B12 Expanding East?
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I’m sure UConn desperately wants and needs this.
Big 12 are gonna love games at that airport in Connecticut.
The stadium is fine. It’s the off-campus location that isn’t appealing. It ain’t Pasadena.
Temple, same issue.
Temple, same issue.
Saying EXCEPT football
Then what’s the point ?
Get in and then beg to add football at every meeting ???
Then what’s the point ?
Get in and then beg to add football at every meeting ???
Makes sense to me. Big 12 continues to expand in all directions for a 24+ membership base to survive as a lesser equal to the BIG and SEC based on pockets of significant regional presence (Texas, Arizona, Utah, Kansas, etc.) and larger overall geographic spread.
I don’t even recognize or realize what teams are in which conference anymore. We can probably stop calling them conferences soon and just call them “tv packaged group 1”
They're gonna be the equivalent of Morrie annoying Jimmy at every turn for the money after the Lufthansa heist.
That person has no concept of branding. The B1G already said multiple times the conference name is a brand, not a number.
The Stadium is located in a terrific location… Hartford. Access from the major Highways - East - West and North - South and easy parking on the “runway”. The problem is the product on the field, and that won’t change.
Stadium is trash
Fan base is angry
Decent tailgating situation w ample parking and relatively easy to get to
Big East is just an abused conference with Stockholm Syndrome. If they have any balls at all they should tell UConn to park their Olympic sports in the A10 if they take the Big 12 offer.
If they get the BB gig, they should become an independent in football. then they can rent the team out for decent cash payments every week and tell recruits that they will have an opportunity to showcase their talent against teams that they really wanted to play for. With the ever present portal, there will always be some players that slipped through the vetting process and get a second chance.
Of course that is contingent on them surviving the weekly demolition derby.
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Of course that is contingent on them surviving the weekly demolition derby.
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The whole idea of them moving to the big 12 is to save their football programIf they get the BB gig, they should become an independent in football. then they can rent the team out for decent cash payments every week and tell recruits that they will have an opportunity to showcase their talent against teams that they really wanted to play for. With the ever present portal, there will always be some players that slipped through the vetting process and get a second chance.
Of course that is contingent on them surviving the weekly demolition derby.
If they were to want and keep independent football, you stay in the big east, as it is now
UConn can't survive being an Independent in football. Only school that can do that is Notre Dame. Even the Academies are all in conferences now. So they have to choose between leaving the Big East and hoping football doesn't die between now and 2031, with no guarantees that the Big 12 will bring them in for football even in 2031, or stay in the Big East and either quit football or drop to the CAA or Patriot League in football.
Agree with the deplorable fanbase.
The Stadium is fine. Been to all our games there.
Ehhh
It’s serviceable
But for D1, it borders on embarrassing, sans the boxes on the one side
It’s “grayer” than Met Life, which I didn’t know was humanly possible
I'll give UCLA a pass for playing off campus since they play in the freaking Rose Bowl, but any other serious FBS team should play on campus. USF is moving on campus in 2026. UConn should've moved on campus many, many years ago.
Agree
often times it’s a space issue like Miami & Pitt, but the preference is definitely to play on campus
I agree about their football
They have hung on for a while as an independent, but it can’t go on forever
Ether get into the big 12, or ACC as
Full members,
Or drop football and stay in the big east
Quite the gamble on both sides but UConn has much more to gain considering the changing landscape of the sport. So it'd be a good move for them. Though I'd be against it if I was a fan of a Big 12 school given they'd eventually be an additional mouth to feed with an awful football program.
I don't understand Yormark's plan to separate basketball from football though considering the B1G and SEC can leverage football games to perpetually keep the financial gap between conferences.
It's hilarious that the Locked on UConn guy has to make it a point to claim that "no one watches Rutgers".
What conference is Rutgers in? Now what conference is UConn in?
Lol...
I don't understand Yormark's plan to separate basketball from football though considering the B1G and SEC can leverage football games to perpetually keep the financial gap between conferences.
It's hilarious that the Locked on UConn guy has to make it a point to claim that "no one watches Rutgers".
What conference is Rutgers in? Now what conference is UConn in?
Lol...
UConn would get a train run on them every week in football in the B1G with no end in sight. Our Ash era would be their best days as a B1G football school. Hell our team this year would literally be better than the 8 win UConn team who backdoored into a Fiesta Bowl which IMO was the undoing of the BE as a football conference.
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Not necessarily. We were also usual roadkill and have improved only recently since joining, yet nothing lasting has been achieved. Conference-climbing boosts recruiting and were UCONN to be invited they would probably not be roadkill for long. They’d win a few games here and there, and flirt with average just like us within 10 years.
Except they haven't flirted with average since that trip to the Fiesta Bowl, and somehow miraculously having a winning season under Jim Mora playing teams that make the Little Sisters of the Poor look good.
There is a major difference between having a coach run you down (us with Shea and Ash, Syracuse under Greg Robinson) and coming back to be acceptable and UConn football with no local recruiting fanbase to think of and no ability to recruit nationally like Syracuse and BC are somewhat able to do.
I believe they beat ND not too long ago.
My point is, the future is unknown. Never say never.
The things you say about UConn could also be said about Kansas for most of this century
True, but them in our conference and they are as likely as not to become us…which hasn’t been anything special.
Like I was mentioning in the other thread, UConn gets mid high single digits from the BE so understandable why they would want to get into the B12 or ACC in the era of player salaries and such coming. I can see a fit for the ACC, not sure about the B12 and I still wonder about WVU and UCF down the line if the ACC lost any schools.
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Any off campus stadium is trouble. Also, if I remember, just a horrible stadium in general.
Parking lot is great for tailgates though