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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3955970, member: 1023"]
Exactly. If you build a great program as Gonzaga has and as Villanova has it doesn’t really matter what conference you are in.  UConn used to be one of those too...it is the mediocre teams who sell their conference affiliation.  people go to Duke because it is Duke.  People go to North Carolina because it is North Carolina.  People go to Michigan or Ohio State or Villanova or Gonzaga because they are great programs. People go to Seton Hall and Providence because they are in the Big East Or Boston College and Wake Forest because they are in the ACC.  In his early years Calhoun recruited kids to play in the Big East.  After about 1990 he recruited kids to play for Connecticut.  You could have put us in the NEC.  Kids would come to play for Calhoun and Connecticut.  The opposite can also be true. Syracuse used to recruit kids to play for Syracuse. Now they recruit kids to play in the ACC. And recruiting has suffered.  UConn recruits kids to play in the Big East now Which is sad.  And that limits who you can get.  And a sign of how far we have fallen.
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