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ZooCougar said:
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.
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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.
 
UConnJim said:
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.
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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 ship
 
upstater said:
If ACC takes football right now, you join the ACC.
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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.
 
ZooCougar said:
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.
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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.
 
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FfldCntyFan said:
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.
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You want us to ask for, and the Big12 to agree to, a structure that incentivizes UConn to continue seeking ACC membership?
 
WestHartHusk said:
You want us to ask for, and the Big12 to agree to, a structure that incentivizes UConn to continue seeking ACC membership?
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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.
 
Bongo Fury said:
FSU and Clemson are still there.
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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.

The same thing that happened to the PAC will happen to the ACC. While the ACC bickers over the CW versus espn+ the big 12 will have an attractive new deal paying each member $35-$40 million per team. I’m sure there will be the option to add additional ACC members pro rata.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
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.
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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.
 
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BlueMAB said:
If ESPN wanted to do us favors, I wish they'd started about 50-20 years ago.
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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.

Most can't comprehend that a state company would not want to do anything it could to promote the state school and there aren't a lot of people who truly follow what has transpired over the past decade and a half.
 
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ninety-nine said:
That's a lot of AAC energy, depending on how many defections come from the ACC. If we joined only to see a bunch of desired rivals
scatter to the Big 12/SEC/Big 10, it could be a death blow. Very difficult environment to navigate proactively.
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Largely agree, but, the ACC could pull off a coup of sorts by offering us a full share, including football, right now. We don't have to worry about Fox looking to protect its big east TV deal. As long as ESPN is willing to write the check, they could make this happen.

Then we are faced with the choice of a seven year partial phase in deal with the big 12 or a full deal with the ACC. At that point, I think we'd jump on the ACC deal, notwithstanding the risk of membership changes in 2027 if ESPN doesn't renew their deal.

The ACC, which currently is being written off for dead comes off looking like a boss by stealing a big 12 target from it at the 11th hour. I'm not saying it'll actually happen, but, it's not without some logic to it.
 
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