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Post by crayzeeguy on Aug 23, 2024 22:32:32 GMT -5
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Post by calsufan on Aug 23, 2024 22:52:07 GMT -5
This is just plain stupid. UConn's football team sucks eggs big time. They are going to get smoked in the Big 12.
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Post by crayzeeguy on Aug 23, 2024 23:26:36 GMT -5
This is just plain stupid. UConn's football team sucks eggs big time. They are going to get smoked in the Big 12. Big 12 schools salivating knowing they get to share in the basketball earnings without any threat to their football status. |
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Post by explorerman on Aug 24, 2024 8:53:19 GMT -5
This is just plain stupid. UConn's football team sucks eggs big time. They are going to get smoked in the Big 12. Big 12 schools salivating knowing they get to share in the basketball earnings without any threat to their football status. UCONN has wanted a new home for sometime… ACC turned them down years ago.. ESPN has been helping them for some time.. Def were a decade ago… Maybe less so now.. |
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Post by glorydays on Aug 24, 2024 10:35:06 GMT -5
UCONN should stay where they are. There could be a nice non power 5 football only conference in the East. Maine, RI, UConn, Umass, Temple, Villanova, Delaware, Richmond, Towson State and maybe Monmouth. This would be kind of a regrouping of the old Yankee Conference. The teams are closer to big population centers than the Mid-American.
It makes no sense for the Blue Hens to be in Conference USA.
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Post by calsufan on Aug 24, 2024 11:12:07 GMT -5
Big 12 schools salivating knowing they get to share in the basketball earnings without any threat to their football status. UCONN has wanted a new home for sometime… ACC turned them down years ago.. ESPN has been helping them for some time.. Def were a decade ago… Maybe less so now.. Nah, they're still bad. In the last 3 years their record is 10 and 27 or a stellar 27% win percentage. Last year under Jim Mora Jr. they were 3-9 and were the 121st best team (out of 133) for points scored at the FBS level (their defense was the 100th best in points allowed). And this was on a SOS that was the 85th best. Yeah, they suck eggs. |
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Post by sweat83 on Aug 27, 2024 5:32:20 GMT -5
Not really sure who you are referencing here, but to me, Temple comes to mind. Trying to make it big in FB, changes conferences, and appears to have totally failed in its quest to have an above average Football program, and brought down its basketball program as well. |
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Post by explorerman on Sept 12, 2024 9:45:58 GMT -5
Pac-12 is picking up Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State in 2026-27
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Sept 12, 2024 10:33:02 GMT -5
I'd imagine the Big East loses it's luster in 5 years. They are the only non-P5 conference to win the NCAA tourney since UNLV did it in 1990. Big East did it 9 times - UConn (5), Villanova (2), Syracuse (1), and Louisville (1). Once UConn departs, only Villanova remains as a Big East conference member who has won the whole thing, and let's face it...they aren't getting there under Neptune.
The call of football NIL money will lure schools away, and the Big East will fade as a basketball power conference.
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Post by JoeFedorowicz on Sept 12, 2024 13:22:40 GMT -5
They've been firmly top 5 forever. Do you see them getting outside that?
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Post by GlitterBro #2 on Sept 12, 2024 13:52:08 GMT -5
I think so. Football NIL and TV rules the roost, and some of these teams in the Big East aren't going to have the resources to compete. So as the top teams leave...like a UConn (which is probably the only reason the Big East had a NET Conference Ranking of 5 this year)...their cache will drop.
I think it will be 5 years out though that we really see it fall apart.
