Uconn to ACC by Tue...

[UconnFamily]

http://tracking.si.com/2012/11/19/uconn-acc-move-realignment/?xid=si_ncaaf

I would rather play in the BIG TEN but duckk it ACC is better than nothing!

 

[huskymedic]

http://the-boneyard.com/threads/acc-by-tues.27767/ - 4+ pages worth going on conference realignment board.

 

[JayRU09]

I hope you guys get in and we schedule each other. I really do. To be honest, besides for South Florida and Temple, I want the other BE schools to land somewhere good. UC, UL, and UCONN have too much to offer, way more than some schools already in those 'power' conferences.

All in all.......I still want ten 12 team regional conferences and a true playoff.

 

[Mr.Phat]

http://tracking.si.com/2012/11/19/uconn-acc-move-realignment/?xid=si_ncaaf

I would rather play in the BIG TEN but duckk it ACC is better than nothing!

That's just great. Uconn is a pile doo doo until the all criminal's conference becomes lopsided and it needs another member. I love the respect this school gets in athletics.

If Uconn goes I can't wait to hate everyone in that conference with an unmatched virulence.

How the Big 10 could take the turtles over Connecticut just boggles my phuking mind. Maryland has NOTHING. Uconn is on a par in football, vastly better in hoops, has much higher name recognition and is better academically. I really don't get this one AT ALL. Maryland. Jesus. It's like choosing Roseanne Barr over Jessica Alba. I mean the difference is that stark - but not to the Big 10. What are these desk monkeys thinking?

All this academic excellence BS as a prerequisite to get into the Big 10 is garbage. Nebraska proved that. Twerps are further proof.

I feel really BAD for Boise if this happens. I really wanted to play them, as ridiculous as the geography is.

 

[RS9999X]

I have this theory that UConn will get passed over and the ACC will keep UConn as a back up plan if anyone else defects.

Some Doom and Gloom is in order.

OTOH the ACC will have a hard time getting on NYC cable if SU is all they offer. A vote for Louisville abandons NYC as a viable ACC market. The Philly market will be PSU and Rutgers territory. Baltimore and Washington have enough MD fans and BiG alumni to get BiG Network placement. My read is they are taking some heavy hits on demographics. The BiG will simply own NJ, MD and PA and get easier placement than the ACC in NYC without UConn.

Lousiville OTOH has ridiculous local Nielsen demographics but the SEC owns Kentucky

 

[JayRU09]

Syracuse isn't even in the NYC market.

Jus' sayin'

 

[UconnFamily]

http://www.bcinterruption.com/2012/...ion-uconn-louisville-cincinnati-south-florida

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

That's just great. Uconn is a pile doo doo until the all criminal's conference becomes lopsided and it needs another member. I love the respect this school gets in athletics.

If Uconn goes I can't wait to hate everyone in that conference with an unmatched virulence.

How the Big 10 could take the turtles over Connecticut just boggles my phuking mind. Maryland has NOTHING. Uconn is on a par in football, vastly better in hoops, has much higher name recognition and is better academically. I really don't get this one AT ALL. Maryland. Jesus. It's like choosing Roseanne Barr over Jessica Alba. I mean the difference is that stark - but not to the Big 10. What are these desk monkeys thinking?

All this academic excellence BS as a prerequisite to get into the Big 10 is garbage. Nebraska proved that. Twerps are further proof.

I feel really BAD for Boise if this happens. I really wanted to play them, as ridiculous as the geography is.

You really can't see why the Big 10 wants these teams? NY and DC markets. Big 10 Network subscriptions.

The one thing that puzzles me the most about the Big 10 is how they can shift strategy in terms of realignment so quickly. Last year they bypassed the TV media model and took a traditional power program like Nebraska. Now they are chasing large TV markets and adding crappy programs like MD and RU.

I hate to say this......but I barely care anymore where we end up.

 

[Husky25]

Syracuse isn't even in the NYC market.

Jus' sayin'

Sure it is. Syracuse is in New York State. So is New York City. There you go...

Oh wait...Toronto (The one in Canada) is closer to Syracuse than New York City is...Speak nothing of the fact that the NYC college sports market = fool's gold. Most Yankee Fan's become Giants fans in November and Saturday becomes errand day in New York City, topped off with a Broadway show. There's no time for college sports...

 

[hexlub]

Sure it is. Syracuse is in New York State. So is New York City. There you go...

Oh wait...Toronto (The one in Canada) is closer to Syracuse than New York City is...Speak nothing of the fact that the NYC college sports market = fool's gold. Most Yankee Fan's become Giants fans in November and Saturday becomes errand day in New York City, topped off with a Broadway show. There's no time for college sports...

Yeah. I would say Syracuse is more of an NYC team than St. Johns or Rutgers. The bars around the Garden have much more SU stuff up than any of the schools that are supposedly the makeup of the NY TV Market.

