B12 Officials Met with Cincinnati BEFORE Playoff Announcement

[Dooley]

It appears there is some fire to this smoke. Warde and Susan better be putting on a FULL COURT PRESS to be included!

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...y-cincinnati-memphis-byu?eadid=SOC/Twi/SNMain

 

[B1GOSU]

I would like to see Cincinnati with a nice landing spot. UC isn't B1G material, but it is certainly worthy of the Big 12 or ACC.

 

[UconnU]

Cincy's athletic director Mike Bohn. Kansas graduate; long time Colorado AD when they were in the big 12.... Why couldn't have we made a preemptive strategic hire like this... sigh

 

[WestHartHusk]

Cincy's athletic director Mike Bohn. Kansas graduate; long time Colorado AD when they were in the big 12.... Why can't we make preemptive strategic hires like this... sigh

We have the in-roads to the MAC with ours though .

ROCKSTAR!

 

[ASweet3781]

Great thing we spent the whole season not trying to win games. Evaluating. Loving each other.

Great timing!

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Ugh. Why do I feel like one last swift kick to the nuts inevitable. This is just unbearable.

 

[Dooley]

If Cincinnati can get into the B12, then that would be 3 for 3 with old Big East schools putting money into their football stadiums during down years and then getting a P5 invite.

Rutgers: expanded to 55K despite being in the red as an athletic department and being, well, Rutgers;
Louisville: expanded to over 50K during their Steve Kragthorpe era when they couldn't sellout their stadium;
Cincinnati: $80M renovation to add luxury club suites after losing Brian Kelly to ND and countless # of schools from our conference (don't need an expansion because they have Paul Brown Stadium down the street)

Bottomline: when you put money/resources into football, you show initiative and desire to compete at the highest level. P5 conferences like that to strengthen their product and make more money. What's it going to take to get UCONN off the sidelines and look into expanding/renovating the Rent?

 

[Kolumbo]

Ugh. Why do I feel like one last swift kick to the nuts inevitable. This is just unbearable.

one last swift kick would be welcome news. No. For us, the kicks just keep on coming.

 

[ASweet3781]

If Cincinnati can get into the B12, then that would be 3 for 3 with old Big East schools putting money into their football stadiums during down years and then getting a P5 invite.

Rutgers: expanded to 55K despite being in the red as an athletic department and being, well, Rutgers;
Louisville: expanded to over 50K during their Steve Kragthorpe era when they couldn't sellout their stadium;
Cincinnati: $80M renovation to add luxury club suites after losing Brian Kelly to ND and countless # of schools from our conference (don't need an expansion because they have Paul Brown Stadium down the street)

Bottomline: when you put money/resources into football, you show initiative and desire to compete at the highest level. P5 conferences like that to strengthen their product and make more money. What's it going to take to get UCONN off the sidelines and look into expanding/renovating the Rent?

Don't worry. We are building a new stadium. For soccer.

 

[Wise2]

Don't worry. We are building a new stadium. For soccer.

and Hockey

 

[jostar1]

It appears there is some fire to this smoke. Warde and Susan better be putting on a FULL COURT PRESS to be included!

http://www.sportingnews.com/ncaa-ba...y-cincinnati-memphis-byu?eadid=SOC/Twi/SNMain

According to the story,
"Big 12 officials recently met with administrators from the University of Cincinnati, a source close to the university told Sporting News. "

How come our beat guys never get any scoops?

Other than Scott Gray.

 

[WestHartHusk]

According to the story,
"Big 12 officials recently met with administrators from the University of Cincinnati, a source close to the university told Sporting News. "

How come our beat guys never get any scoops?

Other than Scott Gray.

It is a combination of useless media and slothful administrators who don't have such meetings.

 

[Hawkins]

Even the Big 12 was serious about keeping West Virginia for the long-haul, you knew they would try to bridge that gap geographically. Cincy makes a lot of sense as an addition.

 

[Dooley]

According to the story,
"Big 12 officials recently met with administrators from the University of Cincinnati, a source close to the university told Sporting News. "

How come our beat guys never get any scoops?

Other than Scott Gray.

Yup. And all of it comes on the heels of Cincinnati unveiling their new stadium renovation. They understand how to market themselves to get to the top of the P5 invite list. Meanwhile here in Connecticut, we are taking a "we will expand when we sell out the stadium" reactive approach that has left us buried in AAC purgatory. Others are even debating whether or not to drop football altogether just to move our hoops programs back to mid-major status. Un-fahqing-believable.

 

[don356]

Decoursey for sporting news is a Cincinnati based reporter. He lives there. That said, i know from pretty good sources they have had dialogue with the Big 12 and ACC. These appear to be very fluid situations. However, it helps them to be in a big football area, and also be in between wv and lvl. Not to mention win in fball every year.

