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Rumor- UCONN Pursuing ACC Membership?

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navery12 said:
Yes, we're pursuing it the same way we have for a decade plus

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Wish I could like it and laugh at it at the same time. We need a Captain Obvious emoji to react to the OP's twitter link (Geared towards the content of the tweet).
 
Exit fees will not delay the process. UConn will go when and if the ACC comes calling. The athletic dumpster fire that is BCU will not be an obstacle this time as BCU brings no TV ratings or appeal in New England or anywhere else. The bigger issue is whether Clemson, FSU and the other historically significant football schools would want UConn. I think the ACC would need to see another year or two of football competency before anything happens.
 
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UConnRock said:
Exit fees will not delay the process. UConn will go when and if the ACC comes calling. The athletic dumpster fire that is BCU will not be an obstacle this time as BCU brings no TV ratings or appeal in New England or anywhere else. The bigger issue is whether Clemson, FSU and the other historically significant football schools would want UConn. I think the ACC would need to see another year or two of football competency before anything happens.
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Don’t worry. Clemson and FSU are damaged brands. Not saying I believe the rumor
 
The only way the ACC considers taking UCONN now is because they believe there are pending departures and UCONN provides the best value to fill vacancies. I have to believe that some of the programs in the ACC are losing their collective minds watching what's going on with the SEC and BiG, but if the GOR has them unequivocally locked in, then no one is leaving and UCONN isn't getting in.

my two cents......
 
Taking BC, Miami, VaTech was football related w/ Miami being the big prize. The 2nd phase (L’ville, Syracuse, Pitt) while still having a football focus, was also an attempt to put the screws to BE basketball and bring the league to A10 status. In the interim UConn won a title in the AAC and Nova won hoops titles in the BE. The BE remains a basketball recruiting pain for Pitt, Syracuse, BC and others. If the ACC wants to take another shot at the BE, UConn is the only target. UConn will do more for TV ratings than most of the current ACC. UConn just has to overcome the stigma of a floundering football program and then something could happen.
 
UConnRock said:
Exit fees will not delay the process. UConn will go when and if the ACC comes calling. The athletic dumpster fire that is BCU will not be an obstacle this time as BCU brings no TV ratings or appeal in New England or anywhere else. The bigger issue is whether Clemson, FSU and the other historically significant football schools would want UConn. I think the ACC would need to see another year or two of football competency before anything happens.
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The BCU vetoed UConn story is a myth. The obstacles were Clemson and FSU, who thought that they needed to protect their football product.
 
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Palatine said:
The BCU vetoed UConn story is a myth. The obstacles were Clemson and FSU, who thought that they needed to protect their football product.
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Different expansion moments. When the ACC added Syracuse and Pitt, the initial idea was Syracuse and us but they needed to be quiet and quick about it. BC was one of three schools in the committee and they made it clear they would fight a UConn addition, which would have prevented the opportunities to be quiet and quick.

When Maryland left for the B1G, FSU and Clemson threatened to leave for the B-12 if the conference chose us over Louisville.
 
DeFillipo was quoted in the press as stating that BC would protect their territory from UCONN. He was roundly told to STFU for that, but it was out there none the less. He has to be one of the most myopic business people on the planet. BC athletics is completely uncompetitive in the ACC with a basketball program that might be a middle run American East program........might be......
 
I am in the camp that we are a potential target for the Big XII and what it is trying to accomplish. Any discussion about UConn/ACC would be borne of the ACC sharing that perception.
 
WestHartHusk said:
I am in the camp that we are a potential target for the Big XII and what it is trying to accomplish. Any discussion about UConn/ACC would be borne of the ACC sharing that perception.
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I'm in the camp that believes the B12's door knocking has given the ammo AD David Benedict needed to push the ACC off the fence.

The question is, how many years are we stuck as "junior" members and will a more cost conscience ESPN play ball.
 
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uconndogs said:
He has to be one of the most myopic business people on the planet. BC athletics is completely uncompetitive in the ACC with a basketball program that might be a middle run American East program........might be......
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Cuse pulled up the rope as well. Freezing us out left them both on an island. Dopes.
 
Waquoit said:
Cuse pulled up the rope as well. Freezing us out left them both on an island. Dopes.
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Would love to see a poll of 'cuse fans asking if UConn to the ACC helps make their program more relevant and exciting would they want UConn in ACC?
 
