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Possible Big 12 Invite rumors

Big 12 Yea/ Nay

  • We got no choice

    Votes: 305 46.9%

  • Stay in the Big East

    Votes: 251 38.6%

  • Are we there yet?

    Votes: 94 14.5%
  • Total voters
    650
Rocktheworld said:
This is nice, and the Commissioner can pine for whatever he wants. But it comes down to the schools voting us in, and they culturally dislike us. It’s the ACC all over again; except now, we have an additional 10 years of dismal football and removal from our glory years.
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Time will tell. Why did the ACC culturally "dislike" us?
 
I'm learning so many things about Gonzaga that I never knew before. My god, 5th most popular team in America? UConn at 38?

I find those metrics very hard to believe.

Not to mention that if Mark Few leaves, you might have a Wichita situation on your hands.
 
upstater said:
I'm learning so many things about Gonzaga that I never knew before. My god, 5th most popular team in America? UConn at 38?

I find those metrics very hard to believe.

Not to mention that if Mark Few leaves, you might have a Wichita situation on your hands.
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Assuming this is cherry-picked, very recent (past 10 years) data that doesn't look good for us given the Ollie/AAC years.
 
gmc1055 said:
Said another way Storrs CT is 25 mile from the rest of CT. Its not just the students that fill up the rent. Getting to Storrs on game day will be a nightmare. The rent is centrally located for CT and the anortheast. Bring the teams and they will come.
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This is such a stupid argument. You think Ames Iowa is easy for fans from across the state to get to? How about Manhattan Kansas or Stillwater Oklahoma? The entire point of college teams is to be played for the school. That’s why allllll these other big state schools have their stadiums on campus despite being in the middle of nowhere. If they can do it so can we. But the school and state continue to make stupid decisions. Doesn’t matter how you try and spin it, an off campus stadium just isn’t the same.
 


At least UConn is not the only school getting played here. It looks like the Pac 12 is playing the Big 12 which is playing UConn. To add to UConn's humiliation, the ACC is considering merging with a conference of leftovers on the other side of the continent rather than add UConn.

At UConn's athletic department, they call this "Tuesday".
 
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nelsonmuntz said:


At least UConn is not the only school getting played here. It looks like the Pac 12 is playing the Big 12 which is playing UConn. To add to UConn's humiliation, the ACC is considering merging with a conference of leftovers on the other side of the continent rather than add UConn.

At UConn's athletic department, they call this "Tuesday".
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This is just further evidence of what I said last week, you're in the club or not in the club. Same with Tramel's comments. It solidifies the crystal clear reality that if you do get a chance to "join the club", you have to take it.
 
Rocktheworld said:
This is nice, and the Commissioner can pine for whatever he wants. But it comes down to the schools voting us in, and they culturally dislike us. It’s the ACC all over again; except now, we have an additional 10 years of dismal football and removal from our glory years.
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Maybe we should tell them Connecticut really loves NASCAR???
 
noeynox said:
Time will tell. Why did the ACC culturally "dislike" us?
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A couple years of poor football after a Fiesta Bowl and BC blocking were convenient factors that obscured the fact that, in my opinion, the South doesn’t like the Northeast, and we are behind the 8 ball with anything involving joining Southern conferences. In my opinion, we would have had to be a consistent 9-win team for them to consider overlooking the fact that we are a Northern school.
 
HuskyHawk said:
This is just further evidence of what I said last week, you're in the club or not in the club. Same with Tramel's comments. It solidifies the crystal clear reality that if you do get a chance to "join the club", you have to take it.
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Not UConn fans. B1G or bust baby.
 
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John said:
and the UConn gilgamesh, Jeff Hathaway
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Well. He dodges the bullet cause Herbst canned him and put an interim AD in place that in hindsight came off looking like he couldn't distinguish his left shoe from his right when the emails were leaked.
 
noeynox said:
Not UConn fans. B1G or bust baby.
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Jumping from the BE, with football as an independent, to the B1G is quite a step. This will be compounded by the fact that unless our football program can somehow develop a sufficient enough following to land a TV contract that would at least cut into the difference between what a true major all sports conference earns and what we will get from the BE, there may not be much left to our athletic department by the time the B1G opens their doors.
 
