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Message: [QUOTE="Sportsman5, post: 4342153, member: 1005"] Definitely possible. However, from a $$ perspective UConn doesn't add as much value to the BIG 10 as it does other conferences who have no northeast presence. TV subscriptions and games in New York or Boston are very valuable to conferences not named the ACC or BIG 10. Ex. UConn might give up 1 home football game and 2 basketball games per year to neutral sites in a major north east city for a certain number of years as part of getting invited into a better conference. UConn would probably give up all home football games for 10 years to get an SEC invite haha. I know it would have sounded insane just 1 week ago, but UConn probably has a better chance of being invited to the PAC 12 than it does the BIG 10 at this point. The jokes about UConn in the SEC seemed insane (and it still is insane) but UConn adds more value in regards to money and exposure to the SEC than it does to the ACC or BIG 10 because it gives them a presence between New York and Boston that contains 20+ million people. The key for UConn is we (hopefully a few generous boosters) need to pump in NIL money to show that we can compete with the big boys in football. This is a measurable thing that we can use to pitch conferences. I know it would have sounded crazy a few years ago, but showing that we can pay 500k per year for a top 15 ranked high school QB recruit and being competitive every year is actually valuable. [/QUOTE]