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Message: [QUOTE="gsmooth, post: 4256694, member: 9355"] From top to bottom the NBE is better than the AAC, IMO, but everything else you stated is 100% on point. I just never bought into this notion that the AAC failed UConn. I think UConn failed the AAC. I was looking for them to be like Memphis under John Calipari when Memphis was in Conference USA (or whatever conference Memphis was in) or Gonzaga in the WCC. If Jim Calhoun was 10 years younger, there is no doubt in my mind UConn basketball would have emulated the success of those 2 teams Once there was that mass exodus of recruits from Ollie's team in 2017 the AAC hastened UConn's slump like roller skating downhill, but it was UConn that facilitated it's own slump/downfall. Once that happened, the AAC made getting high quality recruits more difficult. I think with Dan Hurley they would've ascended into a top 3 team in the AAC and eventually obtained the high level recruits, but by being in the NBE getting higher quality recruits is happening sooner. [/QUOTE]