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[QUOTE="gsmooth, post: 5067382, member: 9355"]
Respectfully, I am not with you on this one. If one thing conference realignment has shown us is that the team being added to a conference doesn't need to be in close proximity to the rest of the conference members. If UConn Football was great, I know they are not, but if they were, a conference would have added them long time ago and even more recently considering their basketball success. None of the reasons you listed for conferences being hesitant would have blocked UConn.

The thing is UConn Football does not even need to be really good, it just needs to be good enough. What does good enough mean? It means 1) playing competitively on the field and not looking like a team of middle schoolers overmatched going against high school seniors and 2) having an 80% capacity at the Rent for a loud raucous environment that looks and sounds good on TV. With the level of football played in the last decade-plus years, especially the Randy Edsall 2.0 years, would come close to being good enough football for conferences that are looking to add.
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