Lol I know your question is rhetorical, but the answer is "no chance".
Thought it was one of his B12 media days interviews about wanting/needing to wrap it up before we really get into football season.
Oh, okay, that was the AD of BYU who said that during Big 12 media days.
What position is that? I have no position.....I just want to be in the B12.
I actually do think the Big East can keep up because people were saying the same thing 10 years ago. I would still like a P5 opportunity though.
Hmmmm... Stanford over Cal?
That's an interesting POV....so if you think the BE can keep up, why bother moving to the far flung B12 with all its risks?
One massive reason the BE wasn't hurt (when most felt they would slowly slide down in stature in comparison to P-5 conferences) was Nova being as good as they were. Jay Wright has retired, the possibility exists that outside of us, there will be a few schools that can periodically remain ranked for most of a season and possibly make a stray run in the tournament (sweet 16/elite 8) but the conference as a whole will find it more and more difficult to remain near the top, especially if we leave.
I will be bummed. Likely the demise of UConn as a player on the national stage. Basketball may be in great shape now, but for how long? Do you think top athletes will still come here when they can get more money from P3 schools? Do you think it is better to play Providence and DePaul than Kansas and Iowa State, perennial tourney teams? How long can independent status be beneficial and affordable? I agree that AD Dave has been great in keeping this ship afloat, but it will not last very long like this.
Jay Wright is great but he's not the only great coach to have ever coached basketball. Rick Pitino, Danny Hurley, Greg McDermott, Sean Miller, Shaka Smart, Ed Cooley, Shaheen Holloway, Thad Matta are all really good coaches and several of them are amongst the highest paid coaches in the country. The jury is out on Kyle Neptune but Nova will be ranked preseason, if it doesn't work out they will fire him and hire the best option out there. Same thing UConn did, same thing UNC will do if Hubert isn't the right guy.
That dude is never right. But if Colorado stays in the PAC, chances for expansion drop significantly. If any PAC schools leave for the Big 12, UConn will be in 100%. Hopefully at least one PAC school jumps.
The Big East spends more on basketball per school on average than any conference in America.
No. They will spend it all over their athletic departments. The SEC is pushing to allow expanded scholarship limits in sports like baseball. Sankey will get what he wants. As it is they are already getting 40+ million more than us yearly in TV money and still spending less than the Big East. You can only spend so much money on your basketball program.
Not in the NIL era. The sky's the limit for the top recruits and those programs with (lots of) extra cash to burn will land the best recruits and be able to afford and retain the best coaches. Money talks and it's naive to believe that the growing inequality between the haves and have-nots isn't going to heavily tilt the playing field and court in one direction.
The schools can't directly pay. Their boosters have to create collectives. That is not AD revenue. TV money can't go toward collectives.
I mean, the money pool is the money pool. If a donor was going to give $1,000,000 to help towards renovations, but they don't need to now because they have more TV revenue, they can just put the $1,000,000 to their collective. It's just shuffling things around.
How far down the road? We don't know what any of this will look like in the future. Does the money they're shelling out right now for cable TV make sense? Is that the future? Does a Big 12 minus Texas and Oklahoma have the juice to justify the money that was shelled out for it? Does football keep getting more and more regional/Southern and poor?
