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Message: [QUOTE="pj, post: 1269887, member: 2524"] I agree with the second part - it hardly makes sense to invite UConn hockey when you can get basketball too ... but taking hockey and basketball means you also have to invite Olympic sports ... and make some sort of deal for football. On the first part, I doubt anyone thinks the B1G is "all wonderful." It is simply the best there is. With the destruction of local rivalries by realignment, a multiregional super conference is the best option available; and the B1G is by far the most attractive, at least for UConn. If we could re-do history and design the present, we'd bring Penn State into the original Big East on whatever terms they were asking for, split from the Catholic schools, and get a northeastern all-sports conference with BC, UConn, Rutgers, Syracuse, Penn State, Pitt, West Virginia, Va Tech -- if we had to grow to 12, 4 from USF, UCF, Temple, Cincy, Louisville. This wouldn't be as lucrative as the B1G but it would be regionally compact, geographically contiguous, with significant rivalries. If UConn makes it into the B1G, the university will be in a better situation than that ... but from a fan's point of view, regional rivalries have a lot going for them. [/QUOTE]