Animosity from whom? That's the question. I have no doubt that certain schools have animosity toward UConn, but this lawsuit thing is a screen. Pitt was in the same lawsuit. And yet UConn was the original choice over Pitt. No doubt schools like BC will use anything like UConn. The football schools like FSU and Clemson might use that too. But then you have Duke and UNC "bewildered" by BC's blackballing of UConn. And when UConn didn't get the nod over Louisville, the UNC Chancellor comes out the next day and announces, "This decision was NOT about academics." What does that tell you? If there was that much animosity from Tobacco Road, why in the world would one of the key guys make a statement like that? It was totally classless and uncalled for, and yet he made it. Not to mention here that Syracuse itself came out against UConn--for what reason? Competition.
Majority vote upstater. Come on. That's it. Democracy in action. You think if we had a majority vote to move to the ACC that we wouldn't have? Somebody wrote that Florida State & BC are afraid of UConn, or don't want to compete. That's complete horseshit. 24 hours after Blumenthal filed not the first but the SECOND lawsuit against the ACC, and it's leadership, the attorney general in Florida - tied to Florida State, was calling the lawsuit garbage, adn working to have it thrown out. I could post some of his comments, but you can go look at them. The university system of Florida - the people in charge of that, that are tied to state government, were personally PISSED off at the way that lawsuit was handled.
Blumenthal was in the media talkign about subpoening Shalala, Swofford, Everybody - for depositions into CT in the media in his grandstanding.
Somebody posted the Maryland filing around here - read it cover to cover. Then go find the 82 page suit Blumenthal filed. Compare and contrast. There's a way to go about business, and way not to.
You accept your losses and you move on, and that's exactly what we're doing.
The problem is that you need to learn from your mistakes, adn we've got lot's of bridges to mend, from the damage that was caused by the people in charge in our university (and that includes the bridges destroyed by the former president and AD, the former head men's b-ball coach, and the former attorney general of the state - current U.S. Senator) and we've got to build up the character and integrity bank accounts so that people like Delany, or Slive, or Bowlsby, and Swofford too - and their successors, are confident that they won't be personally named in a multi-million dollar lawsuit, for doing business.
Football scheduling depends on it. And football scheduling is what's going to drive the future of this athletic department either up or down.
One UConn football fan gets it. None of us can make up for the past, but we can show that we understand what we were allowed to become part of, and that we want to stay with it.