Well, it makes just as much sense based on reality and the wishes, strategies and decisions of all parties to come up with this football conference if we are all predicating things on just geography and history:
UConn
UMass
Temple
Lehigh
Stony Brook
Rhode Island
Maine
New Hampshire
That makes for a nice geographically sensible conference with some past, shared history. I guess that some people might "like" to see that one, too.
It has no basis in reality or the status, decisions and desires of UConn. But hey, there are no rules in fantasy land, right?
Of course, it won't happen.