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UConn to Big XII Imminent?

JohnFSilver said:
I read the Dodd piece.

How dumb are people to think that adding UConn hurts big 12 in the college playoff currently?

That makes no sense. Big 12 is going to have a spot every year for its champion.

It will probably get two teams in in most years, regardless of UConn is u. League or not.

What a ridiculous thing to be worried about considering we are in a 12-team era and that this doesn’t happen until 2031.
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Some schools are probably trying to extract more money, its short-sighted greed keeping us out.
 
CTFAN4LIFE said:
W

What makes you say that?
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Unless ESPN is coming in with a dynamite offer and a bunch of schools change their mind this is donezo.

Maybe less than a 30% chance.

Just try to enjoy the football this weekend.
 
ZooCougar said:
Unless ESPN is coming in with a dynamite offer and a bunch of schools change their mind this is donezo.

Maybe less than a 30% chance.

Just try to enjoy the football this weekend.
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I doubt it's that clear cut. Do you think the sixteen Big12 presidents, the Commissioner's office, and sixteen AD'S would be spending this much time, effort, and resources on this if it had a 30% chance?
 
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ZooCougar said:
Unless ESPN is coming in with a dynamite offer and a bunch of schools change their mind this is donezo.

Maybe less than a 30% chance.

Just try to enjoy the football this weekend.
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I get that you’re negative and that’s okay. But only half the votes were released and we had the 75% needed in that half. Why weren’t all the votes released? Whoever knew the 8 votes has to know the rest. It could be the remaining 8 were all no’s, all yess’s , or some mix. It’s plausible the votes are there, but some people needed to think on it or go back to campus and consult others. The vote was not planned for yesterday’s meeting as was widely published. This was just a “test the waters” vote.
 
UDann said:
Seems to me most of these schools are afraid not that we will be bad but we will succeed. UConn has proven ability to build winning teams even football when we had an even playing field.

These schools for years have had lots of money flowing in and many have done nothing on the field or court. Can you imagine UConn coming in and being successful in football make them all look like the money whores they are with no results. Presidents and ADs have nice salaries from all this TV money.

We will be in top half of conference in football fairly soon with Mora at the helm.
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I don’t know that anyone is afraid of UConn, but I think all the schools are afraid of the completely unknown future of college football. It is hard to make long term decisions about a business model that is going away in the next year.
 
ZooCougar said:
Unless ESPN is coming in with a dynamite offer and a bunch of schools change their mind this is donezo.

Maybe less than a 30% chance.

Just try to enjoy the football this weekend.
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I think that’s a protective attitude so you don’t get your hopes up.
Nobody has a clue what’s happening.
When the story first broke, most thought it was fake. Then it wasn’t.
Now people are over analyzing every word and saying it won’t happen.
I get it. It’s gonna suck if this doesn’t happen.
But nothing said so far indicates any direction other than the process is still happening.
 
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uconnyankee said:
I think that’s a protective attitude so you don’t get your hopes up.
Nobody has a clue what’s happening.
When the story first broke, most thought it was fake. Then it wasn’t.
Now people are over analyzing every word and saying it won’t happen.
I get it. It’s gonna suck if this doesn’t happen.
But nothing said so far indicates any direction other than the process is still happening.
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The consensus appears to be that no vote is imminent.

So that just means they don’t have the votes.
 
uconndogs said:
I don't understand why they are undertaking this process (either Yormak or UCONN) without first having lobied and tallied the votes. This runs the risk of getting shop worn. Just very odd......
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I think that is what they are doing right now.

Dodd took an informal and incomplete poll. I assume the Big 12 has a more complete picture
 
QuickDraw said:
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guarantee the 6 are, UCF, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Kansas, Houston, and Arizona

I think schools that would be easier to convince Baylor, Tech, Iowa State

I think the most important votes, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, and TCU

if it's 2 no's those are Utah and Arizona State who's presidents don't seem to happy being in the conference as is
 
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huskidork said:
guarantee the 6 are, UCF, West Virginia, Cincinnati, Kansas, Houston, and Arizona

I think schools that would be easier to convince Baylor, Tech, Iowa State

I think the most important votes, Oklahoma State, Kansas State, and TCU

if it's 2 no's those are Utah and Arizona State who's presidents don't seem to happy being in the conference as is
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I think ASU is a yes, their football blows

Also Bobby Hurley connection might help us out. They did host us for the final four this year

I would expect the definite no's to be Utah and Oklahoma St
 
Jimdish255 said:
The ACC is frozen. ESPN did that purposely and the Universities basically capitulated for temporary security. And right now no one trusts each other. It's every man for himself. You want us to step into that mess of uncertainly after writing an entire dissertation warning us about uncertainty? No thanks.
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The fact some on here believe that a conference where its top two schools are very publicly trying to leave is a better place long term is pure lunacy..
 
uconndogs said:
I don't understand why they are undertaking this process (either Yormak or UCONN) without first having lobied and tallied the votes. This runs the risk of getting shop worn. Just very odd......
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It got leaked by a Podcaster. I'm sure they hoped this was done behind the scenes. Whoever leaked this wanted to sabotage it.
 
noeynox said:
It got leaked by a Podcaster. I'm sure they hoped this was done behind the scenes. Whoever leaked this wanted to sabotage it.
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Intentional or not sabotage is the effect.

I really don’t like this so out in the open.
 
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I'm not worried but I am damned preoccupied! If I were a decision-maker I wouldn't give an early answer unless I was clearly a Yes. I would think the 8 we don't know about are waiting until all the details are presented before making a decision. If there are No votes, does that mean all the terms are already locked in and they still don't like it? Seems pretty stubborn to say you are a No if there is still some negotiations going on.

If UConn were added, then the XII likely goes to XVIII or XX and who knows what happens by MMXXXI. Programs would probably play UConn once every other year or even third year. At that point, does it really matter if UConn still isn't a perennial bowl team? The best programs still need to find some easy wins.

2016 - Big XII Dog & Pony show resulting in bubkis
2023 - UConn supposedly until the Corner 4 dropped
2024 - Today

Regarding espn, maybe it finally realized it made an entire cluster F out of the ACC with the former Big East programs floundering for the most part. it knows UConn, Hurley & Auriemma are clear winners. If UConn moves to the XII, then Fox could pay the Big East less and the XII more, I would think.

I think Yormark and the Yes votes would lean very heavily on the undecideds because these rodeos are already ridiculous.
 
Im worried about Fox being out on this. Other than that, I feel like there is a solid positive movement on this.
 
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