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Message: [QUOTE="Senor Blue, post: 4614706, member: 11885"] While I agree - UConn made a move for football once and it backfired horribly. However the football money is insane. The ACC isn't going anywhere. UConn football generated 4.7M in revenue last year against $18.4M in expenses. While you have to probably double that investment at a minimum to be competitive in the ACC, every program made money or stayed neutral in that conference. If you could go from -$13M to positive or even close to even - that's a lot of nice shiny things for all the athletics programs and staff. But could UConn afford to make that investment up front? Media deals aside - do people in CT care about football? That said - I think Hurley loves the Big East brand. And I'm pretty sure the millions earned from this last title run would stay with the Big East. However - the ACC does bring back some old Big East games - Pitt, Louisville, BC, ND, and cute little Orange program. And you get Duke/UNC/Virginia on your schedule twice a year. It wouldn't be like what happened in the AAC. There's still some traditional rivalries, and you still get the Northeast recruiting hotbed with UConn/BC, you get the DMV with Virginia. You also lose MSG for a tournament. But road travel to Miami in the winter doesn't sound as as Providence. [/QUOTE]