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UConn Should Join the Big East

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Let's face it, UConn athletics is in a ditch.

I mean, Kevin Ollie won a championship two years ago, but everyone knows he did that with Jim Calhoun's recruits and that it was a fluke anyway. It'll never happen again unless something changes. The football team is terrible and will never be good. It's called Newton's first law- look it up.

So why is the school wasting its money on football? Spending on athletics hardly ever pays off.

Football and men's basketball are the only sports that matter, and UConn is clearly moving downhill in both. It's time for the administration to cut its losses and do everything possible to save the dying basketball program. Nobody in New England cares about football anyway.

And have I mentioned that we're terrible? Remember, every school that is good now will stay good forever, and every school that is not will stay that way as well. Oregon, Boise State, Utah, Louisville, TCU, Miami, Virginia Tech, Kansas State and Temple are the only notable exceptions.

The situation is particularly vexing because the correct solution stands right in front of us: drop football and join the Big East.

There are simply no indications that UConn has a power five invite coming or is a good candidate should an opening appear. Plus, I have it on good authority from a commenter on Georgetown's SB Nation site that football won't exist in five years anyway.

Is football money even a real thing? I mean, Boston College has been making it for years now and its facilities are still butt across the board. It's not like a northern school has ever been good at football (besides Penn State, Syracuse and Boston College at times, and right now Temple) so why bother? If UConn insists on keeping football it should join the MAC, nobody will have any problem with that.

I feel like Jim Calhoun. "What do you want me to say? We f**ked up."

We should have never let Virginia Tech, Miami, Boston College, West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Louisville, and (sort of) Notre Dame leave. We should never have let the children who caused that divorce take their ball (Big East name/records) and go home. What's $110 million when you get to claim sweet, delicious historical achievements?

Then there's the matter of the TV deal. It's killing us!

When the men's basketball team lost badly at SMU, the game was on ESPN. Had we been in the Big East, a bad conference loss like that would have been on Fox Sports 1 and nobody would have seen it. Think of the national embarrassment we could have avoided!

And what's so special about AAC Football anyway? Navy, Temple, Houston all won ten or more games last year? Well I've never heard of them. BORING. Cincinnati has 45 wins in the past five years? [FART NOISE] How good were they in the 70s?

We don't even care about football, and definitely don't enjoy watching it. This is undeniably true because attendance took a dive during UConn Football's recent downturn.

On the other side of the coin, being in this new version of the Big East is definitely helping its member schools reach unprecedented heights. Villanova is in the Final Four this year- a feat it hasn't reached since 2009!

Providence hasn't been to a Sweet 16 since 1997, but for the past three years since the split the Friars have been knocking on that door after a 10-year NCAA Tournament drought! In fact, Providence fans are extremely bullish on their long-term prospects against UConn's. I'll have what he's having!

St. John's, Seton Hall, Marquette, the list of success stories since the separation goes on and on. Sure, Marquette lost its head coach to a program that hasn't been relevant ever, but the Golden Eagles are on their way, which is more than we can say about Kevin Ollie and his "top ten" recruiting class. Potential never won any games, and it probably would have been a top-five class if we were in the Big East.

David Benedict, I know you just got here, but I hope once you take a look at the facts you'll see the light. UConn's two conference championships and dozens of NFL players in just 16 years as an FBS program are worthless. Do the right thing.

April Fools.