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UCONN13KC said:
can't hurt i suppose.
http://college.usatoday.com/2015/02/18/top-10-division-i-schools-for-mens-soccer/
9. UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: STORRS, CT.
In addition to the main campus at Storrs, UConn is spread across seven other campuses in the state, including the Jackson laboratory. The $1.1 billion genomic medicine facility partners with the UConn Health Center for biomedical research. Men’s soccer coach Ray Reid is one of the most accomplished in the nation, recording over 400 wins in 26 seasons with a winning percentage of .764. The Huskies have reached the NCAA tournament 16 of the last 17 seasons.
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It helps. The fact that baseball is decent helps. The Hockey team making a better showing than expected (especially attendance) helps. Field Hockey even helps. Women's hoops certainly matters. Football is King and Men's basketball the Queen, but UConn has a strong overall athletics department. It matters. Against Louisville it mattered less because they are pretty strong at soccer, baseball, women's hoops etc. But there are other schools that are one trick ponies.
 
Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV · 2h2 hours ago
Is BYU sending a message to the Big 12?

Greg Flugaur‏@flugempire 1h1 hour ago
@theDudeofWV AD Holme basically said BYU is now open for business when it comes to football only membership in a P5. Yes..BYU sent message

Greg Flugaur @flugempire · 1h 1 hour ago
@theDudeofWV But he also did say no P5 at this time has approached BYU with FB only discussion.

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV · 1h1 hour ago
@flugempire I don't think the B12 wants a partial member.

Greg Flugaur ‏@flugempire · 46m46 minutes ago
@theDudeofWV They probably don't..but you asked the question if BYU is sending a message to B12. I think yes..Holmoe said open to FB only

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV · 45m45 minutes ago
@flugempire I just checked with a few contacts. Both said if B12 added BYU only as football
member the 10 current members would lose money,

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV · 45m45 minutes ago
@flugempire They said minimum TV payout would remain same but they would have to share Sugar Bowl & playoff $ with BYU.

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV · 44m44 minutes ago
@flugempire So there isn't any way the Big 12 will accept even minimal reductions in revenue. The pie will continue to have 10 slices.

Christopher Lambert ‏@theDudeofWV · 43m43 minutes ago
@flugempire The Big 12 isn't going to consider anything until they know what the B1G does. They feel a B1G raid of the ACC is coming.
 
Football only solves the Sunday play problem for them, which supposedly killed BYU to B12 in the past.

If the B12 will not share Sugar Bowl revenues which is minimal then they are preparing to dissolve. The revenues from a CCG ought to more than make up for a 1/6 reduction in Sugar Bowl revenues ... or are they already getting paid for a CCG they don't stage? If so the TV networks must be pretty pissed at the B12.
 
http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2015/02/for-uconn-another-year-of-record-high-applications/
UConn is the place to be – at least according to more than 34,000 high school students, the largest number of applicants ever to seek a spot in the next fall’s freshman class.
That pool of potential freshmen – 34,019 to be exact – met the Jan. 15 application deadline to compete for about 3,500 spots at Storrs and about 1,400 at the Hartford, Stamford, Waterbury, Avery Point, and Torrington campuses.
In fact, more than 17,000 of the approximately 34,000 applicants this year are seeking to major in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math), up 32 percent in just the last four years.
 
UCONN13KC said:
http://today.uconn.edu/blog/2015/02/for-uconn-another-year-of-record-high-applications/
UConn is the place to be – at least according to more than 34,000 high school students, the largest number of applicants ever to seek a spot in the next fall’s freshman class.
That pool of potential freshmen – 34,019 to be exact – met the Jan. 15 application deadline to compete for about 3,500 spots at Storrs and about 1,400 at the Hartford, Stamford, Waterbury, Avery Point, and Torrington campuses.
In fact, more than 17,000 of the approximately 34,000 applicants this year are seeking to major in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math), up 32 percent in just the last four years.
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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).
 
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!
 
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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.
 
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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.
 
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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
 
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.
 
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
 
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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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