/Cuse one day
If ACC takes football right now, you join the ACC.ACC looks way too wobbly. Best move is Big XII and perhaps they add Pitt/Cuse one day
If ACC takes football right now, you join the ACC.
The attractiveness of the Big 12 is that the P2 doesn't want to expand with the Big 12 schools. The ACC has many schools, North Carolina, Virginia, Duke, FSU, Clemson, Miami, Stanford, Cal, that might be attractive to the P2. If the ACC loses schools to the P2, the rest of the schools will be trying to flee to the Big 12.There may not be an ACC in a few years though.
You get on the lifeboat that has little chance of sinking and is basically giving you a luxury suite.
Yes, currently the ACC is taking on water. The B12 is the life raft with a finite number of open seats. If I’m UConn, I have no interest in jumping on a sinking shipThe attractiveness of the Big 12 is that the P2 doesn't want to expand with the Big 12 schools. The ACC has many schools, North Carolina, Virginia, Duke, FSU, Clemson, Miami, Stanford, Cal, that might be attractive to the P2. If the ACC loses schools to the P2, the rest of the schools will be trying to flee to the Big 12.
While we don't have any real leverage to impose any demands, we should request that written into the agreement (if one is offered0, if, prior to football joining as a full member, if the ACC offers full membership, they B-12 would need to match football's start date.If ACC takes football right now, you join the ACC.
True and the ACC deserves it. They’ve had every opportunity to be proactive and take Uconn off the board for the B12 & they didn’t do anything. And even with the likelihood of losing FSU, Clemson & some of their best BB brands.There may not be an ACC in a few years though.
You get on the lifeboat that has little chance of sinking and is basically giving you a luxury suite.
You want us to ask for, and the Big12 to agree to, a structure that incentivizes UConn to continue seeking ACC membership?While we don't have any real leverage to impose any demands, we should request that written into the agreement (if one is offered0, if, prior to football joining as a full member, if the ACC offers full membership, they B-12 would need to match football's start date.
No, not at all.You want us to ask for, and the Big12 to agree to, a structure that incentivizes UConn to continue seeking ACC membership?
People seem to have forgotten. Destroying the PAC by renegotiating the BIG12 deal before the PAC could renegotiate their tv deal was only the first phase of yormarks plan. The current BIG12 deal also expires in 2031, 5 years before the ACC deal. So the BIg12 will again be renewing their tv deal right before another power conference leaving no money for the latter and thus ensuring the ACCs implosion and the big12 strengthening its membership again.FSU and Clemson are still there.
That might be tough. I would personally be willing to except a prorated exit fee since football isn't a member. So, if we're only getting 20% of a full share of a distribution, our exit fee should only be 20% of the normal exit fee.No, not at all.
What I was proposing was that if prior to our joining the B-12 in football the ACC offered us full membership, the B-12 should be willing to expedite our football membership in that conference to match what the start date would be if we would have accepted the ACC's offer.
Basically it would be the B-12 preventing us from being in a position where we would have to choose which conference we would prefer, considering it would be weighed by timing of football membership.
You have no idea how many people outside of Connecticut believe that ESPN favors us greatly and that the only reason for our success is because ESPN is a resident of our state.If ESPN wanted to do us favors, I wish they'd started about 50-20 years ago.