AAC future members? Say goodbye to Navy?

[Adios]

UConn, if they really went to the BE, would cement their position....there would be no identity waffling...they would be Georgetown of the 80's...a big time basketball presence without the distraction of football.

You realize we have more national titles in all sports than FSU, right? You have 12. We're looking at #18.

 

[Husky25]

He keeps saying it.... Apparantly we'd be more attractive to the acc or big ten if we were making 5million a year in the big east.

The more it is said the more one believes it to be true. In fact the exact opposite is true.

Putting basketball and Olympic sports in the A-10 or Big East puts a ceiling on where UConn can go and what it can achieve. It is forsaking the $$tens of millions to which UConn probably has access in the future for the $1 or 2 million they could get now (ignoring the fact that neither the A-10, nor Big want UConn unless they give up Div. 1 Football).

However if UConn give up Div. 1 football, they absolutely give up the probability of the $$tens of millions (in athletics, but in endowment and academics) without question; end of conversation. UConn is betting that the $tens of Millions will be made available in the not so distance future. I think it's a good bet. No sure thing to be sure, but a good bet.

One other thing to remember, this is not 1987 (or even 1999) anymore. Since the advent of the Bowl Alliance (or whatever it was called back in the day), football conferences transcend football. Prior to the break up of the Big East, a mid-major basketball conference was basically defined as a non-Big 6 basketball conference. What was a Big 6 basketball conference (Big 10, Big 12, Pac 10, ACC, Big East, SEC)? I'll give you a hint. They resemble the BCS football conferences.