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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2608236, member: 1526"] You're right about the state budget crisis. UCONN won't be in a position to maintain AD funding at current levels forever. I don't agree, however, that a nationally competitive CFB program cannot be built in the NE US. We did it in the mid to late 2000's, Rutgers did it back then and has started to get competitive in the B10, and from time to time Syracuse and BC have had their moments. At some point though, the money is going to run out. There are a lot of sunk costs involved with the infrastructure for football. Walking away from that will require an admission of defeat as to improving our conference situation, not to mention the state gets stuck with a 90 million dollar white elephant in E. Hartford. I don't think switching from one mid major conference to another moves the needle in any appreciably positive way. It's a reshuffling of the same deck. The NBE provides some travel benefits, but we still won't have the top level competition we need to attract the best recruits across all sports. It might help with men's BB a little, but long term we end up in either a newly created second tier of the NCAA, or the P5's form their own governing body and leave everybody else behind. We'll be competing for secondary level NCAA titles. [/QUOTE]