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Message: [QUOTE="willtalk, post: 3010535, member: 1220"] While the return for a successful football program can involve a lot of money, it is still the most expensive team sport to field. This means that the potential loss of revenue is also the greatest. When you consider the number of players each team carries+coaches their travel squad alone averages around 70+ people. That amounts to a huge cost when you figure in transportation, hotels and meals. This is the reason that many colleges have chosen to drop football from their athletic programs for cost cutting purposes. The return just does not justify the cost. That is why football has the highest deficit at Uconn. Getting in a major conference is the only way that football can bring a return for a school like Uconn. But as has been able pointed out by Nuff sed and others, there are many factors involved in why a conference picks a school to join. Timing is also a factor. Unless the conference is ready to sign a new contract and the addition of a new school will improve the amount of said contract, the schools have no reason to bring in a new school to share a monetary sum that has already established. That is basically what kept Texas and the Oklahoma schools out of the Pac 12. The existing member schools saw no reason to share the contract that had already been signed. Member schools hold strong veto rights to new membership and that was what BC exercised against Uconn's entrance into the ACC. . [/QUOTE]