HuskyHawk said:
This is just further evidence of what I said last week, you're in the club or not in the club. Same with Tramel's comments. It solidifies the crystal clear reality that if you do get a chance to "join the club", you have to take it.
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These University Presidents would push each other in front of a high speed train in a heartbeat so let's not pretend there is any loyalty between any of them.
 
Rocktheworld said:
A couple years of poor football after a Fiesta Bowl and BC blocking were convenient factors that obscured the fact that, in my opinion, the South doesn’t like the Northeast, and we are behind the 8 ball with anything involving joining Southern conferences. In my opinion, we would have had to be a consistent 9-win team for them to consider overlooking the fact that we are a Northern school.
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BC is not in the south. Nor Syracuse has really seemed to advocate for us. The only good thing to come out of these snubs is that through it all they've continued to kick ass in BB. And BC despite a decade plus advantage of being P5 vs us G5, basically trotted out a mirroe image FB program out there last year.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
These University Presidents would push each other in front of a high speed train in a heartbeat so let's not pretend there is any loyalty between any of them.
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I doubt that anyone is pretending that. In fact the only comments that make it sound as if any of this is not business decisions and only business decisions are the narrow minded saps whi believe that playing PC is more important than remaining at a high level as an athletic program.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Jumping from the BE, with football as an independent, to the B1G is quite a step. This will be compounded by the fact that unless our football program can somehow develop a sufficient enough following to land a TV contract that would at least cut into the difference between what a true major all sports conference earns and what we will get from the BE, there may not be much left to our athletic department by the time the B1G opens their doors.
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B1G is a pipe dream to all but some BB fans.
 
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noeynox said:
BC is not in the south. Nor Syracuse has really seemed to advocate for us. The only good thing to come out of these snubs is that through it all they've continued to kick ass in BB. And BC despite a decade plus advantage of being P5 vs us G5, basically trotted out a mirroe image FB program out there last year.
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BC, Syracuse and Rutgers all flailing away despite the advantages they have been given probably makes us a harder sell than if they were thriving.
 
HuskyHawk said:
This is just further evidence of what I said last week, you're in the club or not in the club. Same with Tramel's comments. It solidifies the crystal clear reality that if you do get a chance to "join the club", you have to take it.
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I’m afraid that unanimous approval from Big 12 basketball coaches means diddly squat. It feels like the football people are wondering what the he11 Yormark is doing with this UConn talk.

I think those of us in and around the program feel like Mora is more than capable of making UConn competitive in the Big 12. But I don’t think anyone outside the state of Connecticut will see things that way. I think the fact that a guy like Mora took this job in the state the program was in says a lot about the potential of UConn football.
 
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CL82 said:
Lol, what does that even mean?

What we're seeing in the Trammell article is that an off-campus stadium is considered a detriment to our conference realignment chances.
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I’m not so sure the article is saying that. It seems to imply the issue is that the stadium is state-owned and that we get a subsidy from the state The location of the stadium is just kind of mentioned. A lower state subsidy would be less of a big deal if we get a giant payout from a new conference.
 
HuskyHawk said:
This is just further evidence of what I said last week, you're in the club or not in the club. Same with Tramel's comments. It solidifies the crystal clear reality that if you do get a chance to "join the club", you have to take it.
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The question at this point is whether anyone not in the Big Ten or SEC is part of that club. I know it's an interesting off-season topic, but I really think anything that happens now that doesn't involve those two conferences will be rendered moot in ten years time.
 
TRest said:
BC, Syracuse and Rutgers all flailing away despite the advantages they have been given probably makes us a harder sell than if they were thriving.
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Easy counter argument is, "you see them flailing away in BB also? Couldn't be us!"
 
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