NJRedman wrote:It really only comes down to one thing for us. When the music stops and UConn doesn't have a seat in the power conference structure do they give up on their FBS FB dreams, de-emphasize FB and rejoin the Big East where they belong.
GumbyDamnit! wrote:64 just seems too perfect a # for football for it not to eventually get there.
Big XII dissolves.
UT & OU go to the SEC.
Baylor, TCU, Tech Tech & Iowa St. go to the PAC
K St. & Okl. St. go to the B1G
ND joins ACC full time for FB & they add WVU
Left holding the bag = Kansas. Kansas then joins the BE along with UCONN. Could you imagine? (I know there is not a snowball's chance in hell, but wouldn't that sure be fun...) Two divisions: East and West.
All the old BE teams in the East play each other twice & each team in the West once.
Gtown
Nova
PC
SHU
SJU
Uconn
West:
X
Marq.
Butler
CU
DePaul
Creighton
Kansas
WOW!
GoldenWarrior11 wrote:NJRedman wrote:It really only comes down to one thing for us. When the music stops and UConn doesn't have a seat in the power conference structure do they give up on their FBS FB dreams, de-emphasize FB and rejoin the Big East where they belong.
UConn is past the point of no return on their football aspirations. Had the huge realignment shift occurred 10 years earlier, UConn would be in the Big East for all sports, and football would still be in FCS. However, with the amount of resources, time and money spent on the football program in the past 10 years, they cannot afford to de-emphasize it now. Their football stadium is just over 10 years old, and their football complex and practice facility was built soon after their stadium.
The fact is that there is still hope that UConn will be in a P5 conference some day. While it seems very unlikely that they will ever be in the SEC, Big 12 or PAC-12 (location), and the B1G (academics), there is a legitimate possibility of them getting into the ACC. They have former conference mates there in Syracuse, Boston College, Miami, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Louisville, and their basketball program would just further elevate the ACC. However, until Bob Diaco (or whatever future UConn coach) can get the football program to just being average and respectable, they will need to patiently wait for another shift to occur.
But according to a report from the Omaha World-Herald, the Big 12 was nearly eviscerated in 2010, with five of its stronger programs sniffing around the greener pastures of the Big Ten.
Xudash wrote:GoldenWarrior11 wrote:NJRedman wrote:It really only comes down to one thing for us. When the music stops and UConn doesn't have a seat in the power conference structure do they give up on their FBS FB dreams, de-emphasize FB and rejoin the Big East where they belong.
UConn is past the point of no return on their football aspirations. Had the huge realignment shift occurred 10 years earlier, UConn would be in the Big East for all sports, and football would still be in FCS. However, with the amount of resources, time and money spent on the football program in the past 10 years, they cannot afford to de-emphasize it now. Their football stadium is just over 10 years old, and their football complex and practice facility was built soon after their stadium.
The fact is that there is still hope that UConn will be in a P5 conference some day. While it seems very unlikely that they will ever be in the SEC, Big 12 or PAC-12 (location), and the B1G (academics), there is a legitimate possibility of them getting into the ACC. They have former conference mates there in Syracuse, Boston College, Miami, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame and Louisville, and their basketball program would just further elevate the ACC. However, until Bob Diaco (or whatever future UConn coach) can get the football program to just being average and respectable, they will need to patiently wait for another shift to occur.
Fair argument. Here's the counter argument: while it is appropriate to focus on all the investment made to-date in UCONN's football program, it also must be true that UCONN's administration must focus on OPERATING RESULTS moving forward. In other words, regardless of the amount of capital sunk into infrastructure, the State of Connecticut cannot afford to proceed into the future funding its flagship university's football losses forever, especially at the level those losses will likely be once the old Big East exit credit funding winds down. That's about "throwing good money after bad" as the old adage goes.
Beyond that, I don't believe people at UC and UCONN and any of the other left-out schools have focused on a hard reality: the current P5 "club" already has 65 members. That most likely means no more additions (it may even eventually lead to one of the existing members getting the boot). Beyond that, adding schools from here has to make sense for television. UCONN football for the ACC will not make sense for TV.
I believe UCONN and UC are stuck, though that isn't stopping UC from spending money on both Nippert and 5/3 Arena.
DudeAnon wrote:I was just writing about how 4x16 is seeming more and more inevitable when this pops up.
http://deadspin.com/report-five-big-12- ... 1720407682
Seems 5 B12 schools almost left for the BIG 10.But according to a report from the Omaha World-Herald, the Big 12 was nearly eviscerated in 2010, with five of its stronger programs sniffing around the greener pastures of the Big Ten.
Five summers ago, Texas rattled the Big 12 to its core by threatening to bolt to what then was the Pac-10, with five other league members trailing along.
Some Big 12 schools involved wanted no part of such a move or the travel associated with it and began exploring other options. I first heard of this at the time and again two years ago, but it wasn’t until last week’s Big 12 media days that I found a second source with direct knowledge to confirm it.
Was this a concrete proposal for realignment? No.
But it was much, much more than cocktail-napkin speculation.
A Big 12 athletic director, who spoke to The World-Herald on condition of anonymity, said he contacted Big Ten athletic directors and presidents with whom he was familiar in June 2010.
The topic: Was the Big Ten, which had 11 members at the time, interested in adding five Big 12 schools?
The feedback from Big Ten school officials was positive, both sources said. The sticking point was devising a revenue-sharing plan to satisfy all. It would have taken at least three to four years for that many incoming schools to hit the financial payoffs sought for moving.
As we know, two Big 12 schools at the time decided not to wait. In June 2010, Nebraska joined the Big Ten and Colorado signed up with what became the Pac-12. Texas A&M and Missouri left a year later.
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