(01-27-2022 03:55 PM)ZooMass84 Wrote:  

(01-22-2022 03:00 PM)bill dazzle Wrote:  If your hypothetically reconfigured all-sports league is an autonomous league, UConn would leave the Big East promptly.

We have to remember (and I have posted this many times). UConn joined the current Big East to "get out of" the AAC as much as to "be in" the BE. It would prefer to be a member of a league that 1. plays football and 2. plays baseball at the highest level (Husky baseball is extremely strong). The conference you outline would afford that opportunity.

On this theme, had the Big 12 invited UConn instead of UCF, I feel UConn likely would have accepted.

I continue to feel there could be some future realignment that will create opportunity for UConn to be a member of a conference that sponsors football and is comprised primarily of large public universities. Though the Big East is a strong fit for UConn in some respects, it is also a very awkward fit in other ways.

"Husky baseball is extremely strong"??? You're kidding, right? How many national championships or runner ups have they won? Little news flash: No Power conference or even a G5 is going to invite them. Financially the school is a basket case as is the State of Connecticut. People are leaving CT, not moving there. Fortune 500 are leaving and continue to leave.

UConn has appeared in five College World Series and 22 NCAA Tournaments (including seven since 2010). The program has finished with 30 or more wins in at least (at quick glance) 15 of the last 20 or so seasons. Perhaps "extremely" strong is an exaggeration. But I would definitely note "strong."

By most metrics, UConn has offered a quality baseball program for many years now.

I agree with you that no existing power league is likely to invite UConn. But if future realignment yields a new or dramatically altered league that is "sufficiently power overall," UConn might have a shot (as could your UMass program).

UConn and UMass should join the MAC. The football budgets are low, travel easier. They can win in football the MAC faster. Syracuse and Boston College should also go to the MAC. Ohio/Kent State/Akron/Buffalo/Syracuse/UConn/UMass/BC would be east division of MAC.

I understand UConn demolished their old stadium. I’m just wondering if there is ample space on or near campus if they wanted to build a 30k seat stadium there. Obviously they don’t have the funds for it right now.

I don’t think having the stadium in Hartford is that bad of a situation. That’s where they have a huge alumni base and a branch campus, so there is definitely a presence there. Hartford is a UConn town much like Springfield is a UMass town.