The person you were replying to was commenting to @Stinger92860 who listed the rankings of Big 12 women's basketball teams who were top 25. It was following a train of thinking that the UConn women's bb brand would significantly help the Big 12 and is a valuable commodity in a growing market. It's certainly valid in this thread.
Every bit helps
My priority is UConn. Getting into the B12 is most likely UConn's life boat in an ever increasing hostile ocean of change that will impact the college sports landscape in a negative way for most universities. With that said FSU and Clemson to the B12 pushes the football value of that conference closer to the SEC and BIG and makes the B12 conference comperable to however these series of events flow.
Building an on campus stadium is not that difficult to do. The cost can be bonded. We just spent $215M for a medium sized dorm. The new science building was $220M. So even if a stadium is $700M that is about three times the cost of a dorm or classroom building. The USF new stadium is about $340M. Northwestern is about $800M.
We are not Miami.So you mean Miami won't have a shot with em' if the the ACC crumbles ?
How about Pitt?
Staying in the Big East is not viable long term option. in Order for UConn to stay relevant they need $$$$$, and lots of it. $$$$$ is something the Big East cannot provide. It would be fine if UConn were just a small private religious institution. Fortunately for us, UConn is not that.
The Rent is not an NFL stadium. And Pitt’s stadium is closer to their campus than the Rent is to Storrs. By 2031 the Rent will be 30 years old. I don’t think it will scream “power conference” through the 2030’s and 2040’s.How about Pitt?
Aren't those the Rose Bowl and the LA Memorial Coliseum. Even our most enthusiastic supporters of the Rent, can't compare the Rent to them. It's apples and diamonds.
Right back at ya, to the women’s board
My thought for some time has been the B1G should step up and bring us in if they want to win another championship in basketball before Izzo is laid to rest and that we should be enticing them to come after UConn to fill in some major gaps in two of the three most meaningful sports.
I know right? It makes much more sense to keep pumping money into the XL center, because that's worked out every time! Am I right?
But why, though since we have available space on campus that can easily accommodate the stadium.If UConn can get within 2-3 miles of campus, that might be enough. Several P4 schools (and a couple of P2s) have stadiums more than a mile off campus.
23 College Football Teams That Play Home Games Off-Campus
Check out the 23 FBS programs that play off-campus, including four schools that would take you on a 15-mile trek to enjoy a home game.herosports.com
Malloy tends to get what he wants.
If it was doable on campus, why hasn't it been done?
For a lot of reasons that have been discussed a few times in the recent threads so I won't go back over them, but basically it made no sense to do it while we had Rentschler field. The speculation lately is that the big 12 may require an on-campus stadium, which would change that balance. Alternatively, they may just require a certain capacity, in which case we probably expand Rentschler field. We will. know more when more details about what they want come out.
