Being from Connecticut there are few choices in terms of sports teams to root for in the home state. The University of Connecticut has always been a popular choice because of their successful men and women’s basketball programs, and more recently their football program. However, this could all change soon.
Several Division I colleges are jumping to bigger more powerful sports conferences. This will weaken the Big East conference significantly, and guess where Uconn plays? Why is this happening? The same reason that any business makes any change, it’s all about the money. Unfortunately, by this happening the Big East is trying to recruit teams that are not even on the east coast. Their latest target is Boise State, which is in Idaho. In order to get from Laguardia airport in New York to Idaho is a 5 hour flight, as I heard on Mike and Mike in the Morning earlier today.
The funniest part is another school, TCU, promised to join the Big East last year when they are located in Texas (also not on the east coast). Now, they want out to join a better conference and make more money but in order to do so they have to pay the Big East $5 million to leave a conference they never officially joined. Only in America! How much longer until Uconn does the same thing…not that anyone would blame them.
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