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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 2511757, member: 5832"] I think the Big East is likely where UConn ends up because they're going to be forced to take a gamble on one or the other really soon, and if that's the case - then they're going to bet on basketball before their football program every day and then twice on Sunday. Sure - there's declining private school enrollment is real and a thing, but Temple's a private school. Tulane is a private school. SMU is a private school. The American will get hit just as hard as the Big East would hypothetically. You also have a lot of things happening of the perfect storm variety in and around college football, that waiting around for that is just as risky, if not more so. I agree with the sentiment that UConn waits around for the next round of TV negotiations first, but I have a feeling that rights negotiations are going to be a big disappointment for every conference, P5's included. But if the hoops program is still languishing, if football isn't turning around quickly - they're going to bolt for the Big East. They're open to us joining and even if they're on more of a timer, it's still a massive bump in revenue from what they're getting now. And then football can MAC it, or whatever. Or maybe the AAC just doesn't have any leverage and instead lets us stick around in football like they do with Navy... But decision time is coming, and looks like it's coming sooner rather than later. The fact that neither men's hoops or football can put one foot in front of the other isn't helping. If we're winning right now, you're just looking at a totally different situation. But we're not. So it's really down to which less desireable situation we want to be in, really. [/QUOTE]

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