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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
JohnFSilver said:
I can’t get to the story. But they haven’t signed it yet. You telling me Oregon and Washington want to sign that GoR?
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Why do people take it personally when a sliver of potentially good news for UConn shows up?
 
Also lets listen to the UofA president or maybe we just listen to the "legit west coast reporter" with anonymous sources.

 
nadav said:
Ok. But Lew Perkins was right.
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Lew stated clearly how we needed to go D1 in football to protect basketball in the shifting conference landscape. If you can explain how D1 football at UConn has done that for MBB, I’m all ears. If you can make the case how it has done that for WBB, I’ll be incredibly impressed.
 
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noeynox said:
Also lets listen to the UofA president or maybe we just listen to the "legit west coast reporter" with anonymous sources.

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Maybe you should listen to the interview before spiking the ball.

The U of A President gives a very bullish interview on the PAC 12, and the headline implies that the league is falling apart. That is a very dishonest tweet.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
Football drives the bus. UConn staying in the Big East means the entire athletic department is going to run at a constant defecit. And that's going to rub a lot of people the wrong way and will eventually hurt both basketball teams. . So you'd rather see UConn stay in the Big East which is a borderline mid major at best at this point and win than go play good schools and possibly lose? That's the most idiotic mentality to have.
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Saying the Big East is a borderline mid-major conference is an absurd thing to say.

It's incredible some of the outlandish things the football fanboys have said on this forum the last few weeks.
 
The "football drives the bus" people ignore that once doctors can diagnose CTE in living people, the number of kids playing football is probably going to drop dramatically, even in the south, and football players and programs may become uninsurable. Or the sport is going to have to change so much that it will be barely be comparable to what we watch today.

That will happen soon. It might be 10 years, it might be 5 years.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The "football drives the bus" people ignore that once doctors can diagnose CTE in living people, the number of kids playing football is probably going to drop dramatically, even in the south, and football players and programs may become uninsurable. Or the sport is going to have to change so much that it will be barely be comparable to what we watch today.

That will happen soon. It might be 10 years, it might be 5 years.
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Totally. Probably shouldn’t have built that ice rink either or soccer stadium. Concussion city with those two.
 
Yeah, considering the concussion issues that Hawkins had when he played here it may be best to just stop playing sports. Nobody will get head injuries if that happens.
 
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nelsonmuntz said:
The "football drives the bus" people ignore that once doctors can diagnose CTE in living people, the number of kids playing football is probably going to drop dramatically, even in the south, and football players and programs may become uninsurable. Or the sport is going to have to change so much that it will be barely be comparable to what we watch today.

That will happen soon. It might be 10 years, it might be 5 years.
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I think it is safe to say that the price of big -time college sports is going up exponentially. Whatever camp you’re in on this conference thing, be prepared to pay for your entertainment. No free lunch.
 
Jbirdp5 said:
Another person who feels the need to talk bad about big east teams for no apparent reason.
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Another person driving by and cherry picking a comment (out of context) in a 86 page thread that has no clue what they are even talking about.
 
Bazz4A said:
The the PAC 12 reaches an agreement to stay together and essentially spurns the Big 12’ advancements, doesn’t that signal the weakness of the Big 12 compared to the other P5s? Why would we want to jump to what could then be argued the weakest P5 conference and getting locked into that instead of retaining flexibility to see how things develop? If the PAC 12 GOR news is correct, that tells us what other schools think of this new Big 12.
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It does only temporarily because the other conferences may be weaker if stripped of their teams for the B1G. Oregon and Washington leave, what does the Pac12 have at that point?
 
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businesslawyer said:
It takes far, far less time to get from Storrs to the Rent than it does from Westwood to Pasadena. Someone should tell the Big Ten this -- it will presumably change its mind on UCLA.
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Counselor: You are far too bright to use this logic. UCLA plays in the Rose Bowl stadium. That is a football mecca. UConn plays in the Rent. That is an aging dump located in a poorly chosen location.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The "football drives the bus" people ignore that once doctors can diagnose CTE in living people, the number of kids playing football is probably going to drop dramatically, even in the south, and football players and programs may become uninsurable. Or the sport is going to have to change so much that it will be barely be comparable to what we watch today.

That will happen soon. It might be 10 years, it might be 5 years.
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I think that is likely a very naive take. Football is not going anywhere anytime soon. Other things will change before the entire sport becomes uninsurable, or there is a noticeable drop in kids playing football to the point where football is not the bus driver anymore. Football is a multi billion dollar industry. Rules for contact in the game will change before anything like that happens.
 
