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Message: [QUOTE="August_West, post: 4256039, member: 1047"] It absolutely did over the long haul and especially at the end. But at first it seemed we were overcoming it as we were pulling some serious recruits : Daniel Hamilton, Jalen Adams were top,top level recruits, and even as late as 2016-17 top 5 class which at the time via rankings was best class in UConn history. Plus we pulled the top of the transfer market at the time players like Larrier, Purvis, Sterling Gibbs and Shonn Miller. They were among the most coveted transfers in the country in their years. in my opinion the AAC only truly hurt us recruiting AFTER we became a mess. Then it was salt in the wound. If we could've maintained a high level of play and stayed in top 25 and made the tourney year after year we could've overcome some of the AAC recruiting challenges. Just like Houston proves the computer number AAC deal wrong, Memphis proves you can recruit to AAC. You can win and recruit in that league but you have to be consistently at the very top. If you are going to be a middling team, then the AAC absolutely destroys you. No matter what, we belonged in the BigEast. From day 1. But in summary I look at the time in the AAC as our failure (and Ollies) rather than the leagues fault. [/QUOTE]