UCONN didn’t leave the American to rejoin another American conference in the making in the Big 12 or the ACC if they get ransacked. You don’t join a broken conference unless it is a step up for your university and it wouldn’t
it’s just not good for business
The Big East is UCONN’s natural home. UCONN is content with the situation as is for the medium term.
PS: UCONN has two plans long term. I support both ideas, whichever arrives first wins out. Long term the primgoal is the Big 10 conference. The other plan is a recreation of the old Big East once again if the ACC implodes. Cuse, Pitt, Notre Dame, BC, West Virginia, Virginia Tech and Louisville rejoining the Big East. Duke and Kansas added to make the Big East a P5 conference once more.
The watered down ACC would be a reconstituted BE minus the bball only schools….
Let’s say in 15 years Clemson and FSU join the SEC and subsequently UNC and UVA join the big10. I don’t care what ND does but of the 10 remaining teams 6 used to be in the BE: Cuse, BC, Pitt, Lville, Vtech, Miami, plus gtech, ncstate, wake, and Duke. Add UConn, Cincy, WVU if possible, then maybe Memphis, and we’re right back at home. 9 of the 14 were BE schools.
The new ACC Would be the 4th best conference. Better than the big12 even after adding ucf and BYU and about a million times better than the aac is.