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<blockquote data-quote="Charleston Mountie" data-source="post: 129568994" data-attributes="member: 1427666">You are a bit confused. ESPN does not call the shots on the movements of the Big Ten. ESPN has influence with the SEC but even there ESPN is not calling the shots. The only conference where ESPN has called any shots has been the ACC when it told them what schools to expand with on several occasions.Conferences expand with a new potential based on many factors and only 'some' of them involved athletics, which is a rather odd way of doing things since conferences are purely athletic in nature and not academic at all. But when the decision is made to expand academics play a huge role. Other factors come into play such as TV-markets - which are not as important as they once were.A conference like the Big Ten has enough A-list members in football and at this point they need something to round out their footprint and that is where UConn fails, it is not in a contiguous state for the Big Ten, but a conference like the ACC should have no problem with that issue.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charleston Mountie, post: 129568994, member: 1427666"] You are a bit confused. ESPN does not call the shots on the movements of the Big Ten. ESPN has influence with the SEC but even there ESPN is not calling the shots. The only conference where ESPN has called any shots has been the ACC when it told them what schools to expand with on several occasions. Conferences expand with a new potential based on many factors and only 'some' of them involved athletics, which is a rather odd way of doing things since conferences are purely athletic in nature and not academic at all. But when the decision is made to expand academics play a huge role. Other factors come into play such as TV-markets - which are not as important as they once were. A conference like the Big Ten has enough A-list members in football and at this point they need something to round out their footprint and that is where UConn fails, it is not in a contiguous state for the Big Ten, but a conference like the ACC should have no problem with that issue. [/QUOTE]

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