« Reply #79 on: November 28, 2012, 10:28:23 AM »
Realignment is all about football, so why would UConn make any sense for them?
It was between Louisville and Cincinnati.
UConn is only two years removed from winning the Big East and playing in a BCS bowl game. It isn't like it has always been a bottom dredger. Now granted UConn is seemingly getting worse while Louisville is getting better so there is that.
The reality is the conference moves are about money and UConn just doesn't bring enough money to the table as it doesn't really add any markets to the ACC (with Cuse and St. John's the ACC already had NYC and BC already brings Boston). The ACC with no teams in Kentucky, gets a bunch of new markets including the fairly large market of Louisville. That is why Louisville was added and not Connecticut. It is also why Cincinnati was considered since it would bring an even larger market (though it isn't like Cincinnati has a stranglehold on the market as it does not).
Frankly this is why I'm surprised the Big 12 didn't just add Louisville and maybe Cincinnati when they added West Virginia last year. Made a lot of sense for that conference to get back to 12 (and a title game) and wouldn't leave West Virginia out on an island.
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