Why? I have not heard 1 reason why putting a schedule together would be impossible. Not one.
I'm going to go ahead and assume naivety here, rather than the alternatives, which arent polite.
Independance, in division 1-A football is the subject here. To maintain independant status is not impossible, I agree. But it is completely unrealistic for UCONN.
The regular season scheduling is difficult, building a balanced schedule from september to late november of home and road games, with good competition level, giving you a chance to win games. High degree of difficulty to get a decent schedule. BYU, Notre Dame, Army and Navy, and for now I think Idaho and New Mexico or something are the ONLY independants. You can look at their schedules to get an idea of what it would like to be associated with them.
It was difficult in the past two decades to regular season schedule as an independant, and is only getting more difficult with conference expansion and conference schedules going tonine conference games, leaving only 3 OOC slots open. You can't play 12 games in september. 25 years ago,though, it wasn't that difficult to be independant. Outside the Big 10, and Pac 10, and the SWC - independance, was the norm among large 1-A football programs. There were at least 30 independants in 1-A football in 1989, I think there were actually 34 or 35 if memory serves.
So what changed? THe college football POST season is what changed. Scheduling for the POST season is what makes independance an unrealistic option for UCONN. That's where the college football money is really locked up, in the bowl season. We had acccess to it with the BIg East - got the golden ticket 15 years ago. That was taken away this spring. We are now on the low end of the revenue sharing in the post season. Get it? The difficulty with independance is maintaining access to the college football post season. While regular season scheduling is a pain in the ass, it's nothing compared to getting shut out of the post season. Army and Navy have their bowl tie ins, that aren't going anywhere, and Notre Dame, the post season leech, has changed hosts from the Big East, to the ACC. BYU, has an entire religion following them, and that helps them get their ticket to post season. The others are in trouble, if you are not conference affiliated.