 

[BlueDogs]

I have this theory that UConn will get passed over and the ACC will keep UConn as a back up plan if anyone else defects.

Some Doom and Gloom is in order.

OTOH the ACC will have a hard time getting on NYC cable if SU is all they offer. A vote for Louisville abandons NYC as a viable ACC market. The Philly market will be PSU and Rutgers territory. Baltimore and Washington have enough MD fans and BiG alumni to get BiG Network placement. My read is they are taking some heavy hits on demographics. The BiG will simply own NJ, MD and PA and get easier placement than the ACC in NYC without UConn.

Lousiville OTOH has ridiculous local Nielsen demographics but the SEC owns Kentucky

I think GDL is in charge of conference strategy. He's got it all mapped out like wall paper.

 

[Jimmy Serrano]

Sure it is. Syracuse is in New York State. So is New York City. There you go...

Oh wait...Toronto (The one in Canada) is closer to Syracuse than New York City is...Speak nothing of the fact that the NYC college sports market = fool's gold. Most Yankee Fan's become Giants fans in November and Saturday becomes errand day in New York City, topped off with a Broadway show. There's no time for college sports...

It's fool's gold for college football. There is a strong market for college basketball in NYC.

This expansion is all about getting the Big 10 Network on the basic cable packages in NY & DC.

 

[Husky25]

Yeah. I would say Syracuse is more of an NYC team than St. Johns or Rutgers. The bars around the Garden have much more SU stuff up than any of the schools that are supposedly the makeup of the NY TV Market.

Oh well then, that settles it...The continual point has been/will be that the No.1 media market for everything else is not so for college athletics.

 

[Husky25]

It's fool's gold for college football. There is a strong market for college basketball in NYC.

This expansion is all about getting the Big 10 Network on the basic cable packages in NY & DC.

There's a strong NYC college basketball market during the first week of March. It's tough for New Yorkers to get into a Rutgers/DePaul game in January, especially when the Knicks or Rangers (in any other year) are playing.

On a separate, but related, note, cable companies in NYC have no problem holding Knick/Ranger fans (MSG) or Yankee Fans (The YES Network) hostage. Is Rutgers going to be that much of a prize that they will automatically start clamoring over the B1G Network? I doubt any answer to the affirmative.

 

[nycscooby]

According to Andy Katz, as of last night UConn had not been contacted by ACC. I don't know if and when Louisville has/has not been contacted but I have a very bad feeling about this situation. My fear is that the ACC's concerns over keeping FSU and Clemson happy combined with the very staunch anti-UConn sentiment (BC) will cause the conference to select the Cardinals over UConn.
I'm preparing for being stuck in the NBE with Cincy and USF.

 

[junglehusky]

There have been tweets that said UConn to the ACC could happen this week, but Wetzel tweeted the ACC might sit tight for a while too.

 

[LRock34]

http://www.bcinterruption.com/2012/...ion-uconn-louisville-cincinnati-south-florida

"If the league decides to keep the existing Atlantic / Coastal divisional alignment but replaces either Syracuse or Notre Dame for UConn as BC's primary hoops partner, I think that's a loss. No offense to the UConn folk, but Syracuse and Notre Dame seem like better permanent rivals than Connecticut."

Is this a BC student? Can't believe you posted this garbage.

 

[CAHUSKY]

"If the league decides to keep the existing Atlantic / Coastal divisional alignment but replaces either Syracuse or Notre Dame for UConn as BC's primary hoops partner, I think that's a loss. No offense to the UConn folk, but Syracuse and Notre Dame seem like better permanent rivals than Connecticut."

Is this a BC student? Can't believe you posted this garbage.

Any "writer" that uses the word "suckitude" in his article can't be consider too credible.

 

[junglehusky]

It's a blog, on the same blog network as theuconnblog.

 

[coachRD]

Any "writer" that uses the word "suckitude" in his article can't be consider too credible.

Not to mention the notion that 'Cuse is a better hoops rival than UCONN. Let's see, UCONN and BC are New England schools, and UCONN is better than 'Cuse in hoop anyway (not by miles obviously since 'Cuse is elite too, but still better. If you judge by little things like BE tournament championships, BE regular season championships, and national championships, anyway....

 

[HartfordHank]

"If the league decides to keep the existing Atlantic / Coastal divisional alignment but replaces either Syracuse or Notre Dame for UConn as BC's primary hoops partner, I think that's a loss. No offense to the UConn folk, but Syracuse and Notre Dame seem like better permanent rivals than Connecticut."

Is this a BC student? Can't believe you posted this garbage.

By hoop buddy they might be talking traveling partner. If a team was making a Northeast swing they would play at BC one day and then UConn the next. That team's partner would play at UConn and then BC. It permits one flight with a bus trip in between.