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Fact in 2015, all 4 Final Four NCAA basketball teams are P5 teams offering football and basketball, 7 of the Great Eight and 13 of the Sweet Sixteen also offer P5 football. That trend has been around for a long time now. Thus, to be a basketball power, UConn most also offer a competitive football program, i.e. a well rounded, and well funded athletic program.
Good info. It is so clear to anyone with a brain that doing what the author suggests has more or less produced the opposite result he hopes to achieve. He compares UCONN to Nova and Gtown, why? The only things that these schools have in common anymore is that they are located in the east and they used to share a basketball conference.
Uconn is a growing state university with a large and nationally competitive AD. These schools are small private entities with mostly minor athletic depts. Doing what he suggests is admitting defeat and suggesting that Uconn has more in common with these type of programs than those of The B1G or ACC. That is simply not accurate. Those that agree with the author really need to consider how they hope Uconn is perceived twenty years from now. Do they want it to be in the same breath as schools like UM, PSU, Wisconsin or with the likes of URI, UNH, and Maine.