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[QUOTE="TruDomGopher, post: 1259228, member: 4159"]
Is it really sensible?  I hear what you're saying, but the Big Ten has always been an "an all for one and one for all" conference.  I can see very limited partial membership situations--Johns Hopkins for lacrosse because they blend in nicely for research and only have the one D1 sport, lacrosse, and with the tight ties to the Pac12, I can see the B1G helping Pac12 schools launch hockey.

But--BUT--if the B1G starts adding and offering by particular sports for TV purposes only, they become Texas on steroids and have totally left intercollegiate athletics and academics for purely running a television business.  That's not the Big Ten I've know for my 50+ years on the planet and it's a completely different philosophy than the one that kept the B1G the most stable conference in history.

UConn is a fast-rising flagship school with (arguably) the best basketball brand in America.  There are only two ways this ends:  you either get into the B1G relatively soon, or you end up waiting out the GORs and get pulled as backfill into another power conference, probably the ACC.    Either way, full membership, all sports.  Period.
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