As much as the loss of rivalries suck and the monetary competitive disadvantage will hurt us, I still could live with the whole thing if this P5 garbage and forming a new division wasn't hanging over our heads. I think hoops will be fine in its given state and we can compete regionally still in football, but who knows if we're marginalized down to a subdivision officially.
I know the official mindset is supposed to be 'we're UConn...it will all work out', but the math is just scary...
The ACC is going to pull down about $18M a year. Syracuse and Pitt will make, say, $180M over the next decade. We'll make about $17M.
That extra $163M will be a hell of an advantage.
And then there is Rutgers. Their list of accomplishments doesn't have an ending because it doesn't have a beginning yet - they've won nothing.
But how do we compete for players and oxygen when they might have an extra $330-350M to play with over the next ten years and are part of a collective that makes the rules to benefit its members?
Whether they call it division IV or not, it's here. Long term, as we all know, we need to be on the other side of the dividing line. This side is a slow death.