(07-08-2019 07:39 PM)bullet Wrote:  Villanova actually should have dropped football instead of adding scholarships to get to 63. FCS is a money drain. Nobody mishandled it worse than Villanova.

UConn saw that football was dominating and took the gamble to move up too late. Also didn't do a good enough job picking coaches. Took a big gamble settling on a Hartford stadium off campus.

Could be worse, they could be Charlotte, who should be no lower than the AAC. I mention Southern Miss having earned a spot in the AAC but so did Charlotte, which was one of the better programs in the original-ish C-USA setup. If they have football in 2003, there's a chance the Big East adds them (they wanted to stay in Florida, so I can't say that they make it over USF). But they had no football, so as things have worked out, they're back in C-USA, which is a notch below the AAC which is the legacy of original C-USA and now behind most of the programs they used to whoop on the basketball court (yes, including Houston, there, you happy?)