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Cincy and either BYU or UCF. Cincy will never rock Ohio but gives them some recruiting benefits. Still not great I think.
 
We are soooo screwed, its beyond any stretch of imagination. Imagine the best National Basketball program in the last 20 years, and nobody cares.
 
CTMike said:
1) if you took several dumpsters, lit them on fire, then put them in a larger dumpster that was also on fire, that is our football team.
2) we are a million miles away from the Big 12
3) SH and WM could offer every B12 school admin free BJs for life and when they don't invite us to join, the BY will just chalk it up to some version of "donuts" or "monitoring".
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literally just burst out laughing in the library reading #1. well done.
 
Oklahoma not flying all the way here play at the Rent in front of 25K. Not in my lifetime.

They made the exception for WVU. It fits in. No academics no classes. Nobody graduates.
 
rich1122 said:
Oklahoma not flying all the way here play at the Rent in front of 25K. Not in my lifetime.

They made the exception for WVU. It fits in. No academics no classes. Nobody graduates.
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If Oklahoma comes to the rent do you really think that 25k fans will be in attendance? Everyone new ( even though it was a close game) that we were going to lose to Michigan and the rent was a sold out. If Oklahoma comes to the rent expect another sell out.
 
UconnFamily said:
If Oklahoma comes to the rent do you really think that 25k fans will be in attendance? Everyone new ( even though it was a close game) that we were going to lose to Michigan and the rent was a sold out. If Oklahoma comes to the rent expect another sell out.
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Yeah that was a really stupid comment. Doesn't change the fact that we won't sniff the Big 12's list.
 
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Quick question from an interested third party - doesn't the B10 required AAU membership for its schools? Is UCONN an AAU member?
 
UconnFamily said:
If Oklahoma comes to the rent do you really think that 25k fans will be in attendance? Everyone new ( even though it was a close game) that we were going to lose to Michigan and the rent was a sold out. If Oklahoma comes to the rent expect another sell out.
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With 50% being OK fans. Maybe??
 
Can we please stop now?

McMurphy:
Every person I spoke to today that’s from Big 12 or Big 12 school: league is not expanding
 
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Reading the replies to McMurphy's tweet is like reading the Cliff Notes on years of dumb CR posts.
 
whaler11 said:
Can we please stop now?

McMurphy:
Every person I spoke to today that’s from Big 12 or Big 12 school: league is not expanding
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We just lost to Yale in basketball, followed that up with a loss to the worst FBS football team since 2004 and all Bob Fiasco can talk about is the process and our women's team even lost a game this year. These are arguably the darkest days in UCONN history as we're about to embark on a winter of basketball games against Tulane, ECU,, Tulsa, and UCF. Our next football game is against a Villanova team that is better than us and you can't allow us to dream?
 
UC990411 said:
We just lost to Yale in basketball, followed that up with a loss to the worst FBS football team since 2004 and all Bob Fiasco can talk about is the process and our women's team even lost a game this year. These are arguably the darkest days in UCONN history as we're about to embark on a winter of basketball games against Tulane, ECU,, Tulsa, and UCF. Our next football game is against a Villanova team that is better than us and you can't allow us to dream?
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The Big 12 expanding is bad for UConn so I'm not sure what you are dreaming about?
 
The only Big we are getting into is a Bigger pile of ShIt. If the dopes in Storrs can't manage a move with two national basketball championships in hand, then they couldn't sell a life raft to a drowning man.
 
BlueDogs said:
The only Big we are getting into is a Bigger pile of . If the dopes in Storrs can't manage a move with two national basketball championships in hand, then they couldn't sell a life raft to a drowning man.
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Nice analogy, but it's backwards - we are the drowning man and the P5 conferences have the life raft. If basketball championships had any value in conference realignment, the other guys would have sent the yacht from Wolf of Wall Street over to rescue us years ago. The fact that they haven't should tell you how much they care about bball trophies.
 
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zls44 said:
Hardly.

UConn cannot increase overall revenue for each member by an amount that exceeds the dilution of revenue for each current member.

This isn't rocket science. It's basic math.
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In some cases that's true (as I believe you are referring to the Big12 in this case) but it seems to be a lot of these moves have been made to open up and renegotiate existing deals. For instance the ACC deal that was reopened after Syracuse and Pitt joined went up significantly and aside from their message boards everyone realizes it wasn't Pitt and Syracuse that paid for themselves and brought extra tv value.

Who knows? Maybe a conference title game, added inventory and two national brands (BYU football and UConn basketball) both coming on as "junior members" makes financial sense.
 
LetsGoNova said:
Quick question from an interested third party - doesn't the B10 required AAU membership for its schools? Is UCONN an AAU member?
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Yes. and no... and we would need to increase The Rent's seating to over 50K seats.
 
