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Positives of playing in the big east

I prefer being in the new BE to the freakin’ AAC. But that being said, I only get really excited for games against former BE schools. My endless sentimental side would give anything to bring back Cuse and BCU etc and tell the add ons to go find their own league. Since that will never happen, we need to try to go where the $$ is before the whole thing implodes.
 
It’s nice to have a mostly regional conference in a world where regional conferences don’t really matter anymore

It’s also nice to have the best conference tournament in the country at MSG

The Big East has also won 40% of the last 10 titles. So there’s that

TBD what the future holds!
 
FfldCntyFan said:
So your stance is that we should say no if the B1G offered us a spot?
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Is your stance that we should complain about something every single day in every single thread when there is not a single person in the UConn community that can do anything about it?
 
uconn_jack said:
Than the AAC? Absolutely. Would it be worse in the ACC or B12? I doubt it.
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I didn't argue hypotheticals, didn't know that was the discussion. Just pointed out the obvious and what Hurley said

Not sure how much any conference can help us with recruiting. We're already arguably the best program in the country. We can't get better on the basketball courts

I'm going to suggest Cuse and BC and Pitt and WVU and VT and Louisville and Miami all thought they were heading for greener pastures. To date, they have failed

More money would be nice, it would help the athletic department as a whole. But our basketball programs have nowhere to go but down. Although we may stay on the same plateau, nobody else has
 
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willie99 said:
I didn't argue hypotheticals, didn't know that was the discussion. Just pointed out the obvious and what Hurley said

Not sure how much any conference can help us with recruiting. We're already arguably the best program in the country. We can't get better on the basketball courts

I'm going to suggest Cuse and BC and Pitt and WVU and VT and Louisville and Miami all thought they were heading for greener pastures. To date, they have failed

More money would be nice, it would help the athletic department as a whole. But our basketball programs have nowhere to go but down. Although we may stay on the same plateau, nobody else has
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UConn is well-positioned to compete effectively in NIL in the Big East. So are all the teams. Paying players is a different story. Not having a football program pulling out $20 million in payroll helps the basketball program, but we really could use a better TV deal.

Unfortunately, that door is closed unless there is some kind of major shock to the system. It is unlikely that any school is ever going to get full membership in a P4 league again without a major shock. Just look at what happened to the Pac 12 schools. So whenever someone says "why wouldn't we join the ACC", the answer is A) we would be at a permanent competitive disadvantage to the other schools by design because they would never give us full membership, and B) we will not be invited until the ACC is in such bad shape that there would be no point in joining.

There are three realistic "shock to the system" scenarios that may actually happen, and then a bunch of minor ones that are distant, distant possibilities. The ones that may happen:

1) Football breaks off - football is putting enormous pressure on the other parts of the athletic department, and with the House settlement, it is a massive cash drain at even many of the P4 schools. I could see football breaking off completely from the other sports, with separate conference affiliations and TV contracts.

2) Prestige schools split - I am surprised that Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Stanford, Cal, Rice and Duke continue to compete in leagues with some of the other schools they are with. Their alumni do not care at all about these schools, and with football suddenly more expensive, conference affiliation is not just free money anymore. If those 6 schools split off to form a new league, there would be 20-30 schools that would be desperate to claw their way into it. Notre Dame would probably give up football independence to join that league. There would be a backfill opportunity if this happened.

3) Big East/ACC merger - Conferences are just TV negotiating coops at this point, so who cares who is in a league with who, as long as all the schools have the resources to compete. If the ACC fanboys are looking for a way for UConn to get into the ACC, this is by far the most likely, because it would not cost the ACC much of anything since the Big East would bring its TV contracts with it.

If you want to get UConn into a P4, these are the ways it could realistically happen. Complaining about it endlessly is not one of the options likely to result in a successful outcome.
 
^^^^^

If we keep winning national championships, somebody might decide they can use us to help them with basketball (and the Northeast BTW)

That's my dream, and I prefer the B10 (hockey, baseball, football)
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Is your stance that we should complain about something every single day in every single thread when there is not a single person in the UConn community that can do anything about it?
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Tis true, makes no sense to complain as it's our situation. Simply want our BE brothers to figure out ways to get their programs to a winning level. I'm not expecting top to bottom, but it would be nice to have 3-5 programs that are battling it out for spots in the top 25 annually. It's nice to see a ranking next to the opponents name here and there.
 
uconnyankee said:
This isn’t the Big East. It’s a league that bought the name.
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I’ve actually always wondered about this too. Did the AAC inadvertently destroy itself by selling the naming rights?

Obviously, the big names would’ve still left for power conferences.

I guess my question is - does UConn join this conference if it were called the BIG NORTH?
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
Is your stance that we should complain about something every single day in every single thread when there is not a single person in the UConn community that can do anything about it?
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Other than show up to games we can't do anything about anything regarding UConn basketball. They don't let me run practices
 
bendm said:
Sure but in this hypo Dan has already been at Rutgers for 8 years. Dusty May turned michigan around in his first year and is going to compete for a chip in his second so it can happen more quickly, especially if you have BIG10 money to spend.
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If you don’t believe that coaching matters, take a look at Indiana football.
 
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Here's an advantage:



It's always entertaining to see Providence fans, imagining themselves as the little engine that could.
 
Since this has devolved into another conference realignment thread, here's a serious question (Seriously. Not trying to be snarky.): Would you rather be Gonzaga or Syracuse? I don't know the answer. I think short-term, it would be nicer to be Gonzaga, but in the long term I would have to imagine it's better to be Syracuse. (It pains me just to write that.)
 
lonsharkin51 said:
Since this has devolved into another conference realignment thread, here's a serious question (Seriously. Not trying to be snarky.): Would you rather be Gonzaga or Syracuse? I don't know the answer. I think short-term, it would be nicer to be Gonzaga, but in the long term I would have to imagine it's better to be Syracuse. (It pains me just to write that.)
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With the UConn infrastructure, easily Cuse. Zags are an anomaly, one of a kind as a small private school with a savant of a hoops coach.
 
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lonsharkin51 said:
Since this has devolved into another conference realignment thread, here's a serious question (Seriously. Not trying to be snarky.): Would you rather be Gonzaga or Syracuse? I don't know the answer. I think short-term, it would be nicer to be Gonzaga, but in the long term I would have to imagine it's better to be Syracuse. (It pains me just to write that.)
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I don't undertand the question? Gonzaga is good and Syracuse sucks. UConn is the best program in the country. Why would we want to be either of them?
 
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