More conference realignment talk

[79Warrior]

I can't fault UCONN for accepting full membership to the BIG XII.

I am surprised the BIG XII would want them.

Other teams in the conference wanted an easy win.

[WhiteTrash]

Disney is looking to step back from or step out of ESPN. It will be interesting to see how ESPN acts without the Disney balance sheet backing them.

Tough timing for the PAC 12.

[Tyler COLEk]

Unfortunately, it is turning out that Val is like Carrie Fisher in the Blue Brothers Tunnel Scene. She had U- Conn cornered ,and on the run ,when they wanted to rejoin the conference.  Could have extinguished any opportunity for The Huskies to bolt again. Unfortunately, U Conn kissed and ran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftt4f2H3GDs

Even if they leave again, re-admitting UConn will have been extraordinarily lucrative for the Big East.

[El Guerrero 2]

Even if they leave again, re-admitting UConn will have been extraordinarily lucrative for the Big East.

Yeah I mean I'd certainly be okay with Val taking this "risk" knowing that worst case the league gets $30 million it otherwise wouldn't have had.

But UConn I doubt UConn is ever getting that phone call. If the Big 12 wanted UConn they could have called at any point in the last decade.

[The Sultan]

Yeah, there should be no criticism for taking UConn into the BE if they do end up leaving. It happens.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Yeah I mean I'd certainly be okay with Val taking this "risk" knowing that worst case the league gets $30 million it otherwise wouldn't have had.

But UConn I doubt UConn is ever getting that phone call. If the Big 12 wanted UConn they could have called at any point in the last decade.

It's more than $30 million. We get to keep all those tourney credits and that will always be a Big East National Championship. Adding UConn will only ever be an unmitigated success for the BEast.

I'm still skeptical that the B12 is actually pursuing UConn. I'm sure they are talking but unless you are in the B1G/SEC, there's always talk.

[PBRme]

Disney is looking to step back from or step out of ESPN. It will be interesting to see how ESPN acts without the Disney balance sheet backing them.

Tough timing for the PAC 12.

Maybe one of the Streamers buys them--Apple??

[MuMark]

https://twitter.com/criddlebenjamin/status/1679643857414393856?s=61&t=6XPB8f4sAKmJIzxgMcsCjw

[MurphysTillClose]

https://twitter.com/criddlebenjamin/status/1679643857414393856?s=61&t=6XPB8f4sAKmJIzxgMcsCjw

Loving the bitter UCONN fans in the comments.

[muwarrior69]

Bob's Discount Furniture Guy?

I thought it was the Sani-Flush Bowl.

[WhiteTrash]

I have to say, Kliavkoff is one cool customer. He is acting like he his going to fulfill his promise to beat the BIG 12's TV deal.

This guy is either going to be inline to head the SEC or out of college sports by year end. Fun drama to watch.

[Dish]

Buffs making it official tomorrow and headed back to the Big 12.

[SaveOD238]

Buffs making it official tomorrow and headed back to the Big 12.

These things always happen in pairs.  So who's #2?

[Uncle Rico]

These things always happen in pairs.  So who's #2?

Arizona, ASU and Gonzaga

[El Guerrero 2]

Arizona, ASU and Gonzaga

Wouldn't that leave them with 13 football teams? And why take just one bball-only member?

My guess is that the Arizona schools and Utah also bounce.

[Herman Cain]

Buffs making it official tomorrow and headed back to the Big 12.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/38076854/colorado-discussing-move-pac-12-big-12-sources-say

[wadesworld]

UCONN. And they would be dumb to pass on an invite to the Big 12. The idea that the Big East will stay fully in tact for when 5 more years is hopeful at the absolute best. Conference realignment has been a constant in college athletics. It's not stopping now.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

UCONN. And they would be dumb to pass on an invite to the Big 12. The idea that the Big East will stay fully in tact for when 5 more years is hopeful at the absolute best. Conference realignment has been a constant in college athletics. It's not stopping now.

I think it will stop (at the levels that matter) in the next 15-20 years I think. SEC and B1G will hit their saturation points and no one will be able to touch them. I think the B12 will settle in as the third power conference and will also reach saturation. Big East will be the fourth power conference in basketball. ACC/P12 will either not exist or be AAC/MWC level. Lower levels will continue to realign but few will notice.

Big question for the BEast will be if the SEC/B1G/B12 decide to start taking on basketball only schools. If they do, BEast will be gowne.

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

I think it will stop (at the levels that matter) in the next 15-20 years I think.

Bold call

[El Guerrero 2]

UCONN. And they would be dumb to pass on an invite to the Big 12. The idea that the Big East will stay fully in tact for when 5 more years is hopeful at the absolute best. Conference realignment has been a constant in college athletics. It's not stopping now.

I think you misread which way that cuts. Conference realignment has been going  on for decades and all the Big East schools are where they are because that is the best they can get in the market without football programs. UConn is the only school with even a chance of "moving up" and the chance they ever get that choice is slim given how shitty their football program is.

All the Big East schools that left before did so for football money, and the Big 10, SEC and Big 12 aren't sharing their football money to recruit basketball schools.

The only scenario that I can see as even remotely possible where the Big East loses someone other than UConn is if the ACC implodes and someone like Villanova breaks off to try and align themselves with Duke in some new basketball-centric conference. And that is a very small likelihood outcome.

This was the wisdom of the Great Schism in 2013; it basically took the Big East out of the conference realignment madness and allowed it's programs to differentiate themselves by devoting everything to basketball.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Bold call

Lol

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

This was the wisdom of the Great Schism in 2013; it basically took the Big East out of the conference realignment madness and allowed it's programs to differentiate themselves by devoting everything to basketball.

It basically took them out of the madness...for now. I don't know that it will change in the future, but I could see it happening.

[WhiteTrash]

Oregon to Big 12??

[El Guerrero 2]

Oregon to Big 12??

https://twitter.com/mattprehm/status/1684337241605410816?s=46&t=HLoNtkTVfvSoDEzJafqc2g

[The Sultan]

https://twitter.com/mattprehm/status/1684337241605410816?s=46&t=HLoNtkTVfvSoDEzJafqc2g

If you read down, this looks more to be about a contract extension for the coach.  I also think that if it were about a change in conference membership, it would have been (intentionally) leaked by now.

That being said, who knows?