UConn headed back to the BigEast

[steelerssb]

Liberty?

Nothing quite like whoring out your "core beliefs and morals" to maybe be semi relevant in football (until the coach gets caught with a hooker and the AD turning the other cheek on sexual assault again).

 

[78Cyclones]

Liberty?

Nothing quite like whoring out your "core beliefs and morals" to maybe be semi relevant in football (until the coach gets caught with a hooker and the AD turning the other cheek on sexual assault again).

An Evangelical School (Liberty) in an Evangelical League (AAC) could be a marriage made in Heaven - as long as one is a man and one is a woman.

 

[The Q]

Opinion: UConn rejoining the Big East means the school has given up on football program

Its possible.

What are the chances they were going to get a P5 invite after all this time?

They’re shoring up basketball Just in case that p5 never comes.

 

[tabascojet]

Its possible.

What are the chances they were going to get a P5 invite after all this time?

They’re shoring up basketball Just in case that p5 never comes.

got to win more games in foorball than they have to sniff that opportunity.....the fact that basketball is now losing money is the true catalyst. no one gives a shit about playing tulsa ecu or directional florida

 

[The Q]

got to win more games in foorball than they have to sniff that opportunity.....the fact that basketball is now losing money is the true catalyst. no one gives a shit about playing tulsa ecu or directional florida

That last part is true.

But they were coming off a bcs berth when the acc took Pitt and Syracuse

 

[tabascojet]

That last part is true.

But they were coming off a bcs berth when the acc took Pitt and Syracuse

do you think they will stay fbs in football long term??

 

[The Q]

do you think they will stay fbs in football long term??

Honestly no idea. If they don’t get in during the next round of conference realignment I think they might turn the lights out.

They’d save a ton of money by cutting football and about 5 other girls sports.

 

[Deep Creek]

Why you....

Actually not even the most true blue resident of backwood Missouri would consider themself southern. Maybe as smart as the average Alabaman however....

Bububububububutttttttttt...............Mizzou is IN the SOUTHEASTERN Conference...ergo they are located in the Southeast!

Even if they didn't know whether they were Union or Confederate.

"During the American Civil War, Missouri was a hotly contested border state populated by both Union and Confederate sympathizers. It sent armies, generals, and supplies to both sides, was represented with a star on both flags, maintained dual governments, and endured a bloody neighbor-against-neighbor intrastate war within the larger national war.

A slave state since statehood in 1821, Missouri's geographic position in the center of the country and at the rural edge of the American frontier ensured that it remained a divisive battleground for competing Northern and Southern ideologies in the years preceding the war. When the war began in 1861, it became clear that control of the Mississippi River and the burgeoning economic hub of St. Louis would make Missouri a strategic territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.

By the end of the war in 1865, nearly 110,000 Missourians had served in the Union Army and at least 30,000 in the Confederate Army;[citation needed] many had also fought with bands of pro–Confederate partisans known as "bushwhackers".[1][2] The war in Missouri was continuous between 1861 and 1865, with battles and skirmishes in all areas of the state, from the Iowa and Illinois borders in the northeast to the Arkansas border in the southeast and southwest. Counting minor actions and skirmishes, Missouri saw more than 1,200 distinct engagements within its boundaries; only Virginia and Tennessee exceeded this total.

The first major Civil War battle west of the Mississippi River took place on August 10, 1861 at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, while the largest battle west of the Mississippi River was the Battle of Westport in Kansas City in 1864."

 

[tabascojet]

Bububububububutttttttttt...............Mizzou is IN the SOUTHEASTERN Conference...ergo they are located in the Southeast!

Even if they didn't know whether they were Union or Confederate.

"During the American Civil War, Missouri was a hotly contested border state populated by both Union and Confederate sympathizers. It sent armies, generals, and supplies to both sides, was represented with a star on both flags, maintained dual governments, and endured a bloody neighbor-against-neighbor intrastate war within the larger national war.

A slave state since statehood in 1821, Missouri's geographic position in the center of the country and at the rural edge of the American frontier ensured that it remained a divisive battleground for competing Northern and Southern ideologies in the years preceding the war. When the war began in 1861, it became clear that control of the Mississippi River and the burgeoning economic hub of St. Louis would make Missouri a strategic territory in the Trans-Mississippi Theater.

By the end of the war in 1865, nearly 110,000 Missourians had served in the Union Army and at least 30,000 in the Confederate Army;[citation needed] many had also fought with bands of pro–Confederate partisans known as "bushwhackers".[1][2] The war in Missouri was continuous between 1861 and 1865, with battles and skirmishes in all areas of the state, from the Iowa and Illinois borders in the northeast to the Arkansas border in the southeast and southwest. Counting minor actions and skirmishes, Missouri saw more than 1,200 distinct engagements within its boundaries; only Virginia and Tennessee exceeded this total.

