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[QUOTE="nelsonmuntz, post: 1632091, member: 833"]
There is nothing warped about it.  The UConn athletic department has a $25 million budget hole, in a large part from football.  If we don't get into the Big 12, who is going to cover that hole?

The state of Connecticut has a $1 billion budget hole, and is reducing its subsidy to the state colleges.  So now we have shrinking state funds against an athletic program that is losing money hand over fist.  The only way to cover the athletic budget hole is to charge every graduate and undergraduate student about $800 a year to keep the football program alive.  I have a sneaking suspicion that a lot of those students don't like football that much.

It will cost UConn $225 million to maintain the athletic program at this level until the end of the current P5 TV deals and GOR's, at which point who knows what the landscape will look like?  Is it realistic for a school to invest $225 million into something that we hope will break our way in 9 years but might still suck even at that point?

If UConn wants to save its football program, it needs to figure out a way to generate more revenue.  If the AAC is a dry well, then it needs to get out of the AAC.  If, as I am sure I will see in succeeding posts, there is no alternative, then the answer is easy.
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