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[QUOTE="UConn Dan, post: 4616244, member: 2362"]
We're not Cuse, Pitt, Louisville or West Virginia. We're UConn. We've finally got our athletic department going in the right direction.

The Big East is great, but I hope fans realize that it's likely not our long-term home if we want to be able to compete with the Power conferences for coaching talent and athletes. There is the potential for a literal divide of division 1, but more realistically the gulf between the haves and have-nots is widening. The day will be here soon when BIG and SEC teams are bringing in $100-$150 million a year from TV revenue alone and we'll be bringing in $10 million if we're lucky.

How do you expect to retain top coaches at that rate? Need to bridge the gap. Move up to higher revenue conferences.

The best situation for UConn outside of a BIG or SEC invite (which is not happening) would be for the Big12 or ACC to take UConn (all sports) with Nova, St. John's and Georgetown. Would lock up the northeast and be the best basketball conference, but unfortunately that doesn't help their football. So, odds are less than 5% of that happening.
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