My good buddy is a big WVU fan. We just talked about all this earlier today. He wants the B12 to add BYU, Cincy, UCF and UConn, same as he wanted a couple of years ago. They'd have the NY presence they've always wanted (Apparently, the B12 feels slighted by east coast media), games the fans would be excited about for the most part (assuming UConn football becomes average or better again) and they'd kill off the AAC. He says there is no other solution that will last long term because without UConn, they will remain a Southwestern league that will never get the attention the eastern leagues get. He knows UCF would help in Florida, but it wouldn't do much for them elsewhere on the east coast as they have no presence on the 95 corridor. He feels the SEC is the only conference that can operate successfully without Northeastern schools. Even the PAC suffers east coast envy.
This is kind of interesting because there was some talk that the PAC was dying for eastern eyeballs and attention as well. I had heard from my contact at SNY that UConn might make a small scheduling alliance with the PAC when we left the AAC. Maybe we end up in the mix again. My question would be, are we even interested in a reconstituted B12?