Chin Diesel said:
Would love to see a poll of 'cuse fans asking if UConn to the ACC helps make their program more relevant and exciting would they want UConn in ACC?
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I imagine many would not be in favor and view UCONN in the conference as a competitive threat. That's understandable, because on a level playing field (conference affiliation) UCONN did just fine against the Orange on both the hardwood and the grid iron. That said, both athletic departments would gain from the regional rivalry and the same can be said for BC.
 
Palatine said:
The BCU vetoed UConn story is a myth. The obstacles were Clemson and FSU, who thought that they needed to protect their football product.
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An article in The Boston Globe on Sunday became the talk of college athletics, as it reported just how brazen and blatant Boston College’s blocking of Connecticut’s move to the Atlantic Coast Conference was.

“We didn’t want them in,” Boston College’s athletic director, Gene DeFilippo, told The Globe. “It was a matter of turf. We wanted to be the New England team.”

The most stunning comment in the article was DeFilippo’s public admission that ESPN guided the A.C.C.’s decision to add Syracuse and Pittsburgh last month. “We always keep our television partners close to us,” DeFilippo told The Globe. “You don’t get extra money for basketball. It’s 85 percent football money. TV — ESPN — is the one who told us what to do. This was football; it had nothing to do with basketball.”

DeFilippo’s comments give credence to the popular theory that ESPN encouraged Pittsburgh and Syracuse’s exit from the Big East in the wake of the Big East’s turning down ESPN’s billion dollar television deal in May during an exclusive negotiating window. ESPN has a billion dollar deal with the A.C.C., making that move either savvy business or collusion, depending on one’s perspective.

www.nytimes.com

Conference Instability Is Filtering Down to the Next Level (Published 2011)

Below the Football Bowl Subdivision, officials from more basketball-heavy leagues wonder which of their members might be poached and what colleges they might add.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
 
jostar1 said:
An article in The Boston Globe on Sunday became the talk of college athletics, as it reported just how brazen and blatant Boston College’s blocking of Connecticut’s move to the Atlantic Coast Conference was.

“We didn’t want them in,” Boston College’s athletic director, Gene DeFilippo, told The Globe. “It was a matter of turf. We wanted to be the New England team.”

The most stunning comment in the article was DeFilippo’s public admission that ESPN guided the A.C.C.’s decision to add Syracuse and Pittsburgh last month. “We always keep our television partners close to us,” DeFilippo told The Globe. “You don’t get extra money for basketball. It’s 85 percent football money. TV — ESPN — is the one who told us what to do. This was football; it had nothing to do with basketball.”

DeFilippo’s comments give credence to the popular theory that ESPN encouraged Pittsburgh and Syracuse’s exit from the Big East in the wake of the Big East’s turning down ESPN’s billion dollar television deal in May during an exclusive negotiating window. ESPN has a billion dollar deal with the A.C.C., making that move either savvy business or collusion, depending on one’s perspective.

www.nytimes.com

Conference Instability Is Filtering Down to the Next Level (Published 2011)

Below the Football Bowl Subdivision, officials from more basketball-heavy leagues wonder which of their members might be poached and what colleges they might add.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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Both statements can be true at the same time. BCU could have been adamant about not wanting UConn in. At the same time there needed to be other schools besides BCU who didn't want UConn in the conference. In other words BCU's position isn't what swayed other schools to vote against UConn, rather those schools had their own reasons.
 
Just remember all of the angst towards BC, Syracuse and Pitt when the topic of UMass comes up for Big East expansion. I've seen plenty of people on this board say that UConn shouldn't allow UMass in because we should be the flagship New England public school athletically.

Now, I do think the BC, Syracuse and Pitt situation is different. First, we were long time partners. Granted, in sports, your partners are your rivals. But there should have been some loyalty or brotherhood. Second (and more importantly), those three schools made a strategic mistake. They joined a southern conference and should have brought as many northeast "friends" as possible. It was stupid to think that each was strong enough to own an entire region on their own. Same thing happened with UConn in the AAC (but that wasn't our choice). Now none of them have any power to bring in a UConn because they suck and are outnumbered by football southern schools.

I'd be surprised if the ACC ever takes UConn before they, themselves, get pillaged by the B10 or SEC. That being said, @WestHartHusk's theory is the only one that can hold water. If there is an ACC interest now, it would only be because we could be taken off the table. Otherwise, we're just a booty call that can be made at any time without fear of rejection.
 
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