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Message: [QUOTE="UConnMike04, post: 2577735, member: 1643"] I agree 100% with this. We, as fans, need to be realistic and for the most part we are. We should have been in the ACC twice already, and each time we were left out. The B1G has guidelines we simply do not meet (you can talk Boston/NYC all you want, we are not AAU which matters to the B1G). The B12 looked and said thanks, but no thanks. We are realistically hoping for an opening in one of these three leagues that more than likely will never come, especially with media contracts and those that own those leagues hurting and trying to save every dollar imaginable. There is more of a chance of contraction of a P5 league (hello Big12) than expansion. While I know we have dumped big $ into football, I don’t know if it’s the best idea to continue to do so in a year or two from now. If we can even wait that long. Think logically: If the absolute best we can ever be is undefeated in this league and still not sniff the current playoff format (and still won’t when/if it’s expanded to 8) what is the point? Is watching a meaningless bowl game at Yankee Stadium worth destroying what this school was built on? To me it’s not. I know we are a “large public land grant research school” but reality is athletically we have a helluva lot more in common with the Big East schools. Northeast basketball is where we made a brand, a name for ourselves, and opened the door for football to even become relevant. We need to get back to that, and quickly bc I don’t want to see basketball completely die because of a football program that’s already peaked with Fiesta Bowl. Also, let’s be honest about that...if it wasn’t for a historically bad BE that year and a tie-breaker we never even would’ve been there. I remember a lot of uproar about a team like UConn in a bowl that big and that’s a big part of what sparked the playoff format and the realignment. We will NEVER be where we were football wise because the path will NEVER be open for us to make a playoff. Now say we do somehow get into a P5, will we ever win one of those leagues with a Clemson/FSU, Ohio State/Michigan, Oklahoma/Texas in it? No. No chance. This isn’t basketball where Calhoun built a monster because the school is in a prime recruiting area, for football it’s a waste. To me, we need to fix our brand, fix our fan interest (bc there is none), bite the bullet with football and do what we do best...run the Big East. [/QUOTE]

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