The stars have aligned. Now is the time to be bold and aggressive.

[Fishy]

I gotta update some teams that changed since I made the master file (I had current conference, future conference, that CSFL proposal [from 2024], all sorts of crap). I'll just leave you with that favorite map I alluded to earlier:
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This seems so workable for road trips, don't you think, besides it gives Iowa, Michigan State, and Penn State a solid icon buddy compared to letter members. 😅 Of course, I have better odds of having a 10 meter wide diamond meteorite fall in my backyard, but a man can dream, can't he?

I endorse your plan.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

There is definitely a much more positive view by the talking heads, podcasters, and Big12 fans regarding UConn's potential being in that conference as opposed to just a year ago. I guess that's what another year of UConn's basketball excellence and football competitiveness does as well as more of a realization of the Big12's station in life as opposed to the Big10 and SEC. I follow realignment pretty closely on all the online platforms and the upgraded view of UConn over the past year is as big a one-year lift for any school as I've seen over the past decade.

 

[CL82]

It's always good to be talked about, but these guys are pretty clueless. They get a ton of stuff wrong and yet pitch it like it is absolute fact. I hate the whole UConn's been bad for 20 years narrative. We know that's not accurate. Within 20 years we've gone to a Fiesta Bowl, beaten Notre Dame at Notre Dame beaten South Carolina in a bowl game, etc. but again it's good to have at least some positive buzz meeting is individually about joining the big 12.

 

[Purple Stein]

It's always good to be talked about, but these guys are pretty clueless. They get a ton of stuff wrong and yet pitch it like it is absolute fact. I hate the whole. Yukon's been bad for 20 years narrative. We know that's not accurate. Within 20 years we've gone to a Fiesta Bowl, beaten Notre Dame at Notre Dame beaten South Carolina in a bowl, game, etc. but again it's good to have at least some positive buzz meeting is individually about joining the big 12.

We're fighting our reputation, not the facts.

Our reputation was absolutely in the toilet. It's a long slog out of the stink.

 

[CL82]

We're fighting our reputation, not the facts.

Our reputation was absolutely in the toilet. It's a long slog out of the stink.

Honestly, I think we've climbed out of the toilet bowl and onto the rim during the Mora era. If Candle keeps it going, we may be onto the tank soon. But yeah, a decade and a half of suck buries you pretty deep in the stink.

 

[Waquoit]

I would like the OP to define "bold and aggressive".

 

[freescooter]

I don’t think the Big 10 is necessarily the best in the big picture. They had a good run in the tourney but that happens sometimes. They should probably put up more than one title before they get too big for their britches. When you have 10 teams or whatever, getting two to the FF isn’t unheard of at all.

The original Big East used to do it on a pretty regular basis.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

U of Arizona was down to 3 months of cash left in 2023. There are a lot of schools that are going to strongly reassess what they are doing with their athletic programs in the next few years. I expect more to take the BCU approach. They get paid whether they are good or not, so why not just suck and save a lot of money?

 

[Fishy]

U of Arizona was down to 3 months of cash left in 2023. There are a lot of schools that are going to strongly reassess what they are doing with their athletic programs in the next few years. I expect more to take the BCU approach. They get paid whether they are good or not, so why not just suck and save a lot of money?

I am more impressed by the schools that go broke and still suck.

Rutgers has lost a half-billion dollars in a decade for two bowl wins. You show me another school that lost $250,000,000 to win the Quick Lane Bowl 12 years ago.

 

[BugsyCT]

It's always good to be talked about, but these guys are pretty clueless. They get a ton of stuff wrong and yet pitch it like it is absolute fact. I hate the whole UConn's been bad for 20 years narrative. We know that's not accurate. Within 20 years we've gone to a Fiesta Bowl, beaten Notre Dame at Notre Dame beaten South Carolina in a bowl game, etc. but again it's good to have at least some positive buzz meeting is individually about joining the big 12.

A few things about their arguments:

1) UConn was good in the 2000s (2 shares of BE titles, 5 bowl games, one of them a BCS bowl). It's the 2010s when we fell off a cliff into the abyss.

