I know this is all early in the process, but speculation is so much fun! Back during the last major shake-up when we saw the Big East get shoved onto the Conference Ice Flow there was a lot of speculation as to who would be the lucky team to earn the ACC's 12th spot. UofL eventually won that spot, but the smart money at the time was on UConn. They were coming off national titles in Men's and Women's basketball. They had won the conference and played in the Fiesta Bowl a year or so prior. Add in the connections to ESPN, and everyone was speculating that the Huskies were a lock.
Well as we know, things didn't work out for Connecticut. But I don't think anyone would have predicted that this decision would send UConn Football on a death spiral that would eventually see them leaving D-1 football completely. The question for me now is do we see a similar fate fall one of the teams that is going to be left behind in this round of Super Conference Shuffle. For me, the obvious team to look at his Kansas. They are cannon fodder on the Football field, they don't bring a major TV market, and they simply may not get an offer from one of the big remaining conferences. I wonder if a basketball focused future might eventually make more sense to them.
Anyone else want to make a prediction? Who do you see possibly giving up the dream of Division I football after all the smoke clears?
Well as we know, things didn't work out for Connecticut. But I don't think anyone would have predicted that this decision would send UConn Football on a death spiral that would eventually see them leaving D-1 football completely. The question for me now is do we see a similar fate fall one of the teams that is going to be left behind in this round of Super Conference Shuffle. For me, the obvious team to look at his Kansas. They are cannon fodder on the Football field, they don't bring a major TV market, and they simply may not get an offer from one of the big remaining conferences. I wonder if a basketball focused future might eventually make more sense to them.
Anyone else want to make a prediction? Who do you see possibly giving up the dream of Division I football after all the smoke clears?