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Poll - Which Conference Do You Favor for UConn?

Which conference do you favor the most for UConn to join?

  • Big 12

    Votes: 42 11.7%

  • SEC

    Votes: 17 4.7%

  • Big 10

    Votes: 142 39.6%

  • ACC

    Votes: 93 25.9%

  • Big East

    Votes: 60 16.7%

  • Other (name it below)

    Votes: 5 1.4%
  • Total voters
    359
I picked the SEC. Only because I would like to see UConn kick Tennessee butt at least 3 times a year. :D
 
They need to go for the money and the BIG Ten is where the money is. UCONN men and women would have a national audience all the time on the BIG Ten Network and it would also help UCONN rebuild their football program. UCONN has the academics that the BIG Ten looks for so I don't think it too far out of the realm of possibility.
 
Rowdy831 said:
They need to go for the money and the BIG Ten is where the money is. UCONN men and women would have a national audience all the time on the BIG Ten Network and it would also help UCONN rebuild their football program. UCONN has the academics that the BIG Ten looks for so I don't think it too far out of the realm of possibility.
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The Big 10 doesn’t want UConn. They chose Rutgers to get NYC exposure so they don’t need UConn
 
The UConn athletic department will choose the best deal, $$$-wise, but for the WBB team, staying put is best. They'll get all the national tv time anyway, as it is the premier program in women's hoops. Geno's schedule last year featured some of the best teams in the nation--he'll do it again. Nothing needs to change.
 
HuskyNan said:
The Big 10 doesn’t want UConn. They chose Rutgers to get NYC exposure so they don’t need UConn
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LOL, Right, and how is that going? Rutgers is the embarrassment of the BIG.
 
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HuskyNan said:
They’re crying all the way to the bank
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I don't really see any Northeast influence in the BIG. Maybe its time to try again with some University that has a national following. Rutgers has not provided the BIG an entrance to NYC like UConn has for the Big East and AAC. Just saying that the Rutgers experiment in the BIG has been a failure.
 
Well, it looks like the BIG12 dream is going away. Arizona, Arizona St, and Utah have been invited to the BIG12, while Oregon and Washington have decided to join the BIG. If you really want to stretch it, the PAC12 will be looking for new members. LOL. This whole thing is ruining college sports. So, it looks like we will remain in the BIG East. So be it.
 
Bald Huskie said:
Well, it looks like the BIG12 dream is going away. Arizona, Arizona St, and Utah have been invited to the BIG12, while Oregon and Washington have decided to join the BIG. If you really want to stretch it, the PAC12 will be looking for new members. LOL. This whole thing is ruining college sports. So, it looks like we will remain in the BIG East. So be it.
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The writing has been on the wall for a while with regard to Super Conference alignments. I am really surprised though that the PAC12 wasn't one of the ones that lost out on this trend. They really made a mistake by not scheduling their games, particularly football, for the national (eastern) audience. Too many games were played at night which removed almost half the viewing audience.

As far as UCONN is concerned I think they still have opportunities out there. The SEC is going to expand based on football so that would leave UCONN out for a while but the Big Ten and Big 12 both have a great basketball tradition which does fit what UCONN would bring to the table. Three weeks ago I would have laughed if you said Oregon and Washington would be in the Big Ten.
 
At the rate things are unfolding, the choices will be either the SEC or the Big 10.
 
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HuskyNan said:
The Big 10 doesn’t want UConn. They chose Rutgers to get NYC exposure so they don’t need UConn
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I don't know. When the Big Ten added Rutgers the Big East was still a powerful conference so I don't think UCONN was interested in moving either. Rutgers does give you New York and New Jersey which seems to be a good recruiting ground for football but UCONN brings an audience for Basketball which the Big Ten needs more right now. If the Big Ten picks up Stanford then you might see another school like UCONN in the mix.
 
Rowdy831 said:
I don't know. When the Big Ten added Rutgers the Big East was still a powerful conference so I don't think UCONN was interested in moving either. Rutgers does give you New York and New Jersey which seems to be a good recruiting ground for football but UCONN brings an audience for Basketball which the Big Ten needs more right now. If the Big Ten picks up Stanford then you might see another school like UCONN in the mix.
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No, UConn is not an AAU approved research institution. All Big 10 schools are
 
Bottom line - Staying in the Big East would put us behind other peer schools financially. The big money is in football, and that trend wont end anytime soon. Ultimately, Geno retires, Hurley leaves for greener pastures, we start losing recruits, etc. It becomes a negative virtuous cycle and 10 years we'll be saying - How did we end up in this place?!
 
Rowdy831 said:
The writing has been on the wall for a while with regard to Super Conference alignments. I am really surprised though that the PAC12 wasn't one of the ones that lost out on this trend. They really made a mistake by not scheduling their games, particularly football, for the national (eastern) audience. Too many games were played at night which removed almost half the viewing audience.

As far as UCONN is concerned I think they still have opportunities out there. The SEC is going to expand based on football so that would leave UCONN out for a while but the Big Ten and Big 12 both have a great basketball tradition which does fit what UCONN would bring to the table. Three weeks ago I would have laughed if you said Oregon and Washington would be in the Big Ten.
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That perception could change in just a couple months depending on how Mora’s team does this Fall. If they go 9-2 then…………
 
Bald Huskie said:
UConn has a good reputation as an academic and research institution. I'm sure formal accreditation could be accomplished very easily.
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The Pac12 & Mountain West could merge for 2 reasons.
One is to inherit the payouts that the Pac12 already receives.
And the other reason is because the Mountain West TV contract has a renegotiation clause built into it (with Fox & CBS) in case the league expands or contracts.
If Stanford or Cal doesn't want to join in with a merger then they can go independent in football until a better offer comes along.
The new merged conference may be able to lure Gonzaga in too.

