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Mr. Conehead said:
That looks good for UConn. A projected acceptance rate of 15% (actual is 10%, build in extra for students who are accepted; but go elsewhere) is highly competitive and that half are STEM makes it even look better. Of course, I do cringe in that the acceptance rate back in the early 90's was around 40% and I barely got in. I would not even apply to UConn today with the high school (goofball) grades I got. Guess I would be off to Delaware or Syracuse instead (two schools I also did get into).
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LOL - you would be a President's scholar at Syracuse or, simply, the President at Louisville!
 
It'll probably closer to a 40% acceptance rate. Yield rates tend to be low for schools that support the common app and it looks like last year's yield was around 25%. That's still a great number though - much better most other public universities.
 
UCONN13KC said:
Just one man's scenario should the Big 12 break down. The one highly likely fact is that the AAC and UCONN will be screwed, which satisfies the rules of CR.
http://www.vavel.com/en-us/ncaa/col...lew-up-a-conference-realignment-scenario.html
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The author is a Kansas student and he has KU and Iowa St. going to the B1G primarily because they are AAU. Delany knows better than to have two teams from Iowa in the same conference. Kansas and Uconn make much more sense even though Uconn does not have AAU status yet.
 
CTGoonie said:
The author is a Kansas student and he has KU and Iowa St. going to the B1G primarily because they are AAU. Delany knows better than to have two teams from Iowa in the same conference. Kansas and Uconn make much more sense even though Uconn does not have AAU status yet.
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The Iowa State move was one of the more suspect. But AAU and good football in general. Crazier things have happened.
 
There's a lot more wrong with it than that. The ACC would be unlikely to favor West Virginia over UConn, now that they are eyeing a network. Texas would be unlikely to favor going to the Pac over an ACC affiliation, given the bad travel and bad exposure in the east due to time zone differences. It's unlikely K State, Baylor, or TCU would favor the WAC over the AAC, given the long travel distances out west - the AAC is actually much closer for them.
 
Sea Goat said:
LOL - you would be a President's scholar at Syracuse or, simply, the President at Louisville!
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Please, I was a goofball and did not take my studies seriously enough, thus I was the 'dumb' B student in the AP/Honor's classes that I took my last 2 years of high school. One look at that transcript, Louisville would have given me a PhD without stepping foot in a classroom.:cool:
 
Tuxedo Yoda @TuxedoYoda · 3h 3 hours ago
BYU intends to play in power conference “in the near future” http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2015/02/24/byu-intends-to-play-in-power-conference-in-the-near-future/…

Tuxedo Yoda @TuxedoYoda · 3h 3 hours ago
Cinci, UCF & Memphis were all in the mix to be added before NSD. Was told renewed mutual interest between B12 & BYU put everything on hold.

Tuxedo Yoda @TuxedoYoda · 3h 3 hours ago
If it happened, BYU would be in the B12 for only FBall & BBall.

Tuxedo Yoda @TuxedoYoda · 3h 3 hours ago
Best scenario for B12, add 4: BYU (just fball & bball), UCF, Cinci & UConn.
 
Husky92 said:
I've come to believe he's a crackpot, but I'd take this scenario!
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It would at least get all the worthy schools into P5 conferences ... maybe not the right conferences, but in the club.
 
@TravHaneyESPN
If they were all open, to me first 10 Group of 5 jobs would be: Cincinnati, UCF, Boise, BYU, USF, Houston, SMU, Colo St, Memphis, ECU.

@TravHaneyESPN
Biggest pieces of evaluating Group of 5 jobs: odds of moving to P5 league; HC salary figure/history; can you win there?
 
UConn would win over Iowa St to the B1G, IMO. I think now that the precedent has been set the ACC would take an inferior academic school with good FB so WVU to the ACC under that scenario makes sense.
 
The Funster said:
UConn would win over Iowa St to the B1G, IMO. I think now that the precedent has been set the ACC would take an inferior academic school with good FB so WVU to the ACC under that scenario makes sense.
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As long as you wait to commit academic infractions once you are in the ACC, then its all good
 
woomba said:
@TravHaneyESPN
If they were all open, to me first 10 Group of 5 jobs would be: Cincinnati, UCF, Boise, BYU, USF, Houston, SMU, Colo St, Memphis, ECU.

@TravHaneyESPN
Biggest pieces of evaluating Group of 5 jobs: odds of moving to P5 league; HC salary figure/history; can you win there?
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That's hot garbage
 
Fishy said:
The SEC won't take Florida State because they're in the footprint already, but that clown thinks the Big Ten is going to take Iowa State.

Ah, no.
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See, that logic makes no sense to me. SEC has Miss and Miss State. Alabama and Auburn. Tenn and Vandy. Makes no sense to exclude Florida State which is at least as good, if not better, than 4 of these programs.
 
UCONN13KC said:
See, that logic makes no sense to me. SEC has Miss and Miss State. Alabama and Auburn. Tenn and Vandy. Makes no sense to exclude Florida State which is at least as good, if not better, than 4 of these programs.
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That is because conferences were first formed to make scheduling easier. Conference-mates were typically within a (at most, long) bus or train ride away. Those days are over.
 
UConn Dan said:
That's hot garbage
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Seriously, he probably doesn't know/remember UCONN isn't in the P5. I'm amazed by the number of people I meet in Florida that just haven't realized it yet.
 
On a correlated topic, I'll weigh in here on why I think 10 game conference schedules probably are going to be irresistible to the B1G (even though the coaches almost all hate the idea).

First, pay-for-play opponents are getting more expensive--but that's the minor issue.

The bigger issue is this: Live eyeballs=revenue. B1G Network makes the majority of their money from advertising sales. Better match-ups=more money for everybody in the conference. A game with Bendover State may be worth x, but a conference match up--even a bad conference match-up--is worth 2x. The ad dollars from a conference home and home stay 100% in conference, but that's not true with non-conference opponents--50% of ad revenue is gone. I don't know the numbers, but my instincts say go to ten games. Ultimately, it's a math problem Delany will let the geeks quantify.

Of course, I think it would make the fans happier--I know it would me--but that's probably not part of the calculation.
 
Hoophound said:
Seriously, he probably doesn't know/remember UCONN isn't in the P5. I'm amazed by the number of people I meet in Florida that just haven't realized it yet.
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The sad thing is he knows. Haters gonna hate.

@DanWolken: @TravHaneyESPN @38Godfrey UConn fans will not be happy with you, Mr. Haney. Also could make an argument for Fresno State

@TravHaneyESPN: @DanWolken I'm pretty comfortable not including those 2 based on criteria in earlier tweet.

@The_Sad_Gnome: .@TravHaneyESPN You must not be looking at the right metrics. UConn has the budget, facilities, desire and has actually won in football.

@The_Sad_Gnome: .@TravHaneyESPN @DanWolken additionally UConn has @NoEscalators
 

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