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Message: [QUOTE="ConnHuskBask, post: 2578667, member: 632"] [USER=651]@nomar[/USER] How was the bet on football that crazy? They were upgrading to a league with Miami, Virginia Tech, BC, Syracuse, Pitt, West Virginia and Rutgers? Even after Miami, VT, and BC left, there were admirable replacements and we proved we could compete and win a regional FBS league. Second place doesn't get you squat and it's why were in the AAC, but the whole premise of upgrading football was to PROTECT basketball and we came in defacto 2nd place multiple times when the ACC was expanding. Maybe a little less BC, a little less Florida State, maybe a little more monitoring and this whole discussion is mute because we are making $40M a year in the ACC. My point being is that UConn Football wasn't some crazy notion that was a pie in the sky attempt at trying to get into the Big Ten. It was an attempt to put ourselves on the right side of the ledger when the big football schools split. So far the prediction of the big schools essentially splitting (P5) has came halfway to fruition. When they take their hoops tourney, then what? So yes, it doesn't look like it worked out at the moment. And hell, it looks like it's never going to work out and we may have to grovel to join the Big East and drop football. With that said we've come this far, it's worth hanging around as [USER=153]@upstater[/USER] noted until the next round of TV deals. If we're still out, then we may be back to the Big East - if they'd even want us. [/QUOTE]

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