We live in an era of conference re-alignment. Everyday the BIG XII balks and grumbles and hates themselves because they are no longer Big, nor 12 There are a lot of schools that would spend millions of dollars to join the vaunted, not mid major Big East conference. There are a lot of schools that would rather exist in their disheveled, poor, bad conference because they’ve seen the king and they’d rather stay at an arm’s distance away.
There’s been a lot of talk about letting UConn back into the conference because of the BIG XII debacle, which is usually met with a slew of hellfire from twitter or some other social media outlet.