UConn to Big XII Imminent?

[Orc]

Sounds like his source is that car wash guy. Yawwn

 

[UConnJim]

Not this again.....

 

[Patman]

Sure, I think we would all like Miami, Cuse, Pitt, West Virginia, VA Tech etc. to join back up with the Big East but no way in hell does it happen.

Regionalism builds fans. But the TV money people who want incidental eyeballs don't care about that.

 

[billybud]

SMU , if they continue to win, will be relevant.

 

[jostar1]

 

[UConnMike04]

I’ll believe any of this when I see the press conference with the UConn logo and the Big12 logo together.

 

[uconnbill]

We will see. I hope so, but won't get my hopes up till something happens

 

[psilotic]

I knew there was a reason the Ohio State FB game disappeared

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

no

You would LOVE it

 

[That Guy]

I'm not getting baited for the 1,825,294th time.

 

[Stinger92860]

You have already been told SMU has silly money to burn and they will burn it

Their boosters have deep pockets, especially at Hilltop Holdings. They are blessed.

 

[JMick]

Sure, I think we would all like Miami, Cuse, Pitt, West Virginia, VA Tech etc. to join back up with the Big East but no way in hell does it happen.

If the Big XII end game is 24 schools we could have something similar.

Miami
Cuse
Pitt
West Virginia
UCF
Cinci
Louisville
Wake Forest
NC St
BC
Virginia Tech
UConn

Colorado
Arizona
Arizona State
Kansas
Kansas State
TCU
Baylor
Houston
OkSt
Iowa State
BYU
Texas Tech (no Utah since the smoke there is B1G)

It would effectively be two conferences under the same umbrella. You can go to 22 conference games in basketball and 11 in football and have real conference championships again. No more bottom feeders in the conference tournaments but still a ton of content. Everyone plays their full division in football too.

The mission of the Big XII is to stay relevant and needed in major college sports. This puts that question to bed. They would have to be in the conversations with the SEC and B1G

 

[DFW HOYA]

Their boosters have deep pockets, especially at Hilltop Holdings. They are blessed.

SMU isn't even in the top five college fan bases in Dallas-Ft. Worth.

 

[The Yakk]

If the Big XII end game is 24 schools we could have something similar.

Miami
Cuse
Pitt
West Virginia
UCF
Cinci
Louisville
Wake Forest
NC St
BC
Virginia Tech
UConn

Colorado
Arizona
Arizona State
Kansas
Kansas State
TCU
Baylor
Houston
OkSt
Iowa State
BYU
Utah/Replacement for Utah if they go B1G like they keep proclaiming

It would effectively be two conferences under the same umbrella. You can go to 22 conference games in basketball and 11 in football and have real conference championships again. No more bottom feeders in the conference tournaments but still a ton of content. Everyone plays their full division in football too.

The mission of the Big XII is to stay relevant and needed in major college sports. This puts that question to bed. They would have to be in the conversations with the SEC and B1G

Awesome fantasy, I hope something like this happens. But please please no BC in this conference. Put Duke there instead.

 

[jostar1]

I'm not getting baited for the 1,825,294th time.

 

[How Sway?!]

The school preferring the ACC after the amount of times they left us out is laughable....Big 12 or bust IMO.

At this rate, we've been burned by the B12 as many times if not more than the ACC.

 

[superjohn]

If the Big XII end game is 24 schools we could have something similar.

Miami
Cuse
Pitt
West Virginia
UCF
Cinci
Louisville
Wake Forest
NC St
BC
Virginia Tech
UConn

Colorado
Arizona
Arizona State
Kansas
Kansas State
TCU
Baylor
Houston
OkSt
Iowa State
BYU
Texas Tech (no Utah since the smoke there is B1G)

It would effectively be two conferences under the same umbrella. You can go to 22 conference games in basketball and 11 in football and have real conference championships again. No more bottom feeders in the conference tournaments but still a ton of content. Everyone plays their full division in football too.

The mission of the Big XII is to stay relevant and needed in major college sports. This puts that question to bed. They would have to be in the conversations with the SEC and B1G

That would be pretty ideal just minus BC.