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Post by calsufan on Sept 12, 2024 15:03:19 GMT -5
Pac-12 is picking up Boise State, Colorado State, Fresno State and San Diego State in 2026-27 Oh! How utterly NOT exciting. That's a pretty pathetic conference now. Did they ever can the Pac-12 who botched things in the first place? |
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Post by 23won on Sept 12, 2024 19:30:26 GMT -5
I could see big 12 taking a pass on UConn due to football team. Decent but not high odds on this imo
Big east needs to add Zags and St Mary. It’s every man for himself time. Better to nab them now before pac 12 does. The 6 team pac 12 makeup makes little sense to me. Maybe they are waiting for Stanford and cal to reach out when Acc implodes
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Post by hoopsguest on Sept 12, 2024 19:53:40 GMT -5
I could see big 12 taking a pass on UConn due to football team. Decent but not high odds on this imo Big east needs to add Zags and St Mary. It’s every man for himself time. Better to nab them now before pac 12 does. The 6 team pac 12 makeup makes little sense to me. Maybe they are waiting for Stanford and cal to reach out when Acc implodes Pc 12 needs to add TWO FOOTBALL schools to get conference championship bid. Gonzaga and St Mary’s don’t have football so they won’t be the next adds. Probably UNLV and one other. They could add them after that but they won’t be the next two adds Football should be a separate entity. There’s no reason for Rutgers to send their cross country team to Oregon for a conference meet on a Tuesday flying commercial. Those kids are in school for school. Basketball flies charter and most of those kids are there for basketball. Same with football plus football plays on the weekend anyway |
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Post by nyalum on Sept 12, 2024 19:57:04 GMT -5
College sports has become a home for the geographically deranged. Next, let's put the University of Hawaii and the University of Alaska in the America East.
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Post by belfieldhappyhour on Sept 12, 2024 19:57:55 GMT -5
I could see big 12 taking a pass on UConn due to football team. Decent but not high odds on this imo Big east needs to add Zags and St Mary. It’s every man for himself time. Better to nab them now before pac 12 does. The 6 team pac 12 makeup makes little sense to me. Maybe they are waiting for Stanford and cal to reach out when Acc implodes Pc 12 needs to add TWO FOOTBALL schools to get conference championship bid. Gonzaga and St Mary’s don’t have football so they won’t be the next adds. Probably UNLV and one other. They could add them after that but they won’t be the next two adds Football should be a separate entity. There’s no reason for Rutgers to send their cross country team to Oregon for a conference meet on a Tuesday flying commercial. Those kids are in school for school. Basketball flies charter and most of those kids are there for basketball. Same with football plus football plays on the weekend anyway100% agree. Let hoops and football chase the money in the big, power conferences and keep the rest of the sports in their typical/regional leagues. Shouldn't be that hard to figure out. Even La Salle going to SLU for soccer and the like is dumb to me. (I know soccer is a pretty good rivalry, but still) |
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Post by 23won on Sept 13, 2024 8:05:43 GMT -5
I could see big 12 taking a pass on UConn due to football team. Decent but not high odds on this imo Big east needs to add Zags and St Mary. It’s every man for himself time. Better to nab them now before pac 12 does. The 6 team pac 12 makeup makes little sense to me. Maybe they are waiting for Stanford and cal to reach out when Acc implodes Pc 12 needs to add TWO FOOTBALL schools to get conference championship bid. Gonzaga and St Mary’s don’t have football so they won’t be the next adds. Probably UNLV and one other. They could add them after that but they won’t be the next two adds Football should be a separate entity. There’s no reason for Rutgers to send their cross country team to Oregon for a conference meet on a Tuesday flying commercial. Those kids are in school for school. Basketball flies charter and most of those kids are there for basketball. Same with football plus football plays on the weekend anyway I know. That's what I said above. To clarify, they wait two years for ACC (should happen within a year or so) to fold and try to lure Stanford and Cal as priority one... If that doesn't work they can nab Tulane, UNLV, Air Force, UTSA or the best available football team. They are not adding other MWC teams at this time (which they could do now) to minimize exit and poaching fees per each other departing MWC team. Still think it makes sense to grab Zags and StM for 10 team hoops. Would be a better hoops league with those WCC teams plus SDSU, Boise, Col State plus the final two new football schools. |
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Post by giveansk1 on Sept 13, 2024 8:58:19 GMT -5
Hopefully we eventually get to a point where football can have its own conferences and basketball can. Or at the very least football and basketball and then every other sport. It's also going to be interesting to see the next B1G contract, do the TV executives say hey let's get rid of Rutgers and bring in someone that draws more eyeballs.
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