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They start getting delusional pretty early in the fruit country.
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I am relying on the small group of people who are in the know: athletic directors, commissioners, presidents and coaches to make the right decisions. People on social media don't matter because most of them have no clue. It's not like the in-crowd mulls this over once a year. They live and breath this stuff everyday. They probably talk to each other weekly and know exactly what the other party wants and needs. At least that is my hope and I am sticking to it.
This is not meant to be a political comment because it doesn't matter whether the folks in charge are blue red or purple. Our Governor Ned Lamont is fully on board with moving to a power conference. He gets it. His quotes:
"Obviously there is an enormous realignment of these leagues and you don't want to be left behind," Lamont said. "I understand where they are coming from there. TV revenues are important as well. I think I'm going to rely upon Dave (Benedict) to do the right thing."
Upgrading and Investing in Football: "Yeah, why not?" he said. "Think of what the energy that would be. Look, we’ve got a great coach there. I expect big things from the team this year and they expect big things from themselves."
That's our Governor speaking. Then you have an ass-clown like Chris Murphy down in DC publicly stating we should stay in the Big East. A complete idiot contradicting our governor. Whether you like him or loathe him, he needs to shut up about things he doesn't understand. Geez UConn has enough of an uphill battle when it comes to CR without these knuckleheads trying to sabotage our plans.
This is not meant to be a political comment because it doesn't matter whether the folks in charge are blue red or purple. Our Governor Ned Lamont is fully on board with moving to a power conference. He gets it. His quotes:
"Obviously there is an enormous realignment of these leagues and you don't want to be left behind," Lamont said. "I understand where they are coming from there. TV revenues are important as well. I think I'm going to rely upon Dave (Benedict) to do the right thing."
Upgrading and Investing in Football: "Yeah, why not?" he said. "Think of what the energy that would be. Look, we’ve got a great coach there. I expect big things from the team this year and they expect big things from themselves."
That's our Governor speaking. Then you have an ass-clown like Chris Murphy down in DC publicly stating we should stay in the Big East. A complete idiot contradicting our governor. Whether you like him or loathe him, he needs to shut up about things he doesn't understand. Geez UConn has enough of an uphill battle when it comes to CR without these knuckleheads trying to sabotage our plans.
If there’s one silver lining in the current realignment situation, it’s that fans and analysts are slowly starting to take UConn more seriously. As they dig into the numbers and add perspective, the conversation often starts with laughs about UConn football’s struggles, but then shifts to acknowledging past successes and the up side potential—something that wasn’t as prevalent in previous discussions. These guys are obviously small time/ not major voices, but it’s interesting to hear even Memphis fans discussing UConn and then finishing with speculating on where they think their Memphis program will ends up.
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Colorado and ASU and ......
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Guy talking about our football as if UConn would be the Vandy or one of the four bottom teams in the BIG. Come on, when UConn was in the Big East, which had some pretty solid football programs, the team wasn't a basement dweller and had some standout seasons. In the old Big East, UConn was averaging 6.9 wins per season. That was years ago with less resources. Now with better facilities and modern coaching, I don't doubt that UConn would hold the line in the Big12.
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People seem to so easily forget they were 6-6 just two years ago too.
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We were, then we lost our bowl game so we ended up being 6-7.
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Colorado time in the Pac 12 was sooooo good the Big 12 fans jumped for joy when they added them back!
The only good program they got was Utah, the two Arizona schools have been at best a mixed bag Colorado was atrocious, and might I remind them most of their programs were terrible for decades the Big 12 schools aren't these historic powers they closer align with UConn than they ever did (or will) with an Oklahoma or Texas, these are a bunch of middle of the pack to sometimes pretty good programs, with most having a good bit of success in basketball if not alot.
Don’t let facts confuse people’s narratives.
The way people talk, we will be facing a murderers row of peak Bama, Ohio State, GA, Michigan, Switzer OK, Pony Expess SMU week after week, not Baylor who we beat twice with RGIII, KState w/o Snyder, Colorado, Iowa St
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Thing is I totally get it. Season is kicking off and a lot of the news is around realignment for a school that, even if they aren’t fully anti, they mostly just don’t care about.
I have full confidence UConn football could be respectable in the Big 12 but the average fan and talking head really couldn’t care less about how many wins we had 15 years ago or that we made the Toilet Bowl (and lost) after a recent 6-6 season.
Monty and his son have always been against UConn, but they have changed their tune. They finally get Yormark's plan. Yormark wants UConn so he can get the ACC schools. The Big 12 thinks they can get them. He says he talked to someone high up in the Big 12.
