I love when people just assume schools can up and move to whatever conference they want. If a team gets good in the Big 12, they can't just invite themselves to the B1G or SEC. I think those two conferences have their wish lists and I don't believe any current Big 12 schools are on it. I also think it's asinine to say Big 12 football is dead.
I didn't say they COULD leave but that doesn't mean they wouldn't WANT to. No schools in the ACC or B12 want to stay and would leave immediately given the opportunity.
you know what's really dead? Big East football. You know what's a slow-moving terminal illness? Independence.
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Kind of sick of reading this type of story. There was so much talk of this last year. God knows I posted much of it. Note there is no mention of UConn joining the Big 12 in this story.
College sports is run by football, so why is the Big 12 betting big on basketball?
The future of the Big 12 Conference could hinge on the success of branding itself as America’s top basketball league.
Big12 is moving to a 20-conference game schedule, and I would not be surprised if the exclusivity of Power conference games starts taking place. The whole goal is to separate and weed out the have-nots.
Yeah no.
The BE will have a seat at the kids table in the other room.
Both the Big East and Big 12 will have 20 game conference schedules next year so it's hard to fit in these games especially when there are so many other one off game opportunities for the top schools. Add in that Big 12 is a hybrid ESPN/FOX property and it gets even more complicated. Remember the Big 10/ACC challenge? Well it stopped when the Big 10 moved to FOX and replaced by the ACC/SEC challenge, both ESPN properties.
Well, I always preferred the kids table anyway.
What are you even talking about
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I really really really wish that was the case, but I feel we're in a worse position this April compared to last April. Back then the PAC12 was still (mostly) in biz, our football had a respectable Lazarus season, and we were being used as chum for the BIG12 (a huge negative to have been sacrificial bait but at least it showed we had some value to be used). This year there are far fewer CR seats left for UConn to take, the ACC is poised to be ripped apart, our football program regressed on multiple levels, and the Big East contract likely won't be as high as it needs to be to sustain UConn. So please share the brownies, Kool aid, or 'shrooms, cuz all this BB success is leaving me hungry for a good (financial) home for the school.
These “fake-spurts” know nothing more than any of us. They just want some comfort in feeling they were correct in the event that the P-whatever call up doesn’t happen again.
Basketball does not matter for conference alignment until the revenue stream can be pulled from the NCAA itself.
It's about brand value. UConn is in the best spot it's ever been and it wouldn't be surprising if the rumors started circulating In a few weeks
And you don’t think that will happen?
I could easily see the Big 12 making bold move to grab the attention of the Northeast markets. Definitely in hoops and more than Rutgers in NYC.
Not all that far from WV and cincy.
I want things to go well. We all know its a combo of football and market. Remember what UConn got out of the last realignment? Right, nothing. Why? Football. The schools all said that we were a worse football choice than all the other options. And yes, the ACC chose Cal over considering UConn because of football because they think Cal can come back. They think Stanford can come back, they do not have those thoughts about UConn.
No, I think it will but by then UConn may be so locked out and the major conferences may be so rigid that its hard to get in.
