At this point waiting for the ACC to die from some unknown “economic mess”, is a little like Michael Corleone in Godfather 2 talking about gangster Hyman Roth and how “He’s been dying of the same heart attack for 25 years”.
I like the Godfather movie. But did you see last week's news from ESPN: As more and more college athletic departments cut sports programs, the financial wreckage due to the coronavirus pandemic is becoming devastatingly clear -- and that's without factoring in a $4 billion loss if the 2020 football season is canceled, a development that would forever alter college-level sports.
Agree. But your post singled out the ACC in particular as the conference that may break up due to economics. In reality the article says that some schools in the P5 Cartel are in better position than others, regardless of conference, and the G5 obviously faces lots more turmoil because they make less money.I like the Godfather movie. But did you see last week's news from ESPN: As more and more college athletic departments cut sports programs, the financial wreckage due to the coronavirus pandemic is becoming devastatingly clear -- and that's without factoring in a $4 billion loss if the 2020 football season is canceled, a development that would forever alter college-level sports.
Financial toll of coronavirus could cost college football at least $4 billion
As more college athletic departments cut sports programs, the financial wreckage is becoming clear. And it gets even worse if college football doesn't return.www.espn.com
Explain please
I want some of what you got, mine isn't nearly strong enough!
UConn was a micrometer away from an ACC invite. UConn can be P5. It flubbed its opportunity when it was presented. Whether another chance comes along is the big question.
Currently #118 recruiting class on 247sports.com, but catching up to #100 UMass - I'm not liking this springboard.
At the end of the day, as much as it seems like face saving, I think that fact held sway. Louisville had Johnny U, we had Danny O.
Mmm, no. "Globally" the move to the Big East is a good move. The AAC was killing our sports brand, not just basketball. The travel costs were $2M higher and the travel was draining on our athletes and coaches. We were a geographic outlier in what the conference morphed into. Quality of life will be improved for every UConn athlete across all sports.
Ah, back to recruiting, looking at what we have so far this year, few, if any of these recruits had offers from P5 teams (however, we are kicking Monmouth's and Bryant's behinds). We are scraping the bottom, but our quantity of recruits should expand when the other schools fill their needs. There is no springboard with this recruiting - nice try to deflect, but we are basically last in line here. You can't put lipstick on this pig.
#96, I'm not liking that either. You realize there is a reason they are not rated, right?
At the end of the day, Louisville had an AD and UConn had donut man.
When you are #125 getting a #96 class you're movin' on up.
UConn actually was considered over PItt, but then BC reared its ugly head. The Louisville debacle occurred after that when they wanted to add one more school and it was apparently between Louisville and UConn.
Is there anyone on this board that was "in the room" so to speak when this all went down? To this day I am not convinced we were as close to making the AAC as suggested by some. I've always felt Bristol was part of that discussion and Bristol (tv $$ and markets) + BC venom + FSU & Clemson all did their part to override the BB schools for Louisville.