Fraternizing with the enemy usually makes for juicy storylines, especially in sports. Wade Boggs rode the horse around Yankee Stadium, right?

And so comes this modest proposal that two outposts of higher education in New England combine their football programs in an attempt to create a 6-6 record. Two wrongs don't make a right, but they can make mediocrity. Which would be an improvement.

Yes. The time has come for warring factions UConn and Boston College to form a football co-op. What's to lose? Peripheral fans have lost interest in both places. The diehards have reached their Popeye moment: That's all they can stands; they can't stands no more.

Last weekend, the Huskies, who barely beat (gulp) Holy Cross to begin the season, got throttled in Virginia. BC, meanwhile, held icky, rotten Notre Dame to 515 yards rushing and 49 points. This after Wake Forest came to Chestnut Hill and only won 34-10 the week before.

Yikes. The good news is that one of the programs will win again this year. Only because they're playing each other. Unless there's a tie. But if a game is played and nobody's there to watch, does it still make a sound?

OK. So we need details for the UConn-BC co-op. Just thinking out loud here ...

• The name: BosConn College. That's not bad. (See what we did there?)

• Mascot: Eagles and Huskies are noble creatures. But if the goal here is mediocrity and teams are already named after numbers (76ers, 49ers), let's go with the .500s. The BosConn .500s.

• Home field: They should practice in Storrs at the palatial Shenkman Complex. Lots of good stuff in there. But the home games would be better at Alumni Stadium. Chestnut Hill is statelier than East Hartford. There's turf, not grass. The students still show up to the games. There's a lovely view of the Boston skyline. Sure beats I-84. And the Flutie statue. So there's that.

• Coach: The choice is Randy Edsall. He's actually won something, unlike Steve Addazio, who should be renting in Boston, not buying. Plus, Edsall wouldn't blame "youth and inexperience" five years in.

• Fight song: Does anyone else hate the UConn fight song besides moi? We'll stuck with "For Boston," or in this case, "For BosConn."

• Conference affiliation: Finally, UConn makes the ACC. Yes. The two schools split the ACC football revenues. UConn fans would trade Temple and East Carolina for Clemson and Florida State. Not bad.

• Play by play team: Joe D'Ambrosio and Wayne Norman long ago retired the trophy as being the best. This isn't a fair fight.

• Player evaluations: Edsall's team; Edsall's call. We'd suggest keeping A.J. Dillon, the New London kid who is going to be a star at BC. Other than that, it's an open audition.

• Academic Progress Rate (APR): Not that UConn is a bad school at all. But as you all know: Only brilliant, urbane, witty, awesomely awesome people graduate from BC. Even this bout with losing hasn't spoiled BC's APR, still among the best in the country. Of course, this could be why there's been this bout with losing.

• Residual effects: Think about it. If BosConn College creates glasnost between the schools, maybe Jim Calhoun could be convinced to take over the BC basketball program. (Please oh please oh please?) There's not a writer or a fan left who doesn't miss the big guy. Bring back Glen Miller as an assistant. They'd get revenge on Kevin Ollie for dismissing Miller for no good reason. Then BC would win the ACC in two years.

So what do you think so far? Sure, there are more details. Details, shmetails. This must happen. Edsall has inherited a disaster from Amos Alonzo Diaco, whose defense at Nebraska has only given up 99 points in three games. Addazio's program has regressed alarmingly since it somehow beat Southern Cal three years ago.

The remedy? Combine forces. Unity, dammit. Unity. The past is prologue. College football fans of New England, aside from the frauds who root for Notre Dame, deserve a winner. Or at least mediocrity. Hence, we present our newest creation: BosConn College.

Boola, boola.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro