Yes on what question?
It is a major hassle when you are a California state school with a notorious budgeting crisis spending heaps of money to join the worst FBS conference where you will be traveling across half of the country.
Sure flying's a hassle but everyone's doing it. NDSU, Northern Illinois, Cal, Stanford, Texas State, Oregon, Washington. Once you're on a plane what's an extra few hours. They moved up wedged into a conference.
Do they care? They still get the viewers for the game.
The good thing for UMass is that no one cares either way save for the 100 fans they have left. It's like the administration there is intentionally trying to crush their athletic dept first by moving to the MAC so there is less interest and then second by losing tons of games in both football and hoops. They had the 1996 UMass Final Four team at a game recently to celebrate the 30 year anniversary and those guys must have thought they were in the wrong place at halftime of a conference game vs Buffalo. UMass best hope at this point is to get like a 5 year run of Bob Hurley & Nate Oates before they move to another program and play in front of 2,000 to 5,000 (when they have free t shirts or give away tickets) fans
To say this as if the Big East's football wing wasn't already the target of derision by of the rest of AQs by the time we joined is freaking hysterical
This makes no sense. Point out which part of this true statement is making you giggle.
Was or was the Big East not already looked at as the clear dead weight amongst the rest of the AQ conferences by the time we joined?
It may have been but the Big East was still a BCS conference and looking back it was a great regional football conference. It absolutely made a huge difference for UConn. We would take back that old Big East Football conference in a heartbeat.