The first major Civil War battle west of the Mississippi River took place on August 10, 1861 at Wilson's Creek, Missouri, while the largest battle west of the Mississippi River was the Battle of Westport in Kansas City in 1864."

:wrench:

 

[Deep Creek]

Its possible.

What are the chances they were going to get a P5 invite after all this time?

They’re shoring up basketball Just in case that p5 never comes.

I'm not sure there is currently a viable candidate to add to the P5. In fact, the P5 Conferences currently have several that are P5 in name only and wouldn't get an invite if they were sitting outside the group currently. JMO

 

[The Q]

I'm not sure there is currently a viable candidate to add to the P5. In fact, the P5 Conferences currently have several that are P5 in name only and wouldn't get an invite if they were sitting outside the group currently. JMO

Very real and fair take.

Maybe UConn is reading the tea leaves. Their best shot at p5 is probably if Kansas and Oklahoma demolish the big12.

 

[Deep Creek]

Honestly no idea. If they don’t get in during the next round of conference realignment I think they might turn the lights out.

They’d save a ton of money by cutting football and about 5 other girls sports.

That is the huge financial ball and chain because it takes so many more girls sports to equalize that 85 scholie number.

My school is a perfect example...we only have 5 men's sports and 9 women's. Having to subsidize those sports ain't difficult for the big money schools. In fact, they could add even more if they wanted to. But for those struggling to get by, it is a huge financial issue. Which is why a whole lot of schools run in the red athletically.

 

[Deep Creek]

Very real and fair take.

Maybe UConn is reading the tea leaves. Their best shot at p5 is probably if Kansas and Oklahoma demolish the big12.

If the Big 12 implodes, most of the teams will be joining the ranks of UConn. I live in Texas but what other P5 conference would want TCU, Baylor or Texas Tech? Although Tech may have had the best year in Men's athletics of all Big 12 schools. A NCAA hoops final, winning a natty in men's track/field and making the CWS in Omaha again. But success like that in those sports doesn't really move the needle....unless your football team is also good.

 

[The Q]

If the Big 12 implodes, most of the teams will be joining the ranks of UConn. I live in Texas but what other P5 conference would want TCU, Baylor or Texas Tech? Although Tech may have had the best year in Men's athletics of all Big 12 schools. A NCAA hoops final, winning a natty in men's track/field and making the CWS in Omaha again. But success like that in those sports doesn't really move the needle....unless your football team is also good.

Exactly. But between those remnants and the aac and UConn you can piecmeal something together.

 

[Deep Creek]

Exactly. But between those remnants and the aac and UConn you can piecmeal something together.

True, but I still don't think they would even come close to getting a seat at the big kid table.

 

[Olyduck]

G5 shuffle
Uconn out of AAC
AAC adds App State or Troy
Sun Belt adds Liberty

Uconn and Umass join CUSA East Wkentucky to the west division.

or
Uconn and Liberty to the MAC East
Miami Oh to the West

AAC adds Marshall to the East no other changes needed.

CUSA adds New Mexico State to West
Southern Miss to the East

 

[ukfanfrombirth(cali cat)]

UConn is a basketball school, and the Big East is where they belong in that sport. Football is honestly probably secondary.

Well, except the Big East isn't really much of a basketball conference, these days.
It certainly used to be, but then many of the top teams scattered to the 4 winds.

 

[ukfanfrombirth(cali cat)]

I'm not sure there is currently a viable candidate to add to the P5. In fact, the P5 Conferences currently have several that are P5 in name only and wouldn't get an invite if they were sitting outside the group currently. JMO

Currently, probably not, but I think Memphis looks poised to be a good candidate, at least if Penny can turn his recruiting wins into wins on the court. They've made huge strides in football.

 

[Deep Creek]

Currently, probably not, but I think Memphis looks poised to be a good candidate, at least if Penny can turn his recruiting wins into wins on the court. They've made huge strides in football.

You are thinking too traditionally...which I also do.

It ain't about quality athletic teams joining conferences anymore. It is about how much money adding a team will bring to a conference...be it TV sets, research money, etc! Nothing else matters. (Well nearly nothing else...some are invited just to make even numbers.)

I don't think Memphis...or any other current G5 team... moves the needle in that regard. But, I may be wrong. The only one might be BYU and they only do because their viewers are scattered in all the major markets.

 

[Used 2 B Hu]

Sounds like UConn wants to keep their football in the AAC... Mike our Commish who has hugged me a few times