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Message: [QUOTE="junglehusky, post: 1776876, member: 61"] Universities (and colleges) like to be associated with peer institutions. You mentioned Conn College, their identity/brand is a small, elite New England liberal arts college. Hence their association with Amherst, Tufts, Bowdoin, Wesleyan etc. in the NESCAC - their association through sports (but also outside of sports) reinforces the sense of a larger community of students/profs/alums. Obviously, in DIII everything's non-revenue. For UConn, they have to compete against / associate with whoever's in their league. There is a little bit of non-sports overlap with Temple, maybe USF, Tulane as research universities. But associating with other flagships would be preferable. UConn as a football only in the B12 would be a unique situation, if they put non-revenue sports in the Big East. Again from a purely non-sports perspective, there might be some advantages to going back to associating with regional schools like PC, BC, Nova from a branding perspective, but the institutional overlap (faculty, alums) between those private catholic schools and a state flagship aren't as great. tl; dr - whatever happens this year, UConn will still be thinking about how to angle for a spot in the ACC/Big Ten down the road, assuming there's a chance to tread water financially. [/QUOTE]