 

[ZooCougar]

SMU isn't even in the top five college fan bases in Dallas-Ft. Worth.

Irrelevant

 

[The Yakk]

That would be pretty ideal just minus BC.

LOL great minds

 

[GampelGladiator]

If the Big XII end game is 24 schools we could have something similar.

Miami
Cuse
Pitt
West Virginia
UCF
Cinci
Louisville
Wake Forest
NC St
BC
Virginia Tech
UConn

Colorado
Arizona
Arizona State
Kansas
Kansas State
TCU
Baylor
Houston
OkSt
Iowa State
BYU
Texas Tech (no Utah since the smoke there is B1G)

It would effectively be two conferences under the same umbrella. You can go to 22 conference games in basketball and 11 in football and have real conference championships again. No more bottom feeders in the conference tournaments but still a ton of content. Everyone plays their full division in football too.

The mission of the Big XII is to stay relevant and needed in major college sports. This puts that question to bed. They would have to be in the conversations with the SEC and B1G

Unreal...no...

Duke
UVA
UNC
FSU
Clemson
GT

Maybe if we're lucky they'll allow ND a non-football partial membership with a full payout allotment.

 

[Bongo Fury]

There is the matter of owing $30M to the Big East as a buyout.

But it’s hard to disagree. The Big 12 is a more stable option, and the ACC has their heads up their arses.

It’ll be reduced and they would likely be able to make payments over time. It would still likely be a net positive.

 

[JMick]

Unreal...no...

Duke
UVA
UNC
FSU
Clemson
GT

Maybe if we're lucky they'll allow ND a non-football partial membership with a full payout allotment.

This only happens if UNC, Clemson and FSU leave the ACC and they won't leave for the Big XII.

 

[CL82]

I’ll believe any of this when I see the press conference with the UConn logo and the Big12 logo together.

I believe it when I see the big 12 logo on the court at Gampel.

 

[GampelGladiator]

This only happens if UNC, Clemson and FSU leave the ACC and they won't leave for the Big XII.

Sorry...I just meant that if that is the end result...then I am nonplussed

 

[JohnFSilver]

You have already been told SMU has silly money to burn and they will burn it

Still dumb.

 

[gsmooth]

Awesome fantasy, I hope something like this happens. But please please no BC in this conference. Put Duke there instead.

Excluding BC is not even out of spite. BC is just flat out irrelevant. They don't really care about their athletics so why should we or anyone else care about their athletics?

 

[gsmooth]

I'm not getting baited for the 1,825,294th time.

Yup (nodding my head in agreement). I have bruises from hitting the floor too many times after the rug has been pulled out from underneath me.

Yet, I am reading this thread which is contradictory on some level, I will believe this is going to happen once Brett Yormark says so. I didn't even believe it all that much last year, but I thought there was a chance until news about the Pac 12 and their trouble closing a TV deal surfaced. Then I knew the PAC-12 was likely to fall apart.

 

[Patman]

Yup (nodding my head in agreement). I have bruises from hitting the floor too many times after the rug has been pulled out from underneath me.

Yet, I am reading this thread which is contradictory on some level, I will believe this is going to happen once Brett Yormark says so. I didn't even believe it all that much last year, but I thought there was a chance until news about the Pac 12 and their trouble closing a TV deal surfaced. Then I knew the PAC-12 was likely to fall apart.

And we were always the option for an odd number if teams to make it an even number. We were the choice for scheduling arrangements

 

[JMick]

Excluding BC is not even out of spite. BC is just flat out irrelevant. They don't really care about their athletics so why should we or anyone else care about their athletics?

Tbh one of the best reasons to get into the Big XII before an ACC collapse would be to have a no vote against BC when the ACC crumbles

 

[Patman]

Tbh one of the best reasons to get into the Big XII before an ACC collapse would be to have a no vote against BC when the ACC crumbles

I've hated those scumbuckets before signing onto uconn as a grad student. A lot of those guys know their reckoning is coming but it will still be nice