You realize how pathetic this whole board sounds with posts like this? This is like saying your ex will get fat and broke eventually, even if she looks great and is rolling in cash now. It sounds ridiculous.
We are in a southern mid-major league that plays on TV for almost nothing.The closest school is about 275 miles away, and after that the distances get really big. We would have been better off adding UMass and Buffalo instead of Tulane and Tulsa, but instead of adding two large state schools within driving distance of UConn, it added two tiny private schools that are each over 1,000 miles away. Having a school in Florida does not help us for recruiting when we are no longer in a BCS league. Those Florida kids would have to pick us over about 35 G5 schools that are closer, and in case you guys forgot, there was a foot of ice on the ground for about 2 months last winter.
I have said before that any other alternative is better than the one we have. Nothing has caused me to change that position. We are better off taking us, UMass, Temple, Buffalo and Cincinnati, and grabbing the next 3 closest schools we can find, and starting over with a new league. Miami (OH), Navy and Army, and we are done. Navy and Army would probably like the scheduling flexibility of a 7 game schedule, and we could fill in with the other 6 teams playing 4 games a year against BYU. That is better than our current option, and would likely generate more in revenue. We are stuck in a contract of death with ESPN, and the MAC basically just gave up with its TV deal. Mix things up and see what happens.
Literally every single option is better than the one we chose.