(09-07-2022 11:36 AM)Poster Wrote: UCONN would have to find some conference that’s willing to take them as a football only member. With how awful their football team is, I think that’s very unlikely to happen.
And since UCONN isn’t going to win any conference championships, I don’t think they’d care about joining a conference where they’d be guaranteed a 20% chance at making the playoffs if they win the conference.
I agree. I would even go a step further in breaking down the options these three schools have, which is hardly any.
The only conferences that would be on these three schools radar would be the American, C-USA and the MAC
Army doesn't want to try the C-USA experience again, and I doubt they'd want to be in the same conference as Navy, and potentially Air Force(should the AAC snag up Air Force and Colorado State in the future).
UCONN doesn't want to be part of the American again, and UMass doesn't want to be part of the MAC again, even if both schools were added for football-only.
I would take it another step further, and say that if San Diego State, SMU, Memphis, USF and Bosie State left their respective conferences, nothing would happen in terms of adding new teams.
The MW would not want to add UTEP or New Mexico State. They would only add Gonzaga if they wanted to strengthen the conference in basketball. The American would not add FIU to replace USF unless they really wanted to have a lock on the Miami market, which they do with FAU, even though they are not actually in the city of Miami. Aside from that, the only other reason they would add FIU is that it would allow their rivalry with FAU to continue uninterrupted.