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[QUOTE="CL82, post: 2608160, member: 44"]
Where to begin...

1) UConn is still in the same the conference it joined back in 1979.  The Big East sold it's name to the departing Catholic schools but UConn has not changed conferences.

2) The new Big East isn't the Big East we remember.  Syracuse is in the ACC with Pitt and BC.  Rutgers in the Big 10 and West Virginia is in the Big 12.  Cinci, USF and UCF, of course are still in the conference formerly known as the Big East but now called the American.

3) Football is where the mega conferences make their money.  The American and the new Big East have tiny media contracts that mean that eventually they will lose the ever escalating athletic department arms race.  There may not be more expansion for the P-5 conferences but UConn is smart to make itself a candidate for as long as it can.

4) UConn football is in a down period but had great success including two conference championships (2007 and 2010) and a BCS bowl (The Fiesta Bowl 2010.)

Dropping football isn't a panacea, it's a surrender.
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