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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 5362322, member: 1145"]
UConn made its decision to leave the AAC and return to the BE, which had no football just as Dave Gavitt designed it, because it knew that being the school it was and located where it is, it simply could never become anything like a decent TV drawing CFB program, which means it would languish even in AAC football. So then, even though CFB money is much bigger, it made sense for UConn to get back to its basketball roots. I said at the time and still think that UConn would be best served doing that by dropping back to 1AA/FCS football. With its basketball  name branding, 1AA UConn football could become the primary power for that division in the entire northeast. If BC were to make that same move then BC-UConn would become for 1AA football in the northeast what the games among the Dakota and Montana schools are for the mountain west of 1AA football: the BIG games that determine playoff seedings.

If the ACC fails to act so that it saves itself at full football strength (which requires those fan bases), then the ACC will get gutted. After the SEC and BT take a Toal of 6-8, what is left will be worth much less than Big 12 football. So that means anybody left that relay wants too play something that can still talk of being Major CFB will take a Big 12 offer. Pitt would be selling itself as WVU's BackYard Brawl rival. BC would not have a prayer of getting a Big 12 invite, and neither would Wake.
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