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Jeff Jacobs: Documents Show Cincinnati Pushing Hard For Power 5; But What About UConn?
http://www.courant.com/sports/hc-jeff-jacobs-column-0216-20160216-column.html
For some reason I can't get around the paywall through Google...anyone?
[Another edition of Half-Baked Jake, or deep thoughts when trying not to succumb to claustrophobia while getting an MRI for a bad back …
News: The University of Cincinnati turned over emails, travel records and other documents to The Cincinnati Enquirer last week that provided an inside view of the school's effort to get into a Power Five conference. These are some of the things The Enquirer discovered: Fortune 500 executives from Kroger's and Macy's have helped promote Cincinnati to the Big 12. Former Kansas State president Jon Wefald advised Cincinnati president Santa J. Ono that Cincinnati and a second school in expansion should be willing to initially take less than a full conference television share. Oklahoma president David Boren, one of the power brokers in all this, likes Ono and Cincinnati. Ono has made numerous visits with Big 12 presidents.
For those pushing us to do the same: The Courant did make a Freedom of Information request for similar information about UConn attempts to get into the Power Five and was told there was no relevant documents.]
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