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They have a $95 million athletic department that has shown itself to be successful and self sufficient. It is top 40 in the Director's cup. They have recently upgraded most of their athletic facilities. Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Virginia Tech once were their conference mates in the Metro Conference, and they supported their inclusion. They pleased both the basketball oriented schools and the football oriented schools in the league. Notre Dame wanted another midwestern team in the league, and apparently have developed somewhat of a basketball rivalry with Louisville. The ACC saw academic improvement at Louisville even though they need to work on that more.
We were losing a $60 million athletic department that is financially unable to fund its department without losing money. The stuff above was attractive in comparison.
Did people bother looking at the football record? I mean, look at the ACC. You added Ville, Pitt and Cuse. UConn has winning records combined against the 3 and is .500 against Ville. I'm not saying anything about how great UConn football is, but I'm only pointing out that you added the epitome of mediocre. Even in Ville's best year (last year) they still manaed to lose to the worst UConn team of the decade. As for training facilities and the like, no one in the old BE stood toe-to-toe with UConn. The last line about UConn academics is best addressed by UNC's Chancellor: "The decision to add Louisville had nothing to do with academics."