They'd have to convince Duke to move those games to a weeknight, right?

(02-29-2024 10:54 AM)Garden_KC Wrote:  

(02-28-2024 06:17 PM)schmolik Wrote:  

(02-28-2024 09:34 AM)tf8693 Wrote:  

(02-28-2024 09:25 AM)Bear Catlett Wrote:  I think the better question is how long until a conference will take Yukon football.

Depends on the conference. CUSA or MAC would take UConn as a football-only member now, no question about it. At most, they would ask for an occasional OOC game in men's and/or women's basketball. But UConn would never accept that offer. They're trying to make the BYU argument -- we're a football independent and therefore a cut above the G5. Football-only membership in CUSA or the MAC ends that argument.

For my money, UConn would have accepted a football-only offer to the AAC at the time they left for the Big East. That might have been forthcoming had UConn been dominating that conference in football. But they weren't, so it wasn't. I still think UConn would accept such an offer, but I don't see it as any more likely now than in the past.

The M2 conferences don't want UConn presently, but that could change depending on how many schools they lose in the near future.

The question is do media and bowl partners think that way? BYU and New Mexico State have left the land of FBS independents, Army and UMass are on their way out. Is independence practical for anyone not named Notre Dame (and they're guaranteed five games vs. the ACC a year)? Also for UConn they'd have a slim and none chance of making the Playoff either way but at least a conference championship gives them that path of getting in.

UConn has about a 100 million dollar budget.

They aren't ND but they sure spend like they are.

One thing about that 100 million dollar budget: it is mostly all funded by deficit spending by the state of CT. There may be a change in the CT legislature and they may put an end to the gravy train.