Peter King, UConn and the MAC

[Lord_Byron]

This from today's MMQB article by Peter King on SI.Com. It's revealing that the Times columnist thinks the MAC is a better option than the remnants of the Big East.

By not listing Bowling Green, does he imply that the Connecticut press corps would like going there?

" I think the whole college conference realignment thing is out of my league. I haven't followed it much, but this passage from Pete Thamel's Thursday column in the New York Times snapped me to attention, about the team in my native state, the UConn Huskies.

"UConn, which has no athletic director and a new president, may have nowhere to go. Because most realignment decisions are driven by football, joining Massachusetts in the Mid-American Conference could be UConn's best available option at this point.'' Eight observations:

• Wow.

• I bet Paul Pasqualoni has a stronger word than that.

• If I were UConn, I'd rather play as an independent.

• In 2010, the UConn season began in front of 113,909 people in Ann Arbor (University of Michigan) and finished on New Year's Day in the Fiesta Bowl against Oklahoma. In the MAC, the UConn season could begin in Ypsilanti, Mich. (Eastern Michigan) and finish in Mobile, Ala., at the GoDaddy.com Bowl.

• I just can't imagine the UConn press corps going to Athens, DeKalb, Mount Pleasant and Muncie. And Kent.

• Now I know why former coach Randy Edsall left for what appeared at the time to be a parallel job, at Maryland.

• I love the MAC. I went to Ohio U. I covered the MAC track championships in Ypsilanti once. But to think of UConn playing in it ... well, that's about the biggest headline of any of these conference changes to me.

• Oh -- I wonder what Gary Patterson and the brain trust at TCU are thinking of their decision to join the Big East now. Suddenly, those trips to Fort Collins and Laramie don't seem so stupid."