Come on dude, don't string us along. The Big12 has now passed on UConn 3 times (2016, 2022, & 2023). This dalliance is deader than Julius Caesar and has no legs to stand on. That the Big12 took 3 schools (without hesitation) that don't have the same BBall championship pedigree that UConn has tells me there was no sincerity or chance for UConn to join.
Thanks for the response. Hope you’re right and this deal gets done!
Got my years wrong, meant 2016, 2023 and 2024.
I don't need you to fix my post. I stand by what I wrote. Yormark was advocating BASKETBALL adds, NOT football. That is easily improved upon by bringing in UConn. But since you mentioned football, ASU, AZ and UU brought ZERO football championships into the Big12. Wow, you're right, that is sooo much stronger a pedigree, to bring in 0 championships, thank you for the enlightment as my apparently obsolete math equated 0 to nothing. Last prestigious bowl victories (from the 6 major bowls) for those 3, cough, cough "much stronger football" pedigrees:
Some people like New England clam chowder, some prefer Manhattan clam chowder (we can bring both types), and many hate clam chowder...maybe if we had BBQ clam chowder that would...nah, never mind.
Manhattan clam chowder is a crime against humanity.
You can add Colorado to the list. Total waste of time. Will never win a championship in anything.
We have no idea what will happen but UConn may still get an invite from either the Big 12 or the ACC. UConn is always in the wrong place at the wrong time and that has been the biggest factor.
Not true... They are NCs in Skiing near to every year!
You're right, it's likely that none of those recent additions is going to compete for a national football championship in the foreseeable future, and maybe never. The P2 has that sewed up. But so what? There are no other potential and available additions to the B12 capable of that right now, least of all, UConn. While Yormark may have wanted to further bolster B12 basketball, it was the member schools, all of which were well aware of UConn's current basketball prowess, that apparently gave the thumbs-down to a Huskies invitation. Why? Because, even though the B12 is arguably the best basketball conference top-to-bottom, they know that football drives the realignment bus. Sorry if that offends you or if you think I'm down on UConn for stating the obvious. If UConn wants in, it has to improve football.
Skiing is not a sport offered by the Big 12 Conference, so it doesn bring a championship to that conference. Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck!
Utah is probably the best team that is currently in the Big12 over the past 5 years and one of the top teams in the country consistently over the same period. Arizona ended last year ranked 11 and is ranked this year. They may be two of the better teams in the Big 12.
I'll stick with Okie State as the best football program. If SEC were smart...
Colorado already won a football national championship 1990
My post implies the future, not the past.
Thankfully, Swiam is a complete idiot with realignment, among other things.Rumor: UConn unlikely to ever join Big 12 but Pac-12 schools, six ACC schools can join
Longtime college sports radio host Greg Swaim reports that basketball-only schools won't be joining the Big 12 anytime soon; eliminating the chance UConn ever bflywareagle.com
Didn't take but 2 days for the article & referenced tweet not to age well in terms of Washington State and Oregon State to the ACC as a contingency. Pontificators love to hear themselves talk even when they're FOS.
This guy throws almost as much against the wall as the basement-dwelling WVU'er.
It would be easier for basketball fans to be supportive football fans if the football product were not as bad as it has been and currently is.
That’s complete BS.
Sadly football runs the what happens in college sports. UConn got screwed a couple of times in realignment. First, it was the ACC, then the ACC again, and now it has been the Big 12 twice in a year. UConn needs a break to help basketball and the rest of the sports. That is how UConn survives or it withers on the vine. I want it to succeed as should everyone else. The Big East won't carry basketball far enough, we saw that in the last contract.