UConn letter to SEC

[Vowelguy]

Dearest all great and powerful Oz Sankey,

Let’s face it, your conference has gotten too strong. Sure Texas brought in a lot of $$$, but you added the #1 team in the country. It’s taking a toll on your success. VANDERBILT KNOCKED OFF YOUR TOP TEAM. Even Arkansas isnt the reliable doormat it once was. Yes, Greg, the call is coming from inside the house.

Because of these conference losses,
THE BIG 10 IS GOING TO HAVE 3 OF THE TOP 5 TEAMS.

3 of the 5.

This is where your good friends up North can help you. I know we crushed your little rebellion awhile back, and it’s time for us Yanks to make it up to you.

Thus, we humbly offer ourselves as your football doormat. Your conference needs easy league games, and we are glad to pick up Vandy and Soo Wee Pig’s slot.

And as a bonus we will help your lagging MCBB league. Plus you already know our reputation in surging women’s basketball.

You get some much needed conference wins in FB, your basketball greatly improves, and we get a conference. Everyone wins! (We will even play a FB game in NYC for media exposure.)

Humbly yours,
Your pal & goodest boy,

Jonathan

 

[CL82]

Live look in on the SEC response:

 

[Vowelguy]

Correction: the BiG has 3 of the TOP 4 teams!

Our lines are open, Greg.

 

[Vowelguy]

Reupping this.

The SEC keeps claiming that it is too tough top to bottom and that is what did Alabama in.

Hmm, what might solve that problem?

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I knew I wasn’t the only one who thought this lol

 

[KryHavok]

Reupping this.

The SEC keeps claiming that it is too tough top to bottom and that is what did Alabama in.

Hmm, what might solve that problem?

Com' on man, we're such a bad match for so many reasons including geographical fit giving us long travel for all away games, we have no history with any of their teams, the only yankee they would let into their stadiums would be Daddy Yankee, they probably would only give us maybe quarter share to start with before increasing to a half share later...ohhh...yeah...that would be an improvement, what they hell are they waiting for?!!? With UConn and South Carolina, the SEC could control women's BBall, be solid in men's BBall, and have acceptable football (though something's gotta be done about Bama). ^_^

 

[GoConn]

Yeah this checks out

 

[Kolumbo]

SEC is at 16. How glorious it would be for the SEC to do an end-around and grab UConn and Kansas at reduced rates. SEC already has enough football power. It can play with house money, become the best basketball conference period. Then look to UNC when the ACC eventually implodes. "Look who's in the NYC market now b*tches!!"

Never happen, but it sure would be a shocker! And yet, the Big 12 and ACC are on dope.

"“I said to Greg: You can’t get this league to be good and I can’t get this league to be good. There’s only one core of people who can get this league good, and that’s the coaches,” Tranghese says. “So Danny Leibovitz and I began to spend an inordinate amount of time on coaching. Every time there was a coaching change, all we asked our ADs to do was to listen to what we had to say. All we wanted to make certain was that people weren’t making bad hires.”

"Sankey essentially deputized Tranghese and Leibovitz to aggressively intervene across the league to see that schools either swung for the fences on big-name hires or thought outside the box to land rising stars. There were a few occasions when the league office got wind of a potential hire and Tranghese immediately picked up the phone.

"“The next step is getting a team back in the Final Four, and somebody’s got to go win a national championship,” Slay says. “That’s when the crossover happens. When that happens, you can be a real basketball conference.”"

How the SEC decided to flex its muscle in men’s basketball and become a power

The SEC used its financial might to focus on hiring proven head coaches and improve facilities. The next step is winning a championship.

www.nytimes.com

 

[gioff2323]

Just be sure to write the letter in purple crayon

 

[ninety-nine]

What? I don't see that. We need and love money and they have printing presses. A match made in heaven if I ever saw one.

I don't want to die at a UConn game because of someone else's political beliefs. This would open that door.

 

[Ha Who]

League filled with 100k stadiums except for Vanderbilt.

Kroger Field - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Ha Who]

League filled with 100k stadiums except for Vanderbilt.

While impressive numbers, nearly 3/4 of the schools have less than 100,000 capacity

Ranking all 16 SEC football stadiums by seating capacity

It just means more: The Southeastern Conference has nine of the countr

ugawire.usatoday.com

 

[Kolumbo]

While impressive numbers, nearly 3/4 of the schools have less than 100,000 capacity

Ranking all 16 SEC football stadiums by seating capacity

It just means more: The Southeastern Conference has nine of the countr

ugawire.usatoday.com

Supply and demand. With SEC teams coming to Connecticut and SEC payouts, it wouldn't be long before we would need to build at least a 60k stadium. Think of all the SEC alumni living in the Northeast (I don't have the numbers but I'm sure it's a boatload). That would also be true of any power conference. We're used to UConn lifting the conference but a football conference would significantly lift UConn.

 

[DFW HOYA]

All jokes aside, members of the SEC are all in contiguous states and likely remain that way if the SEC were to consider UNC and Virginia.

UConn would stand a better chance offering to buy out Rutgers' place on the Big Ten roster.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Powerhouse bball programs
Best cold weather baseball program
Historically great soccer programs
Doormat football to pile up wins (for now)
Untapped markets

SEC currently at 16 while the Big10 Big12 and ACC all are at 18.


Why not???

 

[FfldCntyFan]

All other things aside (including the frivolity of the topic), if we were to lobby to join the SEC one condition of our acceptance would be that all of our home conference football games will need to be played in September to early October

Those schools don't travel north once the calendar provides the possibility of cold weather they remain in the south (yes, I know Kentucky and Tennessee can get as cold as here but the other schools don't like that either, they just have no choice there).

 

[CL82]

one condition of our acceptance would be that all of our home conference football games will need to be played in September to early October

Deal. No take backs!

 

[HuskyHawk]

All jokes aside, members of the SEC are all in contiguous states and likely remain that way if the SEC were to consider UNC and Virginia.

UConn would stand a better chance offering to buy out Rutgers' place on the Big Ten roster.