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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 3193779, member: 2524"] While a reasonable perspective, UConn football will be better funded after the move than it would have been in the AAC. And it will win a lot more games, as the competition level goes down while the funding goes up. UConn will get more from broadcasting its football games on SNY than it got from the whole AAC. With NBE revenue, UConn will be far better funded than the AAC schools. UConn is not comparable to Villanova, which is FCS in football. UConn will remain FBS and will continue to have FBS level (indeed, lower P5 level) football facilities. UConn has a much larger football fan base than Villanova. UConn is much more similar to BYU than to those other schools. Like BYU, UConn is trying to navigate its way with an inferior position to the P5 schools, but a much stronger market and assets than the generality of G5 schools. As long as football continues to drive the bus in realignment due to its impact on marginal revenue, it's fair to say that UCF and USF may have better prospects of moving to the P5 given their status as state schools in football hotbeds. But UConn will out-earn them for the next ten years. It will be interesting to see how realignment conversations evolve. But I think UConn has improved its chances. Staying in the AAC wasn't going to take away the UCF/USF football advantage. [/QUOTE]