UConn Eye Test Case for the B12

[Kolumbo]

If UConn leaves the Big East, that conference could still be good if they want to spend the money. You may find a non-traditional school with a sugar daddy with deep pockets. With NIL, any school willing to cough up the bucks can buy a BB contender every year, regardless of conference. Buying a contender in FB is a bigger reach, but can be done.

True, any school can buy a basketball contender but I don't think that is a viable long-term plan for a conference of Catholic/private schools. The large state universities have more secure financial options. I don't think the Big East could maintain the elite brand appeal to keep up with the power conferences.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

Do you genuinely think that the Catholic 7 will willingly put themselves right back into the very same situation that was the progenitor of the schism in the first place?

Conferences are just media negotiating alliances. As long as the Big East 10 are together, and have the ability to pull out their contract if things go south, they may go along with a deal if the money is right.

The current status quo is unsustainable for every conference.

 

[WrenchFan69]

Even if the SEC, B10, and XII pick off the top 8 ACC schools (ND, Clemson, FSU, Miami, UNC, UVA, NCST, GT), it would seem like there's a more valuable conference to be made by adding G5's than Big East non-football schools.

Syracuse
BC
Pitt
UConn

VT
Louisville
Memphis
Temple

Duke
Wake
USF
Tulane

SMU
Cal
Stanford
Rice

I don't think this would happen, and I'd prefer to be in the Big 12, but I would happily sign up for this. Though there are multiple better options than Temple and possibly Rice - SDSU, UNLV, and JMU come to mind.