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Message: [QUOTE="UConnJim, post: 2577822, member: 1559"] The only way up is with football and the AAC. We have to stay the course. As for finances, it is up to Benedict to field competitive football and basketball teams that will draw fans and donors. If we were 20-4 in basketball this year, the fans would be out in force, even for the Tulsa game tomorrow. Same in football. My biggest concern is that UConn is not spending enough on football to show that we are committed and to produce results. We need higher coaching salaries and bigger recruiting budgets. We need the leadership from the top to raise the money to make it happen. That's what business leaders do, define the problem and then solve the problem. I am sick and tired of people blaming the AAC on our basketball woes. In this weeks Top 25 Coach's Poll, there are 9 teams not in the P5! We should be one of them! We lost almost a complete top 10 recruiting class and our top recruit for this year and not one of them cited the AAC as the reason they left. That is the main reason we are so bad this year. Let's address your football may collapse concerns. If football as a sport collapsed in the future, so would the current conferences. In that case, UConn would be fine as new conferences would form around basketball, especially in the Northeast. So, why worry about the assumption that football may collapse? Conference realignment has gone on for as long as there have been conferences. How can you have the five P5 conferences consist of 14, 14, 15, 14, and 10 schools and think nothing will change? Anybody who thinks things will remain static or thinks they know the future is crazy. [/QUOTE]

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