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Message: [QUOTE="upstater, post: 3193480, member: 153"] There's a certain level of delusion here about the future of the football team. UConn made a desperate decision. They chose even more financial bleeding than before in order to create some excitement around its marquee sport, men's basketball. Although the new BE is not as exciting as the old one, it is probable that there will be some excitement in the short term for a return. UConn now loses out on the playoff bowl money payments and AAC football payments, so except the financial bleeding for football to be larger than ever before. You save on travel, presumably, but no one knows what the schedule will look like. With little TV money and no Playoff money, football will be hurting. And worse, the road as an Independent looks dire. One way to save money is to end football. I think effectively they have already ended football. I don't see how they can continue it. [/QUOTE]