More conference realignment talk

[MDMU04]

Trilly Donovan on UConn to B12.

https://twitter.com/trillydonovan/status/1664270876538462210?s=20

[CountryRoads]

Trilly Donovan on UConn to B12.

https://twitter.com/trillydonovan/status/1664270876538462210?s=20

If it happens, I feel sorry for their fans. Not much to get excited about on the basketball side of things.

[Tyler COLEk]

Absolute nightmare for their fans and basketball program. Hope players and staff are pumped for 3-5 hour flights for every road game of the season.

[El Guerrero 2]

Absolute nightmare for their fans and basketball program. Hope players and staff are pumped for 3-5 hour flights for every road game of the season.

Imagine being a UConn volleyball player and having to travel to Ames, Iowa to play on a Wednesday night. How effing dumb.

[Uncle Rico]

Straight cash, homie

[The Sultan]

Imagine being a UConn volleyball player and having to travel to Ames, Iowa to play on a Wednesday night. How effing dumb.

Ames? That's closer than Omaha.

It's the trips to Texas and Utah that are the problem.

[El Guerrero 2]

Ames? That's closer than Omaha.

It's the trips to Texas and Utah that are the problem.

You can get a direct flight from NYC to Omaha. How does one get from Storrs to Ames in less than a full day of travel? The school certainly isn't chartering a private jet for girls volleyball.

But to your point, getting from Storrs to Provo to play volleyball against Mormons is even more asinine.

[Tyler COLEk]

UConn Scoop is pretty split on whether to go or stay. Though the bball posters seem to lean stay: https://the-boneyard.com/threads/possible-big-12-invite-rumors.191707/page-52

[wadesworld]

You can get a direct flight from NYC to Omaha. How does one get from Storrs to Ames in less than a full day of travel? The school certainly isn't chartering a private jet for girls volleyball.

But to your point, getting from Storrs to Provo to play volleyball against Mormons is even more asinine.

Well, I'm not sure what UCONN does but Marquette (along with a number power 6 conference schools) do, indeed, charter planes for road matches.

If it happens, I feel sorry for their fans. Not much to get excited about on the basketball side of things.

Really?  I'd absolutely love to be in the best basketball conference in the country, especially if it helped out my football program immensely.

Kansas, Kansas State, Baylor, TCU, Iowa State, West Virginia, Texas Tech, Houston, BYU, UCONN is pretty dang stacked.  This isn't UCONN basketball being put into a mid major basketball conference because of football.  This is them moving to the one conference that is better in basketball than the one they are in.

And this won't be the last of conference realignment.  The Big East will not look like it does (regardless of what UCONN does) in a decade.  If you sit around thinking you're in a good spot, you'll end up in the AAC real fast.

We all wanted to find a way to have Gonzaga fly out to NYC/RI/NJ, etc. multiple times a year.  Now we don't think UCONN can survive flying to Utah once a year.

[Spotcheck Billy]

Imagine being a UConn volleyball player and having to travel to Ames, Iowa to play on a Wednesday night. How effing dumb.

What about travel to Gonzaga for UConn?

[lawdog77]

You can get a direct flight from NYC to Omaha. How does one get from Storrs to Ames in less than a full day of travel? The school certainly isn't chartering a private jet for girls volleyball.

But to your point, getting from Storrs to Provo to play volleyball against Mormons is even more asinine.

??? Would it be ok to play against bigots like yourself?

[El Guerrero 2]

??? Would it be ok to play against bigots like yourself?

Sorry, I don't respect a religion that teaches that blacks are the cursed descendants of Cain.

[The Sultan]

Sorry, I don't respect a religion that teaches that blacks are the cursed descendants of Cain.

Maybe we shouldn't make the same mistake others do by painting the entire religion by what those on fringes state.  Not really a good look.

[El Guerrero 2]

Maybe we shouldn't make the same mistake others do by painting the entire religion by what those on fringes state.  Not really a good look.

It's literally in their scripture (2 Nephi 5:21; Moses 7:8) but whatever that wasn't my point.

[Uncle Rico]

It's literally in their scripture (2 Nephi 5:21; Moses 7:8) but whatever that wasn't my point.

Don't apologize.  All religion is nonsense

[The Sultan]

It's literally in their scripture (2 Nephi 5:21; Moses 7:8) but whatever that wasn't my point.

You can literally pull a bunch of stuff out of the Bible too.

[withoutbias]

It's literally in their scripture (2 Nephi 5:21; Moses 7:8) but whatever that wasn't my point.

The Bible says women should be silent and have no authority over men, illegitimate children and any descendants of their own will no be allowed in the church, men who sleep with a virgin should pay the virgin's father and marry her, men who have gay sex should be put to death, slave owners should not be punished if they strike a slave and the slave dies as long as the slave does not die immediately, a man should marry his brother's wife if his brother dies, etc.

But yes.  Those damn Mormons are terrible people who acknowledge a terrible religion.

[El Guerrero 2]

The Bible says women should be silent and have no authority over men, illegitimate children and any descendants of their own will no be allowed in the church, men who sleep with a virgin should pay the virgin's father and marry her, men who have gay sex should be put to death, slave owners should not be punished if they strike a slave and the slave dies as long as the slave does not die immediately, a man should marry his brother's wife if his brother dies, etc.

But yes.  Those damn Mormons are terrible people who acknowledge a terrible religion.

Well I don't believe any of that either, but at least Christianity had the courtesy of issuing an amendment testament.

[Tha Hound]

Don't apologize.  All religion is nonsense

[Dr. Blackheart]

Sorry, I don't respect a religion that teaches that blacks are the cursed descendants of Cain.

So they were predestined to be undervalued by Wojo too?  Poor Jamal.

[Warriors4ever]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f3VHK1NXIBw

The classic West Wing where President Bartlet pulls all sorts of mandates from the Bible.

All this conference realignment stuff just reinforces my hatred of college football for what's it's doing to college sports.

[El Guerrero 2]

All this conference realignment stuff just reinforces my hatred of college football for what's it's doing to college sports.

In all seriousness, conference realignment could be the best thing to happen to the Big East. All the football schools water down their natural rivalries and geographic recruiting footprints in search of the all-powerful football dollar. Meanwhile, the Big East focuses on carving out its own niche in basketball.

Will it ever rise to the profitability of Alabama football, no. But is it better than being a middle of the pack team in a secondary football conference like the Big 12 or PAC 12, I think so.

[Otule's Glass Eye]

So we go back to 10 teams in that case and then add 2 (St Louis as one?)

Edit: and VCU?

[Uncle Rico]

So we go back to 10 teams in that case and then add 2 (St Louis as one?)

Barf

[DFW HOYA]

In all seriousness, conference realignment could be the best thing to happen to the Big East. All the football schools water down their natural rivalries and geographic recruiting footprints in search of the all-powerful football dollar. Meanwhile, the Big East focuses on carving out its own niche in basketball.

That said, the BE has done nothing to encourage intersectional meetings among its four football schools. UConn has played Villanova once since 1999, Villanova hasn't played Georgetown since 1950, and Georgetown has played Butler once ever.