Why is the Big East terrible for UConn and where should UConn go instead?

[mike012]

Hopefully next year. UConn , St. John’s, Villanova, Creighton and Marquette are all preseason top 25 teams and suddenly the BE is back in business

 

[Kolumbo]

The reason I started this thread is because a handful of posters feel the need to beat this topic to death in every thread about every subject on the basketball board.

I will let you in on a secret. Every single poster who has ever posted on the Realignment Board or in a thread about realignment anywhere on this site, or any other site, knows most, all, or more than this about this topic. Many of us have been posting about this topic for 24 years.

The P6 became the P5 became the P4 could become the P3, P2 or P1. Got it. Is there a plan anywhere on this site for getting Connecticut on the other side of the dividing line? Because I read a lot of hope as a plan. How has that worked for the last 24 years?

We've already reached P2 status. They just haven't created a name for the ACC and Big 12 even though they are still far better off than the G6. We don't know where the dividing line will be or if a line will be relevant. A conference for football will be necessary. Then you have the fact that the bcu's and rutgerses are somehow on the right side of the line mucking things up. The Big East may be fine for programs like SJU because it doesn't have to fund football and if you have a billionaire like Mike Repole, even better. But even SJU may seek out greener pastures rather than hang out with Butler. Football separating, conference mergers, who knows. Something will happen but I'm sure we won't be able to have our cake (MSG) and eat it too (football conference)