UConn's athletic director reflects on the university's annual NCAA financial report (Erin Connolly WFSB3)

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Cliff-Notes version for the time challenged:

“Connecticut AD David Benedict covers several topics with WFSB’s Erin Connolly, who asks about potential realignment plans. Benedict responds: “The best answer is what I usually tell people. Look, my job is to do what I believe is in the best interest of our athletics program, our coaches, student-athletes. Obviously I'm not the lone decision maker on this campus, but certainly I'm always going to try to recommend to our president, to our board of trustees what is going to position UConn Athletics for both the short and long term. So if there was an opportunity that presented itself, it would be something that we would have to consider. But at this point in time we're proud members of the Big East. We’re an independent football program, we have hockey programs in Hockey East, so we have lots of different relationships throughout the intercollegiate athletic world and we're committed to providing those transformational experiences and trying to compete at the highest level. If we ever get to a place where we can't do that in our current existence, then it would require us to look elsewhere, but that’s not the case right now.” Benedict goes on to say that “we talk about needs and wants a lot on this campus and what I would say is a lot of wants we can’t fund. As it relates to the really big picture with football and an on-campus stadium, I think in a perfect world we would have an on-campus stadium. But we don't live in a perfect world, and we have a great facility. It just happens to be 20 minutes down the road and right now the biggest priority for us is to have a year-in, year-out competitive football program. … We need to fill up the facility that we have. I think it's hard to start talking about wanting to have something else when you're not even filling up what you have.”