(07-08-2019 08:40 AM)Bogg Wrote:  

(07-07-2019 09:10 PM)RutgersMike Wrote:  Now, UConn made their upgrade assuming that Big East football would be stable. Unfortunately, that assumption was incorrect. If UConn did not have that Big East invite, I do not believe they would have ever made the jump to 1-A.

Strictly speaking, UConn made the move because there was an expectation of a split coming and UConn wanted to go wherever Cuse, Pitt, and BC were going. The concern was that a non-football sponsoring conference couldn't maintain themselves above an A-10 level long-term, and football was upgraded as a way to (theoretically) protect basketball. Obviously it didn't go that way. The real question is whether UConn would have made that jump if they knew the Big East would stabilize the way it has post-split.

Their mistake was not making it in the early 90s when they first had the chance. They would have been in a better position when the ACC raids started happening.