09-18-2011, 05:41 PM
http://blogs.courant.com/uconn_football/...t-s-1.html
Translation:
UCONN knew about Pitt/SU to the ACC. It is funny our president knows that while BE commisher has no clue. UCONN cares about academics since she mentioned multiple times. This basically means B1G or the ACC with ACC most likely.
Also, there is a rumor from a VU insider that ACC wanted UCONN but UCONN did not want to leave the BE a year ago. ACC basically invited SU and Pitt to force UCONN's hand. The guy said a year ago this would happen and he even posted exact order of invite which is SU/Pitt first and then UCONN/RU. Take it for whatever it is worth.
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For the record, I hate what will happen to the BE. It is sad to see a conference where we are a founder failling apart. All of our rivals are now in the ACC. I always said our commisher is an idiot and it is proven to be the case. I also said there is a good possiblity ESPN would destroy the BE before the next TV contract and it is happening now. The logical conclusion is the ACC/BE merging to be the next super conference and that is coming true too.
Our president is a smart aggressive lady. She is a Dukie alum and GTECH president used to report to her when she was overseeing all the public universities in Georgia, so she has some pulls. She can always call our former president who is University of Illinois president and former UCONN/UVA president Casteen III. I am sure she is making all the calls now.
It looks like we have no choice but going. I just hope rest of the BE schools found homes. It has been a sad day but at least the ACC North will be full of former BE teams.
Quote:"Conference expansion and realignment has been a subject of public speculation for the last several months and will continue to be so in the future, for years most likely. It is not close to being over, so we need to have some patience. There have been new rumors every day regarding schools and conferences, and now Pittsburgh and Syracuse are leaving the BIG EAST, which is a jolt, but not a huge surprise.
"UConn is a proud charter member of the BIG EAST and we have taken a lead role in the league's success over the years. However, it is my responsibility as President that we stay in constant communication and be actively involved in discussions with our counterparts from around the country to ensure the successful long-term future of our university's athletic program. The truth is that our teams will play competitive athletics at the highest level of excellence, wherever things land, and our central goals will be academic success and compliance, always.
"To my mind, the conference realignments and incessant national gossip is distracting many presidents and athletic directors from the real conversations we should be having, about academics, the distorting role of money in sports and what it means to support student-athletes. I hope all settles soon, and we can change the national focus away from profiteering and back to student-athletes, where it belongs."
Translation:
UCONN knew about Pitt/SU to the ACC. It is funny our president knows that while BE commisher has no clue. UCONN cares about academics since she mentioned multiple times. This basically means B1G or the ACC with ACC most likely.
Also, there is a rumor from a VU insider that ACC wanted UCONN but UCONN did not want to leave the BE a year ago. ACC basically invited SU and Pitt to force UCONN's hand. The guy said a year ago this would happen and he even posted exact order of invite which is SU/Pitt first and then UCONN/RU. Take it for whatever it is worth.
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Dude, no offense, save yourself the grief- don't play semantics with me. It will be painful for you.
I have a guess- pure speculation on my part, ever since I started spamming your board last August about su, pitt, uconn and ru to the acc, including the order of invites, either I've been prescient beyond belief or I've got a little birdie hat blew your "insiders" away...in any event speculation was uconn didn't want to jump. Nord convinced su that if they jumped first along with pitt, it softened it for uconn. As i told you guys last werk, the wood has been on for uconn. That was the plum for duke and believe it or not bc. Gdf at bc caved, and flipped completely. Why? Who knows. In any event this is a power play to get uconn. And it is working. When k gave the interview to katz, talking points were spot on. As always it's not over. When this is all said and done you will be amazed about how much of a driver avademics has been. The foia emails concerning tejas will be revealing about how much of a role they ayed.
For the record, I hate what will happen to the BE. It is sad to see a conference where we are a founder failling apart. All of our rivals are now in the ACC. I always said our commisher is an idiot and it is proven to be the case. I also said there is a good possiblity ESPN would destroy the BE before the next TV contract and it is happening now. The logical conclusion is the ACC/BE merging to be the next super conference and that is coming true too.
Our president is a smart aggressive lady. She is a Dukie alum and GTECH president used to report to her when she was overseeing all the public universities in Georgia, so she has some pulls. She can always call our former president who is University of Illinois president and former UCONN/UVA president Casteen III. I am sure she is making all the calls now.
It looks like we have no choice but going. I just hope rest of the BE schools found homes. It has been a sad day but at least the ACC North will be full of former BE teams.
