(09-15-2021 11:14 AM)LostInSpace Wrote:  

(09-15-2021 11:09 AM)mvcfan76 Wrote:  

(09-15-2021 11:03 AM)LostInSpace Wrote:  

(09-15-2021 10:50 AM)esayem Wrote:  After a quick look, their stadium is in Hartford, where UConn has a branch campus, a ton of alumni, and also plays basketball quite often. Something out of nothing it seems to me when considering the majority of fans that attend games are not current students.

Stadium location is fine. UConn’s challenge is they are playing G5 football. Like the rest of the Northeast people in CT will show up if a team is playing at the highest level and winning with some consistency. Teams at lower levels struggle to get attention and attendance. There is nothing UConn can do to change that. For example, unlike Delaware UConn FCS football was an afterthought outside of the UMass and Yale games. Plus UConn football is in the awkward position of having UConn basketball in a high level conference. UConn made the right decision on conference affiliation. They just need football to stop being an embarrassment and they’ll be fine.

They need to offer home and homes in men's and womens basketball to the MAC for FB only membership, that honestly would be their best outcome

UConn doesn’t need to do that. They’re not having trouble putting a schedule together. MAC teams are already on UConn’s future schedules.

I think it has more to do with having a stable football home then just kind of squandering in irrelevance. There are some winnable MAC games even for uconn. Just my 0.02