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Will the state allow UConn to cancel the football program

after it spent $91.2 million ($124 million in 2018 dollars) to build Pratt & Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field? Right now UConn football is the only tenant for the stadium and I don't think the state has any other candidates for additional (or replacement) tenants on the horizon outside a few temporary events (i.e. concerts, soccer friendlies, rugby friendlies, etc). The state may have even contributed taxpayer money to help build the $40 million dollar UConn Basketball Champions Center which was built on top of where Memorial Stadium (UConn's former on campus football stadium) once stood.

I do think it is possible that the state may allow UConn to switch back to DI-FCS subdivision.

(In response to this post by Mercury)

Posted: 06/24/2019 at 12:31PM

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Hmm. Wonder what will happen to UConn football now if return to Big East -- Maroon Baboon 06/22/2019 12:51PM

Mark Blaudschun is suggesting C-USA may want UConn and UMass -- HOO86 06/24/2019 8:02PM

I am not sure I understand the plan -- VTHokie2000 06/24/2019 9:19PM

I think we may see these G5 conferences regionalize. -- HOO86 06/25/2019 10:54AM

It makes sense that the G5 would be interested in regionalizing more -- VTHokie2000 06/25/2019 12:49PM

It’s looking like that....travel costs for those conferences are much worse -- RJHokie 06/25/2019 11:02AM

So I guess with this change, Uconn has completely given up trying to get... -- Mr. Touchdown 06/24/2019 11:14AM

I wonder if Liberty will try to join the AAC? -- Old Line Hokie 06/23/2019 11:50AM

If Liberty still views themselves as the "BYU or Notre Dame of the East" -- VTHokie2000 06/23/2019 11:03PM

Seems like schools have to move up the conference chain -- mrcaniac 06/23/2019 4:24PM

UCONN was not added when the Big East added football. They came in later. -- GreencastleHokie 06/24/2019 12:36PM

Original member of the Big East Conference -- mrcaniac 06/24/2019 9:41PM

They decided to stay 1AA when they should have upgraded to 1A -- EDGEMAN 06/24/2019 5:14PM

I believe UConn's AD(s) at the time the DI schools decided to create -- VTHokie2000 06/24/2019 5:31PM

Not sure the AAC would want to put up with Falwell and his clan. ** -- RJHokie 06/23/2019 1:34PM

Has LU been difficult as a conference member in the past? -- Maroon Baboon 06/23/2019 6:05PM

Really haven't been in a conference for football very long -- mrcaniac 06/23/2019 9:24PM

Wow, that's a very good option for Liberty. ** -- patit hoo 06/23/2019 12:40PM

ND is not likely to play them, they rebuffed a ten game deal ten years ago. -- TerryD 06/23/2019 08:49AM

WRT the possibility of UConn joining the MAC as a football-only member -- VTHokie2000 06/22/2019 7:45PM

Does a move to any other conference make sense? -- 33laszlo99 06/24/2019 3:40PM

UConn may not have a choice in the matter -- VTHokie2000 06/24/2019 3:59PM

Check your math - max $600 million over 12 years = $50 million per year -- RJHokie 06/24/2019 4:30PM

Plus UConn will save in travel expenses. ** -- wwhokie1 06/26/2019 10:41PM

UConn may also be able to ink a regional deal with SNY ** -- TerryD 06/24/2019 6:51PM

UConn has one. Part of this is that they want to keep it. -- HOO86 06/24/2019 7:29PM

Possibly. Even with the AAC money their athletic operations are heavily -- RJHokie 06/24/2019 7:11PM

You are right ** -- VTHokie2000 06/24/2019 4:39PM

Interesting what happens to the stadium in Hartford -- Mercury 06/22/2019 5:03PM

Will the state allow UConn to cancel the football program -- VTHokie2000 06/24/2019 12:31PM

Can't keep losing $40 million... ** -- 33laszlo99 06/24/2019 1:03PM

True, but it has to somehow justify the football stadium to the taxpayers -- VTHokie2000 06/24/2019 4:11PM

Lacrosse and soccer? ** -- TerryD 06/24/2019 6:52PM

Right now the New England Revolution play at Foxboro Stadium -- VTHokie2000 06/25/2019 12:50PM

I can see a new football only conference forming perhaps -- HOO86 06/22/2019 3:30PM

FWIW NCAA bylaws state that in order for a DI-FCS school -- VTHokie2000 06/24/2019 12:43PM

Who knows but I wonder if AAC replaces them with ODU ** -- Maroon Effect 06/22/2019 2:17PM

ODU would be a good choice for the AAC -- HOO86 06/22/2019 2:44PM

ODU fans absolutely hate being in Conference USA. ** -- Stork 06/27/2019 11:50AM

Probably will be Rice or Southern Miss -- mrcaniac 06/22/2019 8:09PM

I believe Navy would disagree with you about wanting to be in the East -- VTHokie2000 06/23/2019 01:45AM

Newspaper spin -- mrcaniac 06/23/2019 4:00PM

Or Navy really does want to make multiple trips to that part of the country -- VTHokie2000 06/23/2019 10:59PM

Guess they don't have to worry about a travel budget. ** -- EDGEMAN 06/23/2019 05:38AM

The Academies' intercollegiate budget is not tax payer funded. ** -- Atlee Hokie 06/25/2019 09:10AM

UConn has a football team? Who knew? Nobody in Conn knows! ** -- Lakeridgehokie 06/22/2019 1:40PM

We know -- UCHusky90 06/24/2019 08:23AM

Do you have any ideas what UConn may decide to do with its program? -- VTHokie2000 06/24/2019 3:00PM

Very fractured -- UCHusky90 06/26/2019 08:53AM

I am not surprised that the ball only fans are happy to kill football -- VTHokie2000 06/26/2019 09:50AM

I'm an optimist -- UCHusky90 06/26/2019 1:32PM

Maybe someone inside UConn (i.e. football coach or football fan) -- VTHokie2000 06/26/2019 1:39PM

Looks like they'll need games on their schedule, so... -- EDGEMAN 06/22/2019 12:51PM

Will the state allow UConn to cancel the football program

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