The next scheduled BOT meeting is September 25th. But non scheduled BOT meetings are convened to cover urgent issues.
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UConn to Big XII Imminent?
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-> UConn athletic director David Benedict recently traveled to Dallas to pitch the Big East school to Big 12 administrators. Conference ADs and presidents were scheduled to hear from the league’s media consultants Monday and further discuss Yormark’s latest vision.
To add a new member, 12 of the 16 Big 12 schools would need to be in favor. According to several people familiar with the situation who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the discussions are private, Yormark still has convincing to do among his members that adding UConn is a sound move and the Big 12 needs to act fast. <-
Gotta love the random hitpieces
The last BOT meeting was in July. There was a private session (or whatever they call it), but that could have been for anything.
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It makes me happy to see Drake go from on UConn a year ago to now supporting the move a year later. Talk about character development
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Everything seems to lean towards it happening. It is a no-brainer for UConn, especially if the Big 12 grabs some ACC school. Then UConn becomes less of an outlier and their sports won't have to travel as much. It also could lead to football joining the Big 12 sooner.
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Dave needs to be talking to the ACC behind the scenes. The why now is answered by the fact that we accept the first/best invite. I think the ACC has labored under the mistaken belief that they don't need to improve the basketball product, clearly they do. Syracuse, Notre Dame and Louisville all stink. Duke may be in decline. I'm sure they don't want to dilute a mediocre football product, which we would do, at least initially. But the reality is that the only "big time" football programs not in the B1G or SEC are Notre Dame, Clemson and FSU. There are none in the Big XII. The Big XII is trading on competitive football games among good not great teams and outstanding basketball.
The odds of the ACC splintering into oblivion are approaching zero. UConn is the best available brand by a huge margin. I said last fall, our road game at Kansas was important, because it was an audition of sorts, and we crushed it. We showed up at a distant arena and packed restaurants and bars. That's what they want to see. It's what they'd want in Chapel Hill as well.
A short virtual meeting covering contracts/agreements and additional funding for the volleyball complex.
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I am much more lukewarm on this move than I have been about prior potential moves. I have major concerns about both college football's long-term economic viability for a large number of schools, and the Big 12's viability. Within a couple of years, it could cost $50 or $60 million a year to run a high level college football program. I think there are many current P4 programs that may step back when this becomes apparent.
College football "drove the bus" when players weren't getting paid and football programs were just revenue without labor expenses. That has changed, and could get out of control. Basketball has a handful of players, some of whom can be relatively cheap, and a small coaching staff, against 13-15 home games for top 50 programs. Football is 7 home games, at least one of which doesn't draw or get watched, had at least 85 scholarships plus a huge coaching staff. With NIL, you can have rosters of 100 or 125 players that are effectively if not officially on scholarship.
And every program is competing with SEC schools that wouldn't think twice about paying a backup CB $200,000/year just so another program doesn't get him. Basketball will likely be a lot more profitable than football, on average, going forward.
College football "drove the bus" when players weren't getting paid and football programs were just revenue without labor expenses. That has changed, and could get out of control. Basketball has a handful of players, some of whom can be relatively cheap, and a small coaching staff, against 13-15 home games for top 50 programs. Football is 7 home games, at least one of which doesn't draw or get watched, had at least 85 scholarships plus a huge coaching staff. With NIL, you can have rosters of 100 or 125 players that are effectively if not officially on scholarship.
And every program is competing with SEC schools that wouldn't think twice about paying a backup CB $200,000/year just so another program doesn't get him. Basketball will likely be a lot more profitable than football, on average, going forward.
If Football proves to be impossible we just axe the program and continue as a non-FB member. We would still be making more than in the BE so who cares
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Market correction coming on what these guys are making. Back up college CBs won’t be making that much for long, if they even are.
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Don't worry Nelson, this Big 12 move is just preparing Uconn to eventually jump to the B1G. Plenty of $$$ there.
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Last year Drake said UConn's revenue was too low. Now Drake says UConn Basketball is a tremendous money maker. Good for Drake. Growth.
I hate that we have to go through agonizing weeks of waiting for moves while everyone else seems to get an invite over night. No one will appreciate a move like UConn fans if and when it comes.
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I agree with you about the long-term dominance of football for financial reasons and add that fewer kids are playing tackle football now. Those factors together may spell doom for football (which will upset me as a huge football fan). That said, I worry about the future of our hoops programs if we remain in the Big East. The Big East has one marquis program (us), two has-beens (Nova and Georgetown), and three scrappy teams people sort of like to watch (St. Johns Providence, and Seton Hall). The rest is ballast.
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So, if nothing changes with respect to football, it's the right choice.
If football changes fundamentally to the extent its deemphasized.. we'd be in the best basketball league and find ourselves as a top chess piece for any future basketball centric reorg?
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Nah. Marquette, Creighton and Xavier aren't ballast. But that's not the point anyway. Big seismic changes in college sports are coming. If you're outside the P4 you're at risk. Including basketball programs in the Big East.
Fewer people are probably playing football in CT, but that's more likely one of the reasons some of these schools are skeptical of UConn. It's not going anywhere soon at a national level. It's too big.
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Baseball has been on a decline among kids for years. Yet MLB is making more money than ever and expanding its reach internationally.
I wouldn't worry about football going away in your lifetime.
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In the 2022/2023 school year, high school participation in 11 man high school football increased by 5.5% to 1,028,761. The number of colleges playing college football is still increasing with 4 schools adding football in 2023, 6 schools adding football in 2024 (including New England College in NH), and 5 more in the works for future years including Maine Maritime.
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Clemson and FSU are stuck, for now. The Big 12 or
We do know that we have a brand and a record of success broadly, great academics, a beautiful campus, and an affluent market. We have one major issue that needs to be addressed and revenue takes care of a lot of it from a competitive standpoint. We know people show up when we put a decent product on the field. And the status quo is more fluid now than it has ever been in major college football.
This is what I believe also. And by the time any renewal or renegotiation of that contract takes place, or dissolution of the core of the ACC, the value of certain "brands" may have changed. In the era of NIL money talks loudly. And those big fish safe in their small ponds could be looking over their shoulders in shorter time frames at other fish feeding off of NIL money from wherever (FSU is currently 0-1 btw). So we really don't know what their value will be down the road.
We do know that we have a brand and a record of success broadly, great academics, a beautiful campus, and an affluent market. We have one major issue that needs to be addressed and revenue takes care of a lot of it from a competitive standpoint. We know people show up when we put a decent product on the field. And the status quo is more fluid now than it has ever been in major college football.