You're lucky that you have a small UConn presence in your small North Jersey borough. I am it in my borough. Nearly everyone is Rutgers fan as there is a local link to that school and I have shared many a beers over who had the worst AD - UConn with Hathaway or Rutgers with Hermann. Most are shocked that RU got into the B1G and accept that it was location, TV dollars, and AAU status that got them in. The best though was showing-up to a Rec baseball practice in 2014 wearing everything I could find with UConn on it. One of my fellow coaches took one look at me, through off his U Kentucky (he was from NJ & became a Wildcat fan while in the Army based in Ft. Knox, which is actually a lot closer to Louisville than Lexington) hat off in disgust and went home without saying a thing to me.