I hear what you're saying, but many teams in P5 conferences have terrible football teams. They've just been terrible at the D-IA level longer than us. We may have a short FBS history, but it's not like we haven't made progress since moving up. Look at the last five or six seasons, which admittedly haven't been great for which everyone bags on us, but we've beaten football powerhouses such as Rutgers a couple of times, Maryland, Houston (last year), ND, Pitt, South Carolina, and Louisville, went to a Fiesta Bowl, and put a whole bunch of players in the NFL. Given the little amount of time and money we've had at this football level, there are certainly worse programs in the P5 conferences doing a lot less with a lot more. The reality is for most of the teams that are currently in P5 conferences, they are simply lucky to be grandfathered in, and I'll bet those same schools know they'd be screwed in a contraction scenario. From an overall athletics standpoint and academic standpoint, UConn easily holds its own against the P5 schools and would be in the top half of those schools not even counting its media market which is bigger than more than half of the P5 schools' markets. If conference commissioners could swap one of their teams for UConn, I'd bet they'd do it in a heartbeat.