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Message: [QUOTE="broooce, post: 4431649, member: 9941"] UConn's prominence in basketball and growing prominence in hockey is one of the reasons why I believe BIG should be interested in adding UConn, and our best fit among Power 5 conferences. UConn's success in field hockey and soccer are also notable, although the FH team got knocked out of the Big East championship by Liberty (had no idea Liberty affiliated with BE FH). UConn is hosting this weekend's NCAA field hockey Final Four that features three BIG teams. I believe the business term that's the appropriate analogy for BIG inviting UConn is that the Huskies athletics programs would be an [I][B]accretive acquisition[/B][/I]. Simply put, we would make the BIG stronger in many sports that are also important to them beyond football. After football, basketball is #2 revenue driver, men's hockey #3 and baseball #4. Softball is also growing fast, revenue-wise and women's hockey is a Title IX growing sport. [URL unfurl="true"]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/college-sports-most-money-130012417.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYmluZy5jb20v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAANJNz9KNMgic0jt8Lvm6ZH60qoOwI4HhbL1ftkyKC0JCK9abqdP1aleh3ZboEkNBCEGHk-RwzPvsEmXsgDfpWeP7Nktoh_yy9BrUsvL-0diuXScrU9w2ovpSB8_XlNiJo1U6WqrjnzXUVlu1BKniVzKGyaVy_zC5onk83udUGp7b#:~:text=Which%20College%20Sports%20Make%20the%20Most%20Money%3F%201,coming%20in%20at%20%242.5%20million%20per%20school.%20[/URL] And this year one can argue UConn football is better than the bottom of the BIG, or at least not any worse (Northwestern, Indiana, Rutgers, Nebraska). I can dream, can't I? Dave Benedict - keep working it! [/QUOTE]

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