unless you are Duke or Kentucky.
Duke and Kentucky are both members of power conferences, and enjoy all the huge monetary benefits that come with that membership. UConn, OTOH, was left without a chair when the realignment music stopped. They went from a BCS league (the former Big East), to the AAC, an outfit full of mostly mid and low majors. Their only real conference competition
was Louisville, but now they're leaving for the ACC. Now, they're the northernmost outpost in a league full of leftovers and hangers-on scattered from New England to Texas. You think bowls and TV networks are going to pay big money for the likes of East Carolina, Tulane, and South Florida? Not so much.