Fun fact: Despite their basketball program having found new life in recent years, apparently the UConn athletic department has disastrous finances and may not even be able to afford renting the XL Center for off-campus home games anymore. They rejoined the Big East and had football go independent back in 2019.
BE basketball/Indy football would not be viable for Duke financially. We have to keep pouring money into the football program (pay Elko whatever it takes to keep him around, K made $13 million in 2022, we can afford it), rack up some big wins on the gridiron, and hope and pray we can secure an invite to the B1G/SEC.