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Message: [QUOTE="SCGamecock, post: 2025791, member: 6132"] As a UConn WBB fan, why would you even want to join a P5 conference? Being in the AAC doesn't seem to be hurting UConn right now.. the OOC schedule compensates for the conference schedule and you still get the recruits that you want because of the program's profile. Exposure isn't hurting (ESPN loves UConn) and I'm pretty sure UConn isn't hurting financially. Some of you want a bigger investment in football to attract a "better" conference.. but the trade off there is that joining a P5 conference could lead to basketball becoming less important. In the P5, football is king, and it's all about keeping up with the Joneses and if UConn joins the ACC or the Big Ten I'm going to go out on a limb and assume they will have to dump A LOT of money into football almost overnight. SC has invested over $100 in football since joining the SEC in 1992 and we're still essentially playing catch up in a sense (20+ years later). And we're now building a $50 million football operations building (the current trend in P5 football). Can you imagine what we could do with a $50 million investment to our basketball facilities... No P5 conference is going to accept you without a significant investment initially and continually in football, so that will automatically make basketball 2nd place at UConn. Right now, UConn basketball doesn't have to play second fiddle to any other sport on campus. Long story short, you will likely make a lot of money in a P5 conference... but are UConn fans ready for 75% of that money to go to football? [/QUOTE]

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