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[QUOTE="cuse522, post: 2079849, member: 1149"]
UConn turns a profit on basketball and loses money on football, according to this: [URL="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-financial-impact-of-championship-basketball/"]The financial impact of championship basketball[/URL].

So it would make a lot of sense for them to make basketball-first decisions even in a football-dominated landscape. Quite simply, this may be the only way to save their basketball program as a perennial top-25, and there's no way to do much with their football program. In fact, I'd argue their football program would be more exciting to fans/alums/students competing at a lower level and might be better off financially, too. If you were a fan, would you rather watch a football team struggle to make meaningless bowl games in the AAC with basically no hope of ever making a BCS bowl, or make the playoffs as an FCS program?

At least in the ACC, if we manage a one or two year golden window, we can make a BCS game if we take care of business in-conference.
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