Could Mountain West and Pac-12 merge into a single, 16-team conference?
 
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Bone Dog said:
The Big10 (er, 15) is interestingly competitive and won’t require a whole lot more travel than we already face. Our football team will be a bottom feeder there, but our basketball teams will dominate.
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our football team will be a bottom feeder almost anywhere.
 
Actually the more things change the more they remain the same. Do you really think that a team joining a new conference will make a significtant difference in their already established program. Teams that compete on a regular basis for the national championship will continue to do so only in a different conference. The only difference is going to be that in the long run they are actually going to lose money. With the travel costs in sports other than football and basketball this so call "windfall" will soon dissapate. And whether you believe it or not the truth is no matter how much you love something after you've had your fill of it you begin to get a little bored and we are quickly reaching that point with televised sports. We've all grown up with rivalries and as those disappear so does our attachment to the sport.
 
The BIG EAST. Why mess around with a good thing like Uconn has in the BE. Uconn is No.1 in my book and doesn't need a new conference to enhance Uconn's fantastic records of achievements, that will not be overtaken by any other team. Uconn has beaten the best of the besr consistantly and their 11 NCs will never be surpassed except by them! Stay in the BE and enjoy the less traveling the team does and the convenience of knowing your opponents. GO HUSKIES!!!
 
Next 12 said:
The BIG EAST. Why mess around with a good thing like Uconn has in the BE. Uconn is No.1 in my book and doesn't need a new conference to enhance Uconn's fantastic records of achievements, that will not be overtaken by any other team. Uconn has beaten the best of the besr consistantly and their 11 NCs will never be surpassed except by them! Stay in the BE and enjoy the less traveling the team does and the convenience of knowing your opponents. GO HUSKIES!!!
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Less traveling? That was true in the old Big East but not anymore. You do know Creighton is in the state of Kansas, DePaul is in Chicago, and Xavier is in Ohio, and if the merger with Gonzaga and St Mary’s takes place, I guess they’ll call it the Coast League (both of them). Lol
 
Next 12 said:
The BIG EAST. Why mess around with a good thing like Uconn has in the BE. Uconn is No.1 in my book and doesn't need a new conference to enhance Uconn's fantastic records of achievements, that will not be overtaken by any other team. Uconn has beaten the best of the besr consistantly and their 11 NCs will never be surpassed except by them! Stay in the BE and enjoy the less traveling the team does and the convenience of knowing your opponents. GO HUSKIES!!!
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You are one hundred percent right. People too often look on the other side of their yard for better pastures when what they have is exactly what they need. Unless I'm mistaken every member of the so-called Power 5 conference watched the Huskies win the National Championship.
 
ucbart said:
These aren't selfish. UCONN is never going to be in the SEC and that conference, along with The B1G are the two gargantuans and will be the only two left standing when the dust settles. They're going to poach the ACC. The Big 12 will survive, but will be the little sister to the two others with the rejects the ACC doesn't want and some of the Pac 12 schools.
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UCBART-thank you. After Clemson and Flordia leave the ACC they will be, fundamentally, what they started out as, a basketball conference. And the "Big 12" without Texas and Oklahoma is more like Snow White and no Dwarfs.
The Big East can survive as a basketball conference as long as they don't attempt to over-extend themselves but fantasizing that they can keep up with the big dogs in the Big 10 and the SEC is suicide. Once Clemson and Flordia State leave they will become the "Big East" of the South.
 
I’d love for the B1G to come to some contractual alliance with the BE. The geography over laps and if BY was any where correct with his vision basketball being undervalued could result in a nice bump for the BE teams and totally lock up NY/NE. Another 13 years of ACC membership and Cuse & BC will be on a par with Buffalo & UMass for fan interest.
And CT could phase in football starting with a scheduling agreement.
 
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NH Husky said:
I’d love for the B1G to come to some contractual alliance with the BE. The geography over laps and if BY was any where correct with his vision basketball being undervalued could result in a nice bump for the BE teams and totally lock up NY/NE. Another 13 years of ACC membership and Cuse & BC will be on a par with Buffalo & UMass for fan interest.
And CT could phase in football starting with a scheduling agreement.
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As a Michigan fan, I would love it if there were some sort of Big10 - Big East alliance.
 
If I could pick one conference and drop UConn into it for all sports, it'd be the B1G at this point. They're stable, and the majority of their schools are within a thousand miles of Connecticut. But I don't actually think any existing power conference will invite UConn to join, ever. It's always gonna be somebody else on the invite list, plus they're consolidating now anyway. We'd have to be part of something totally new and different, and I don't think that happens anytime soon, which means I likely won't be around to enjoy it for very long.
 
Since geography no longer matters, I vote for the SEC.

If I were them, I would (over the next week, decade, 2031-36, etc.) go to 24 by adding FSU, Clemson, Miami, UNC, Duke, VA, Kansas and UConn.

The football is already tops, and pulling in FSU, Clemson and Miami completely locks down their position as the best FB conference for the remainder of the century. But the basketball - that would be bonkers - Kentucky, UNC, Uconn, Duke and Kansas in the same conference.

Also, it is largely comprised of "University of [STATE]/[STATE] State University" that will get top subscriber fees for the SEC network (in multiple new regions) and provides for large, built-in subscriber bases if streaming is the way.
 
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