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Message: [QUOTE="nzm136, post: 2882208, member: 2531"] If I’m being honest, it makes financial sense to stay in fbs. The ‘losses’ look bigger on paper than they actually are. Part of a scholarship/tuition covers variable costs. The rest covers fixed costs. Yes, the cost of education is subsidized by their endowment, which is a complicating factor, but it doesn’t change the underlying economics. Furthermore, the argument that scholarships are connected to opportunity costs makes sense on the surface, but it’s highly misleading at virtually every major school not named “Wake Forest.” No major school on the planet can tell you how many students they will have down to the student. There is always some float/volatility, so individual football players aren’t truly taking someone’s spot much (the vast majority) of the time. Also, the facilities are already built, so those costs will be incurred anyway. Beyond just looking at costs, a number of revenue streams (media money, donations, etc.) are driven by the football team, but they aren’t linked to it. The same is true with value streams like ‘exposure,’ and ‘student quality of life.’ Therefore, the revenue side of the equation is understated. The combined effect of overstating relevant losses and understating revenues makes the program’s profitability look much worse than it actually is. However, the above said, UConn football was never relevant. Their best season was an 8-4 3-way tie for the BIG EAST championship that led them, as an unranked team, to a Fiesta Bowl massacre that nobody watched. UConn football isn’t relevant. They had the worst defense ever last year, en route to a 1-11 campaign. And, UConn football will probably never be relevant. They couldn’t make it happen with a BCS tie-in, an easy schedule, and new facilities, so they probably can’t make it happen with a g5 tie-in, old facilities, and no money. They should trim a bunch of unnecessary Olympic sports, go Indy in football (unless the AAC is dumb enough to let them stay football-only), and join the BIG EAST for everything else. They’d have way more relevance in a sport where they can compete, they’d have way more money, their costs would be lower, and they’d play a regionally interesting schedule. My guess is that the reason why they haven’t made that move yet is because they’re still getting BIG EAST exit money (i.e. our money), and leaving the AAC before this summer would cause them to forfeit part of their share. However, once the cash is safely in the black hole that they call their bank account, my guess is that they’ll look to make a move. In the mean time, half their fans don’t understand how important BIG EAST exit money is to their AD, and the other half are too drunk on Kool-Aid to know how terrible the AAC is for the school. I’m definitely not complaining, though. Watching their fan base fight over equally wrong positions, while the AD spirals into oblivion, is incredible. [/QUOTE]

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