2) They're talking about geography when we have Stanford & Cal in the ACC, and USC, UCLA, UWash & Oregon in the same megaconference as Rutgers & Maryland. Do they really care that UConn is tucked in the Northeast?

3) They pointed out UConn's been doing this without a football conference for several years, and KU has had a long stretch of lousy football as well but with B12 resources, plus NIL can change programs in 1-2 years. Look at Indiana.

The football can hold its own in the B12 in today's game. The basketball is too elite to not be worth enough alone to be in a P4 conference.

 

[freescooter]

I am more impressed by the schools that go broke and still suck.

Rutgers has lost a half-billion dollars in a decade for two bowl wins. You show me another school that lost $250,000,000 to win the Quick Lane Bowl 12 years ago.

Rutgers gonna Rutgers. That is a program that went a quarter of a century without a winning season. Thier current performance is the golden age by Rutgers standards.

 

[Kolumbo]

I am more impressed by the schools that go broke and still suck.

Rutgers has lost a half-billion dollars in a decade for two bowl wins. You show me another school that lost $250,000,000 to win the Quick Lane Bowl 12 years ago.

Rutgers gonna Rutgers. That is a program that went a quarter of a century without a winning season. Thier current performance is the golden age by Rutgers standards.

It's New Jersey. Lot's of folks know rutgers is simply a conduit for them to get wealthy regardless of what actually happens on the field.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Asking nicely is not being "Bold and Aggressive".

I have said it before and will say it again, UConn should merge with SUNY, or with UMass. Screw it, merge with all the New England state schools, making UConn Storrs the anchor campus. Those would big moves academically and athletically. You could cut out tens of millions of overhead, provide a better academic experience, and enable the school to keep all the weird majors.

That school would be a massive, highly respected university with a huge alumni base that would need to be added to a major conference.

 

[Kolumbo]

I know this is offtrack but since the place was mentioned here

 

[CL82]

When removing student fees ($138.1M), university support ($146.2M) and state funding ($42.1M) from the revenue total, Rutgers’ deficit since joining the Big Ten surpasses $516 million, marking the biggest in the league by a significant margin.

😳

 

[nelsonmuntz]

I know this is offtrack but since the place was mentioned here

If he didn’t want corruption and waste, he shouldn’t have moved to New Jersey.

 

[freescooter]

I know this is offtrack but since the place was mentioned here

Guy’s a dope. You don’t like how things are run, run for the NJ legislature, governor or get appointed to the Rutgers Bd of Trustees. What’s next? Suing because you don’t like the brand of ice cream they serve in the dining halls. If they switched to generic brand the meal plan could have saved 500 over the past 5 years.

 

[Stinger92860]

Guy’s a dope. You don’t like how things are run, run for the NJ legislature, governor or get appointed to the Rutgers Bd of Trustees. What’s next? Suing because you don’t like the brand of ice cream they serve in the dining halls. If they switched to generic brand the meal plan could have saved 500 over the past 5 years.

I believe the ice cream changed when Bischoff’s shut their doors, it’s Hoffman’s now. 😂

 

[CL82]

get appointed to the Rutgers Bd of Trustees

Because, pretty much if you just ask nicely, you could be on the Rutgers Board of trustees?

 

[CL82]

I believe the ice cream changed when Bischoff’s shut their doors, it’s Hoffman’s now. 😂

Pssh, I have no respect for any so-called institution of higher learning that doesn't make their own ice cream on campus.

 

[freescooter]

Because, pretty much if you just ask nicely, you could be on the Rutgers Board of trustees?

It would require putting in some effort. But the guy is apparently a retired judge. I bet he knows a couple of politicians who could certainly help. They probably wouldn’t though. They probably think he is a dope, too.

 

[CL82]

It would require putting in some effort. But the guy is apparently a retired judge. I bet he knows a couple of politicians who could certainly help. They probably wouldn’t though. They probably think he is a dope, too.

I have a friend who is significant booster at Rutgers, along with his in-laws, (and his wife is in the administration). Next time he and I connect, I will ask him. I can pretty much guess what his response will be though.