this is evidence of UConn needing a power conference much more than a power conference needing UConn. Cincinnati got dealt the same hand as UConn when the Big East became the American.
Yes when edsall part 1 ended they made horrible hires and it cost them dearly. Jim Mora did a fantastic job turning it around last year and we should better in year 2.
They should have never believed basketball success would lead to football success. It's not realignment. They literally have been a bottom 5 program since 2000.
Yeah again they had football success from 2004-2011. Sellouts, actually rankings in top 25, went to notre dame and won.
3 losing seasons in those 8 years, zero 10 wins seasons, and the best Bowl victory was what, Papa Johns? #team @PC Drunken Friar
It’s better to have one premier sport than no premier sport I guess.
They’ve certainly sucked the last 10 ish years overall. There was a bcs bowl game in there in 2011. It’s unraveled pretty quickly after that.
UConn is a blue blood basketball program for men and women. BC is irrelevant in anything anyone knows (college hockey is unknown next everywhere outside Massachusetts).
Completely untrue
Minor cities don’t count for national prestige. Hockey is big here in PA and still far behind college wrestling.
I'll put my money on "when Tulane has a first half lead on Ole Miss in Week 2."
The rumors are that it's only Football and Basketball though. I still don't see the point of the ACC taking them, even at a reduced share. How much is ESPN really going to pay to air 10 PM ET games?
SF isn't a college sports market and SMU is a non-factor in Dallas. The adding cable box era is over. This is about brands and eyeballs. The ACC is playing checkers while others are playing chess. The schools are desperate and the ACC is clueless. Seems like a great partnership.
SMU is irrelevant in Dallas. They might get 10,000 viewers a game on TV, maybe.
SMU BC perhaps
It made for a great book . If you haven't, read it.
SMU football never recovered from the NCAA’s shutdown of the program in the mid-80s. Most of the DFW area’s current residents have no memory of SMU football being relevant. Moving to a major conference wouldn’t change that. Having some success in that major conference would, but that’s much easier said than done. I don’t see a major conference giving SMU a slice of their pie in hopes they can pull that off.
The 30 for 30 doc about this era is outstanding. Highly recommend. The Southwest Conference is about as Texas as it gets.
Loved the bit about Dickerson getting the car from Texas A&M (The Trans A&M) and then the school being unable to do anything about it when he bolted for SMU. And the look of amused silence when the interviewer asked him "If A&M gave you a Trans AM, what did SMU give you?"
I thought the best part was towards the beginning in the context-setting portion of the program. Like, this really was just a Dallas-centric circle jerk, with all these big egos trying to one-up each other. It all makes a lot of sense when you think about it that way.
I suspect SMU was largely to keep a block of 15 together. ESPN can renegotiate their TV deal if the conference falls below 15. I assume they think FSU, Clemson and UNC leaving is likely.
Yeah, hard to get excited about this when you know that those 3 are leaving once it becomes financially viable to do so.
The travel costs alone are going to eat up whatever additional revenue the existing ACC schools will get and then some. The only upside is that it makes it much more difficult for schools to leave before the GOR expires.
I think UNC is going to be the one they both might want most.
