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Message: [QUOTE="huskymedic, post: 4715596, member: 549"] Best you’re gonna get publicly @ this unsettled point in time is my guess… … a blurb from [U]Dom Amore’s Sunday Read column[/U]: ->[B] At UConn, the realignment blues[/B] STORRS – [URL='https://www.printfriendly.com/p/g/v8GeEP']UConn AD David Benedict was watching football practice Saturday, his reaction to the earth-shaking conference realignment developments later in a week that began with optimism: [I][B]“We’re focusing on what we can control, which is to be as successful as we can.”[/B][/I][/URL] Well beyond UConn’s control was the 108-year-old Pac 12 conference virtually disintegrating overnight after a lackluster TV deal was revealed, leaving teams other than UConn for the Big 12, though it had long been considered the (big) apple of commissioner Brett Yormark’s eye. There is much more to come, but events continue to come via a blind curve. Will the ACC expand now? Or will it lose teams like Florida State and Clemson and be compelled to come after UConn? Is the time ripe for a new football arrangement, now that schools like Stanford, Cal, Oregon State and Washington State are in a situation similar to what UConn was in 10 years ago? Will UConn, as an independent, be able to upgrade its football schedule with the schools left out in the cold? Someday, a better way than the NCAA’s wild west, every-school-for-itself approach to conference alignment must be found. In the meantime, it’s worth repeating that when UConn had some control of its destiny, it put basketball in a good place in the Big East, and if the roster of Power Five-level schools keeps increasing, the university is positioned well. <- [/QUOTE]

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