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Message: [QUOTE="hoopsfan22, post: 4156011, member: 9074"] UConn women's basketball has grabbed the top recruit in 7 of the last 10 classes. It's about as much of a monopoly on the best player as you'll ever find in college sports including football and men's basketball. Also you're forgetting one thing. You dislike this new setup, but the schools themselves are the ones that wanted it and it would be naive to believe that there's no one in the decision making process that couldn't foresee these "issues." No, this is all by design as NCAA rules are set by the member institutions. We as fans don't really get a say, and if we dislike it, we can simply stop watching. Sports viewership in general is in decline as younger generations simply spread their attention over a wider array of entertainment options. For those that think this relegates a school like UConn to the second tier, we've been there for a decade after the old Big East was broken up. The Ohio States of the world do not even consider us a peer institution in the athletic world as they count their quarter of a billion dollars in athletic department revenue. AD DB better sit down tonight and watch Moneyball because he's going to be living the college version of that movie. [/QUOTE]