This is true, and basketball fans need to understand that the end game is staying competetive as an athletic department in order to preserve our basketball legacy and legitimize our football tradition. In my opinion that means pursuing a P5 conference above all else. The American is the best UConn has right now, its a conference full of teams and ADs fighting for P5/P4 legitimacy (look what its done for Houston). No other conference comes close to the number of potential candidates, so joining the BE in bball and jumping ship from the American flushes our P4 conference dreams at the same time. The regression football would take in perception and recruiting playing in the MAC would be the deathnail when/if expansion calls ever came again.
Its clear UConn wants to get P5 status asap, recent developments make it more likely that we remain exactly where we are until the GOR in 2025 is up for the Big12 which may trigger Texas+OU to find new homes and/or the Big10/ACC decide they want to expand. In the meantime UConn needs to improve on the deficiencies we know haunt the football program, while remembering that UConn mens and womens basketball are actually in a good position to weather the storm having built up so much equity with 15 national titles since 1995.
Thats liberating, I can see why you guys post.. Anyway, the ACC has our basketball dreams and football security, but my gut tells me the Big10 is a more stable conference. My question is which would be the wiser choice if UConn had the chance to choose?