Another interesting fact to note (not that it would matter, but) none of the Big XII schools have a D1 Ice Hockey program... Clearly we would stay in Hockey East, but if you looked at a UConn move to the B1G, would the conference force them to also join the new B1G Hockey conference too? Probably so...
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
Another interesting fact to note (not that it would matter, but) none of the Big XII schools have a D1 Ice Hockey program... Clearly we would stay in Hockey East, but if you looked at a UConn move to the B1G, would the conference force them to also join the new B1G Hockey conference too? Probably so...
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No problem. Plenty of room to continue playing Northeast teams OOC.
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
Yeah, but Cincy has poor facilities, and not a great Football market for the college game because of pro competition and OSU dominating the market there.
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No... The only antiquated facility at UC today, is 5/3rd arena and the university already agreed to renovate that.
You've got the recently opened Linder Center http://www.gobearcats.com/strength/cinn-strength.html
The Sheakley Athletics Center built in 2012 http://www.gobearcats.com/facilities/sheakley.html
and a renovated Nippert Stadium. I'm sorry but the idea, that we still have old facilities is non-sense.
 
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Carl Spackler said:
Jim Delany is the only guy that really can make UCONN work, the way it can and should, to help a high level money making athletic conference. UCONN men's basketball, would legitimize the BTN network as a winter sports network in the entire northeast demographic. UCONN football, with the University of New Jersey, would give the BTN network two scheduling options to have at least one game on every weekend in the Northeast Demographic. The university fits the entire academic and athletic mission of the conference.

That this has not happened yet - is mind boggling.
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UConn is still not a member of the AAU which is pretty much a requirement for Big 10 members (other than Nebraska apparently). I think once UConn get's the AAU status and some wins under our belt next season, talk to start to heat up.
 
Shifty said:
No... The only antiquated facility at UC today, is 5/3rd arena and the university already agreed to renovate that.
You've got the recently opened Linder Center http://www.gobearcats.com/strength/cinn-strength.html
The Sheakley Athletics Center built in 2012 http://www.gobearcats.com/facilities/sheakley.html
and a renovated Nippert Stadium. I'm sorry but the idea, that we still have old facilities is non-sense.
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WE (as in UConn doesn't have old facilities) you're right. Nippert is a joke of a stadium in the Big XII... Let's be honest. Have you ever seen the stadiums Texas, Oklahoma, or Texas Tech play in. Cincy doesn't hold a candle to those places and they never will because Ohio State rules that market- not the Bearcats. UConn on the other hand could have a lone dominance in the Northeast and re-kindle a rivalry with West Virginia in the Big XII.
 
SonsOfNutmeg said:
WE (as in UConn doesn't have old facilities) you're right. Nippert is a joke of a stadium in the Big XII... Let's be honest. Have you ever seen the stadiums Texas, Oklahoma, or Texas Tech play in.
Cincy doesn't hold a candle to those places and they never will because Ohio State rules that market- not the Bearcats. UConn on the other hand could have a lone dominance in the Northeast and re-kindle a rivalry with West Virginia in the Big XII.
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I guess my reply to that would be that the Rent is cold, sterile and pretty far away from your main campus. With no atmosphere or real home field advantage. Kind of a boring place to catch a football game. The renovated Nippert will have nicer concourses, brand new luxury boxes and be a hell of a lot louder than Rentschler. It's also part of campus and has history to it. The Rent by contrast, is pretty much just an open, bare bones, grey stadium in a parking lot.
Then there's the factor of buzz. When we're winning we have more fan support than your football program does. Which is a shame, if it had half of what your basketball program gets, you'd probably be in the Big 10 or ACC now. I think back to the Kelly days when there was a great deal of hype surrounding our football program. A ticket to the big show, would get us even better recruits and more press. It's not like the Bungles or Reds are worth noting.

As far as the Big 12 stadium bit, there are few stadiums that compete with Texas Memorial Stadium, even in the same conference and yours doesn't either. More over, we have a pro stadium and an NFL franchise who uses our practice facilities and sometimes hosts our pro days, as well as letting us use their field when needed(like this entire past season). By contrast, you don't really know whether the Pats will let you use Foxboro or not. So, could you accommodate their crowds? Could you battle for recruits in their territory also? Seems like a bit of a culture clash not to mention the weather. I don't know that you would dominate the Northeast, when you are predominantly playing teams in a conference that are from the Midwest and southern plains.

Besides, we already have a rivalry with the couch burners. With us and Memphis, you gain two traditional rivals(going back all the way to the metro conference), the liberty bowl(the stadium), and close proximity to WVU. Not to mention, fertile recruiting ground, which isn't in the northeast.

Football is a bible/rust belt sport. Not an East Coast sport.
 
DoctorWho85 said:
UConn is still not a member of the AAU which is pretty much a requirement for Big 10 members (other than Nebraska apparently). I think once UConn get's the AAU status and some wins under our belt next season, talk to start to heat up.
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I, we, and they have been talking about AAU for years now, too. When does that ship come in?
 
Memphis and Cincy package deal. Fred Smith doing his thing $$$. Thank you FedEx. They can use our university to fullfill their ambitions all the want.
 
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