Memphis & Cincy To Leave AAC for Big 12

[SJUalum98]

Well, UAB came to their senses. They dropped football when it became economically infeasible.
When you are not in a power 5 conference, it nearly is just that. Now with the cost of attendance being discussed another 100 football players on scholarship with these figures of around $5K per athlete
you are going to be underwater very soon. Besides the power conferences will embrace these costs and use them as a recruiting tool. That is why Val Ackerman stated the Big East will duplicate the costs of the power 5, whatever they are so they will not lose recruits. This thing is still not settled but a lot of
machinations are going on.at these conferences. UCONN is in trouble if Memphis and Cinnci do leave.

And you believed her?

That's the biggest load of crap I've heard in awhile.

 

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And lets be honest, their football program has been an embarrassment of enormous proportions - if they dropped it or made it 1AA, would it really matter to them?

Yes and No. About ten years ago when they moved to 1A, the uconn fanbase in the beginning disliked the idea of having a 1A program because they thought the school should focus on the basketball programs which at that time did not have a practice facility. Then when the football program started experiencing success with an appearance of the fiesta bowl in 2011 ppl started jumping on the bandwagon. The state of Connecticut would be the one who would not be happy if they dropped to 1aa because they built the stadium for the school specifically because uconn was moving to 1A. They also invested in a new coach last year and built a football practice facility

UConn drew 23,000 last week, which isn't much less than they've averaged at home all season, in a stadium that has a 40,000 capacity, and their record for the past four seasons is 15-33 (9-21). No pun intended, but they're out of their league. Maybe if they went to a more competitive conference for football only, they'd win more games, draw bigger crowds, and make the Connecticut tax-payers happier.

 

[JacStorm]

And lets be honest, their football program has been an embarrassment of enormous proportions - if they dropped it or made it 1AA, would it really matter to them?

Yes and No. About ten years ago when they moved to 1A, the uconn fanbase in the beginning disliked the idea of having a 1A program because they thought the school should focus on the basketball programs which at that time did not have a practice facility. Then when the football program started experiencing success with an appearance of the fiesta bowl in 2011 ppl started jumping on the bandwagon. The state of Connecticut would be the one who would not be happy if they dropped to 1aa because they built the stadium for the school specifically because uconn was moving to 1A. They also invested in a new coach last year and built a football practice facility

UConn drew 23,000 last week, which isn't much less than they've averaged at home all season, in a stadium that has a 40,000 capacity, and their record for the past four seasons is 15-33 (9-21). No pun intended, but their out of their league. Maybe if they went to a more competitive conference for football only, they'd win more games, draw bigger crowds, and make the Connecticut tax-payers happier.

This Connecticut taxpayer hopes they dangle in the wind as long and painfully as possible.. and then replace NJIT as the country's only basketball independent.