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Is there any chatter about the big east adding a 12th team?
Well...not the best, 2nd best. The Zags would have been the best, but obviously that wasn't workable.
I just hope their history of squirmy behavior has been righted. We shall see.
Who cares? We’ve been on the right side of rivalries for a long time and held our own. My God we play in a conference with Creighton right now.
Much of this stems from the recent AAC TV deal. The conference ignored almost all of UCONN's interests, despite the fact that UCONN being a part of the league makes it enticing to networks. The Big East will give UCONN the exposure it needs, and wants, for Men's and Women's basketball.I wonder what UCONN leaving will mean/do in regards to the AAC's recent TV deal. Also, the AAC likely misplayed their hand. They thought football was king, and that there was no way that UCONN would possibly orphan their football program because of the loss in basketball exposure.
Brew UConn is a big college basketball name with a hot young coach. Why don’t they do much for you?
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
I mean, I'm kind of with Brew on this one...if the Big East was going to add, UCONN was by far the best fit, I mean I wanted NO part of SLU or Dayton. That being said, when these things(like expansion occur), the #1 thing I look at is does it improve the quality of the basketball ON the floor. Not concerned about TV contracts or anything else like that. That being said, UCONN hasn't exactly set the world on fire as far as their BB program goes for awhile now. From a PURE quality of basketball addition(obviously more goes into it), the Zags were by far the best choice. Uconn, to me, with the current state of their program is adding a team more on the Butler, Creighton realm, then on the Nova realm. Decent, but nothing that makes you want to rush out and buy tickets for just that game. Now, can/will they get better?? That remains to be seen, you'd like to think so, but as far as right now...and their men's BB product, it's...meh. Now, if you add Uconn, and boot DePaul..then you improve the conference more IMO.
Despite recent struggles, UConn is still a top 10-15 program all time. I'm confident than they will be back to their winning ways in a few years once they have the Big East brand supporting them. I'm not sure what they do with football, but I think this will be a win for everyone....except the AAC.
Well you should be concerned about the TV contracts as that is meaningful. Teams come and go unless you are elite, being an MU fan you should know this better than most. Xavier wasn’t that good 20 years ago, nor was Wisconsin or Gonzaga. UCLA has been in a rut, as has UCONN. Exposure means a lot, and money buys it. That has killed the PAC 12. They are all intertwined.
It seems a bit odd, especially as I'm not religious, but I feel the goals of the current teams in the league align very well. Mostly Catholic, all religious in nature, smaller schools, adding a big state school that has always had their eyes on the Big 10 or ACC feels like such an outlier.I don't know, this Big East feels like a family, and UConn's not part of that. Hell, their ambitions were as instrumental in the divorce 6 years ago as anyone. I don't trust them and feel like they're largely just a surplus name that gets people excited because of an era that is over.We will never be THAT Big East again. The monster that was is gone. And from a stability point, I have concerns about chasing it. Sure, today it's just UConn, but maybe in a year it's UConn and Cincy, then more AAC programs, then the league that we deliberately left in the first place.UConn isn't here because UConn isn't like us. UConn isn't here because UConn thought they didn't need us. I don't get why people are so anxious to get back into bed with them.