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Message: [QUOTE="TheFarmFan, post: 3192672, member: 9403"] Why do you assume this is going to be financially [I]worse[/I] for UConn? The world you're describing is the status quo! What do you think a $40m annual deficit is if not a huge albatross on UConn's ability to stay competitive over the long term? Pretty much everyone in the know seems to think the opposite. Insider said (on the MBB forum) that it is likely the Big East contract will be renegotiated for more per school than the AAC's new one is for. Travel costs for ALL teams will be substantially reduced. Attendance for home games will almost certainly improve for both MBB and WBB, not to mention other sports that have away teams within driving distances of Storrs. And if UConn does find a way to schedule games against the Alabama types of the world, those games can bring in big paydays. And even if the alternative is that football can't secure a financially desirable new home, hasn't pretty much everyone concluded that UConn was never going to become a P5 football school, so pouring $8m of losses into football every season just isn't sustainable? I guess I'm failing to see how this hurts UConn financially vis-a-vis the AAC. Vs. perhaps the ACC, yes. But Insider pretty much said point blank that there was never going to be a future for UConn in a P5 conference. Absent that, this move seems financially sound, even if it comes at the expense of football. [/QUOTE]