 

[don356]

The other thing is that this kind of lends credence to the story with the Fedex guy being involved. All of these tweeters who talk all of the network tv contracts etc. basically know little to nothing about tv based revenue and how it impacts all of this. P&G is based in Cincy, and is historically one of the biggest $ advertisers probably in the world. Tv revenue is ad based. Connect the dots. A 20 millon dollar per team tv split in terms of ad dollars for major corporations is kind of a drop in the bucket.

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

Yup. And all of it comes on the heels of Cincinnati unveiling their new stadium renovation. They understand how to market themselves to get to the top of the P5 invite list. Meanwhile here in Connecticut, we are taking a "we will expand when we sell out the stadium" reactive approach that has left us buried in AAC purgatory. Others are even debating whether or not to drop football altogether just to move our hoops programs back to mid-major status. Un-fahqing-believable.

Well, UC expanded Nippert TO 40K, and it's widely believed they can't actually go past it because of space, whereas at least we have ample room to do so if need be.

 

[Skiblets]

Well, UC expanded Nippert TO 40K, and it's widely believed they can't actually go past it because of space, whereas at least we have ample room to do so if need be.

They have 68000 seat Paul brown stadium right down the street. Texas and Oklahoma would fill that easy

 

[brasssbonanzaa]

They have 68000 seat Paul brown stadium right down the street. Texas and Oklahoma would fill that easy

Yeah, but if they're going to play that card, then we say we'll play TX and OU at Giants Stadium or Foxboro.

 

[don356]

Oklahoma actually played Cincy at Paul Brown the first year i transferred down here. Oklahoma pulled it out when a cincy receiver fumbled a run. I think there were 60k for that game.

 

[CL82]

Good GOR article was linked in the linked article. The points made have been made on this board as well but I think it is a very understandable description of why GORs are as breakable as any other contract.

Worth a read.

 

[CL82]

If Cincinnati can get into the B12, then that would be 3 for 3 with old Big East schools putting money into their football stadiums during down years and then getting a P5 invite.

Rutgers: expanded to 55K despite being in the red as an athletic department and being, well, Rutgers;
Louisville: expanded to over 50K during their Steve Kragthorpe era when they couldn't sellout their stadium;
Cincinnati: $80M renovation to add luxury club suites after losing Brian Kelly to ND and countless # of schools from our conference (don't need an expansion because they have Paul Brown Stadium down the street)

Bottomline: when you put money/resources into football, you show initiative and desire to compete at the highest level. P5 conferences like that to strengthen their product and make more money. What's it going to take to get UCONN off the sidelines and look into expanding/renovating the Rent?

What's going to take for UConn to add capacity to the Rent? Much more demand than we saw this year.
What's if going to take to have that better turnout? I don't know but an on field performance that is not vomit inducing would be a good beginning.

 

[Wise2]

What's going to take for UConn to add capacity to the Rent? Much more demand than we saw this year.
What's if going to take to have that better turnout? I don't know but an on field performance that is not vomit inducing would be a good beginning.

When we had a good product and a good league, we were selling out. If we had a better product and were in a better league, we could have easily sold out 50-60 thousand seats. However, those days are long gone now

 

[Pudge]

If Cincinnati can get into the B12, then that would be 3 for 3 with old Big East schools putting money into their football stadiums during down years and then getting a P5 invite.

Rutgers: expanded to 55K despite being in the red as an athletic department and being, well, Rutgers;
Louisville: expanded to over 50K during their Steve Kragthorpe era when they couldn't sellout their stadium;
Cincinnati: $80M renovation to add luxury club suites after losing Brian Kelly to ND and countless # of schools from our conference (don't need an expansion because they have Paul Brown Stadium down the street)

Bottomline: when you put money/resources into football, you show initiative and desire to compete at the highest level. P5 conferences like that to strengthen their product and make more money. What's it going to take to get UCONN off the sidelines and look into expanding/renovating the Rent?

I actually said this 5 years ago.

And, we have the CLEAR easiest structure to expand. We simply refinance the original bond indebtedness with today's lower rates & better Debt Service coverage. We don't need several hundred million. Doing 10-14,000 more seats is probably a $50-70m project. Not that hard a lift given our revenue over 11 years.

And why wasn't it done? I think it is the PR blasé. We came up with the mindset that we needed to sell out for 5 years in a row. Gosh ... that didn't stop Rutgers at all. I have been to Nippert; it wasn't being sold out.

 

[upstater]

Yup. And all of it comes on the heels of Cincinnati unveiling their new stadium renovation. They understand how to market themselves to get to the top of the P5 invite list. Meanwhile here in Connecticut, we are taking a "we will expand when we sell out the stadium" reactive approach that has left us buried in AAC purgatory. Others are even debating whether or not to drop football altogether just to move our hoops programs back to mid-major status. Un-fahqing-believable.

What did they expand it to? About the size of the Rent.

Do you really think Cincy has invested even half of what the state of CT and UConn have in sports?