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Message: [QUOTE="Drew, post: 4886377, member: 3723"] I mean this very respectfully, but you don’t base what league you’re going to put your athletic department in based off of being able to potentially play 3 men’s basketball games at MSG in March. In the same vein, you don’t base it off where you are playing [I]any[/I] of the championship events for any of your sponsored sports. UConn can (will) still play games at MSG regardless of the league they call home. It’s really not that complicated of a choice, the athletics administration has a financial duty to the university and state to maximize their revenue potential for the entire athletic department. There is no rational world in which an administrator would [I]ever[/I] turn down a potential 10x revenue increase for it’s department for nostalgia/feelings- they would be nuking their entire career by doing so. This is evidenced by numerous different efforts from UConn over the years, including being left at the altar last year (yet again) by the Big 12. If the invite came last August, they were gone. We would’ve been playing in the Big 12 starting in July of this year along with Colorado and anyone else. The school has spent years and years and millions of dollars trying to move up- they aren’t turning that opportunity down (and shouldn’t turn it down) if it ever comes to them. [/QUOTE]