Carnac, I could not agree more. These people that dream of Uconn in a Power 5 conference should start rethinking because once Texas and Oklahoma are gone it's going to be a Power 4 conference, no more financially viable than the Big East but presenting a lot more problems scheduling and travel wise. Again, apply the old adage, "Be careful of what you ask for, you just might get it."
I may not be around in 10 years, so go for it
Half the teams in the Big East are in the Mid West. Each B12 team is projected to receive $57-60MM by 2029. The conference will be getting additional football playoff money as a P5 conference. Thats without Texas and Oklahoma. Their commissioner is positioning the conference as a solid #3 behind SEC and B1G and wants a national conference. He wants UConn and the New York area market. They are the #3 WBB conference and #1 MBB conference. Most likely will be added to by some ACC leftovers when that conference implodes. The travel issue was regarding the Fiesta Bowl ticket and travel package fiasco issued by the school. It was very expensive. The story ran in the Courant and got picked up by the national media. Few bought it and it looked bad on paper, but many thousands of fans attended the game. Travel packages were purchased from third parties, fans of schools that did not make the bowl. UConn is getting less than $10MM from the Big East. The B12 is not leaking but looking to expand. You can't continue to run a P5 athletic department on G5 monies. UConn has many successful teams and if selected will have the financial resources to support those successes in the future.
The two G5 schools that will not dilute the distribution pool are SDSU and UConn. Exit money gets cut in half in a couple of years.
Nobody east of the Rockies gives a blank about the Pac12 er Pac10...48% of the population is in the east. 16% in the pacific. We are not going to be the only future candidates.
No. As it is the revenue gap between the ACC and the SEC/Big 10 is growing. The last thing the league wants is to add more schools. Some schools have made noise about challenging the GOR clause in the agreement and the ACC responded with an undefined revenue sharing model that is supposed to give more successful schools more money under the media rights deal. We'll see how that works. The ACC's media rights deal expires in 2036 which is a big problem for the schools that think they should be making as much as SEC and Big 10 schools.
Agree, moneywise B12 is the best option, barring B1G surprise.
Pac-12 just lost UCLA and USC (and maybe more). Multiple teams are projected to be poached from the ACC for SEC and B1G. There will be a Power2, and then 2 or 3 more. B12 is positioning itself to be the best of the rest.
The not traveling well indictment is easily solved and proven wrong. When the Huskies qualify for a bowl game and are invited, simply buy your tickets only from the school and then attend the game. Win or lose, most fans that attend their team’s bowl game have the time of their lives.
I bought 4 tickets to last year’s bowl game and donated them to military families/youth groups. UConn makes it easy to do so
They won’t be going away, they’ll be just like B12 losing their top programs.
Better yet, Duke and UNC join the Big East, leaving BC and ‘Cuse nowhere, which is where they deserve to be.
They can take Miami down the drain with them
We’ll find out what the damage would be this year. Last year UConn got creamed by Top 10 Michigan, but to be fair, they lost their starting QB early in the game and replaced him with a true freshman. This season, the Huskies are taking on Tennessee. If UConn is healthy, we’ll see how they might measure up in the SEC
