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In the past 10 years when conference reconfiguration was changing the landscape of college athletics, no school has taken a bigger hit than the University of Connecticut.
Some backers of Boston College–which was part of the early movement of changes by jumping from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference–have harped on the fact that UConn is not in the same class as the Eagles.
When it comes to overall athletic stature–not just one sport–that is true in one sense. The Eagles are in a big time league, UConn is not.
When the Big East football conference dissolved and the basketball conference turned into a Catholic school dominated league, UConn was left standing in a high stakes game of conference musical chairs.
UConn flirted with the Big 12–and was rejected.
UConn flirted with the Big Ten–and was rejected
UConn did more than flirt with the ACC–and was rejected.
So now they are part of the newly named and created American Athletic Conference, which is NOT a Power 5 Conference.
Whatever public utterances come out of Storrs about how happy they are to be a cornerstone member of the American, count on this: If the Big Ten, ACC or Big 12 called tomorrow, the Huskies would be gone from the AAC as quickly as possible.
So what are the options for UConn?
In the past 10 years when conference reconfiguration was changing the landscape of college athletics, no school has taken a bigger hit than the University of Connecticut.
Some backers of Boston College–which was part of the early movement of changes by jumping from the Big East to the Atlantic Coast Conference–have harped on the fact that UConn is not in the same class as the Eagles.
When it comes to overall athletic stature–not just one sport–that is true in one sense. The Eagles are in a big time league, UConn is not.
When the Big East football conference dissolved and the basketball conference turned into a Catholic school dominated league, UConn was left standing in a high stakes game of conference musical chairs.
UConn flirted with the Big 12–and was rejected.
UConn flirted with the Big Ten–and was rejected
UConn did more than flirt with the ACC–and was rejected.
So now they are part of the newly named and created American Athletic Conference, which is NOT a Power 5 Conference.
Whatever public utterances come out of Storrs about how happy they are to be a cornerstone member of the American, count on this: If the Big Ten, ACC or Big 12 called tomorrow, the Huskies would be gone from the AAC as quickly as possible.
So what are the options for UConn?