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Rdkid said:
Lew stated clearly how we needed to go D1 in football to protect basketball in the shifting conference landscape. If you can explain how D1 football at UConn has done that for MBB, I’m all ears. If you can make the case how it has done that for WBB, I’ll be incredibly impressed.
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UConn was a decade late from when Lew Perkins said that.

Consider, if UConn was able to do what it did in that first decade a whole decade prior to 2004, it would've been UConn and not BC that joined the ACC. Why did BC get in over UConn?
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Why do people take it personally when a sliver of potentially good news for UConn shows up?
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It would seem that if the pac-12 gets a new deal they will sign if GoR. They don’t have a tv deal. There is no GOR in the table.

I interpreted the tweet from the guy as everything is set and all the teams have agreed to a GOR.

That is not a case.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The "football drives the bus" people ignore that once doctors can diagnose CTE in living people, the number of kids playing football is probably going to drop dramatically, even in the south, and football players and programs may become uninsurable. Or the sport is going to have to change so much that it will be barely be comparable to what we watch today.

That will happen soon. It might be 10 years, it might be 5 years.
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Soccer is the big issue with CTE in modern childhood population.
 
JohnFSilver said:
It would seem that if the pac-12 gets a new deal they will sign if GoR. They don’t have a tv deal. There is no GOR in the table.

I interpreted the tweet from the guy as everything is set and all the teams have agreed to a GOR.

That is not a case.
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Listen to what John is saying. There is a lot of smoke being sent out just as Colorado plans to leave the Pac 12.
 
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nadav said:
Another person driving by and cherry picking a comment (out of context) in a 86 page thread that has no clue what they are even talking about.
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You’re right you are very smart and I have no clue. You want to go to the big 12 that’s fine and maybe the right move, but the need for some to disrespect the big east on the way out doesn’t say smart it screams classless.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The "football drives the bus" people ignore that once doctors can diagnose CTE in living people, the number of kids playing football is probably going to drop dramatically, even in the south, and football players and programs may become uninsurable. Or the sport is going to have to change so much that it will be barely be comparable to what we watch today.

That will happen soon. It might be 10 years, it might be 5 years.
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Nope.

Tonight, I am heading to my 2 sons' parent/player meeting for their HS football season for next year. I guarantee that out of the 125 kids and 75+ parents not one would walk out if they were told that doctors are close to diagnosing CTE in living people and I'm in MA never mind the South. Football is still king and young men will always want to play it with their parents cheering them on. Heck, I'm more worried when they drive out of the driveway which is a hell a lot more dangerous and yet still insurable.
 
RayIsTheGOAT said:
I think that is likely a very naive take. Football is not going anywhere anytime soon. Other things will change before the entire sport becomes uninsurable, or there is a noticeable drop in kids playing football to the point where football is not the bus driver anymore. Football is a multi billion dollar industry. Rules for contact in the game will change before anything like that happens.

Nevermind the fact that many people in the southeastern part of the US simply don’t care about the long term effects of CTE on their health.
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Here for a good time not a long time.

Rules have changed. It has made players like Ronnie Lott, Steve Atwater, and Chuck Cecil obsolete. That safety with no coverage skills that would just decleat dudes that came over the middle. Those guys couldn't play in today's NFL. You can't crack block anymore. I think we will see the kickoff taken out completely soon or maybe make it an end of half option. The NFL makes more money than anyone. It isn't going anywhere.
 
noeynox said:
Here for a good time not a long time.

Rules have changed. It has made players like Ronnie Lott, Steve Atwater, and Chuck Cecil obsolete. That safety with no coverage skills that would just decleat dudes that came over the middle. Those guys couldn't play in today's NFL. You can't crack block anymore. I think we will see the kickoff taken out completely soon or maybe make it an end of half option. The NFL makes more money than anyone. It isn't going anywhere.
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Then why increase the amount of games then, they need to expand rosters practice squad guys should on active rosters. Give teams two byw weeks. The XFL and USFL should be working with the NFL use those leagues as a feeder system with the NFL.
 
Wow it has gotten pretty confrontational in this thread! it is all about and will always be about the money. I know everybody understands this, so it seems there is no reason to debate this issue. We all love the Big East but we can’t just think about basketball. Especially when we are through our own mis management operating the athletic department at a loss. If we get invited there really is no decision to make. It sucks for all of us big east loyalist but really no reason to get this worked up about it.
 
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