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[QUOTE="atom58, post: 1826667, member: 5312"]
I linked this 4 month old NY Times story about UConn's situation at the end of the Rutgers thread for reasons that can be read there. They point out that the NCAA lost control of CFB and the conferences started to fracture after the 1984 Supreme Court ruling which returned CFB television rights to the universities. "To enhance its football appeal, the Big Ten grabbed the perennial football power Penn State in 1990. That same year, Notre Dame betrayed an association of football programs it had helped found, signing a deal with NBC for $38 million over four years. After creating the first conference championship game, the SEC signed a five-year, $85 million contract with CBS in 1994." It was interesting to read and noted the Supreme Court decision came 5 years after the Big East basketball conference started, ultimately destroying the conference in its original form. (Personally I hope UConn gets into a power 5 conference but it may be dicey.)

[URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/14/sports/basketball/football-drags-on-uconns-power-5-ambitions.html[/URL]
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