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It doesn't matter that they don't care but don't go around spouting BS just the same, such as "uconn fball had always sucked" (not true) or "hasn't been good in years" (nope, 6-6 before getting into the bowl two years ago) otherwise feel free not to care.
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With friends like you, who needs enemies.
We literally kneecapped the football program to get basketball right in a more suitable conference than the AAC. And to keep Wbb on SNY.
Now we are trying to rebuild, painstakingly,
with mixed results.
We shouldn’t have to explain this to UConn fans but here we are.
The show is still live, so I’ll go back to try to find it later, but why does getting UConn allow the Big 12 to get ACC schools? Wouldn’t ACC schools come to the Big 12 no matter what?
Yes they would. I don't understand why Yormark with put UConn through this if he knew he couldn't do it to start with.
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A lot of the anti-Big XII sentiment here reads a lot like the faculties objections to a UConn upgrade back in the mid-90s. The faculties concerns were, what about academics, it feels like we're too focused on sports, resenting the focus and more specifically the money spent on athletics (Basketball) wasn't being spent on academics. Of course they were also failing to recognize that, that success was leading to record applicants and boosting the quality of the student population.
Now it's the Big East nostalgists concerned that there's too much focus on football and resenting that dollars spent on football aren't being spent on basketball.... failing to recognize that football's existence and more success there will lead to record revenues and boost the ability to continue to pay the best coaches in the nation on the basketball side or to maximize revenue sharing with the players to continue to attract top talent.
The faculty sentiment helped slow things down, ultimately contributing to UConn having less time to build a track record in football (and potentially contributing to the current situation)... the basketball sentiment and high profile naysayers (i.e. the state speaker of the house, the US senators) may ultimately slow/untrack (or at least provide an excuse that UConn doesn't have the support necessary) a potential move here...
Now it's the Big East nostalgists concerned that there's too much focus on football and resenting that dollars spent on football aren't being spent on basketball.... failing to recognize that football's existence and more success there will lead to record revenues and boost the ability to continue to pay the best coaches in the nation on the basketball side or to maximize revenue sharing with the players to continue to attract top talent.
The faculty sentiment helped slow things down, ultimately contributing to UConn having less time to build a track record in football (and potentially contributing to the current situation)... the basketball sentiment and high profile naysayers (i.e. the state speaker of the house, the US senators) may ultimately slow/untrack (or at least provide an excuse that UConn doesn't have the support necessary) a potential move here...
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Yeah, in conference realignment world the game is raid or be raided. Adding UConn greases the skids for future additions.
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For what it's worth whether or not the addition of Connecticut makes the big 12 more attractive to ACC basketball centric schools is hardly the big driver in this round of "almost" conference realignment. The thing that's driving this is the fact that Connecticut is undisputably the best basketball school in the country, particularly if you count both women's basketball and men's basketball. Additionally, it is located in the north east, which is an attractive addition to the big 12 footprint. Both of which we're not enough to get us across the finish line... again.
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and those people seem oblivious to Yormark's plan to have a separate basketball contract which will likely be double that (at least) of the Big East deal.
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the biggest change from this year to last year is probably the television value of Women's basketball. If this happens, we should all send Caitlin Clark a thank you note for the assist.
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Why do people insist on insulting those that disagree with them? People are not hesitant about this move purely because of nostalgia. UConn is in a good basketball league that pays reasonably well and has nearby teams that fans care about. The pro-BE contingent gets that the Big East is a big problem for football.
The problem is that the Big 12 is a Franken-league of far flung, second tier state schools and a handful of religious-based private schools that...is not taking us for football. With Arizona, the Big 12 is the best basketball league in the country, but not by a mile, and we don't know the financial difference.
If the Big 12 doesn't want us until 2031, why not just stay in the Big East for now and agree to join the Big 12 in 2031 if it still makes sense for everyone at that time?
Where will the incentive and money come from in the next 7 years to ramp up the football program?
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I am in favor of more money, but the only data we have is Boneyarders negotiating among ourselves for what our cut will be. Until we know, we don't know. The difference needs to include the fact that we have to pay $15 million to leave the Big East.
I think that a minimum 3 or 4 game commitment by Big 12 schools would be a good sweetener for UConn, and tip the deal in the Big 12's favor. But just leaving the Big East for the Big 12 for a few million more a year for the chance to apply to join the Big 12 for football in 2031 is not that exciting.