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Message: [QUOTE="EastCoast2, post: 2871938, member: 488"] It's a financial decision. From 1999 to 2014, UConn had one of the greatest 25 year stretches of any basketball program in any period. If I could have traded basketball results with any program from 2004-2014, I'd swap with UConn. Not Duke, UNC, or Kentucky. I'd take UConn's results and not think twice about it. That being said, conferences don't care about what happened 5, 8, and 15 years ago. They're not going to take UConn just to say "our current members have X national championships" if they're not economically viable. UConn is located in the middle of a state that has a declining population and losing interest in their sports teams. There is no growth there. People aren't lining up to purchase cable subscriptions to watch the State of Connecticut's football and basketball teams play meaningless games. [/QUOTE]