This isn't a serious comment.
Yes.
At this point I’m convinced you people can’t comprehend revenue sharing and its implications.
The lack of foresight from so many people, especially national media members who cover the sport, is pretty unbelievable. I'm not sure these people could make a plan of what to make for dinner before they go to the grocery store.
Also one year the power conferences will make their own basketball tourney and have their own selection criteria that may or may not involve the small conferences in some lessor form. Never underestimate their ability to hog everything they can
We can debate whether it would be a good move for the football and baseball fans. The reality is that it should be a good move for both programs, the athletic department as a whole and the school (which in all candor is how we should look at this).
The end game is both the football and basketball money, and they don't care about any of the little guys. Big time betting has taken over college sports and they don't need the little guys upsets to have people watch.
You’re right, I don’t understand how revenue sharing is going to work. It seems to me that for basketball to get more money, either UConn basketball would have to make more in the B12 or basketball would share in (distant future) football money. I’m not sure either will happen.
You're moving to the best basketball conference in the nation, how's that not helpful to basketball?
About $20 million in revenue will go to players. It's essentially a salary cap on revenue. How that is divided is yet to be seen.
OK, but that doesn’t answer whether basketball will actually get more money in the B12 or whether the difference will go to football.
Do you even realize if we don't get into the B12, the future of UConn basketball is in jeopardy?
The athletic department gets more money. They don't write a check to the basketball team or the football team. The athletic department gets the money and uses it to help fund all athletic operations.
Yes it does. Because to be competitive you're going to have to spend the max level of cash. Big XII money helps us get to that level of spending. Otherwise we have to ask the state and donors for more money to hit the cap.
This is my favorite part of realignment. When the casuals come out and suggest we just waddle on over to the ACC or B1G. Like we're just able to speak it into existence
I mean, they are kind of jerks so...
Yes but it's because they just can't do hypotheticals. They can't imagine a world where UConn basketball is essentially D2 even if you describe it to them. You can talk about the mechanisms, trends, even paint a detailed picture of what it could look like, but they simply can't see it because to them it's an abstract painting or an ink blot. It doesn't mean anything because it isn't what's happening right this second. Never mind one day, one month, one year or one decade from now.
Dark and depressing, I still find myself shouting at trees, “We did everything right! How can we get screwed like this!??”
They won't get less, will be playing in the top conference in the country, won't be left out of any future bball break away by the power conferences, and - as you point out -the other sports at UConn will receive a boost. Your problem with the move is what again?
The thing that always gets me is that we were basically told by the Big East that it was time to upgrade our football program. So we did, and we built a stadium, and we even accelerated our timeline a bit to fill in a hole in 2004 when BC, VT and Miami left. Then we begin to succeed immediately. By the mid-late 2000's, UConn was excellent in men's and women's basketball, and a good program in football. No holes in the armor.