(09-08-2016 07:06 AM)RUScarlets Wrote:  Temple doesn't bring anything besides Philli, and they have no hope of competing against those football powers, and Philli only cares about their football. If they had a better Bball program and a campus outside the city then you'd get some traction. Not a fit culturally let along geographically.

"Philli"???

(09-08-2016 07:21 AM)Hank Schrader Wrote:  

(09-08-2016 07:06 AM)RUScarlets Wrote:  Temple doesn't bring anything besides Philli, and they have no hope of competing against those football powers, and Philli only cares about their football. If they had a better Bball program and a campus outside the city then you'd get some traction. Not a fit culturally let along geographically.

"Philli"???

"Y" key missing on the keyboard.

(09-07-2016 08:52 PM)random Wrote:  

(09-07-2016 08:17 PM)HuskyU Wrote:  

(09-07-2016 07:58 PM)random Wrote:  It's really too bad for UConn that their football isn't great. They'd be a shoo-in for one of the three conferences. State flagship, great market, great great great hoopsx2, good academic chops. Obviously geography is a sorta problem with the XII, but I'm not convinced they really care that much. If only the football was much better.

UCONN football has been mediocre since moving up to FBS... really no different than recent call-ups/new members Colorado, Rutgers, Maryland, Syracuse, and Pitt in that same tired period.

UCONN having said mediocre football was a detriment to the ACC, however, I'm not so sure it's a bad thing for the Big 10 or Big 12.

Yeah, true. The ACC had a football problem, so it's not unreasonable that they'd avoid UConn despite being a near perfect fit otherwise. The XII and the B1G don't have football problems.

As a college hoops fan, I would be absolutely loving the idea of UConn in the XII with Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, WVU, and (recently) Iowa State and Baylor. Those OU-Kansas games last year were some of the best regular season basketball I've seen in the last few years.

That was a perfect storm. Had the move come when FSU and Clemson were playing as they are now, and UNC on an upswing, it might have been different. ACC was rock bottom and Louisville had a strong team under Bridgewater (a team UConn beat that year).