Even though UConn tore down their on campus football stadium

to have the state build a new one 45 mins (maybe 1 hour due to traffic) away from campus? To put the UConn main campus in Storrs and the football stadium in East Hartford into perspective, it would be similar to VT tearing down Lane Stadium so it could build a new practice facility for the basketball teams and have the state build Lane Stadium 2.0 in the northern part of Roanoke or Salem (where the NCAA used to play the DIII National Championship Game in football).

The reason I bring up the stadium situation is because I believe UConn quickly decided it wouldn't be a sound investment to upgrade its on campus stadium from 16K to the minimum 30K requirement in order to compete in the DI-A subdivision. At least I believe there were other issues with the stadium besides capacity. So even if UConn decided it wanted to switch subdivisions, it was still depended upon the state to build them a brand new stadium that met the minimum DI-A requirements. I could be wrong, but I don't see the state building the new stadium on UConn's campus especially if the state was trying to lure the Patriots from MA. So odds are good that the new stadium would have ended up in its current location or at least somewhere around the Hartford area.

In response to this post by EDGEMAN

Posted: 02/26/2019 at 5:18PM

Man, UConn has gotten ass-hammered by realignment. -- mancunian 02/25/2019 12:31PM

UConn made its bed in the early 90s with the decisions they made -- VTHokie2000 02/25/2019 5:02PM

With acc membership Pitt cuse bc -- Mercury 02/26/2019 07:56AM

The ACC needs to get this Channel off the ground. -- HOO86 02/26/2019 4:26PM

WRT BC, Pitt, and Syracuse, you are correct that the ACC -- VTHokie2000 02/26/2019 09:53AM

They can credit Kevin Ollie for the basketball woes. -- HOO86 02/25/2019 2:45PM

Wasn’t Ollie it was the ad -- Mercury 02/26/2019 11:13AM

IMHO, they should have bumped up to "big boy" football as soon as... -- EDGEMAN 02/25/2019 1:10PM

Could UConn afford to do that back in the early 90s? -- VTHokie2000 02/25/2019 4:49PM

Yes they could have - the state would have paid the bills just like NJ -- RJHokie 02/25/2019 9:42PM

If they had moved up in fooball in the early 90s, would the ACC... -- EDGEMAN 02/26/2019 07:39AM

Agree. ** -- RJHokie 02/27/2019 8:58PM

Even though UConn tore down their on campus football stadium -- VTHokie2000 02/26/2019 5:18PM

They have been operating that way for a long time. -- Wolfman 02/25/2019 3:32PM

Cincy & UCF were replacement schools, not included with the original group -- EDGEMAN 02/25/2019 4:22PM

Even though UConn tore down their on campus football stadium

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